ضيعة

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See also: صيغة

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ge'ez ፂኦት (ṣ́iʾot, low grounds, pasture) according to Nöldeke.

Pronunciation

Noun

ضَيْعَة (ḍayʕaf (plural ضِيَاع (ḍiyāʕ) or ضِيَع (ḍiyaʕ) or ضَيْعَات (ḍayʕāt))

  1. pasture, meadowland, grazing ground
  2. estate, property, domain
  3. village, hamlet

Declension

Descendants

All borrowed

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ضيعة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 34
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 59
  • Weninger, Stefan (2009) “Der Jemen als lexikalisches Ausstrahlungszentrum in der Antike”, in Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica in memoriam Alexander Sima (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, →ISBN, page 403 Nr. 10