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▪ Rolland2014 (s.v. ḫarīṭaẗ) : ḫarīṭaẗ ‘carte (de géographie)’ et q˅rṭās ‘cahier, feuille, papier’ « [s]eraient tous deux issus – directement ou via les formes latinisées carta et chart – du Grk χártēs ‘rouleau de papyrus’ [perh., with metathesis, from Eg sḫr.t ‘bundle of papyrus roles, scroll’ – S.G.]. C’est l’opinion de Rajki, confirmé par Nişanyan. [Cette voie d’] emprunt semble avéré pour qarṭās […] ».
▪ For a more detailed, and prob. more accurate, view, see Jeffery1928 in section DISC, below.
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▪ Jeffery1938: »In both passages [Q 6:7, 91] the reference is to the material on which the Divine revelations were written down. The Muslim authorities make little effort to explain the word. Some recognized it as a foreign word,¹ a fact which indeed is apparent from the uncertainty that existed as to its spelling.² It was evidently an early borrowing, for it occurs in the old poetry, and probably came to the Arabs from their more cultured Northern neighbours. Von Kremer suggested that it was from the Grk χártē,³ but Sachau⁴ and Fraenkel⁵ are nearer the mark in thinking that χártēs is the form behind qirṭās, especially as this form is found also in the Arm k‘artēs⁶ and the Aram qarṭīsā.⁷ / It is not likely that the word came directly from the Grk, and Fraenkel, Fremdw, 245, thought that it came through the Aram⁸ meaning a paper or document, as in Levit. Rabba, 34. / Mingana, Syriac Influence, 89, prefers to derive it through the Syr qarṭīsā which occurs beside karṭīsā, the source of the Eth [Gz] kərtās. It is really impossible to decide, though the fact that Ṭarafaẗ, in his Muʕallaqaẗ, 1.31, seems to look on qirṭās as something peculiarly Syrian, may count in favour of Mingana’s claim.«

1. al-Jawālīqī, Muʕarrab, 125; al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 323; al-Kafāǧī, 159. 2. LA, viii, 54, notes qarṭās; qirṭas; qarṭas; qurṭās and qirṭās. 3. Kulturgeschichte des Orients, ii, 305. 4. Notes to the Muʕarrab, p. 57. 5. Fremdw, 245; cf. also Vollers, ZDMG, 1: 617, 624; 51: 301. 6. Hubschmann, ZDMG, xlvi, 253; Brockelmann, ZDMG, 47: 11. 7. Krauss, Griechische Lehnwörter, ii, 567 (also karṭīsā, ibid., ii, 297). 8. In Vocab, 17, he suggests [Aram] karṭīsā, on which see Levy, Wörterbuch, ii, 398.

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►qarṭas, n., 1 paper; 2 sheet of paper

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