Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ It seems that, ultimately, the word goes back to a WSem *QR(Y) ‘to meet’—either derived directly from there (hospitable reception as what happens when people meet), or possibly (denom.) via ↗qarw ‘drinking trough’ (for animals) or ‘bowl, drinking cup’, which may have become synonymous with what strangers find (for their animals, or themselves) in a place they approach for hospitality.
▪ Given that the PA I qārin also means ‘villager’ (and in ClassAr, its f. ^†qāriyaẗ also is lexicalized as ‘village’) makes it appear thinkable that qaryaẗ ‘village’, unless loaned from Aram (as is usually assumed), is based on the notion of ‘receiving hospitably’. On the other hand, qārin means also ‘s.o. who arrives at a village’, a fact that would suggest the PA (and the corresponding vb.) to be itself dependent on qaryaẗ.

hist

▪ lC6 ʕAntara b. Šaddād 52,3 lam yaqri ’l-ḍuyūfa ʔiḏā ʔatawhu, ▪ eC7 Ḥuṭayʔa 117,7 qarāhā fa-lam yabḫal wa-lam yataʕallali ‘to receive hospitably, treat as a guest’ (Polosin1995)
▪ (qiran :) lC6 ʕAntarah b. Šaddād 133,5; ▪ eC7 Ḥuṭayʔa 9,10; 16,13 fa-man▪ … laysa li-ʔidmāni ’l-qirà bi-malūlī, etc.; lC6 ʕUrwa b. al-Ward 17,2 ʔuḥaddiṯuhū ʔinna ’l-ḥadīṯa min al-qirà (Polosin1995).
▪ In ClassAr, the vb. VIII ĭqtarà can also mean ‘to ask for hospitality;¹ to suffice and refresh (food)’

1. al-Rabīʕ b. Ziyād 1,4 – Polosin1995.

cogn

…

disc

▪ It seems that, ultimately, the word goes back to a WSem *QR(Y) ‘to meet’.
▪ But it is not clear whether it is a direct derivation from there, or whether it is not possibly based on ↗qarw in the meaning of ‘drinking trough’ (for animals) or ‘bowl, drinking cup’ (which belongs to ↗QRY_4 ‘to flow together; place where water (or juice etc.) flows together; bassin, reservoir, pool, trough, cup’).
▪ Given that the PA I qārin also means ‘villager’ (and in ClassAr, its f. ^†qāriyaẗ also is lexicalized as ‘village’, as opposite of bādiyaẗ ‘desert’) makes it appear thinkable that qaryaẗ ‘village’, unless loaned from Aram (as is usually assumed) is based on the notion of ‘receiving hospitably’.
▪ ClassAr also has ^†qārāẗ, synonymous with ^†qāriyaẗ ‘village’.
▪ The fact that, in ClassAr, the PA I qārin is not only ‘villager’ but also ‘s.o. arriving at a village’ would make the vb. qarà look denominative from qaryaẗ.

west

–

deriv

► ĭqtarà, vb. VIII, = I: in MSA reduced to ‘receiving’ as a guest, i.e., ‘to invite s.o. to be o.’s guest’, while in ClassAr it can still also mean ‘to ask for hospitality’.

► qiran, det. al-qirà, n., hospitable reception, entertainment (of a guest): vn. I; meal served to a guest: synekd. use of vn. I.
► ^BP#665qaryaẗ ↗s.v.
► qarawī: ↗qaryaẗ; from Kairouan, inhabitant of K.; a member of al-Qarawiya College in Fès (Morocco): nsb-adj.
► qarawiyyaẗ: ↗qaryaẗ
► miqran, det. al-miqrà, adj., very hospitable: ints.
► miqrāʔ, adj., very hospitable: ints.
► qārin, det. al-qārī, n., villager: PA I (?)

Is also qariyyaẗ, pl. qarāyā, n., yard (naut.) related ?

Permanent link

http://www2.hf.uio.no/common/apps/permlink/permlink.php?app=polyglotta&context=record&uid=d9f614e7-06ff-11ee-937a-005056a97067

Choose languages

Choose images, etc.

Choose languages

Choose display