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1 to change, alter, amend, transform, reorganise, remodel, modify (DO or min s.th.). – 2 to roll out (dough) – WehrCowan1979. – 3 For other values cf. ↗ḥawar

conc

▪ The two values ‘to change, modify’ and ‘to roll out (dough)’ of ḥawwara are treated in DRS together with the n.instr. miḥwar ‘rolling pin; axis’ as one etymological unit, distinct from ḥāra ‘to (re)turn’. ClassAr lexicographers, however, connect vb. II usually with vb. I as the latter’s causative. But perhaps [v2] is denominative, from the ‘rolling pin’, while [v1] derives more directly, as a caus. formation, from ‘to turn’.

hist

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cogn

▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤWR-8: Ar ḥawwara ‘étendre la pâte avec le miḥwar (rouleau)’, EgAr ḥawwar ‘modifier’, miḥwar ‘axe’.

disc

▪ [v1] ‘to modify’ is classified as »EgAr« in DRS, but appears as a regular MSA item in WehrCowan1979. Has a dialectal usage become standard Ar here?
▪ DRS (s.v. #ḤWR-8) puts ḥawwara ‘to roll out (dough)’ and »EgAr« ḥawwar ‘to change, modify’ together with ↗miḥwar ‘rolling pin; axis’ as one etymological unit that is distinct from the vb. I ↗ḥāra ‘to (re)turn’ to which ClassAr dictionaries usually link these words.
▪ There can be no doubt that in the sense of ‘to roll out (dough)’, ḥawwara belongs to the ‘rolling pin’, miḥwar. The notion of ‘to change, modify’, however, may be either figurative use of ‘to roll out (dough)’ (and with every rolling ‘changing, modifying’ it), or a direct caus. formation from vb. I ↗ḥāra in the sense of ‘to come back (and be s.th. else), to turn (into s.th.)’, obviously a fig./extended use of the basic meaning, ‘to (re)turn’.

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deriv

► taḥawwara, vb. V, to be altered, changed, amended, transformed, reorganized, remodeled, modified: t-stem of ḥawwara, intr./quasi-pass.
► taḥwīr, n., alteration, change, transformation, reorganization, reshuffle, remodeling, modification: vn. II.

Cf. also:
► ^BP#1645miḥwar, pl. maḥāwirᵘ, n., 1 axis (math.); axle, axletree; pivot, crucial point, that upon which s.th. hinges or depends; 2 rolling pin | duwal al-~, n.pl., (formerly) the Axis Powers (pol.): n.instr. from ↗ḥāra.
► miḥwarī, adj., axial (math., techn.): nsb-adj. from miḥwar.

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