خزف

Arabic

خَزَف

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ (ḵezəpā), ܚܶܨܦܳܐ (ḵeṣəpā, piece of pottery), related to ܚܰܙܽܘܦܳܐ (ḵazūpa, rough), which is a phono-semantic matching of Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, pottery vessel). The Aramaic root is related to حَصَفَ (ḥaṣafa, to twist a rope strongly).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xa.zaf/

Noun

خَزَف (ḵazaf) m

  1. earthenware, ceramic, pottery

Declension

Derived terms

  • خَزَفِيّ (ḵazafiyy, earthen)

References

  • Fischer, August (1918), “Zu arabisch faḫḫār”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 72, page 335
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
  • Rabin, Chaim (1963), “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, issue 2, DOI:10.2307/43073741, pages 118–120
  • Schwally, Friedrich (1898), “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 52, page 140
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