قحط

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Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ح ط (q-ḥ-ṭ) related to droughts and sudden blows.

Noun

قَحْط (qaḥṭm (plural قُحُوط (quḥūṭ))

  1. verbal noun of قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) (form I)
  2. drought
    Synonym: جَفَاف (jafāf)
  3. (figurative) dearth, scarcity; hunger

Declension

Verb

قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) I (non-past يَقْحَطُ (yaqḥaṭu), verbal noun قَحْط (qaḥṭ) or قُحُوط (quḥūṭ))
قَحِطَ (qaḥiṭa) I (non-past يَقْحَطُ (yaqḥaṭu), verbal noun قَحَط (qaḥaṭ))

  1. to be held back, to fail to materialize (e.g. of rains)

Conjugation

Verb

قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) I (non-past يَقْحَطُ (yaqḥaṭu), verbal noun قَحْط (qaḥṭ))

  1. to scuff, to scrape, to rake

Conjugation

Verb

قَحَّطَ (qaḥḥaṭa) II (non-past يُقَحِّطُ (yuqaḥḥiṭu), verbal noun قَحْط (qaḥṭ))

  1. to scuff, to scrape, to rake

Conjugation

Verb

قَحَّطَ (qaḥḥaṭa) II (non-past يُقَحِّطُ (yuqaḥḥiṭu), verbal noun قَحْط (qaḥṭ))

  1. to fertilize, to fecundate

Conjugation

References

  • Corriente, Federico (2005) “قحط”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 922
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قحط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 309
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قحط”, 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, pages 401–402
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قحط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1002

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَحْط (qaḥṭ, drought, hunger).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? qaht
Dari reading? qaht
Iranian reading? ğaht
Tajik reading? qaht

Noun

قحط (qaht)

  1. famine, dearth
    Synonyms: کمیابی (kamyâbi), قحطی (qahti)
    • The Bible, Romans 8:35:
      کیست که ما را از محبّت مسیح جدا سازد؟ آیا مصیبت یا دلتنگی یا جفا یا قحط یا عریانی یا خطر یا شمشیر؟
      kist ke mâ râ az mohabbat-e masih jodâ sâzad? âyâ mosibat yâ deltangi yâ jafâ yâ qaht yâ oryâni yâ xatar yâ šamšir?
      What is it that will part us from love for the Christ? Hardness, or gloom, or persecution, or dearth, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

Adjective

قحط (qaht)

  1. (colloquial) scarce

References