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Mozarabic
Etymology
See Portuguese matar and Spanish matar.
Verb
متار (mattāri)
- to kill
c. 1100,
al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī,
Kharja A5 :
[1]- بر ڧي نو ڧرش ياللَّه متَّار
- bərqəy nū qariš bi-llāhi məttāri
- Why, by God, don't you want to kill ?
c. 1100, ibn al-Rafiʕ Raʔsuh,
Kharja A32 :
[2]- بون بلاش متار او لحت
- būn bi-lāšī mattāri awšaktu
Notes
- For Kharjas A5 and A32, Corriente reads ⟨mttār⟩ and ⟨mtār⟩ respectively, taking them to represent a Mozarabic mattáre.[3]
References
- ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 57-59
- ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 241
- ^ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, pages 30, 38