خ و ي
Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unparallelled by other Semitic languages. Probably a phonetic variant of غ و ي (ḡ-w-y), especially as in غ و ر (ḡ-w-r) or غ و ص (ḡ-w-ṣ), or of ه و ي (h-w-y).
Root
[edit]خ و ي • (ḵ-w-y)
- related to not being saturated, an empty stomach
Derived terms
[edit]- Form I: خَوَى (ḵawā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything”)
- Form I: خَوِيَ (ḵawiya, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything”)
- Form IV: أَخْوَى (ʔaḵwā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything; to rape, to snatch away”)
- Form VIII: اِخْتَوَى (iḵtawā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything; to peragrate; to rape or keep for oneself all”)
- Verbal noun: اِخْتِوَاء (iḵtiwāʔ)
- Active participle: مُخْتَوٍ (muḵtawin)
- Passive participle: مُخْتَوًى (muḵtawan)
- خَوَايَة (ḵawāya, “concave spot of a cusp where a spear is connected; any ample spot within a man”)
- خَوَاة (ḵawāh, “insterstice between mammae and vulva of a beast”)
References
[edit]- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 443
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ و ي”, 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 539
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ و ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 370