قصعة

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ق ص ع (q-ṣ-ʕ) originally denoting "a furrow, a hollow, or divot that collects water", hence "a trough or basin", "a large serving dish"; related natively to ق ص ص (q-ṣ-ṣ) meaning "tracks", "indents in ground", and ق ص ي (q-ṣ-y) meaning "to gulp down", "to drink down all of a containers contents". Alternatively, the furrow sense perhaps derives from Middle Persian (kiš, a line, groove); seemingly developed separately from *kaʔs- (cup, bowl, container) and a false cognate to Persian کاسه and its suspected Indo-European relations.

Noun

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قَصْعَة (qaṣʕaf (plural قَصَعَات (qaṣaʕāt) or قِصَاع (qiṣāʕ) or قِصَاع (qiṣāʕ))

  1. furrow, burrow, hollow, divot
  2. trough or basin
  3. large serving dish, especially one feeding ten men
  4. bowl
    • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 25:18:
      دَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا نُبَيْشَةُ الْخَيْرِ وَنَحْنُ نَأْكُلُ فِي قَصْعَةٍ فَحَدَّثَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ ٱللَّهِ صَلَّى اللّٰه عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ ”مَنْ أَكَلَ فِي قَصْعَةٍ ثُمَّ لَحِسَهَا ٱسْتَغْفَرَتْ لَهُ الْقَصْعَةُ“.
      daḵala ʕalaynā nubayšatu l-ḵayri wanaḥnu naʔkulu fī qaṣʕatin faḥaddaṯanā ʔanna rasūla l-lahi ṣallā llāh ʕalayhi wasallama qāla ”man ʔakala fī qaṣʕatin ṯumma laḥisahā staḡfarat lahu l-qaṣʕatu“.
      Nubayša Al-Ḵayr entered upon us while we were eating from a bowl. He narrated to us that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Whoever eats from a bowl, then licks it, the bowl will seek forgiveness for him.”
  5. hollow body of an instrument, belly of an Oud

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References

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  • qṣˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 83
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصعة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 455
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قصعة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 900
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قصعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1032