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▪ The root is obviously a reduplication of (= ints. formation from) the bi-consonantal element *‑zl‑ which also appears in combination with third (and forth) consonants, cf. e.g. ↗zāla ‘to go away, depart, pass away, shift’, ↗zalla ‘to slip, slide off, move away’, ↗zalaǧa ‘to slip, slide, glide along’, ↗zalaqa ‘to glide, slide, slip’. Like zalzala, many of these roots share the notion of »‘rapidité, agilité’, souvaint liée à celle de ‘glisser’ (et conjointement de ‘lisse, poli, brillant’« – DRS 8 (1999)#-ZL-, cf. also ↗*-ZL-.

hist

▪ eC7 zulzila (pass.) 1 (to be shaken by an earthquake) Q 99:1-2 ʔiḏā zulzilat-i ’I-ʔarḍu zilzāla-hā ‘when the Earth is shaken with its quaking’; 2 (to be disturbed, agitated) Q 33:11 hunālika ’btuliya ’l-muʔminūna wa-zulzilū zilzālan šadīdan ‘there the believers were sorely tested and deeply shaken’. – zilzāl 1 (earthquake, earth tremor) Q 99:1-2 ʔiḏā zulzilat-i ’I-ʔarḍu zilzāla-hā ‘when the Earth is shaken with its quaking’; 2 (agitation, disturbance) Q 33:11 hunālika ’btuliya ’l-muʔminūna wa-zulzilū zilzālan šadīdan ‘there the believers were sorely tested and deeply shaken’. – zalzalaẗ (shaking, shockwave, trauma) Q 99:1-2 ʔinna zalzalaẗa ’I-sāʕaẗi šayʔun ʕaẓīmun ‘the trauma of the [coming of the] Hour wil be a mighty thing’

cogn

▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZLZL-1: Syr ʔzdanzal ‘être secoué, trembler’, zunzālā ‘tremblement, turpitude, honte’, Ar zalzala ‘faire trembler, secouer, agiter’, zalzāl ‘tremblement (des membres)’, zalzalaẗ, EAr zanzale, HispAr zérzel, MġrAr zəlzla, zənzla, Ḥrs zəlzāl, EJib zelzelt ‘tremblement de terre’. ? Tña zälzäl bälä ‘ballotter (chose accrochée)’.

disc

▪ Cf. above, section CONC.
▪ »The semantic field of zlzl seems to be vibration. If the meaning ‘twig’ or ‘thin branch’ [of nEg ḏ3nḏ3nrt, ḏ3n3ḏ3n3, ḏ3nḏ3r(t), etc., Copt ǧal ] derives from this root, then possibly the semantic development is from the notion of ‘shaking a (pliant) stick’« – Hoch1994.

west

▪ Tu zelzele (<1300, Orta Asya’da Bulunmuş… Kuran Tefsiri, ed. Borovkov), from Ar zalzalaẗ – Nişanyan_19Nov2014.

deriv

► tazalzala, vb. II, to quake (earth): T-stem, intr.

► zalzalaẗ, pl. zalāzilᵘ, n.f., earthquake: vn.
► zalzāl, var. ^BP#2702zilzāl, n., 1 concussion, shock, convulsion; 2 earthquake: vn.

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