فخ

Arabic

Etymology 1

Compare فَاحَ (fāḥa), فَاخَ (fāḵa), نَفَحَ (nafaḥa), نَفَخَ (nafaḵa), فَحَّ (faḥḥa).

Verb

فَخَّ (faḵḵa) I, non-past يَفِخُّ or يَفَخُّ‎ (yafiḵḵu or yafaḵḵu)

  1. to snore
    Synonym: غَطَّ (ḡaṭṭa)
  2. to lie resupine
  3. to diffuse, to be respired
Conjugation

Noun

فَخّ (faḵḵ) m

  1. verbal noun of فَخَّ (faḵḵa) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic פחא /‎ ܦܚܐ (paḥḥā, trap, snare, gin).

Noun

فَخّ (faḵḵ) m (plural فِخَاخ (fiḵāḵ) or فُخُوخ (fuḵūḵ))

  1. trap, snare, gin
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: فق (fak)

References

  • فخ” in Almaany
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 119
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), فخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 321
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), فخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 946
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