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▪ Jeffery1938: »It occurs only in the stereotyped phrase fāṭir al-samawāt wa’l-ʔarḍ.
The root faṭara is ‘to cleave’ or ‘split’, and from this we have several forms in the Qurʔān, viz. fuṭūr ‘a fissure’, tafaṭṭara ‘to be rent asunder’, etc. On the other hand, faṭara ‘to create’ (cf. fiṭraẗ, xxx, 29), is a denominative from fāṭir. / The primary sense is common Sem, cf. Akk paṭāru ‘to cleave’, Hbr pāṭar, Phoen pṭr ‘to remove’, Syr pṭar ‘to release’, etc. The meaning of ‘to create’, however, is peculiar to Eth [Gz], and as Nöldeke, Neue Beiträge, 49, shows, the Arab fāṭir is derived from faṭāri though Arabicized in its form.¹ «

1. That the early authorities felt that the word was foreign is clear from the tradition about Ibn ʕAbbās in LA, vi, 362, already referred to in our Introduction, p. 7.

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