شمعل

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Arabic

Etymology

Univerbation of Hebrew שָׁמַע (šāmáʿ) equivalent to Arabic سَمِعَ (samiʕa) and some other word, regard بَسْمَلَ (basmala).

Pronunciation

Verb

شَمْعَلَ (šamʕala) Iq (non-past يُشَمْعِلُ (yušamʕilu), verbal noun شَمْعَلَة (šamʕala))

  1. (obsolete) said of the manner in which the Jews or sometimes presbyters recite their scriptures
    • c. 800, Abū Nuwās, according to the الكتاب: أخبار أبي نواس of عبد الله بن أحمد بن حرب المهزمي العبدي، أبو هفان (died 871):
      أَقِمْ مَعَهُمْ لَيْلَةَ ٱلْمِيلَادِ وَلَيْلَةَ ٱلذَّبْحِ فَمَا زَالَ يُشَمْعِلُ ثُمَّ غَنَّى وَطَرَبَ وَتَرَنَّمَ بِهَٰذِهِ ٱلْأَبْيَاتِ
      ʔaqim maʕahum laylata l-mīlādi walaylata ḏ-ḏabḥi famā zāla yušamʕilu ṯumma ḡannā waṭaraba watarannama bihāḏihi l-ʔabyāti
      Stand with them the day on Christmas Eve and the Eve of Slaughter as long it is recited and then sung and exulted and it is crooned in these houses
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان , volume 2, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1867, page 679 line 15:

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References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شمعل”, 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 452a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شمعل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1271b
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “شمعل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1508c
  • Schwally, Friedrich (1898) “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 52, pages 142–143