سطا

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Root
س ط و (s ṭ w)
3 terms

Inherited from Proto-West Semitic *saṭaw-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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سَطَا (saṭā) I (non-past يَسْطُو (yasṭū), verbal noun سَطْو (saṭw) or سَطْوَة (saṭwa))

  1. to rush at, to spring upon to assault, to attack, to assail, to seize violently, to exact, to extract [with عَلَى (ʕalā) or بِ (bi)]
  2. (Modern Standard Arabic) to burglarize, to mug, to rob etc. [with عَلَى (ʕalā)]

Conjugation

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References

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  • سطا” in Almaany
  • 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 636
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سطا”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 315
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سطا”, 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, pages 1089–1090
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سطا”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1359–1360
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سطا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 478a
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “سطا”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 419b