ز ج ر

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Arabic

Etymology

From the causative element Proto-Semitic *ša-, *š- (which is to wit found in Arabic in the elative and the verb form IV weakened to the glottal stop and zero (like the conjunction إِن (ʔin)) and as expected س (s) in the verb form X) assimilated to the root ج ر ي (j-r-y), which also happened in ز ج ل (z-j-l) and with a different root e.g. س و ي (s-w-y).

Root

ز ج ر (z-j-r)

  1. related to hindering by speech act

Derived terms

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 577
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ز ج ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 581a
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “ز ج ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 225b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ز ج ر”, 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, pages 974–975
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ز ج ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1216b–1217a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ز ج ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 433b–434a