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▪ eC7 Q yasṭurūna 68:1, masṭūr 17:58, 33:6, 52:2; 54:53 [also the forms muṣayṭir 88:22, and muṣayṭirūn 52:37] ‘to write’, ‘to inscribe’. They are all early passages save 33:6, and possibly all refer to the same thing, the writing in the Heavenly Scrolls – Jeffery1938.
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▪ Jeffery1938: »Nöldeke as early as 1860¹ drew attention to the fact that the noun saṭr seemed to be a borrowing from [Syr] šᵊṭārā = [Aram] šᵊṭrā,² so that the verb, as Fraenkel, Fremdw, 250, notes, would be denominative. The Aram šᵊṭrā = [Syr] šᵊṭārā means a ‘document’, and is from a root connected with Akk šaṭāru ‘to write’. It occurs as šṭr in Nab and Palm inscriptions,³ and in the SAr inscriptions we have sṭr ‘to write’, and ʔsṭr ‘inscriptions’.⁴ D. H. Müller, WZKM, i, 29, thinks that the Ar may have been influenced both by the Aramaeans of the north, and the Sabaeans of the south, and as a matter of fact as-Suyūṭī, Itq, 311, tells us that Ǧuwaybir in his comment on 17:58, quoted a tradition from Ibn ʕAbbās to the effect that masṭūr was the word used in the Ḥimyaritic dialect for maktūb.⁵ The presence of the Phlv stūrē, as, e.g., in the phrase ???? = ‘in lines’ (PPGl, 205), makes us think, however, that it may have been Aramaic influence which brought the word to SArabia.⁶ In any case the occurrence of the word in the early poetry shows that it was an early borrowing.«
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1. Geschichte des Qorans, p. 13. 2. Cf. Horovitz, KU , 70. 3. Lidzbarski, Handbuch, 374. 4. Lidzbarski, Ephemeris, ii, 381; Hommel, Chrest, 124; Müller, Epigr. Denkm. aus Arabien, lii, 2; liv, 2; Glaser, Altjemenische Nachrichten, 67 ff.; Rossini, Glossarium, 194. 5. Vide Sprenger, Leben, ii, 395. 6. Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 29, takes the Ar form as derived from Aram.

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► saṭara u (saṭr), vb. I, and saṭṭara, vb. II, 1 to rule (s.th.), draw lines (on a sheet of paper); 2 to write, jot down, record; 3 to draw up, compose: prob. denom.

► sāṭūr, pl. sawāṭīrᵘ, n., cleaver: …
► ʔusṭūraẗ, pl. ʔasāṭīrᵘ, n.f., fable, legend, saga, myth; fabulous story, yarn: ↗s.v.
► ʔusṭūrī, adj., mythical, legendary, fabulous: nisba formation, from ↗ʔusṭūraẗ.
► misṭaraẗ, pl. masāṭirᵘ, n.f., 1 ruler: n.instr.; 2 underlines, guideline sheet | misṭaraẗ al-ḥisāb, n.f., slide rule; see also ↗s.v..
► misṭār, n., trowel: n.instr. I.
► masṭarīn, n., (EgAr) trowel.
► tasṭīr, n., writing down, recording: vn. II.
► musaṭṭar, n., piece of writing, paper, document: PP II.

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