ḥikāyaẗ حِكايَة , pl. ‑āt
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1 story, tale, narrative, account; 2 (gram.) literal quotation (of the words of others) – WehrCowan1979.
Morphologically, ḥikāyaẗ is a vn. I, from ↗ḥakà, in the pass./resultative meaning of ‘what is imitated’ [v2] or ‘what is reported, told’ [v1].
▪ Following D. B. MacDonald in EI¹ II:321 ff., Fück (1950: 114) characterizes the value, found in Ibn al-Nadīm’s Fihrist (comp. 377 AH), of ḥikāyaẗ as ‘Darstellung, Bericht’, developed from the more general ‘Wiedergabe’, as »nachklassisch« (post-classical). MacDonald »considers that the cause of the evolution [▪ …] must be sought in the influence of the Aristotelian doctrine of mímēsis in art (Poetics, i-iv); indeed Mattā b. Yūnus, in his translation of the Poetics [▪ …] uses the word ḥikāyaẗ to translate mímēsis « – Ch. Pellat, in art. »Ḥikāya«, EI².
▪ Tu hikâye ‘story’: 1330 ʕĀşıḳ Paşa, Ġarīb-nāme : diŋle imdi kim ḥıkāyet nitedür; 1680 Meninski, Thesaurus : ḥıkāyet, ḥıkāye – Nişanyan_16Apr2015.
► ḥikāyaẗ šaʕbiyyaẗ, n.f., folk tale, fairy story ► ḥakawātī, n., (Syr.) popular storyteller: n.prof. in coll. -ātī, where ¬ ī is an adjr. (nsb-formation) and -āt‑ quasi a pl.f. suffix, evoking the idea of multitude, *‘always telling many stories’.
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