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▪ While DRS treats ‘to talk, converse, discuss, debate’ as a value in its own right, Arab lexicographers usually regard it as derived from ↗ḥāra ‘to (re)turn’, a conversation or discussion being an action where participants come back to each other with a reply.

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▪ eC7 ḥāwara (to debate with, have a dialogue) 18:34 fa-qāla li-ṣāḥibi-hī wa-huwa yuḥāwiru-hū ʔanā ʔakṯaru min-ka mālan wa-ʔaʕazzu nafaran ‘so, he said to his friend, while disputing with him, “I am more than you in wealth, and mightier in respect of supporters.”’

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▪ Cf. also ClassAr ^†ḥawīr, ḥawīraẗ (and several variants) ‘answer, reply’.
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤWR 9: Ar ḥāwara ‘discuter’ forms a value in its own right, treated distinctly from vb. IV ʔaḥāra ‘to answer, reply’ or vb. I ḥāra ‘to (re)turn’.

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▪ ClassAr lexicographers consider the vb. III as dependent on vb. I ḥāra ‘to (re)turn’, cf. Lane: ḥāwara ‑hū ‘he returned him answer for answer; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, with him; or bandied words with him’. In contrast, DRS distinguishes it as a value in its own right, without cognates in other Sem languages.
▪ The idea of ‘dialogue’ is probably peculiar to Ar, indeed. An analogous derivation seems to have taken place, however, in Gz where a word for ‘traveler’, ḥawāryā, is coined from Gz ḥora ‘to go’ and also comes to mean ‘messenger’ and, in a Christian context, ‘apostle’. ḥawāryā is believed to be the origin of the Ar word for ‘disciple, apostle’, ↗ḥawāriyy, often interpreted in ClassAr dictionaries as dependent on ḥāwara, the apostles being *‘those who enter into a dialogue with the people’.

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► taḥāwara, vb. VI, to carry on a discussion: t-stem of III, recipr.

► ^BP#439ḥiwār, n., talk, conversation, dialogue; argument, dispute; text (of a play); script, scenario (of a motion picture); libretto (of an opera): lexicalized vn. III.
► muḥāwaraẗ, n.f., talk, conversation, dialogue; argument, dispute: vn. III.
► taḥāwur, n., discussion: vn. VI.
► muḥāwir, pl. ‑ūn, n., interlocutor, participant in a dialogue or conversation: PA III.

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