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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḎHB ذهب 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḎHB 
“root” 
▪ ḎHB_1 ‘gold’ ↗ḏahab
▪ ḎHB_2 ‘to go’ ↗ḏahaba

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘gold; to go, to go away, to set out; to take away; creed, faction, sect, to adopt as a conviction’ 
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In addition to the values ‘gold’ (ḎHB_1, ↗ḏahab) and ‘to go’ (ḎHB_2, ↗ḏahaba, DRS 4 (1993) lists a third item: #ḎHB-3: Ar †ḏihbaẗ ‘pluie fine’, oYemAr ḏahab ‘champ’, anc. mod.: mesure de capacité, SAr ḏhb ‘vallée alluvial; irrigation semi-annuelle’, mḏhbẗ ‘terre alluviale’, Mhr Ḥrs ḏehēb, Jib ḏhēb ‘être inondé’, Mhr Ḥrs ḏehib, Jib ḏheb ‘inondation’. 
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl dahabeah ↗ḏahab. 
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ḏahab‑ ذَهَبَ , a (ḏahāb , maḏhab) 
ID 301 • Sw 65 • BP 489 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḎHB 
vb., I 
to go; to betake o.s., travel; to go away, leave, depart; to disappear, vanish, decline, dwindle; to perish, die, be destroyed; with bi‑ : to carry s.th. off, take s.th. away, abduct, steal s.th., sweep s.th. or s.o. away, annihilate, destroy s.th. or s.o.; ḏ. bihī ʔilā to lead or conduct s.o. to, take s.o. along to; to think, believe, hold the view, be of the opinion (ʔilà that); to escape (ʕan s.o.; fig.), slip (ʕan s.o.’s mind), ḏ. ʕanhu ʔanna to lose sight of the fact that…, forget that …; to ignore, skip, omit (ʕan s.th.); (with imperf.) to prepare to …, be about to… | ḏ. wa-ǧāʔa to go back and forth, walk up and down; ḏ. ʔilà ʔabʕada min… to go beyond… (fig.); mā yaḏhabu fī nazʕatih what follows along these lines; ʔayna yuḏhabu bika! the idea of it! you can’t mean it! ḏ. sudàn to be futile, be in vain, be of no avail; ḏ. ʔadrāǧa ‘l-riyāḥ to go the ways of the winds, i.e., to pass unnoticed, without leaving a trace; to end in smoke, come to nothing, be futile, be in vain; ḏ. ka-ʔamsi ‘l-dābir to vanish into thin air, disappear without leaving a trace (lit.: like yesterday gone by; ḏ. bi-bahāʔih to take the glamor away from s.th.; ḏ. bi-nafsihi to kill s.o. (joy, terror, etc.); ḏ. bi-ḫayālih to let one’s imagination wander; ḏ. maḏhabahū to embrace s.o.’s maḏhab (see below); to follow s.o.’s teaching, make s.o.’s belief one’s own, embrace s.o.’s ideas; to adopt s.o.’s policy, proceed exactly like s.o.; ḏ. kulla maḏhabin to do everything conceivable, leave no stone unturned, go to greatest lengths – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2672 reconstruct AfrAs *ǯ˅hab‑ ‘to go, trot’ as the ancestor of Sem *ḏ˅hab‑ ‘to go away’ and WCh *ǯ˅H˅b‑ ‘to trot’. But reconstructions are based on evidence in one language only in each case. 
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▪ DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-2: no cognates in Sem.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2672: no cognates in Sem. -- Outside Sem: WCh *ǯ˅H˅b‑ (ǯōp) ‘trot’. 
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► ʔaḏhaba, vb. IV, to cause to go away, make disappear, remove, eliminate; to take away: caus.
► tamaḏhaba, vb. II, to follow, adopt, embrace (<~a teaching, a religion, etc.): denom. from maḏhab.

