𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩

Minaean

Etymology

Cognate to Arabic صَحْفَة (ṣaḥfa, “bowl”).

Noun

𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩 (ṣḥft)

1. moat, ditch, excavated area; the curtain or lower part of a fortification complex
   • c. 525 BCE, Glaser 1155 = M 247 = RES 3022 = B-M 257‎^[1], edited, translated and put in context in Höfner, Maria, Mlaker, Karl, Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus (1934) “Zur altsüdarabischen Epigraphik und Archäologie II”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[2] (in German), volume 41, pages 69–106, while insufficiently in Grimme, Hubert (1932) “Die Bedeutung des Eigennamens 𐩱𐩱𐩦𐩧 in Glaser 1155 und 1083 sowie Weiteres zu Gl. 1155”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[3] (in German), volume 39, pages 227–245:

     […] 𐩯𐩡𐩱 𐩽 𐩥𐩨𐩬𐩺 𐩽 𐩥𐩪𐩤𐩬𐩺 𐩽 𐩫𐩲𐩻𐩩𐩧 𐩽 𐩹𐩤𐩨𐩳𐩣 𐩽 𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩𐩬 𐩽 𐩩𐩬𐩲𐩣 𐩽 𐩱𐩬𐩰 𐩽 𐩣𐩥𐩪𐩣 𐩽 𐩲𐩳𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩩𐩤𐩧𐩣 𐩽 𐩨𐩬 𐩽 𐩱𐩦𐩧𐩪 𐩽 𐩲𐩵 𐩽 𐩦𐩺𐩧𐩬 𐩽 𐩥𐩣𐩲𐩹𐩧𐩪 𐩽 𐩱𐩨𐩬𐩣 𐩽 𐩫𐩡 𐩽 𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩 𐩽 𐩨𐩺𐩬 𐩽 𐩣𐩢𐩰𐩵𐩬𐩺𐩠𐩬 𐩽 𐩼𐩧𐩨𐩬 𐩽 𐩥𐩡𐩨𐩱𐩬 𐩽 𐩨𐩫𐩨𐩥𐩵𐩩 𐩽 𐩥𐩱𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩽 𐩩𐩫𐩧𐩨 𐩽 𐩲𐩻𐩩𐩧 𐩽 𐩹𐩤𐩨𐩹𐩣 𐩽 𐩱𐩠𐩡 𐩽 𐩪𐩨𐩧𐩧 𐩽 𐩥𐩺𐩱𐩩𐩣𐩧 𐩽 𐩥𐩪𐩩𐩧𐩳𐩥 𐩽 𐩲𐩻𐩩𐩧 𐩽 𐩹𐩤𐩨𐩳 𐩽 𐩨𐩫𐩨𐩥𐩵𐩩𐩬 𐩽 𐩥𐩱𐩫𐩧𐩨𐩬 𐩽 𐩣𐩨𐩬𐩺 𐩽 𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩𐩬

     […] s³lʾ wbny ws¹qny kʿṯtr ḏqbḍm ṣḥftn tnʿm ʾnf mws¹m ʿḍm wtqrm bn ʾs²rs¹ ʿd s²yrn wmʿḏrs¹ ʾbnm kl ṣḥft byn mḥfdnyhn ẓrbn wlbʾn bkbwdt wʾkrb tkrb ʿṯtr ḏqbḏm ʾhl s¹brr wyʾtmr ws¹trḍw ʿṯtr ḏqbḍ bkbwdtn wʾkrbn mbny ṣḥftn

     […] they paid and built and dedicated to ʿAṯtar of QBḌ the moat [called] tnʿm, the wall flush-fitted [to a scarp] from wood and of hewed stones, from the fundament up to the top, and the counterscarp from stones: the whole moat between the two towers ẓrbn and lbʾn, from levies and offerings offered to ʿAṯtar of QBḌ, which they performed. And thus ʿAṯtar of QBḌ convened and confirmed the levies and offerings for the construction of the moat.

Qatabanian

Etymology 1

Cognate to Arabic صَحْفَة (ṣaḥfa, “bowl”).

Noun

𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩 (ṣḥft)

1. moat, ditch, excavated area; the curtain or lower part of a fortification complex
   • c. 180–155 BCE, RES 4162; Q 131; CSAI I, 27‎^[4], line 2:

     𐩫𐩡 𐩲𐩦𐩤 𐩥𐩣𐩨𐩬𐩺 𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩𐩬

     kl ʿs²q wmbny ṣḥftn

     all digging and construction of moats

Etymology 2

From 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf, “to write”).

Noun

𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩 (ṣḥft)

1. document, writing
   • 5^th century BCE, Ja 2361; Q 695; CSAI I, 196‎^[5], lines 12–14:

     𐩥𐩣𐩬 𐩽 𐩹𐩣 𐩽 𐩨𐩺𐩣𐩵 […] 𐩨𐩱𐩤𐩷𐩬𐩩 𐩽 𐩱𐩪𐩷𐩧 𐩽 𐩹𐩩 𐩽 𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩𐩬 𐩽 𐩥𐩡 𐩽 𐩺𐩫𐩬 𐩽 𐩬𐩪𐩺𐩣 𐩽 𐩪𐩥 𐩽 𐩥𐩡𐩵𐩪

     w-mn ḏm b-ymd […] b-ʾqṭnt ʾs¹ṭr ḏt ṣḥftn w-l ykn ns¹ym s¹w w-wld-s¹

     And whoso cuts short […] the […] established by the lines of this document shall fall into oblivion with his issue.

Sabaean

Etymology

From 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf, “to write”).

Noun

𐩮𐩢𐩰𐩩 (ṣḥft)

1. document, writing
   • (Can we date this quote?), CIH 314‎^[6], lines 8–9, 11–12:

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     b-ʾmr w-ṣḥft […] w-Whbʾwm l-ṣḥf […] wwkbw b-hyt ṣḥftn ʾmlʾ ṣd[q]m

     by order and rescript they commissioned them to write […] and by this writing they obtained hopebringing oracular responses

   • (Can we date this quote?), Ir 69‎^[7], lines 12–13:

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     w-wkw b-hyt ṣḥftn ʾmlʾ ṣdqm

     and by this writing they obtained hopebringing oracular responses