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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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wātar‑ واتَرَ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WTR 
vb., III 
to do or perform (s.th.) at intervals, intermittently, with interruptions – WehrCowan1979. 
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► tawātara, vb. VI, to follow in uninterrupted succession; to repeat itself, recur

► BP#4252watīraẗ, pl. watāʔirᵘ, n.f., manner, way, mode, fashion; procedura, method; style; tone | ʕalà hāḏihī ’l-~, adv., in this manner, this way; ʕalà ~ wāḥidaẗ, adv., in the same manner; uniformly, in unison; ĭstamarra ʕalà hāḏihī ’l-~, expr., he continued in this tone
► tatrà, adv., one after the other, one by one, in succession, successively
► tawātur, n., succession; repetition, recurrence; frequency, constancy, incessancy, continuance; persistence; frequency (el.) | ʕalà ~, adv., successively, one after the other, in succession
► mutawātir, adj., following one after another incessantly; continuous, unbroken; handed down in uninterrupted sequence (e.g., Koran, hadith, religious truth)

For other items of the root, see ↗watara, ↗watr, ↗watar, ↗WTR. 
WTN وتن 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 21May2023
√WTN 
“root” 
▪ WTN_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ WTN_2 ‘...’ ↗...
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘a feud; the main artery that feeds the body; to be firmly fixed; (of water) to be constant and flowing; (of women in particular) to have great literary ability’ 
▪ (BAH2008:) There is a great degree of overlap between derivatives of this root and the root ↗WṮN which perhaps suggests a historical sound change or (historical) dialectal variation in the second radical. 
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WṮB وثب 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WṮB 
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▪ WṮB_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ WṮB_2 ‘…’ ↗…
 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl moshav, from Hbr môšāb ‘seat, dwelling’, from yāšab (<*waṯaba) ‘to sit, dwell’. 
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