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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḫawlī خَوْليّ 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḪWL 
n. 
1 supervisor, overseer (of a plantation); 2 gardener – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Nisba formation, perh. shortened from *ḫawalī ʻin charge of property, etc.’, from ↗ḫawal ʻchattels, property (esp. livestock, slaves, etc.)’, akin to the obsol. vb. I, †ḫāla ʻto manage (a business etc.), take care (ʕalà of)’ (Hava1899).
▪ DRSḫāl, belongs to this complex (see below, section COGN).
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ḪWL-1 Akk ḫāl‑, Palm ḥl ‘oncle maternel’, Nab *ḥlh ‘tante’, Syr ḥālā, Ar ḫāl, Ṣaf ḫl, Mhr Ḥrs ḫayl, Jib ḥiź, Soq ḥel (Kogan2011: ḥalēle) ‘oncle maternel’. – ?2 Ar ḫāla ‘garder, gérer, administrer’, ḫawal ‘biens, avoir’; Min ḫwl ‘personne autorisée’, Qat šḫl ‘diriger, administrer’, ?MġrAr ḫāl ‘octroyer, assigner’. -3-7 […]. 
▪ See above, section CONCISE.
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For other values of the root, cf. ↗¹ḫāl, ↗²ḫāl, ↗ḫawal, and ↗ḫawwala, as well as, for the whole picture, root entries ↗√ḪWL and ↗√ḪYL. 
ḪWN خون 
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√ḪWN 
“root” 
▪ ḪWN_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪWN_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪWN_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘treachery, falsehood, disloyalty; to betray, let down; to give false advice; to shortchange; a furtive glance, glance furtively; to look after; to fall on hard times’ 
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ḪWY خوي 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Mar2023
√ḪWY 
“root” 
▪ ḪWY_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪWY_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪWY_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘space, void, an opening, emptiness, to be deserted; to be derelict, be crumbling; ruins; to be uprooted; wasteland; hunger’ 
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ḪYB خيب 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Mar2023
√ḪYB 
“root” 
▪ ḪYB_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪYB_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḪYB_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘the losing arrow in a game of fortune; to fail, be disappointed; to go wrong; frustration, failure’ 
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ḪYR خير 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḪYR 
“root” 
▪ ḪYR_1 ‘to choose, select, prefer; good, better, the best; elite; charitableness’ ↗ḫayr
▪ ḪYR_2 ‘(LevAr) old man, senior’ ↗ĭḫtiyār
▪ ḪYR_3 ‘cucumber’ ↗ḫiyār
▪ ḪYR_4 ‘gillyflower’ ↗ḫīriyy

▪ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): [ḪYR_1] ‘goodness, to be good, be of use; to put ahead, select above others, the select, choice, the best; to have the/an option, preference, seek the best, seek God’s guidance before an action’ 
▪ ḪYR_1 (Huehnergard2011: protSem *√ḪYR ‘to choose’) belongs perhaps to a group of derivations from / extensions of a bi-consonantal root ↗*ḪR- ‘good’.
▪ Although ḪYR_2 ‘old man, senior’ is a borrowing from Tu, it ultimately belongs together with ḪYR_1 ‘to choose, prefer’ (< Sem *ḪYR).
▪ ḪYR_3 ‘cucumber’ and ḪYR_4 ‘gillyflower’ are both loan words from Pers. 
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▪ DRS 10 (2012): Out of the six values the root *ḪYR can take in Sem, only two are represented in Ar: #ḪYR–1 Akk ḫiāru, ḫāru ‘choisir, élire’, ḫāʔir‑, ḫāwir‑, ḫāmir‑, ḫāyyir‑, ḫābir‑ ‘mari’, ḫāʔirut ‘état conjugal’, Nab ḥyr (adv.) ‘bien’, ḥyry(hm) ‘(leurs) notables’, Ar ḫāra ‘etre favorable à qn, préférer, choisir’, ḫayr ‘bon, meilleur; bien, avoir, bonheur’, ḫīr ‘noblesse, générosité’, MġrAr ḫayr ‘biens, richesse’, ḫīr ‘mieux, meilleur que’, Sab ḫyr ‘noble’, Mhr ḫayr ‘bien, santé, bien-être’, Soq ḥayr ‘meilleur, mieux’, Jib ḫar ‘bien-être, bien’, aḫyer ‘donner un choix’, Gz ḫayara ‘être bien, bon’, Tña ḫeray ‘bon, compatissant’. [–2 …; –3 …; –4 …; –5 …]. –6 Ar ḫiyār ‘concombre’. 
▪ ḪYR_1 = DRS #ḪYR-1; ḪYR_3 = DRS #ḪYR-6. – ḪYR_2 and ḪYR_4: not mentioned in DRS.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012#1934 reconstructs a Sem vb. *ḪYR (*‑ḫīr‑) ‘to prefer, choose; to be(come) good’ and a WSem n. *ḫayar ‘goodness’, both from Nostr *q̣uy˅r˅‑ ‘to love, covet’ (> ‘to prefer’). Sem *ḫ‑ goes back to *q‑, resulting from pAfrAs deglottalization of Nostr *q̣‑. 
▪ Engl mohair, moire, moiré ↗ḫayr. 
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