خصين

Arabic

خَصِّين

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic חֲצִינָא / ܚܰܨܺܝܢܳܐ (ḥaṣṣīnā, axe), or even directly from Akkadian 𒍏𒄩𒍣𒅔 (ḫaṣṣinnum, hoe) via the Gulf into the pre-Arabic dialects spoken there.

Alternative forms

  • صَخِّين (ṣaḵḵīn), صَخِين (ṣaḵīn) metathesis

Noun

خَصِّين or خَصِين • (ḵaṣṣīn or ḵaṣīn) f or m (plural خُصُن (ḵuṣun) or أَخْصُن (ʔaḵṣun)) (Gulf, Oman)

  1. adze, hoe
    • 2017 November 8, “ar: حملة لتقليم أشجار الغاف في العين”, in الخليج, archived from the original on 2017-11-08:
      تأتي الحملة إحياءً لعادة متوارثة كان يمارسها مواطنو المدينة والدولة قديماً، وبالتحديد فئة كبار السن، وهي تقليم أشجار الغاف في فصل الشتاء باستخدام -الخصين- وهي الأداة المستخدمة لقطع الأشجار، لما تشكله شجرة الغاف من أهمية كبيرة في الموروث الثقافي والزراعي للدولة.
      The campaign is a revival of an inherited custom that the citizens of city and state have practised from yore, in particular groups of elderly people; it is the clipping of the Prosopis tree in the winter period using a haṣṣīn, that is the instrument used for logging trees, because the Prosopis tree is of great importance for the cultural and agricultural heritage of the state.
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

خَصَيْنَ • (ḵaṣayna) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine plural past active of خَصَى (ḵaṣā)

Verb

خُصِينَ • (ḵuṣīna) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine plural past passive of خَصَى (ḵaṣā)

References

  • خصين” in Almaany
  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 317–318
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خصين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 377
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 86–87
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خصين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 494
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