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√BLṬ
1 royal court, palace. – 2a pavement, floor; b (pl. ʔabliṭaẗ) floor tiles – WehrCowan1979.
According to Shahîd (see below, “Etymology"), the word (in meaning no. 1, ‘royal court') is one of the loans from Latin that owe their existence to the »strong Roman military and administrative presence in the region", whereas no. 2 came from Grk.
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLṬ-1-4 […]. -5 Ar balāṭ ‘palais’, balaṭa ‘aplanir, niveler, damer’. -6 […].
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▪ EALL (Shahîd, “Latin Loanwords”): 1) from Lat palatium ‘imperial residence’; 2) from Grk plateîa ‘flagstone, paved way’
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►al-balāṭ al-malakī, n., the royal court;
►ḥidāḍ al-balāṭ, n., court mourning ►ballaṭa, vb. II, to pave (s.th., with flagstones or tiles): D-stem, denom., applicative
► balāṭaẗ, n.f., 1 floor tile; 2 flagstone, slab stone; 3 paving stone: quasi-n.un.
► tablīṭ, n., paving, tile-laying: vn. II
► muballaṭ, adj., paved, tiled: PP II For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ballūṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗balaṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ.
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