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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bīʕaẗ ‎ ‎بيعة‎ , pl. ‎biyaʕ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BYʕ 
n.f. 
(Chr.) church; ‎synagogue – WehrCowan1979. 
Akin to byḍ ‘white’, not bāʕa ‘to sell’ 
▪ eC7 Q 22:40 (in the pl. biyaʕ) ‘place of worship’ 
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BYḌ: Ar bāḍa ‘surpasser en blancheur’, ʔabyaḍ ‘blanc’; ?Te bäyyäṣä ‘être brillant’. – (commSem) ‘œuf, testicule’: Hbr (pl.) bēṣīm, nHbr bēṣā, Aram bēʕtā, nSyr (Ur) bītā, Mnd bita, Ar bayḍaẗ, Te bayč̣e. – Ar bīʕaẗ, SAr bʕt ‘église’. 
▪ Jeffery1938, 86-87: »It was early recognized as a ‎foreign word (as-Suyūṭī, Itq, 320; Mutaw, 46), and is said by al-Ǧawālīqī, Muʕarrab, 35, to be ‎a borrowing from Pers. One is at a loss to know why al-Ǧawālīqī should think it was Pers, ‎when it is so obviously the Syr bīʕtā,1 unless perhaps we may suggest that he knew of Syrian churches ‎in Pers territory called by this name and jumped to the conclusion that it was a Pers word. ‎Syr bīʕtā is originally an ‘eggʼ (cf. Ar ↗bayḍ; Hbr bēṣā; Aram bīʕā) and then was used ‎metaphorically for the top of a rounded arch – BīʕTā ḏ-QBBH ḏ-PūRQSā, and so for the domed ‎buildings used for worship. – The word was well known in pre-Islamic times, being found in the SAr ‎inscriptions,2 and ‎occurring not infrequently in the old poetry (e.g. Diwan Hudh., ed. Kosegarten, 3, l. 5), and may ‎be assumed to have entered Ar from the Mesopotamian area. It is interesting that the ‎traditional exegesis of the Qurʔān seems to favour the word in xxii, 41, being referred to maʕbad ‎al-naṣārā, though some thought it meant kanīsat al-yahūd, cf. Zam., Baiḍ., Ṭab., on the ‎passage, and TA, v, 285; as-Siǧistānī, 65.«
▪ Unrelated to ↗bāʕa ‘to buy/sell’. 
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BYN بين 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 5Mar2023
√BYN 
“root” 
▪ BYN_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BYN_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ BYN_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘separation, severance, division; to be disconnected, become divorced; in between, middle; to clarify, declare, explain; eloquence’ 
▪ From WSem *√BYN ‘to be separate, clear, distinct; in derived stems, to discern, understand’ – Huehnergard2011.
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tāʔ تاء 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
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The letter t of the Arabic alphabet. 
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▪ Cf. Engl tau, from Grk tau ‘tau’; tav, from Hbr tāw ‘tav’; both from Phoen *taww ‘mark; twenty-second letter of the Phoen alphabet’ - Huehnergard2011. 
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TāBūT تابوت 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 20Feb2023
√TāBūT 
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▪ TāBūT_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TāBūT_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TāBūT_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘[a borrowing, said to be from Aram, Gz, Hbr or others; philologists also derive it from various Ar roots, e.g. ↗TBT and ↗TBH]’ 
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TBː (TBB) تبّ/تبب 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 20Feb2023
√TBː (TBB) 
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▪ TBː (TBB)_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TBː (TBB)_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TBː (TBB)_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to stamp down, to flatten, to crush, to ruin; to cause to lose, to destroy; to become stable, to settle down, to become well-ordered’ 
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TBR تبر 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 20Feb2023
√TBR 
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▪ TBR_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TBR_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TBR_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘gold dust, raw metal, ore; to fragment, crush, destroy, annihilate’ 
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TBʕ تبع 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 20Feb2023
√TBʕ 
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▪ TBʕ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ TBʕ_2 ‘(title of the Kings of the Himyarites)’ ↗tubbaʕ
▪ TBʕ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘an attachment, to follow, succeed, pursue, abide by, comply with; to send after, cause to go after; a follower, creditor; result; liability; consequence; follow up, successor; uniformity; one’s shadow’ 
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