خثي

Arabic

خِثْي

Etymology

An extension from خ ث ث (ḵ-ṯ-ṯ) whence خُثّ (ḵuṯṯ, “peat”) and obsolete خُثَّة (ḵuṯṯa, “fresh dung, piece of wood to ignite a fire”), خَثَّثَ (ḵaṯṯaṯa, “to amass”), which also connects to خ ث ر (ḵ-ṯ-r) related to clotting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xiθj/

Noun

خِثْي • (ḵiṯy) m (plural أَخْثَاء (ʔaḵṯāʔ))

1. dung of bovine animals, cow manure, mulley sharn
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام, edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة, volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 34, Art. 6, pages 721–722:

     وقال غيره يتخذ لها الخلايا من خشب الأرز ومن طين طيب الريح وتطين الخلايا من خارجها برماد وأخثاء البقر مدقوق معجون بالماء ويتخذ لها بعض الناس الخلايا من قشور الشبر وتسميه العامة «جناحا»

     And another author said that for beehives cedar wood and clay of good smell is taken and the beehives are daubed from the outside with ash and cow dung powdered and kneaded with water, and some people take for beehives the barks of the cork oak, generally called “wings”.

   • 1951 August 20, Šākir Maḥmūd, “السرقين والسماد في الزراعة قديما”, in مجلة الرسالة:

     راجعنا مقالاتهم في أنواع السرقين والمفاضلة بين ذرق الحمام وأرواث الخيل والبغال والحمير، وأخثاء البقر والجواميس وأبعار الغنم والضأن والماعز، […]

     We have reviewed their articles on the types of manure and the differences between pigeon droppings, dung of horses and mules and asses, and sharn of cows and buffalos and sheep and goats, […]

Declension

Declension of noun خِثْي (ḵiṯy)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِثْي ḵiṯy	الْخِثْي al-ḵiṯy	خِثْي ḵiṯy
Nominative	خِثْيٌ ḵiṯyun	الْخِثْيُ al-ḵiṯyu	خِثْيُ ḵiṯyu
Accusative	خِثْيًا ḵiṯyan	الْخِثْيَ al-ḵiṯya	خِثْيَ ḵiṯya
Genitive	خِثْيٍ ḵiṯyin	الْخِثْيِ al-ḵiṯyi	خِثْيِ ḵiṯyi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِثْيَيْن ḵiṯyayn	الْخِثْيَيْن al-ḵiṯyayn	خِثْيَيْ ḵiṯyay
Nominative	خِثْيَانِ ḵiṯyāni	الْخِثْيَانِ al-ḵiṯyāni	خِثْيَا ḵiṯyā
Accusative	خِثْيَيْنِ ḵiṯyayni	الْخِثْيَيْنِ al-ḵiṯyayni	خِثْيَيْ ḵiṯyay
Genitive	خِثْيَيْنِ ḵiṯyayni	الْخِثْيَيْنِ al-ḵiṯyayni	خِثْيَيْ ḵiṯyay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَخْثَاء ʔaḵṯāʔ	الْأَخْثَاء al-ʔaḵṯāʔ	أَخْثَاء ʔaḵṯāʔ
Nominative	أَخْثَاءٌ ʔaḵṯāʔun	الْأَخْثَاءُ al-ʔaḵṯāʔu	أَخْثَاءُ ʔaḵṯāʔu
Accusative	أَخْثَاءً ʔaḵṯāʔan	الْأَخْثَاءَ al-ʔaḵṯāʔa	أَخْثَاءَ ʔaḵṯāʔa
Genitive	أَخْثَاءٍ ʔaḵṯāʔin	الْأَخْثَاءِ al-ʔaḵṯāʔi	أَخْثَاءِ ʔaḵṯāʔi

Derived terms

• خَثَى (ḵaṯā, “to excrete ordure, to dung”)
• أَخْثَى (ʔaḵṯā, “to kindle dung”)

See also

• Thesaurus – Arabic terms for “feces, excrement, dung, ordure, manure”

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “خِثًى”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 395
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خثي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 462
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خثي”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 542
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خثي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 704–705