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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḥānūt حانوت , pl. ḥawānītᵘ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 5Sep2022
√ḤNW/Y 
n. (m./f.) 
1a store, shop; b wineshop, tavern – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ From Aram ḥānūṯā ‘wineshop, tavern’, often derived from Pers ḫān, but accord. to Nöldeke rather cognate with Hbr miḥᵃnäʰ ‘encampment’, from a Sem root *ḤNW/Y ‘to bend, bow, be curved, arched ceiling’ – Fraenkel1886: 172.
▪ Also attested as ‘burial chamber’,1 hence prob. the (EgAr) ↗ḥānūtī ‘corpse washer; undertaker, gravedigger’.
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▪ 563 CE in a poem by Ṭarafaẗ b. al-ʕAbid – DHDA.
▪ Historically also attested (Hava1899): †ḥaniyyat, pl. ḥanāyā, ḥaniyy, ‘vault; bow’; †ḥānāẗ, †ḥāniyaẗ ‘shop; tavern; vintner’; †ḥānawī, †ḥānī ‘shop-keeper; vintner’; †ḥāniyyaẗ ‘wine; wine-merchant’
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►ḥānūtī, pl. -iyyaẗ (EgAr), n., 1a corpse washer; b undertaker, mortician, gravedigger: prob. nsb-formation from ḥānūt in the sense of ‘burial chamber, vault’, see s.v.
 
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