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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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būṣalaẗ بوصَلة , var. بوصلة būṣilaẗ , būṣlaẗ, /boṣlaẗ/ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 3Oct2022
√BṢL, BWŞ̣L 
n.f. 
compass 
▪ Rolland2014a: from It bussola, f. corresponding to bossolo ‘little vase, (wooden) recipient’, hence Fr boussole, itself orig. placed in a little wooden chest; bossolo is from vulgLat *buxula, from Lat buxis ‘chest made from boxwood’, from Grk puxís ‘id.’, from púxos ‘boxwood’, of unknown origin. See also ↗baqs.
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BWL بول 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 5Mar2023
√BWL 
“root” 
▪ BWL_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BWL_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BWL_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): (with a degree of overlapping with roots ↗BLY and ↗BYL) ‘heart, mind, thought; condition; importance; ease of living; disposition’ 
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BYT بيت 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BYT 
“root” 
▪ BYT_1 ‘house, tent, to stay over night’ ↗bayt, ↗bāta
▪ BYT_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘tent, dwelling, abode, quarters; family; to spend the night, to do s.th. at night; to raid by night, (of food) to become stale’ 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BYT: (commSem ‘tente, maison’): Akk bīt- (ass. bēt-), Ug bt, Phoen Pun Moab bt, Hbr bayit (cstr. bēt), oAram Nab Palm byt, by, Ḥaṭ bt, Ya byt, JP baytā, bētā, bā, bē, nSyr Ur bētā, Aysor bēta, Ar bayt, Tham byt, bt ‘maison, tribu’; Liḥ byt ‘maison, temple’; DaṯAr bayt ‘forteresse’; SAr byt ‘maison, fort, temple’; Soq beyt ‘maison de pierre’; Mhr beyt, bēt, Śḥr būt, ūt, Gz Amh Tña Te bet ‘maison’; Syr bāt, Ar bāta, Tham bt, byt, bṯ (!), Liḥ bt ‘passer la nuit’.
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▪ Engl beta, alphabet ↗ Ar bayt. 
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