شحاطة

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Arabic

Root
ش ح ط (š-ḥ-ṭ)

Alternative forms

Noun

شَحّاطَة (šaḥḥāṭaf (plural شَحَّاطَات (šaḥḥāṭāt))

  1. match (wherewith fire is started)
  2. a kind of shoe, fit for scuffing the ground, for women, flip-flop

Declension

References

  • شحاطة” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شحاطة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 732
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شحاطة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 636

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic شَحّاطَة (šaḥḥāṭa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaħ.ħaː.tˤa/,
  • (file)

Noun

شحّاطة (šaḥḥāṭaf

  1. slippers
    Synonyms: بابوج (bābūj), صرماية (ṣurmāye)