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▪ ¹QNṬR ‘arched bridge, arch, vault, arcade, viaduct, dam’ ↗qanṭaraẗ
▪ ²QNṬR ‘kantar, weight of 100 raṭl; tremendous riches’ ↗qinṭār
▪ ³QNṬR ‘centaury (Erythrea centauricum; bot.)’ ↗qinṭāriyūn

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘1 to tie together, arch; 2 to leave the desert and live in urbanized areas; 3 large amounts of money, sums and/or weights of various measures; 4 cunning person’

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¹QNṬR قنطر

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√QNṬR

“root”

▪ ¹QNṬR_1 ‘arched bridge, arch, vault, arcade, viaduct, dam’ ↗qanṭaraẗ

↗qanṭaraẗ

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qanṭaraẗ قَنْطَرة , pl. qanāṭirᵘ

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n.f.

1 arched bridge, stone bridge; 2 vault, arch; 3 archway, arcade; 4 arches, viaduct, aqueduct (esp. pl.); 5 dam, weir – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Etymology obscure.

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▪ Rolland2014: »Diverses origines ont été proposées à partir du Lat ou du Grk, notamment le Grk kéntron ‘centre d’un cercle’, hypothèse retenue par le DRAE,¹ plausible au vu de l’importance de la voûte dans l’architecture des ponts antiques. Du Grk proviennent la forme latinisée centrum et quelques dérivés techniques dont centrātus ‘central, placé au centre’, qui est la forme la plus proche de l’Ar. Même si ce mot n’est pas l’étymon que nous recherchons, il est vraisemblable que le terme désignant le pont ait été – comme ↗sirāṭ – emprunté à la langue de ces grands bâtisseurs qu’ont été les Romains.«
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1. Diccionario de la Real Academia Española

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► qanṭaraẗ muwāzinaẗ, n.f., regulator, regulating device (at a canal, esp. in the Eg irrigation system).
► al-Qanāṭir al-ḫayriyyaẗ, n.f.pl., the Barrages, at the entrance of the Nile delta, about 15 miles north of Cairo.

► qanṭara, vb. I, to arch, span, vault (s.th.): denom.

► qanṭarī, adj., bridgelike, like the arch of a bridge: nisba formation.
► muqanṭar, adj., vaulted, arched, arcaded: PP I.

²QNṬR قنطر

√QNṬR

“root”

▪ ²QNṬR_1 ‘kantar, a varying weight of 100 raṭl’ ↗qinṭār

↗qinṭār

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qinṭār قِنْطار , pl. qanāṭīrᵘ

√QNṬR

kantar, a varying weight of 100 raṭl (in Eg = 44.93 kg, in Tunisia = 53.9 kg, in Syria = 256.4 kg) – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Rolland2014: < lGrk kentēnárion < lLat centēnārium ‘containing a hundred’ (centum ‘hundred’).
▪ Jeffery1938: via Syr qᵊnṭīnārā, short qentᵊrā, from Grk kentēnárion, from Lat centēnārium.

▪ eC7 (measure of weight and/or measure) Q 3:14 zuyyina li’n-nāsi ḥubbu ’l-šahawāti min-a ’l-nisāʔi wa’l-banīna wa’l-qanāṭīri ’l-muqanṭaraẗi min-a ’l-ḏahabi wa’l-fiḍḍaẗi wa’l-ḫayli ’l-musawwamaẗi wa’l-ʔanʕāmi wa’l-ḥarṯi ‘Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land’; muqanṭar (stacked up in heaps) Q 3:75 wa-min ʔahli ’l-kitābi man ʔin taʔmanhu bi-qinṭārin yuʔaddi-hī ʔilayka ‘Among the People of the Scripture there is he who, if thou trust him with a weight of treasure, will return it to thee’

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▪ Jeffery1938: »It was recognized by the philologers as of foreign origin, and though some, like Sībawaih, held to an Arabic origin, ʔAbū ʕUbaydaẗ (LA, vi, 432) expressly states that the Arabs did not know the meaning of the word.² Some said it was a Berb word (al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 323), others that it was Syr (al-Suddī in Muḫaṣṣaṣ, xii, 266), but the majority were in favour of its being Grk (al-Thaʕālibī, Fiqh, 318; al- Suyūṭī, Muzhir, i, 134). / Undoubtedly it is the Grk kentēnárion, which represents the Lat centenarium, and passed into Aram as qᵊnṭînār, Syr qᵊnṭīnārā.³ It was from the Aram, as Fraenkel, Vocab, 13; Fremdw, 203, shows, that the word came into Ar, and in all probability from the shortened Syr form qentᵊrā.⁴ «
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2. This is evident from the variety of opinions on its meaning collected by Ibn Sīda in the Muḫaṣṣaṣ, xii, 266, and Ibn al-Athīr in Nihāya, iii, 313. 3. Krauss, Griechische Lehnwörter, ii, 553. It was from this form that the Arm kenzinar was derived (Hübschmann, Arm. Gramm, i, 356). 4. Mingana, Syriac Influence, 89; Vollers, ZDMG, Ii, 316.

▪ Engl quintal ‘a weight of a hundred pounds’: c. 1400, from oFr quintal ‘hundredweight’, and directly from medLat quintale, from Ar qinṭār, from lGrk kentēnárion, from lLat centēnārius ‘containing a hundred’ (< centum ‘hundred’) – EtymOnline (15Jul2020).
▪ Ge Zentner ‘a weight of a hundred pounds’: C11, from mHGe zentenære, zentner, oHGe zentenāri, from Lat centēnārius ‘belonging to a hundred’ – Kluge2002.

► qanāṭīrᵘ muqanṭaraẗ, n.pl.f., accumulated riches; tremendous sums: Qur’anic phrase.

► qanṭara, vb. I, to possess tremendous riches: denom.

qinṭāriyūn قِنْطارِيون , var. qinṭāriyyūn

√QNṬR

centaury (Erythrea centauricum; bot.) – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Rolland2014: qinṭāriyūn ‘centaurée’, from Grk κενταύρειον kentaúreion ‘centaur-like, wild’, from kéntauros ‘centaur’, of unknown origin.

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