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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʕirāqī عِراقِيّ 
ID 578 • Sw – • BP 177 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕRQ 
¹adj.; ²n. 
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ʕRM عرم 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 1Mar2023
√ʕRM 
“root” 
▪ ʕRM_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʕRM_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʕRM_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘mound of grain; great inundation, dam built across a valley; multitude, strength, violence, evil; tree bark; to strip meat off bones; a mole-rat’ 
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ʕRW عرو 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 17May2023
√ʕRW 
“root” 
▪ ʕRW_1 ‘to befall, grip, seize, strike, afflict, happen to, take possession of’ ↗ʕarā
▪ ʕRW_2 ‘buttonhole; loop, noose, coil; ear, handle (of a jug, etc.); tie, bond’ ↗ʕurwaẗ
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘loop, handle, hold, grip, link, buttonhole and the like; to grip, to seize; to befall, to afflict, to come over; to desert, to let down; extreme coldness; forlorn camels’. A degree of overlappping between this root and the root √ʕRY exists, as might be expected of corresponding W and Y radicals. 
▪ [v1] : denom. (?) from [v2] in the sense of ‘tie, bond’, i.e. *‘to take hold of s.o./s.th.’. – But cf. also ↗¹ĭʕtawara (√ʕWR) ‘to befall, affect, come over s.o. alternately, successively’
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ʕarā / ʕaraw‑ عَرَا / عَرَوْــ , ū (ʕarw)
 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 16Jul2023
√ʕRW
 
vb., I
 
1a to befall, grip, seize, strike, afflict (s.o.), come, descend (‑h upon s.o.), happen (-h to s.o.); b to take possession (-h of s.o.) – WehrCowan1976 
▪ denom. (?) from ↗ʕurwaẗ ‘tie, bond’, i.e. *‘to take hold of s.o./s.th.’. – But cf. also ↗¹ĭʕtawara (√ʕWR) ‘to befall, affect, come over s.o. alternately, successively’
 
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▪ See perh. ↗ʕurwaẗ ‘tie, bond’, or ↗¹ĭʕtawara (√ʕWR)
 
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►ĭʕtarà, vb. VIII, = ʕarā: Gt-stem

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʕurwaẗ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗ʕRW.
 
ʕurwaẗ عُرْوَة , pl. ʕuràⁿ
 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 16Jul2023
√ʕRW
 
n.f.
 
1a buttonhole; b loop, noose, coil; c ear, handle (of a jug, and the like); 2 tie, bond, e.g., ʕurà ’l-ṣadāqaẗ, bonds of friendship; support, prop, stay – WehrCowan1976
 
▪ Prob. akin to ↗ʕarā, ĭʕtarà ‘to befall, strike, afflict’
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►al-ʕurwaẗ al-wuṯqà, n.f., the firm, reliable grip or hold, the firm tie

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʕarā as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗ʕRW.
 
ʕRY عري 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 1Mar2023, last update 17May2023
√ʕRY 
“root” 
▪ ʕRY_1 ‘to be naked, nude, be free, be bare’ ↗ʕariya
▪ ʕRY_2 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘remote open expanse of land, treeless area; nakedness, to be naked, to become emaciated, to strip off, to strip meat off bones; to evacuate’. A degree of overlapping between this root and root √ʕRW exists, as might be expected of corresponding W and Y radicals’ 
▪ [v1] Tropper2008: Sem (except Gz) ʕRW/Y ‘to be naked’. – Cf. also ↗ʕawraẗ (√ʕWR) ‘defectiveness; weakness; pudenda’ and ↗ʕār (√ʕYR) ‘shame, disgrace, dishonor, ignominy’.
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▪ [v1] Tropper2008, Borg2021 #454: Akk erû, Ug ʕrw ‘to be naked, empty; to be destroyed’, (D) ‘to empty’, Ar ʕariya ‘to be naked, without clothes’, Malt għarwien ‘naked’. – Outside Sem, Borg2021 compares Eg ḥꜢj (OK) ‘to be naked’, ḥꜢ ‘homeless’, ḥꜢwt ‘nakedness’, ḥꜢwy ‘naked man’
 
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ʕariy‑ / ʕarī‑ عَرِيَ , à (ʕury, ʕuryaẗ)
 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 16Jul2023
√ʕRY 
vb., I
 
1a to be naked, nude; b to be free, be bare (ʕan of)
 
▪ Tropper2008: Sem (except Gz) *ʕRW/Y ‘to be naked’. – Cf. also ↗ʕawraẗ (√ʕWR) ‘defectiveness; weakness; pudenda’ and ↗ʕār (√ʕYR) ‘shame, disgrace, dishonor, ignominy’.
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▪ Tropper2008, Borg2021 #454: Akk erû, Ug ʕrw ‘to be naked, empty; to be destroyed’, (D) ‘to empty’, Ar ʕariya ‘to be naked, without clothes’, Malt għarwien ‘naked’. – Outside Sem, Borg2021 compares Eg ḥꜢj (OK) ‘to be naked’, ḥꜢ ‘homeless’, ḥꜢwt ‘nakedness’, ḥꜢwy ‘naked man’
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►ʕariya ʕan ṯiyābi-h, to take off one’s clothes, strip (naked), undress, have no clothes on;
►ʕariya ʕan kull ʔasās, to be completely unfounded, be without any foundation

►ʕarrà, vb. II, 1a to disrobe, unclothe, undress (s.o.); b to strip (s.o., ʕan ṯiyābi-h of his clothes); 2a to bare, denude, lay bare, uncover (s.th.); b to deprive, divest, strip: D-stem, caus.
►ʕury, n., 1 nakedness, nudity; 2 unsaddled (horse): vn. I
►ʕuryaẗ, n.f., nakedness, nudity: vn. I
►ʕarāʔ, n., 1a nakedness, nudity; b bareness; 2 open space, open country: vn. I | fī ’l-ʕarāʔ, in the open air, under the open sky, outside, outdoors; masraḥ fī ’l-ʕarāʔ, open-air theater
►ʕuryān, pl. ʕarāyà, adj., naked, nude, undressed, bare | EgAr ʕuryān malṭ, stark-naked
►ʕuryāniyyaẗ, n.f., nudism
►al-maʕārī, n.pl., the uncovered parts of the body (hands, feet, face): n.loc.
►BP#3718ʕāriⁿ, pl., ʕurāẗ, adj., 1a naked, nude, undressed, bare; b free, devoid, destitute, bare, deprived, stripped, denuded (min or ʕan of s.th.); c blank, bare (e.g., a room), stark (e.g., a narrative): PA I | ʕārī ’l-ʔaqdām, barefoot(ed), unshod
 
ʕZː (ʕZZ) عزّ / عزز 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕZː (ʕZZ) 
“root” 
▪ ʕZː (ʕZZ)_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ʕZː (ʕZZ)_2 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ʕZː (ʕZZ)_3 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘power, might, downpour, to be impregnable, to be hard, to be rough (e.g. land); to overcome; to support, to be near to one’s heart, to value highly; to be consoled; to cooperate, to be rare’ 
▪ From protSem *√ʕZZ ‘to be(come) strong’ – Huehnergard2011. 
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▪ Engl n.prop. Azazel, from Hbr ʕăzāʔzēl, perh. corrupt for ʕăzaz-ʔēl ‘God has been strong’ (personal name) ↗ʕazza. 
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