משכון

Mozarabic

Etymology

From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”), from Classical Syriac ܡܶܣܟܸܝܢܳܐ (meskēnā, “miserable, wretched”), from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum, “commoner, poor”).

Adjective

משכון (mškwn)

  1. poor
    • c. 1100, Kharja H12 :[1]
      משכוניד משוטדיש ביד
      mškwnyd mšwṭdyš byd
      she's poor, you see

Notes

Corriente takes ⟨mškwn⟩ to represent a Mozarabic miskína.

References
  1. Corriente, F., Sáenz-Badillos, A. (1994) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt con texto romance de la serie hebrea”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIV, number 3/4, pages 286–287
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