زولية

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

While imputed to the root ز ل ل (z-l-l) “to slide”, a metathesis of Persian زیلو (zilu, zêlu, zaylu).

Pronunciation

Noun

زُولِيَّة (zūliyyaf (plural زَلَالِيّ (zalāliyy) or زَوَالِيّ (zawāliyy))

  1. carpet, rug
    Synonyms: قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa), زَرْبِيَّة (zarbiyya), بِسَاط (bisāṭ), فَرْش (farš), سَجَّادَة (sajjāda), مَحْفُورِيّ (maḥfūriyy)
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم  (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/136, pages 374 mu:
      وأما أرمينية فإنها كورة جليلة رسمها أرميني بن كنظر بن يافث بن نوح ومنها ترتفع الستور والزلاليُّ الرفيعة كثيرة الخصائص قصبتها دَبِيل ومن مدنها: بَدْلِيس، خِلَاط، أَرْجِيش، بَرْكَرِي، خُوَيُّ، سَلَمَاس، أُرْمِيَة، دَاخَرَّقَان، مَرَاغَة، أَهْرُ، مَرَنْد، سَِنْجَان، قالِيقَلَا، قندرية، قَلْعَة يُونِس، نورين.
      As for Armenia, she is a majestic expanse, originally sketched and contoured by ʾArmīnī, the son of Ashkenaz, himself a descendant of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. In Armenia, curtains, draperies, and rugs multifarious and fine hang down, the rod being Dabīl. Among her localities are Badlīs , Ḵilāṭ , ʾArjīš , Barkarī , Ḵuway , Salamās , ʾUrmiyah , Dāḵarraqān, Marāḡah, ʾAhr, Marand, Sinjān, Qālīqalā, Qandariyyah, Qalʿat Yūnus, Nūrīn.
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان , volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 144 line 7:
    • 2021 January 19, “ar: البسط والسجاد أركان تراثية في البيت الحوراني”, in eSyria:
      حيث تصنع الفلاحة الحورانية السجاد «الزل أو الزلية» الذي تمد به أرضية الغرف لجلب الدفء في الشتاء
      Where the Ḥawrāni boordom manufactures the carpets of the type zull or zullīyya which is stretched onto the ground of the rooms to attain warmth in the winter.

Declension

Further reading

  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 146
  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 116 Nr. 211
  • Defrémery, Charles (1853) “Recherches sur le règne du sultan seldjoukide Barkiarok”, in Journal asiatique, Série 5 Tome I & II (in French), pages 304 footnote 1 of 425–458 and 217–322
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زِلِّيَّة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 247a

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic زُولِيَّة (zūliyya).

Noun

زولية (zūlīyaf (plural زُولِيَّات (zūlīyāt))

  1. carpet, rug
    Synonym: سِيَّادَة (siyyāda)