سخد

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Disputed etymology with connections to:

  • Derivative from the verb, Aramaic סחי (sḥy, to wash, to bathe, to swim, to float in, to wring out, to baptize).
  • From Middle Persian ʾšyhtn' (āšixtan, to pour, to overflow), or through its older form Parthian ʾšyxt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suxd/

Noun

سُخْد (suḵd) m

  1. liquor amnii, waters
  2. amniotic sac

Declension

References

  • سخد” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), سخد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 295
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), سخد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1323–24
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), سخد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 558
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