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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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RWḤ/RYḤ روح / ريج 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RWḤ/RYḤ 
“root” 
▪ RW/YḤ_1 ‘to go’ ↗rāḥa
▪ RW/YḤ_2 ‘wind’ ↗rīḥ
▪ RW/YḤ_3 ‘spirit, soul’ ↗rūḥ
▪ RW/YḤ_4 ‘palm (of hand)’ ↗rāḥaẗ
▪ RW/YḤ_5 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ RW/YḤ_6 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008, s.r. RWḤ): ‘wind, to blow, to fan; smell, scent, fragrant shrubs to sniff; to decay, to smell rotten; soul, spirit, the jinn, the angels; the evening, to go home, to return after the day’s toil, to bring livestock home, to rest; great herds of animals, to pasture, grazing place; to depart, to walk away, to commence travelling; might, power, victory; mercy, bounty, pleasure, children; to do intermittently, to interchange’ 
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▪ Engl racket cf. perh. ↗rāḥaẗ. 
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rāḥ‑ / ruḥ‑ راحَ / رُحْـ 
ID 343 • Sw – • BP 113 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RWḤ / RYḤ 
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rīḥ رِيح 
ID 346 • Sw –/191 • BP 1235 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RWḤ / RYḤ 
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▪ Kogan2011: There is no protSem term for ‘wind’, but derivates of the root *rwḥ are common in CSem, which probably reflects the protWSem picture. Cf. also protSem *npš ‘to blow’ > Ar nafas ‘breath’.
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rūḥ رُوح 
ID 345 • Sw – • BP 389 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RWḤ / RYḤ 
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rāḥaẗ راحَة 
ID 344 • Sw –/66 • BP 1476 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RWḤ / RYḤ 
n.f. 
palm of the hand…. – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *rāḥ‑at‑ ‘palm’, synonym of *kapp‑ (> Ar ↗kaff).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl racket1, from Ar rāḥat, bound form of rāḥaẗ ‘palm of the hand’. 
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ĭstirāḥaẗ اِسْتِراحَة 
ID 342 • Sw – • BP 4886 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
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