تعتع

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Arabic

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Verb

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تَعْتَعَ (taʕtaʕa) Iq (non-past يُتَعْتِعُ (yutaʕtiʕu), verbal noun تَعْتَعَة (taʕtaʕa))

  1. to shake, to shift, to urge on with violence
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 173:
      دَخَلْتُ ٱلْفَايْسْبُوكِ، وَشَتَمْتُ وَلَعَنْتُ مُطْلَقًا الْعَنَانَ لِٱضْطِغَانِي، كَسِكِّيرٌ تَعْتَعَهُ السُّكْرُ، […]
      daḵaltu l-fāysbūki, wašatamtu walaʕantu muṭlaqan al-ʕanāna liḍṭiḡānī, kasikkīrun taʕtaʕahū as-sukru, […]
      I entered Facebook and reviled and cursed but the clouds for my anger, like a drunkard shifted by drunkenness.
  2. to stammer, to falter, to chatter, to get confused in speech
  3. to brush off, to stonewall
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Mājah, 6:162:
      إِذَا قَالُوا وَٱعَضُدَاهْ وَٱكَاسِيَاهْ. وَٱنَاصِرَاهْ وَٱجَبَلَاهْ وَنَحْوَ هَذَا – يُتَعْتَعُ وَيُقَالُ أَنْتَ كَذٰلِكَ أَنْتَ كَذٰلِكَ
      ʔiḏā qālū waʕaḍudāh wakāsiyāh. wanāṣirāh wajabalāh wanaḥwa haḏā – yutaʕtaʕu wayuqālu ʔanta kaḏālika ʔanta kaḏālika
      If they say: “O my strength, O he who clothed us, O my help, O my rock,” and suchlike, he is interrupted and it is said: “Were you really like that? Were you really like that?”

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “تعتع”, 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 192b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “تعتع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 199b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تعتع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 177b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “تعتع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 114b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “تعتع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 104b, where sense “to shake” is redeclared obsolete