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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ġanam غَنَم 
ID 639 • Sw – • BP 5145 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ĠNM 
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ĠNY غني 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2023
√ĠNY 
“root” 
▪ ĠNY_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠNY_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠNY_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be able to do without others, be independent, be free from want, be self-sufficient; to be rich, enrich; to be beautiful enough not to have to use cosmetics; to sing; (of a garden) to be full of flowering trees, flourish’ 
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ĠWṮ غوث 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2023
√ĠWṮ 
“root” 
▪ ĠWṮ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṮ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṮ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to go to the aid of, call for assistance, cry for assistance’ 
▪ BAH2008: »Considering the uncertainty surrounding w and y when they function as radicals, there is a connection and a degree of overlapping between this root and the root ↗ĠYṮ resulting in classifying yuġāṯ under ĠYṮ but classifying yuġāṯū here.« 
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ĠWR غور 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2023
√ĠWR 
“root” 
▪ ĠWR_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWR_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWR_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘depth, bottom, valley, lowlands, cave; to reach the bottom, sink, disappear, (of the moon and stars) to set; to raid; to be jealous; to go in haste’ 
▪ From protSem *√ĠRR, also *√ĠWR; > CSem *ġār‑, *ġarr‑, *miġarr ‘cave’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl realgar, from Ar rahǧ al-ġār ‘powder of the cave’, from ġār ‘cave’, see ↗maġāraẗ. 
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ĠWṢ غوص 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2023
√ĠWṢ 
“root” 
▪ ĠWṢ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṢ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṢ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to dive under water, dive for pearls, diver, a dive’ 
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ĠWṬ غوط 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2023
√ĠWṬ 
“root” 
▪ ĠWṬ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṬ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ĠWṬ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘valley, lowland, to dig, go deep in the ground, relieve o.s.; a place full of thick intertwined trees’ 
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ĠWL غول 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ĠWL 
“root” 
▪ ĠWL_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ĠWL_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to kill by stealth; to devour; to overwhelm, to deprive of reason, intoxication, materials affecting the mind or judgement; to seize; ghoul, troll, adder’ 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Algol, ghoul, from Ar (al‑)ġūl ‘(the) desert demon, ogre, ghoul’, from ġāla, vb. I, ‘to snatch, grab, destroy’. 
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