عاچه
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Soqotri[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Feminine counterpart of عاج (ʕag, “man; husband”).
Noun[edit]
عاچه (ʕáže) (dual عچيتي (ʕažíti), plural عجهاتن (ʕəghétən))
- woman; wife
- 2014, “The Faithful Wife”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 44, line 5:
- عٞامٞر: إفوڸ لاكن عاف نفعلو بعاچه دفلان؟
- ʕémər ífuḷ ľákɛn ʕaf nifʕáľu bə-ʕáže di-fəľán
- They said: "Why shouldn't we seduce the wife of this so-and-so?"
References[edit]
- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 505