خ و ي

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Unparallelled by other Semitic languages. Probably a phonetic variant of غ و ي (ḡ-w-y), especially as in غ و ر (ḡ-w-r) or غ و ص (ḡ-w-ṣ), or of ه و ي (h-w-y).

Root

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خ و ي (ḵ-w-y)

  1. related to not being saturated, an empty stomach

Derived terms

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  • خَوَايَة (ḵawāya, concave spot of a cusp where a spear is connected; any ample spot within a man)
  • خَوَاة (ḵawāh, insterstice between mammae and vulva of a beast)

References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 443
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ و ي”, 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 539
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ و ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 370