سطا

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
س ط و (s ṭ w)
3 terms

Inherited from Proto-West Semitic *saṭaw-.

Pronunciation

Verb

سَطَا (saṭā) I (non-past يَسْطُو (yasṭū), verbal noun سَطْو (saṭw) or سَطْوَة (saṭwa))

  1. to rush at, to spring upon to assault, to attack, to assail, to seize violently, to exact, to extract 
  2. (Modern Standard Arabic) to burglarize, to mug, to rob etc. 

Conjugation

References

  • سطا” in Almaany
  • 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 636
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سطا”, 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 315
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سطا”, 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 1089–1090
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سطا”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1359–1360
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سطا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 478a
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “سطا”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 419b