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Arabic
Etymology
Cognate to Aramaic and Hebrew כ־ו־י (כֹּוֶה (kōwe, “to sear”), Aramaic כְוַאָה / ܟܘܝܐ (kwāyā, “cauterization”) etc.), Akkadian 𒅗𒈬𒌋 (/kawû, kamû/, “to scorch, roast, bake, sear”).
Root
ك و ي • (k-w-y)
- related to searing
Derived terms
- مِكْوَاة (mikwāh, “iron for laundry”)
- مَكْوًى (makwan, “iron for laundry; place where one irons”)
- كَيَّة (kayya, “burnt spot, brand”)
- كَوِيّة (kawiyya, “crease, the feature of clothing that requires ironing”)
- كَوَّاء (kawwāʔ, “calumniator; washer”)
- كَاوِيَاء (kāwiyāʔ, “iron to mark beasts”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك و ي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 503
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك و ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 73
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك و ي”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 946
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ك و ي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 995
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك و ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1133