زربية

Arabic

زُرْبِيَّة

Etymology

  • William Hoyt Worrell considers it a genuine Arabic word. It is according to him from زِرْب (zirb, canal) and originally meant a “rug streaked with canals”, a “striped rug”, formed as فِسْقِيَّة (fisqiyya, fountain), شَمْسِيَّة (šamsiyya, parasol), حَنَفِيَّة (ḥanafiyya, faucet, spigot).
  • It could be borrowed from Ge'ez ዘርቤት (zärbet) from ዘረበ (zäräbä, to trample), however Wolf Leslau assumes that the Ge'ez word is from the Arabic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zur.bij.ja/, IPA(key): /zir.bij.ja/, IPA(key): /zar.bij.ja/,

Noun

زُرْبِيَّة or زِرْبِيَّة or زَرْبِيَّة (zurbiyya or zirbiyya or zarbiyya) f (plural زَرَابِيّ (zarābiyy))

  1. carpet, rug

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 92–93
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), زربية”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 232
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 643
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft, Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 53
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2011), زربية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 521
  • Worrell, William Hoyt (1934), “On Certain Arabic Terms for “Rug””, in Ars Islamica, volume 1, issue 2, DOI:10.2307/4515478, pages 220–221
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