حانوت

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic חָנוּתָא / ܚܳܢܽܘܬܴܐ (ḥānūṯā), as also Ge'ez ሐኖት, ሓኖት (ḥänot, ḥanot) and Hebrew חָנוּת (ḥānūṯ). Compare Armenian խանութ (xanutʻ) (shop, store).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħaː.nuːt/ (singular)
  • IPA(key): /ħa.waː.niːt/ (plural)

Noun

حَانُوت (ḥānūtm (plural حَوَانِيت (ḥawānīt))

  1. tavern, pub
    Synonym: خَمَّارَة (ḵammāra)
  2. shop, store
    Synonyms: دُكَّان (dukkān), مَتْجَر (matjar)
  3. (archaeology, Algeria, Tunisia) sepulchral chamber in a rock mass, hypogeum

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: ħanut
  • French: hanout
  • Italian: canova
  • Byzantine Greek: χανουτέριος (khanoutérios, wine-seller) (Sicily)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 172
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “حانوت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 433
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حانوت”, 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 501
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 365–366
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “حانوت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 678
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 238
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 45
  • Sperber, Daniel (1970) “On Pubs and Policemen in Roman Palestine”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 120, page 262
  • Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 56
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حانوت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 222