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▪ Rolland2014: < lGrk kentēnárion < lLat centēnārium ‘containing a hundred’ (centum ‘hundred’).
▪ Jeffery1938: via Syr qᵊnṭīnārā, short qentᵊrā, from Grk kentēnárion, from Lat centēnārium.

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▪ eC7 (measure of weight and/or measure) Q 3:14 zuyyina li’n-nāsi ḥubbu ’l-šahawāti min-a ’l-nisāʔi wa’l-banīna wa’l-qanāṭīri ’l-muqanṭaraẗi min-a ’l-ḏahabi wa’l-fiḍḍaẗi wa’l-ḫayli ’l-musawwamaẗi wa’l-ʔanʕāmi wa’l-ḥarṯi ‘Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land’; muqanṭar (stacked up in heaps) Q 3:75 wa-min ʔahli ’l-kitābi man ʔin taʔmanhu bi-qinṭārin yuʔaddi-hī ʔilayka ‘Among the People of the Scripture there is he who, if thou trust him with a weight of treasure, will return it to thee’

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▪ Jeffery1938: »It was recognized by the philologers as of foreign origin, and though some, like Sībawaih, held to an Arabic origin, ʔAbū ʕUbaydaẗ (LA, vi, 432) expressly states that the Arabs did not know the meaning of the word.¹ Some said it was a Berb word (al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 323), others that it was Syr (al-Suddī in Muḫaṣṣaṣ, xii, 266), but the majority were in favour of its being Grk (al-Thaʕālibī, Fiqh, 318; al- Suyūṭī, Muzhir, i, 134). / Undoubtedly it is the Grk kentēnárion, which represents the Lat centenarium, and passed into Aram as qᵊnṭînār, Syr qᵊnṭīnārā.² It was from the Aram, as Fraenkel, Vocab, 13; Fremdw, 203, shows, that the word came into Ar, and in all probability from the shortened Syr form qentᵊrā.³ «
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1. This is evident from the variety of opinions on its meaning collected by Ibn Sīda in the Muḫaṣṣaṣ, xii, 266, and Ibn al-Athīr in Nihāya, iii, 313. 2. Krauss, Griechische Lehnwörter, ii, 553. It was from this form that the Arm kenzinar was derived (Hübschmann, Arm. Gramm, i, 356). 3. Mingana, Syriac Influence, 89; Vollers, ZDMG, Ii, 316.

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▪ Engl quintal ‘a weight of a hundred pounds’: c. 1400, from oFr quintal ‘hundredweight’, and directly from medLat quintale, from Ar qinṭār, from lGrk kentēnárion, from lLat centēnārius ‘containing a hundred’ (< centum ‘hundred’) – EtymOnline (15Jul2020).
▪ Ge Zentner ‘a weight of a hundred pounds’: C11, from mHGe zentenære, zentner, oHGe zentenāri, from Lat centēnārius ‘belonging to a hundred’ – Kluge2002.

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► qanāṭīrᵘ muqanṭaraẗ, n.pl.f., accumulated riches; tremendous sums: Qur’anic phrase.

► qanṭara, vb. I, to possess tremendous riches: denom.

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