خنفساء

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Aramaic חִפּוּשִׂיתָא / חִיפּוּשִׂיתָא (ḥippūśīṯā), חִיפּוּשְׂתָא / חִפּוּשְׂתָא (ḥippūśtā, beetle, scarab) from the verb Proto-Semitic *ḥapaś- (to search together) not attested as such in Aramaic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خُنْفُسَاء (ḵunfusāʔf (dual خُنْفُسَاوَانِ (ḵunfusāwāni), plural خَنَافِس (ḵanāfis), masculine خُنْفُس (ḵunfus))

  1. dung beetle, scarab; beetle

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Maltese: ħanfus
  • Moroccan Arabic: خنفوس (ḵanfūs)

References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خنفساء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 401
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خنفساء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 533
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 66–67
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 227
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خنفساء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 367