خزف

Arabic

خَزَف

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ (ḵezəpā), ܚܶܨܦܳܐ (ḵeṣəpā, “piece of pottery”), related to ܚܰܙܽܘܦܳܐ (ḵazūpa, “rough”), which is a phono-semantic matching of Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, “pottery vessel”). The Aramaic root is related to حَصَفَ (ḥaṣafa, “to twist a rope strongly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.zaf/

Noun

خَزَف • (ḵazaf) m

1. earthenware, ceramic, pottery

Declension

Declension of noun خَزَف (ḵazaf)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَزَف ḵazaf	الْخَزَف al-ḵazaf	خَزَف ḵazaf
Nominative	خَزَفٌ ḵazafun	الْخَزَفُ al-ḵazafu	خَزَفُ ḵazafu
Accusative	خَزَفًا ḵazafan	الْخَزَفَ al-ḵazafa	خَزَفَ ḵazafa
Genitive	خَزَفٍ ḵazafin	الْخَزَفِ al-ḵazafi	خَزَفِ ḵazafi

Derived terms

• خَزَفِيّ (ḵazafiyy, “earthen”)

References

• Fischer, August (1918) “Zu arabisch faḫḫār”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 72, page 335
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
• Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 118–120
• Schwally, Friedrich (1898) “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[2] (in German), volume 52, page 140