1 ↗qaṭara;2munḫafaḍ al-Qaṭṭāraẗ, the Qattara depression (in the Eg W desert) – WehrCowan1979.
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗qaṭara, ↗qaṭṭara, ↗qiṭār, ↗taqāṭara, ↗¹quṭr, ↗²quṭr, ↗Qaṭar, ↗quṭ(u)r, ↗qaṭrān, ↗miqṭaraẗ, and, for the general picture (incl. earlier values, now obsolete), root entry ↗QṬR.
NB: For reasons of convenience, paragraphs †QṬRB_1-3 try to group several interrelated values attached to the root under three overarching meanings; but these “parent” values are all derived from one, see ↗quṭrub and sections CONC and DISC, below.▪ †QṬRB_1 ‘(a certain) wolf (whose hair has fallen off, scanty, mischievous, malignant)’. ▪ †QṬRB_2 ‘to rove around by night, without sleeping’: 2.1 a bird that does so (owl; strix); 2.2 insects (esp. glowworms); 2.3 thief who is skilful, active, in thievishness; 2.4 rat, mouse; 2.5 a demon: 2.5.1 male demon called ġūl (= suʕlāẗ), 2.5.2 young, or little, jinnee, 2.5.3 young, little dog, puppy; 2.6 restlessness: 2.6.1 never-resting insect, going about quickly, moving about on the surface of water; to hasten, speed, go quickly; 2.6.2 to move about one’s head; 2.6.3 light, active. ▪ †QṬRB_3 ‘possession’: 3.1 mental disorder, demoniacal possession, melancholy: 3.1.1 mélancolie qui fait fuir la société des hommes (BK), vitiating, or disordering, the intellect, contracting the face, causing to wander about in the night (etc.), lycanthropy | werewolf (St); 3.1.2 ignorance, stupidity: ignorant person, boasting by reason of his ignorance; light-witted | stultus (F), imbécile (BK); 3.1.3 cowardice, cowardly; 3.2 to throw o.s. down, prostrate on the ground, by reason of diabolical possession or wrestling | epilepsia correptus (F), homme qui tombe du haut-mal (BK).Other meanings attached to the root (but apparently/seemingly unrelated to any of the preceding ones) include:▪ †QṬRB_4 ‘flag’ (?): †qiṭrīb ▪ †QṬRB_5 ‘slippers | mules, chaussure sans quartier’: †qaṭārib (pl.) ▪ †QṬRB_6 ‘burdock plant, arctium | bardane, glouteron’: †quṭrub ▪ †QṬRB_7 ‘peg by which the oxen are tied to a plough, plough-peg’: †qaṭrīb or †qiṭrīb ▪ …
▪ †QṬRB_1-3: The “parent values” [v1]–[v3] of √QṬRB can serve as a fine example of the surprising semantic diversity that may arise from one single borrowing: all the respective values go back to Grk lukánθrōpos ‘wolf-man’, a word that entered Ar via Syr qanṭropos. ▪ †QṬRB_4 qiṭrīb ‘flag’: semantics unclear. ▪ †QṬRB_5 qaṭārib ‘slippers | mules, chaussure sans quartier’: semantics unclear. ▪ †QṬRB_6 quṭrub ‘burdock plant, arctium | bardane, glouteron’: semantics unclear; connected to [v7]? ▪ †QṬRB_7 qaṭrīb, qiṭrīb ‘peg by which the oxen are tied to a plough, plough-peg’: related to [v6]? The word may have a cognate in postBiblHbr and Aram; perh. based on Sem *QṬR ‘to tow, tie, bind’?
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▪ †QṬRB_1-3: Syr qanṭropos (< Grk) ‘wolf-man, lycanthrope’. ▪ †QṬRB_4: ? ▪ †QṬRB_5: see perh. [v1]-[v3]? ▪ †QṬRB_6: cf. perh. [v7]? ▪ †QṬRB_7: postBiblHbr qēṭrāḇ ‘cotter-pin, crosspiece of a yoke’, Aram qeṭrabâ.
▪ †QṬRB_1-3: When Grk lukánθrōpos ‘wolf-man’ entered Ar via the Syr qanṭropos it must have meant a person possessed by a demon, looking (or believing to look) like a wolf, restlessly roving around at night. From the three main ideas attached to this being – the scary, wolf-like shape, its restless roving about by night, and its possession – a large variety of derived values developed, all expressed by the word quṭrub or the (denom.) vb.s qaṭraba (I) and taqaṭraba (II). For details see ↗quṭrub. ▪ †QṬRB_4†qiṭrīb ‘flag’: The value is given only by al-Zabīdī in his Tāǧ (explained there as »ʕalam«). ▪ †QṬRB_5†qaṭārib ‘slippers | mules, chaussure sans quartier’: value given only by Dozy1881. The form qaṭārib is obviously a pl. of quṭrub, but in which of the latter’s many senses? Perh. ironical use of [v2], slippers being called the sandals with which one *‘roves around in the night’? ▪ †QṬRB_6†quṭrub ‘bardane, glouteron’ (burdock plant, arctium): value reported by Dozy1881; semantics perh. related to [v7] as *‘plant that remains sticked (tied, towed) to s.o.’? ▪ †QṬRB_7†qaṭrīb or qiṭrīb ‘peg by which the oxen are tied to a plough, plough-peg’: value reported by Dozy1881 as well as Hava1899 (where it is marked as »LevAr«). Semantically, one is tempted to connect postBiblHbr qēṭrāḇ ‘cotter-pin, crosspiece of a yoke’ and Aram qeṭrabâ ‘dto.’, which both are of uncertain origin (Klein1987).1
This QṬRB may be based on 3-rad. ↗√QṬR ‘to tow (ship, trailer, glider)’, Syr qṭar ‘to bind’, qeṭrā ‘chain’, Ar ↗qiṭār ‘train’ etc.▪ None of the values is in any way related to Qurṭubaẗ ‘Córdoba’, which not only shows ‑rṭ‑ instead of ‑ṭr‑, but also has a completely different etymology: from Lat Corduba, from Grk Κορδύβη ~ Κορδυβά, from an earlier Old Iberian name.2