قحط

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the root ق ح ط (q-ḥ-ṭ) related to droughts and sudden blows.

Noun[edit]

قَحْط (qaḥṭm (plural قُحُوط (quḥūṭ))

  1. verbal noun of قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) (form I)
  2. drought
    Synonym: جَفَاف (jafāf)
  3. (figurative) dearth, scarcity; hunger

Declension[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) I, non-past يَقْحَطُ‎ (yaqḥaṭu) قَحِطَ (qaḥiṭa) I, non-past يَقْحَطُ‎ (yaqḥaṭu)

  1. to be held back, to fail to materialize

Conjugation[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَحَطَ (qaḥaṭa) I, non-past يَقْحَطُ‎ (yaqḥaṭu)

  1. to scuff, to scrape, to rake

Conjugation[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَحَّطَ (qaḥḥaṭa) II, non-past يُقَحِّطُ‎ (yuqaḥḥiṭu)

  1. to scuff, to scrape, to rake

Conjugation[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَحَّطَ (qaḥḥaṭa) II, non-past يُقَحِّطُ‎ (yuqaḥḥiṭu)

  1. to fertilize, to fecundate

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • Corriente, Federico (2005) “قحط”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe[1] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 922
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قحط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 309
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قحط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 401–402
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قحط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1002

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic قَحْط (qaḥṭ, drought, hunger).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? qaht
Dari reading? qaht
Iranian reading? ğaht
Tajik reading? qaht

Noun[edit]

قحط (qaht)

  1. famine, dearth
    Synonyms: کمیابی (kamyâbi), قحطی (qahti)
    • The Bible, Romans 8:35:
      کیست که ما را از محبّت مسیح جدا سازد؟ آیا مصیبت یا دلتنگی یا جفا یا قحط یا عریانی یا خطر یا شمشیر؟
      kist ke mâ râ az mohabbat-e masih jodâ sâzad? âyâ mosibat yâ deltangi yâ jafâ yâ qaht yâ oryâni yâ xatar yâ šamšir?
      What is it that will part us from love for the Christ? Hardness, or gloom, or persecution, or dearth, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

Adjective[edit]

قحط (qaht)

  1. (colloquial) scarce

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