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▪ Out of the 7 values listed by DRS for the root ZLZL in Sem, only 1 is represented in Ar.
▪ The root is obviously a reduplication of (= ints. formation from) the bi-consonantal element *‑zl‑ which also appears in combination with third (and forth) consonants, cf. e.g. ↗zāla ‘to go away, depart, pass away, shift’, ↗zalla ‘to slip, slide off, move away’, ↗zalaǧa ‘to slip, slide, glide along’, ↗zalaqa ‘to glide, slide, slip’. Like zalzala, these roots have in common the notion of »‘rapidité, agilité’, souvaint liée à celle de ‘glisser’ (et conjointement de ‘lisse, poli, brillant’« – DRS 8 (1999)#-ZL-, cf. also ↗*-ZL-.

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▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZLZL-1 Syr ʔzdanzal ‘être secoué, trembler’, zunzālā ‘tremblement, turpitude, honte’, Ar zalzala ‘faire trembler, secouer, agiter’, zalzāl ‘tremblement (des membres)’, zalzalaẗ, EAr zanzale, HispAr zérzel, MġrAr zəlzla, zənzla, Ḥrs zəlzāl, EJib zelzelt ‘tremblement de terre’. ? Tña zälzäl bälä ‘ballotter (chose accrochée)’. -2 Hbr zalzallīm (pl.) ‘pousses de vigne’. -3 TalmAram zīlzūlā ‘mépris, dédain’, zalzīlā ‘débauché, prodigue’, zalzəlānā ‘glouton, vorace’. -4 Te zärzärä, Tña zälzälä, Amh Arg zäläzzälä, Gur zəläzälä ‘découper la viande en lanières’. -5 Te zəlzale ‘abeille’. -6 zälzal ‘gonflé, bouffant, trop ample’, ? Amh ʔažäläžžälä ‘être immense, innombrable’. -7 Gur zəläzälä ‘faire du petit commerce’.

▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZLZL-1: »Quelques formes présentent une dissimilation l > n (occasionnellement r) […]. – La base est ZLZL (et avec dissimilation ZNZL), formation à redoublement sur ZL, avec divers phénomènes de dissimilation; v. aussi s. ZLL.«
▪ For the 2-cons. basis of which ZLZL is a reduplication, cf. above, section CONC.
▪ »The semantic field of zlzl seems to be vibration. If the meaning ‘twig’ or ‘thin branch’ [of nEg ḏ3nḏ3nrt, ḏ3n3ḏ3n3, ḏ3nḏ3r(t), etc.] derives from this root, then possibly the semantic development is from the notion of ‘shaking a (pliant) stick’« – Hoch1994.

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zalzal‑ زَلْزَلَ (zalzalaẗ , zilzāl , zalzāl)

√ZLZL

vb., I

1 to shake, rock, convulse, cause to tremble (s.th., s.o.); 2 pass. zulzila also: to waver, stumble – WehrCowan1979.

▪ The root is obviously a reduplication of (= ints. formation from) the bi-consonantal element *‑zl‑ which also appears in combination with third (and forth) consonants, cf. e.g. ↗zāla ‘to go away, depart, pass away, shift’, ↗zalla ‘to slip, slide off, move away’, ↗zalaǧa ‘to slip, slide, glide along’, ↗zalaqa ‘to glide, slide, slip’. Like zalzala, many of these roots share the notion of »‘rapidité, agilité’, souvaint liée à celle de ‘glisser’ (et conjointement de ‘lisse, poli, brillant’« – DRS 8 (1999)#-ZL-, cf. also ↗*-ZL-.

▪ eC7 zulzila (pass.) 1 (to be shaken by an earthquake) Q 99:1-2 ʔiḏā zulzilat-i ’I-ʔarḍu zilzāla-hā ‘when the Earth is shaken with its quaking’; 2 (to be disturbed, agitated) Q 33:11 hunālika ’btuliya ’l-muʔminūna wa-zulzilū zilzālan šadīdan ‘there the believers were sorely tested and deeply shaken’. – zilzāl 1 (earthquake, earth tremor) Q 99:1-2 ʔiḏā zulzilat-i ’I-ʔarḍu zilzāla-hā ‘when the Earth is shaken with its quaking’; 2 (agitation, disturbance) Q 33:11 hunālika ’btuliya ’l-muʔminūna wa-zulzilū zilzālan šadīdan ‘there the believers were sorely tested and deeply shaken’. – zalzalaẗ (shaking, shockwave, trauma) Q 99:1-2 ʔinna zalzalaẗa ’I-sāʕaẗi šayʔun ʕaẓīmun ‘the trauma of the [coming of the] Hour wil be a mighty thing’

▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZLZL-1: Syr ʔzdanzal ‘être secoué, trembler’, zunzālā ‘tremblement, turpitude, honte’, Ar zalzala ‘faire trembler, secouer, agiter’, zalzāl ‘tremblement (des membres)’, zalzalaẗ, EAr zanzale, HispAr zérzel, MġrAr zəlzla, zənzla, Ḥrs zəlzāl, EJib zelzelt ‘tremblement de terre’. ? Tña zälzäl bälä ‘ballotter (chose accrochée)’.

▪ Cf. above, section CONC.
▪ »The semantic field of zlzl seems to be vibration. If the meaning ‘twig’ or ‘thin branch’ [of nEg ḏ3nḏ3nrt, ḏ3n3ḏ3n3, ḏ3nḏ3r(t), etc., Copt ǧal ] derives from this root, then possibly the semantic development is from the notion of ‘shaking a (pliant) stick’« – Hoch1994.

▪ Tu zelzele (<1300, Orta Asya’da Bulunmuş… Kuran Tefsiri, ed. Borovkov), from Ar zalzalaẗ – Nişanyan_19Nov2014.

► tazalzala, vb. II, to quake (earth): T-stem, intr.

► zalzalaẗ, pl. zalāzilᵘ, n.f., earthquake: vn.
► zalzāl, var. ^BP#2702zilzāl, n., 1 concussion, shock, convulsion; 2 earthquake: vn.

zilzāl زِلْزال , var. zalzāl

√ZLZL

1 concussion, shock, convulsion; 2 earthquake – WehrCowan1979.

vn. of ↗zalzala.

▪ eC7 1 (earthquake, earth tremor) Q 99:1-2 ʔiḏā zulzilat-i ’l-ʔarḍu zilzāla-hā ‘when the Earth is shaken with its quaking’; 2 (agitation, disturbance) Q 33:11 hunālika ’btuliya ’l-muʔminūna wa-zulzilū zilzālan šadīdan ‘there the believers were sorely tested and deeply shaken’. –
▪ Cf. also ↗zalzala.

↗zalzala

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