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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḏahab ذَهَب 
ID 300 • Sw – • BP 1904 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḎHB 
n.m. and n.f. 
gold; gold piece, gold coin – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-1: From protSem (Huehnergard2011: CSem) *ḏahab‑ ‘gold’.
 
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DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-1: Hbr zāhāb, oAram zhb, EmpAram Palm dhb, BiblAram TargAram Syr dᵉhab, Mand dahba, zahba, Ar ḏahab ‘or’; SAr ḏhb ‘or, encens’, Mhr Jib ḏehēb, Soq dheb, Te Tña dähab ‘or’. – SAr ḏhb : aromate, sorte d’encens, ETH dähob ‘encens, fumigation’, dähabä ‘encenser’. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl dahabeah, from Ar ḏahabiyyaẗ ‘the Golden One’ (name of the gilded barge of the Muslim rulers of Egypt), from ḏahab ‘gold’. 
► ḏahab ʔabyaḍ, n., platinum.

► ḏahhaba, vb. II, to gild (* s.th.): caus. denom.

► BP#1692ḏahabī, adj., golden, of gold; precious, excellent, apposite (e.g., advice, saying, etc.): nsb-adj | ʔāyaẗ ḏ-iyyaẗ golden word, maxim, epigram.
► ḏahabiyyaẗ, pl. ‑āt, dahabeah, a long light-draft houseboat, used on the Nile:….
► muḏahhab, adj., gilded: PP II.
► muḏhab, adj., gilded: PP IV. 

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