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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ĭnḥiṭāṭ اِنْحِطاط 
ID – • Sw – • NahḍCon • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤṬː (ḤṬṬ) 
n. 
1decline, fall, decay, decadence; 2 inferiority – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ ĭnḥiṭāṭ is the vn. of ĭnḥaṭṭa, vb. VII, ʻ1 to sink, descend, go down; 2 to decrease, diminish; 3 to decline, decay, wane’, the N-stem of ↗ḥaṭṭa, vb. I, ʻto put\set\take down’.
▪ For the Arab modernist movement of the Nahḍaẗ and its successors in the 20th century, ↗ĭnḥiṭāṭ became the (in)famous denominator of the whole period spanning between the Islamicate ʻGolden Age’ and the new ʻUpswing’ (↗nahḍaẗ) as the ʻEra of Decline’, ʕaṣr al-ĭnḥiṭāṭ.
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►ʔiḥsās al- ĭnḥiṭāṭ, n., sense of inferiority

►ĭnḥaṭṭa, vb.VII, 1 to sink, descend, go down; 2 to decrease, diminish; 3 to decline, decay, wane: N-stem, intr.
►ʔaḥaṭṭᵘ, adj., lower: elat. formation, serving as comp./superlat. of munḥaṭṭ.
►ĭnḥiṭāṭī, n., postclassical writer: nisba formation, from ĭnḥiṭāṭ
►munḥaṭṭ, adj., 1 low, base, low-level, lowgrade; 2 fallen, degraded (woman); 3 mean, vile, vulgar; 4 inferior: PA VII.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ḥaṭṭa, ↗ḥiṭṭaẗ, ↗ḥaṭāṭaẗ, ↗maḥaṭṭaẗ, and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ ḤṬː (ḤṬṬ).

 
ḤṬB حطب 
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√ḤṬB 
“root” 
▪ ḤṬB_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḤṬB_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḤṬB_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘firewood, to gather wood for burning, fuel; to gossip’ 
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ḤṬM حطم 
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√ḤṬM 
“root” 
▪ ḤṬM_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḤṬM_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ḤṬM_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to break, shatter, crush; fragment, piece; wreckage, debris; a cruel person; a glutton; severe’ 
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ḤẒː (ḤẒẒ) حظّ/حظظ 
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√ḤẒː(ḤẒẒ) 
“root” 
▪ ḤẒː (ḤẒẒ)_1 ‘portion, share, allotment; lot, fate, destiny; good luck’ ↗ḥaẓẓ
▪ ḤẒː (ḤẒẒ)_2 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ḤẒː (ḤẒẒ)_3 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘luck, good fortune, a fortunate person; a share, an allocation’ 
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