▪ Jeffery1938: »The verb
fataḥa ‘to open’, with its derivatives, is commonly used and is genuine Ar, but in these two passages
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where it has a peculiar technical meaning, Muḥammad seems to be using, as Horovitz,
KU, 18, n., noted, an Eth [Gz] word
fətḥ, which had become specialized in this sense and is used almost exclusively of legal affairs, e.g.
fatḥa ‘to give judgment’,
tafatḥa ‘iudicari’,
tafātḥa ‘litigare’,
fətḥat ‘iudicium’, and
fətḥ which is both ‘iudicium’ and ‘sententia iudicis’. This sense had already become domiciled in SArabia, as we see from the use of [SAr]
ftḥ in the inscriptions (Rossini,
Glossarium, 221).«