خزف

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Arabic

خَزَف
 خزف on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ (ḵezəpā), ܚܶܨܦܳܐ (ḵeṣəpā, piece of pottery), related to ܚܰܙܽܘܦܳܐ (ḵazūpa, rough), which is a phono-semantic matching of Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, pottery vessel). The Aramaic root is related to حَصَفَ (ḥaṣafa, to twist a rope strongly).

Pronunciation

Noun

خَزَف (ḵazafm

  1. earthenware, ceramic, pottery

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References

  • Fischer, August (1918) “Zu arabisch faḫḫār”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 72, page 335
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
  • Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 118–120
  • Schwally, Friedrich (1898) “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 52, page 140