طوج

Andalusian Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, whence also a local Late Latin *taucia which is preserved in Catalan tossa (“bulk, volume; hillock”), Aragonese toza (“matorral”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˤawd͡ʒ/, /tˤawt͡ʃ/

Noun

طَوْج (ṭawj) m (singulative طَوْجَة (ṭawja))

1. esparto (Lygeum spartum)

Derived terms

• طَوّاج (ṭawwāj, “esparto trader”)

Related terms

• طُوجَار (ṭūjār), أَطُوجَار (ʔaṭūjār, “field covered with esparto”)
• طَوْجُول (ṭawjūl, “a kind of arrow”)

Descendants

• → Spanish: atocha

References

• 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 828
• Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 536