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hist▪ eC7 Q xlvii, 26 – Jeffery1938.
disc▪ Jeffery1938: »Only in the pl.
ʔaqfāl, where al-Ǧawālīqī,
Muʕarrab, 125, says it is a borrowing from Pers.
1
/ The verb
qaffala is denominative
2
and the word cannot be derived from an Ar root. It is probably the Aram
qwplʔ ‘a fetter’, or Syr
qplā, which translates the Grk
kleîθron, and would have been an early borrowing.
3
«
1. So al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 323. al-Ǧawālīqī is probably referring to the Pers kūpāl. 2. Fraenkel, Fremdw, 16; Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 35, gives it from the Aram. 3. Cf. Krauss, Griechische Lehnwörter, ii, 517, and ZDMG, xxvii, 623.
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