خثي

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Arabic

خِثْي

Etymology

An extension from خ ث ث (ḵ-ṯ-ṯ) whence خُثّ (ḵuṯṯ, “peat”) and obsolete خُثَّة (ḵuṯṯa, “fresh dung, piece of wood to ignite a fire”), خَثَّثَ (ḵaṯṯaṯa, “to amass”), which also connects to خ ث ر (ḵ-ṯ-r) related to clotting.

Pronunciation

Noun

خِثْي • (ḵiṯy) m (plural أَخْثَاء (ʔaḵṯāʔ))

  1. dung of bovine animals, cow manure, mulley sharn
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 34, Art. 6, pages 721–722:
      وقال غيره يتخذ لها الخلايا من خشب الأرز ومن طين طيب الريح وتطين الخلايا من خارجها برماد وأخثاء البقر مدقوق معجون بالماء ويتخذ لها بعض الناس الخلايا من قشور الشبر وتسميه العامة «جناحا»
      And another author said that for beehives cedar wood and clay of good smell is taken and the beehives are daubed from the outside with ash and cow dung powdered and kneaded with water, and some people take for beehives the barks of the cork oak, generally called “wings”.
    • 1951 August 20, Šākir Maḥmūd, “السرقين والسماد في الزراعة قديما”, in مجلة الرسالة:
      راجعنا مقالاتهم في أنواع السرقين والمفاضلة بين ذرق الحمام وأرواث الخيل والبغال والحمير، وأخثاء البقر والجواميس وأبعار الغنم والضأن والماعز، […]
      We have reviewed their articles on the types of manure and the differences between pigeon droppings, dung of horses and mules and asses, and sharn of cows and buffalos and sheep and goats,

Declension

Declension of noun خِثْي (ḵiṯy)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خِثْي
ḵiṯy 		الْخِثْي
al-ḵiṯy 		خِثْي
ḵiṯy
Nominative خِثْيٌ
ḵiṯyun 		الْخِثْيُ
al-ḵiṯyu 		خِثْيُ
ḵiṯyu
Accusative خِثْيًا
ḵiṯyan 		الْخِثْيَ
al-ḵiṯya 		خِثْيَ
ḵiṯya
Genitive خِثْيٍ
ḵiṯyin 		الْخِثْيِ
al-ḵiṯyi 		خِثْيِ
ḵiṯyi
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خِثْيَيْن
ḵiṯyayn 		الْخِثْيَيْن
al-ḵiṯyayn 		خِثْيَيْ
ḵiṯyay
Nominative خِثْيَانِ
ḵiṯyāni 		الْخِثْيَانِ
al-ḵiṯyāni 		خِثْيَا
ḵiṯyā
Accusative خِثْيَيْنِ
ḵiṯyayni 		الْخِثْيَيْنِ
al-ḵiṯyayni 		خِثْيَيْ
ḵiṯyay
Genitive خِثْيَيْنِ
ḵiṯyayni 		الْخِثْيَيْنِ
al-ḵiṯyayni 		خِثْيَيْ
ḵiṯyay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَخْثَاء
ʔaḵṯāʔ 		الْأَخْثَاء
al-ʔaḵṯāʔ 		أَخْثَاء
ʔaḵṯāʔ
Nominative أَخْثَاءٌ
ʔaḵṯāʔun 		الْأَخْثَاءُ
al-ʔaḵṯāʔu 		أَخْثَاءُ
ʔaḵṯāʔu
Accusative أَخْثَاءً
ʔaḵṯāʔan 		الْأَخْثَاءَ
al-ʔaḵṯāʔa 		أَخْثَاءَ
ʔaḵṯāʔa
Genitive أَخْثَاءٍ
ʔaḵṯāʔin 		الْأَخْثَاءِ
al-ʔaḵṯāʔi 		أَخْثَاءِ
ʔaḵṯāʔi

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References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “خِثًى”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 395
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خثي”, 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 462
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خثي”, 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 542
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خثي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 704–705
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