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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bunyān بُنْيان 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 2Jun2023
√BNW/Y
 
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a building or construction – Jeffery1938 
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▪ eC7 Q ix, 110, 111; xvi, 28; xviii, 20; xxxvii, 95; lxi, 4 – Jeffery1938.
 
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▪ Jeffery1938: »Again it would seem, on the surface, that this word also is from banà ‘to build’. Sprenger, Leben, i, 108, has noted that words of this form are un-Arabic, e.g. qurbān, furqān, sulṭān, subḥān, etc., and lead us to look for an Aram origin. Fraenkel, Fremdw, 27, points out that we have in Aram binyān, bînyāynāʔ beside bnyytā and bnʔytʔ, and in Syr binyānā ‘building’. In Hbr also we find binyān, but as Lagarde, Übersicht, 205, shows, this is a borrowing from Aram. [Ar] bunyān occurs in the old poetry so it was doubtless an early borrowing from Aramaic.«
 
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BHT بهت 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 5Mar2023
√BHT 
“root” 
▪ BHT_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BHT_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BHT_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be confounded, be taken by surprise, be dumbfounded; falsehood, slander; to be argued down; to be perplexed’ 
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BHǦ بهج 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 5Mar2023
√BHǦ 
“root” 
▪ BHǦ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BHǦ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BHǦ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘delight; freshness; verdancy; to please, make merry’ 
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BHR بهر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BHR 
“root” 
▪ BHR_1 ‘to glitter, shine; dazzle, overwhelm’ ↗bahara
▪ BHR_2 ‘to gasp for air, pant, be exhausted’ ↗buhr
▪ BHR_3 ‘narcisses’ ↗†bahār_1
▪ BHR_4 ‘spice’ ↗bahār_2
▪ BHR_5 ‘leather bag’ ↗†buhār
▪ BHR_6 ‘centre, middle’ ↗buhraẗ
▪ BHR_7 ‘aorta’ ↗ʔabharᵘ 
▪ BHR_1 ‘to glitter, shine; dazzle, overwhelm’: perhaps an extension in ‑r »pre-Proto-Semitic« (Ehret) *bh ‘to sneak up on and surprise’, from AfrAs *‑bâh‑ ‘to go secretively’. – Cf. also ↗√BHT, ↗√BHW/Y, ↗√BRQ, ↗√ṬHR.
▪ BHR_2 ‘to gasp for air, pant, be exhausted’: akin to BHL ? Dependent on BHR_1 ?
▪ BHR_3 ‘narcisses’: from Pers bahār ‘spring’ ?
▪ BHR_4 ‘spice’: akin to †ʕabhar ‘styrax’?
▪ BHR_5 ‘leather bag’: < Copt ?
▪ BHR_6 ‘centre, middle’: ?
▪ BHR_7 ‘aorta’: related to BHR_6 ‘centre, middle’ ? 
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See entries (as in NUTSHELL section, above). 
See entries (as in NUTSHELL section, above). 
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