حدأة

Unclear. Compares to Aramaic הדיא (hāḏāyā), הודיא (hōḏāyā, “a kind of bird of prey”), Mishnaic Hebrew הֲדָיָה (haḏāyā, “a bird of the hawk species”), for earlier Biblical Hebrew דָּאׇה (dāʾā), דַּיָּה (dayyā) either of which has been assumed to mean “kite” and equated with Aramaic דַּיְיתָא, דַּיְתָא (dayyəṯā), דַּיּוּתָא (dayyūṯā), which is found in Classical Syriac as ܕܰܝܬ݂ܳܐ (dayṯā, “kite”), ܕܰܝܘܱܝ (dayway, “kite”), even Ugaritic 𐎄𐎛𐎊 (dỉy, “a kind of bird of prey”), and curiously poetic Arabic اِبْن دَأْيَة (ibn daʔya, “raven”), like the Aramaic and Hebrew bird names with h- are also preceded by בַּר (bar) respectively בֶּן (ben, “son”), sometimes in the latter בַּר (bar) which exposes the latter as an Aramaism, so perhaps the Arabic terms are too, with better-preserved consonantism as in كَمَأ (kamaʔ, “truffle”). Consider also the borrowing of a transferred sense in دَيُّوث (dayyūṯ, “cuckold”). The Tigre ሕዶ (ḥədo, “owl”) may be an only random correspondence.

• حِدَّايَة (ḥiddāya) — colloquial

حَدَأَة or حِدْأَة or حِدَأَة or حِدَّأَة • (ḥadaʔa or ḥidʔa or ḥidaʔa or ḥiddaʔa) f (plural حِدْآن (ḥidʔān) or حِدَأ (ḥidaʔ) or حِدَاء (ḥidāʔ))

1. kite (bird)

• “hwdy²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “dyyh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “dywy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 333a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 299a
• Levy, Jacob (1867) “דַּיְתָא”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums‎ (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 169
• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 91–92 Nr. 64

From when the kite opens it wings, it looks like an axe.

حَدَأَة • (ḥadaʔa) f (plural حِدَاء (ḥidāʔ) or حَدَأ (ḥadaʔ))

1. pickaxe

   Synonym: مِعْوَل (miʕwal)

2. double-headed axe