د ي ث

Arabic

Etymology

Probably originally very occasional verbs secondarily derived from the noun دَيُّوث (dayyūṯ, “cuckold, wittol”).

Root

د ي ث • (d-y-ṯ)

1. related to being compliant, submissive

Derived terms

• Form I: دَاثَ (dāṯa, “to be submissive, to be compliant, to be cucked, to be tame”)
  • Verbal noun: دِيَاثَة (diyāṯa), دَيْث (dayṯ)
  • Active participle: دَائِث (dāʔiṯ)
• Form II: دَيَّثَ (dayyaṯa, “to make submissive, to make compliant, to cuck, to tame, to supple”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْيِيث (tadyīṯ)
  • Active participle: مُدَيِّث (mudayyiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُدَيَّث (mudayyaṯ)
• Form V: تَدَيَّثَ (tadayyaṯa, “to become a pimp to one’s own wife”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَيُّث (tadayyuṯ)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَيِّث (mutadayyiṯ)

• دَيُّوث (dayyūṯ, “cuckold, wittol”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “د ي ث”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 480
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “د ي ث”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 75
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “د ي 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 756
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “د ي ث”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 941