خوخة

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Arabic[edit]

خَوْخَة

Etymology 1[edit]

Singulative noun composed of خَوْخ (ḵawḵ, peach; plum) +‎ ـَة (-a).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

خَوْخَة (ḵawḵaf (singulative, collective خَوْخ m (ḵawḵ))

  1. singulative of خَوْخ (ḵawḵ)
Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

خَوْخَة

Most likely from Old South Arabian 𐩭𐩭 (ḫḫ) from which also Ge'ez ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, door, gate, wall opening), from which Amharic ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, space between letters); also found in Shehri ḫɔh, Mehri ḫā, Soqotri ḥe which there even replaced the Proto-Semitic *pay- (mouth), and Biblical Hebrew חוֹחַ (ḥōaḥ, crevice, fissure; bramble, thicket; hole, hiding place).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

خَوْخَة (ḵawḵaf (plural خُوَخ (ḵuwaḵ))

  1. wicket, aperture
    1. hatch, loophole, peephole (in a building’s wall)
      Synonyms: مَنْوَر (manwar), وَصْوَص (waṣwaṣ), وَصْْوَاص (waṣwāṣ), كَوَّة (kawwa), كُوَّة (kuwwa), ثُغْرَة (ṯuḡra)
    2. sluice gate, canal lock (in a passage)
Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 260
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 51
  • Weninger, Stefan (2007) “Ethiopic Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
  • Weninger, Stefan (2009) “Der Jemen als lexikalisches Ausstrahlungszentrum in der Antike”, in Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica in memoriam Alexander Sima[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, →ISBN, page 405 Nr. 13

Moroccan Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic خَوْخَة (ḵawḵa).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /xuː.xa/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

خوخة (ḵūḵaf (singulative, collective خوخ m (ḵūḵ), paucal خوخات (ḵūḵāt))

  1. singulative of خوخ (ḵūḵ)