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▪ Jeffery1938: »Though the Commentators are not unanimous as to its meaning they are in general agreed that it means the synagogue of the Jews, and as such many of them admit that it is a borrowing from Hbr (Bayḍ. and Zam. on the passage:¹ al-Ǧawālīqī, Muʕarrab, 95; al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 322; al-Ḫafāǧī, 123; al-Siǧistānī, 201). This idea that it is Hbr is derived, of course, from the notion that the word means synagogues. ṣlwtʔ which means ‘prayer’, but the theory of Ibn Ǧinnī in his Muḥtasab, quoted by al-Suyūṭī, Mutaw, 55, that it is Syr, is much more likely,² for though ṣlwtʔ means ‘prayer’, the commonly used byt ṣlwtʔ means a ‘place of prayer’, i.e. proseuχḗ, which Rudolph, Abhängigkeit, 7, n.,³ would take as the reference in the Qurʔānic passage. As we find [SAr] ṣlwt = ‘chapel’ in a SAr inscription,⁴ however, it is possible that the word first passed into SAr and thence into the northern language.«

1. That it was a borrowing is evident from the large crop of variant readings of the word noted by al-ʕUkbarī, Imlāʔ, ii, 89. 2. Fraenkel, Vocab, 21; Dvořák, Fremdw, 31; Schwally, Idioticon, 80, 125. 3. See also Pautz, Offenbarung, 149. 4. Hommel, Südarab. Chrest., 125; Rossini, Glossarium, 224.

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