قزح

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ز ح (q-z-ḥ).

Verb

قَزَحَ (qazaḥa) I, non-past يَقْزَحُ‎ (yaqzaḥu)

  1. (transitive) to put scents to, to add aromates to

Conjugation

Verb

قَزَحَ (qazaḥa) I, non-past يَقْزَحُ‎ (yaqzaḥu)

  1. (intransitive) to splash, to emit driblets, to spatter

Conjugation

Verb

قَزَّحَ (qazzaḥa) II, non-past يُقَزِّحُ‎ (yuqazziḥu)

  1. (transitive) to put scents to, to add aromates to
  2. (transitive) to embellish, to dress up, to formulate exquisitely
    Synonym: دَبَّجَ (dabbaja)

Conjugation

Noun

قَزْح (qazḥ) m

  1. verbal noun of قَزَحَ (qazaḥa) (form I)
  2. dog urine

Declension

Proper noun

قُزَح (quzaḥ) m

  1. a god or demon of the rainstorm of the pagan Arabs, translatable as “thunder god” or “rain demon”. Related to a certain ritual of “standing” (وُقُوف (wuqūf)) performed at a hill (the hill termed جَبَل قُزَح (jabal quzaḥ), now جَبَل عَرَفَة (jabal ʿarafa, Mount Arafat)) east of Mecca at dawn where he was apparently believed to dwell, or perhaps the hill itself was deified.
    • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 9:78:
      فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ أَتَى قُزَحَ فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَ ‏«هَذَا قُزَحُ وَهُوَ الْمَوْقِفُ وَجَمْعٌ كُلُّهَا مَوْقِفٌ‏»
      falammā ʾaṣbaḥa ʾatā quzaḥa fawaqafa ʿalayhi waqāla “haḏā quzaḥu wahuwa l-mawqifu wajamʿun kulluhā mawqifun”
      When it became morning he went to quzaḥ and stood at him and said: “This is quzaḥ, and it is the place of standing, and all of jamʿ is a place for standing.”

Declension

Derived terms

قِزْح

Noun

قِزْح or قَزْح (qizḥ or qazḥ) m (plural أَقْزَاح (ʾaqzāḥ))

  1. onion seeds
  2. serpent excrement
  3. anything scented added to dishes while cooking

Declension

References

  • Al-Azmeh, Aziz (2014) The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 187
  • Baldick, Julian (1997) Black God. The Afroasiatic Roots of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions., London: I. B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 30
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), قزح”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 342
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قزح”, 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 439
  • قزح” in Almaany
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