خ ث ث

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Ge'ez ኀሠሠ (ḫäśäśä, “to search, to perscrutate”) and Arabic عَشَّ (ʕašša, “to seek, to collect, to gather”)

Root

خ ث ث • (ḵ-ṯ-ṯ)

1. related to gathering a kind of mass

Usage notes

Only the two nouns خُثّ (ḵuṯṯ, “peat”) and خِثْي (ḵiṯy, “dung”) and the root خ ث ر (ḵ-ṯ-r) are of known use.

Derived terms

• Form II: خَثَّثَ (ḵaṯṯaṯa, “to amass”)
  • Verbal noun: تَخْثِيث (taḵṯīṯ)
  • Active participle: مُخَثِّث (muḵaṯṯiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُخَثَّث (muḵaṯṯaṯ)
• Form VIII: اِخْتَثَّ (iḵtaṯṯa, “to be amassed”)
  • Verbal noun: اِخْتِثَاث (iḵtiṯāṯ)
  • Active participle: مُخْتَثّ (muḵtaṯṯ)

• خُثّ (ḵuṯṯ, “peat”)
• خِثْي (ḵiṯy, “dung”)
• خُثَّة (ḵuṯṯa, “fresh dung, piece of wood to ignite a fire”)
• خَثَّة (ḵaṯṯa, “piece of wood to ignite a fire”)
• خ ث ر (ḵ-ṯ-r, “related to clotting”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ ث ث”, 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) “خ ث ث”, 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 541a