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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʕašwāʔī عَشْوائيّ 
ID … • Sw – • BP 3282 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕŠW/Y 
adj. 
random, happening at random, without plan – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ The adj. ʕašwāʔī is a nisba formation from ʕašwāʔᵘ ‘darkness, dark, gloom’. Literally, ʕašwāʔī thus means *‘blindly, as in the dark, without seeing what one is doing’.
▪ ʕašwāʔᵘ itself is originally the f. form of the ʔafʕalᵘ adj. ʔaʕšà ‘1 dim-sighted; night-blind, nyctalopic; (hence also) 2 blind, aimless, haphazard, desultory, senseless’.
▪ For the wider context see ↗ʕišāʔ. 
See ↗ʕišāʔ. 
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See ↗ʕŠW/Y and ↗ʕišāʔ. 
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► minṭaqaẗ ʕašwāʔiyyaẗ, n.f., informal settlement, slum.

 ► ʕašwāʔiyyāt, n., haphazard communities, informal settlements, ‘mushroom city’, slums: nominalized nsb-adj., f.pl., from ʕašwāʔ, lit. *‘the haphazard(ly built) ones (sc., settlements)’. 
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