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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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munyaẗ مُنْية , var. minyaẗ, pl. munaⁿ, def. al‑munà 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MNW/Y 
n.f. 
1 wish, desire; 2 object of desire – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1772: from protSem *m˅n˅y‑ ‘to want’, perh. from AfrAs *min‑ ‘dto.’ (weak basis for reconstruction).
▪ Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED I vb#41): The original meaning of the Sem vb., *mny, preserved in Ar, was prob. *‘to discharge sperm, excude vaginal secretion’ with a shift to ‘to have sexual desire’ and further to ‘desire, wish, want’ and ‘love’.
▪ For further details, cf. ↗minan ‘semen, sperm’. 
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▪ See ↗minan. 
▪ See above, section CONC, and ↗minan ‘semen, sperm’. 
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►BP#451tamannà, vb. V, to desire, wish: Dt‑stem.

►BP#3492ʔumniyyaẗ, pl. ʔamānin, def. al‑ʔamānī, n.f., wish, demand, claim, desire, longing, aspiration
►tamannin, def. al‑tamannī, pl. ‑āt, n., wish; desire; request: vn. V.

For other items of the root, cf. ↗manā~manà, ↗manan, ↗Manāẗ, ↗minan, and, for the general picture, ↗√MNW/Y. 
MHD مهد 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 14May2023
√MHD 
“root” 
▪ MHD_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHD_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHD_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘sleeping place, resting place, cradle, to prepare, pave, straighten things up, make level or even; to facilitate, introduce’ 
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MHL مهل 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 14May2023
√MHL 
“root” 
▪ MHL_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHL_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHL_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘molten copper, a generic name for all metals, tar, heated dirty oil; ease of manner, self recollection, to act or proceed in a deliberate manner, tarry, give respite; to collapse, avalanche’ 
▪ BAH2008: al-Suyūṭī attributes muhl ‘oil dregs’ to a borrowing from Berber. 
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MHN مهن 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 14May2023
√MHN 
“root” 
▪ MHN_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHN_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MHN_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to serve, a servant; profession, vocation; to weaken; to degrade, treat in a humiliating manner; vile, contemptible, insignificant’ 
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MWT موت 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MWT 
“root” 
▪ MWT_1 ‘to die, death’ ↗māta
▪ MWT_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘death, to die, to seek death, mortal; to die down, to let up; wasteland, uncultivated land, to become arid; silence, to become silent’ 
▪ MWT_1 : (Huehnergard2011, Kogan2015 Sw#17:) from protSem *mwt ‘to die’ (SED I #43ᵥ). Passim except Jib and Soq.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘death’) Akk mūtu, Hbr máweṯ, Syr mawtā, Gz mōt.
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▪ Engl checkmate, mate ↗māta. 
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