حزاق

• خَزَاق (ḵazāq), خُزَاق (ḵuzāq) — taṣḥīf uncertain

From Classical Syriac, attested as ܚܙܳܩܳܐ (ḥəzāqā, “belt; tie, bond, vinculum”) from the root ܚ-ܙ-ܩ (ḥ-z-q) “to gird; to constrict, to hold or contain tightly; to tighten”. Compare عَزَقة (ʕazaqa, “ring”) corresponding to حَزْقَة (ḥazqa, “constraint in the venter”).

• IPA^(key): /ħa.zaːq/, /ħu.zaːq/

حَزَاق or حُزَاق • (ḥazāq or ḥuzāq) m (obsolete)

1. an iron-spiked dog-collar
2. diaphragm, membrane

   Synonym: حِجَاب (ḥijāb)

   • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 1068 (fol. 87v,7–8), page 938:

     خزاق ^[sic] الصدر هو الحجاب المعروف بديافراغما من كتاب أهرن.

     The ḥazāq of the trunk is the barrier well-known as diaphragma, so after the Book of Ahrun.

3. hiccup, hiccough, alternative form of حَازُوقَة (ḥāzūqa)
4. fart, flatus

حَزَّاق • (ḥazzāq) m (obsolete)

1. a kind of scarab, apparently literally “farter”

• → Spanish: alfazaque

• “ḥzqh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, pages 225a–b
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 124b
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 336
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “حزاق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 281b

From Arabic حُزَاق (ḥuzāq).

• IPA^(key): /ħzaːq/

حزاق • (ḥzāq) m

1. fart, flatus
2. (figuratively) state of having no money