Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ Probably via Syr qarīṯā ‘beam, plank’ from Akk qarītu ‘storeroom, granary’ (properly ‘beams, woodwork’). The term seems to have come out of wider use in the course of time, surviving into MSA only in the specialized meaning of a nautic technical term.
▪ If the Akk or Hbr/Aram terms have anything to do with the notion of ‘to meet’, then qariyyaẗ is also, ultimately, akin to other items of ↗√QRY, esp. ↗qarà ‘to receive hospitably, entertain as a guest’ and/or ↗qaryaẗ ‘village’.

hist

In ClassAr, the word had still a broader meaning, as evidenced, for instance, by the entry in Kazimirski1860: 1 bâton, 2 poutre dans laquelle on emboîte les piliers qui supportent la maison, [▪ …] 4 vergue.¹ It seems then that its use became limited to the specific sphere of sailing where it survived as a term.techn. for the ‘yard’ of sailing vessels (Kazimirski’s no. 4).

1. Cf. also Freytag1835 (numbered to fit Kazimirski’s list): 1 baculus, 2 lignum crenatum, cui imponitur caput pali tentorium fulcientis, [▪ …] 4 lignum, quod in superiore parte veli navis in latitudine eius est, aliis in superiore pilenti parte.

cogn

▪ Zimmern1917: 31 Akk qarītu [var. qirītu ] ‘Kornboden’ [CAD: storeroom, granary], probably properly ‘woodwork’: from this (?) > Hbr qōrāh, Aram qarītā ‘rafter, beam’.
▪ BDB1906: Hbr qōrāh ‘rafter, beam’ (prop. a thing meeting, fitting into, another), whence denom. Pi ‘to lay the beams of, furnish with beams’.

disc

▪ Fraenkel1886: 10-11 is ‘pretty sure’ that the word is from Syr qarīṯā.
▪ BDB1906 explains Hbr qōrāh ‘rafter, beam’ as related to Hbr qārā ‘to meet’. If this is true the word may be akin to WSem *QR or *QRY ‘to meet’, which is also the origin of ↗qarà ‘to receive hospitably, entertain as a guest’ and (via Syr) ↗qaryaẗ (see also ↗QRY).
▪ Zimmern1917: 31 thinks that the Akk qarītu ‘storeroom, granary’, which accord. to him properly means ‘beams, woodwork, entablature’, is at the origin of both Hbr qōrāh and Aram qarīṯā ‘beam, plank’, whence Ar qariyyaẗ.

west

–

deriv

–

Permanent link

http://www2.hf.uio.no/common/apps/permlink/permlink.php?app=polyglotta&context=record&uid=d9f68617-06ff-11ee-937a-005056a97067

Choose languages

Choose images, etc.

Choose languages

Choose display