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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʔabyaḍᵘ أَبْيَض 
ID 103 • Sw 90 • BP 564 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BYḌ 
adj. 
1 white; 2a bright; 2b clean, shiny, polished; 3 blameless, noble, sincere (character) – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Kogan2011: prob. based on Ar bayḍ ‘egg’. – Replaced the original Sem term for ‘white’, protSem *lbn ‘white’, which is one of the four basic colours in the protSem colour spectrum1 (see also Ar ↗ẒLM and SWD for ‘black’, ↗ḤMR for ‘red’, ↗WRQ and ḪḌR for ‘green’).
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BYʕ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BYʕ 
“root” 
▪ BYʕ_1 ʻcontract; to buy/sellʼ ↗bāʕa
▪ BYʕ_2 ʻplace of worship, churchʼ ↗bīʕaẗ

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘buying and/or selling, exchange of goods, merchandise, deals; to pledge allegiance, to acknowledge s.o. as ruler’. biyaʕ, a place of worship, is also classified under this root although it is generally recognised as being of foreign origin, possibly Pers. 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BYʕ-1 Pun bʕt ‘tarif’; nSyr be ‘hypothèque’; Ar bāʕa, Tham byʕ ‘vendre’; Soq ʔebiḥ ‘être la part de qn, échoir’, šeʔebaḥ ‘demander le partage, partager’; ? Te bayʔät ‘tromperie, abus de confiance’. -2 JP bᵊyāʕā, bīʕᵃtā ‘joie, allégresse’.
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