► BP#1594ḏahāb, n., going; passing, passage, falling away, decrease, dwindling, loss, disappearance; leave, departure; trip, journey; outward-bound trip or journey (as opposed to ʔiyāb return trip; railroad); opinion, view (ʔilà ʔan that): vn. I | ḏ-an ʔiyāban there and back; back and forth, up and down; taḏkaraẗ ḏ. wa-ʔiyāb round-trip ticket.
► ḏuhūb, n., going: vn. I | ḏ. wa-maʔāb coming and going; fī ǧīʔaẗ wa-ḏ. coming and going, in a state of fluctuation, having its ups and downs.
► BP#2488maḏhab, pl. maḏāhibᵘ, n., going, leave, departure; way out, escape; manner followed, adopted procedura or policy, road entered upon; opinion, view, belief; ideology; teaching, doctrine; movement, orientation, trend (also pol.); school; mazhab, orthodox rite of fiqh (Isl. Law); religious creed, faith, denomination: vn. I | m-uhū fī ‘l-ḥayāẗ his philosophy of life, his Weltanschauung; al-m. al-tārīḫī historism; m. al-rūḥiyyaẗ spiritualism; al-m. al-riwāqī stoicism; al-m. al-sulūkī behaviourism; al-m. al-ʔiṣlāḥī reformism; al-m. al-ṭabīʕī naturalism; al-m. al-ʕaqāʔidī dogmatism; m. al-laḏḏaẗ hedonism; m. al-miṯāliyyaẗ idealism; al-m. al-māddī the materialistic ideology, materialism; al-m. al-wāqiʕī realism; ḏahaba m-an baʕīdan to go very far, be very extensive.
► BP#4026maḏhabī, adj., denominational, confessional; doctrinaire; following or representing a particular doctrine; sectarian: nsb-adj from maḏhab.
► maḏhabiyyaẗ, n.f., doctrinaire attitude, devotion to an ideology; sectarianism: n.abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ from maḏhab.
► ḏāhib: ḏ. al-lawn, adj., faded, colorless, discolored: PA I.
► maḏhūb bihī and maḏhūb al-ʕaql, adj., out of one’s mind, demented: PP I. 

ḏahab ذَهَب 
ID 300 • Sw – • BP 1904 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḎHB 
n.m. and n.f. 
gold; gold piece, gold coin – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-1: From protSem (Huehnergard2011: CSem) *ḏahab‑ ‘gold’.
 
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DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-1: Hbr zāhāb, oAram zhb, EmpAram Palm dhb, BiblAram TargAram Syr dᵉhab, Mand dahba, zahba, Ar ḏahab ‘or’; SAr ḏhb ‘or, encens’, Mhr Jib ḏehēb, Soq dheb, Te Tña dähab ‘or’. – SAr ḏhb : aromate, sorte d’encens, ETH dähob ‘encens, fumigation’, dähabä ‘encenser’. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl dahabeah, from Ar ḏahabiyyaẗ ‘the Golden One’ (name of the gilded barge of the Muslim rulers of Egypt), from ḏahab ‘gold’. 
► ḏahab ʔabyaḍ, n., platinum.

► ḏahhaba, vb. II, to gild (* s.th.): caus. denom.

► BP#1692ḏahabī, adj., golden, of gold; precious, excellent, apposite (e.g., advice, saying, etc.): nsb-adj | ʔāyaẗ ḏ-iyyaẗ golden word, maxim, epigram.
► ḏahabiyyaẗ, pl. ‑āt, dahabeah, a long light-draft houseboat, used on the Nile:….
► muḏahhab, adj., gilded: PP II.
► muḏhab, adj., gilded: PP IV. 

maḏhab مَذْهَب , pl. maḏāhibᵘ 
ID 302 • Sw – • BP 2488 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḎHB 
n. 
going, leave, departure; way out, escape; manner followed, adopted procedura or policy, road entered upon; opinion, view, belief; ideology; teaching, doctrine; movement, orientation, trend (also pol.); school; mazhab, orthodox rite of fiqh (Isl. Law); religious creed, faith, denomination – WehrCowan1979. 
vn. I of ↗ḏahaba. 
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↗ḏahaba. 
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► maḏhabuhū fī ‘l-ḥayāẗ, his philosophy of life, his Weltanschauung.
► al-maḏhab al-tārīḫī, historism.
► maḏhab al-rūḥiyyaẗ, spiritualism.
► al-maḏhab al-riwāqī, stoicism.
► al-maḏhab al-sulūkī, behaviourism.
► al-maḏhab al-ʔiṣlāḥī, reformism.
► al-maḏhab al-ṭabīʕī, naturalism.
► al-maḏhab al-ʕaqāʔidī, dogmatism.
► maḏhab al-laḏḏaẗ hedonism.
► maḏhab al-miṯāliyyaẗ idealism.
► al-maḏhab al-māddī, the materialistic ideology, materialism.
► al-maḏhab al-wāqiʕī, realism.
► ḏahaba maḏhaban baʕīdan, to go very far, be very extensive.

► tamaḏhaba, vb. II, to follow, adopt, embrace (<~a teaching, a religion, etc.): denom.

► BP#4026maḏhabī, adj., denominational, confessional; doctrinaire; following or representing a particular doctrine; sectarian: nsb-adj.
► maḏhabiyyaẗ, n.f., doctrinaire attitude, devotion to an ideology; sectarianism: n.abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ from maḏhab. 

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