Palavras de Origem Árabe Dicionarizadas em Inglês e em Espanhol
Palavras de Origem Árabe Dicionarizadas em Inglês e em Espanhol
Palavras de Origem Árabe Dicionarizadas em Inglês e em Espanhol
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handjar \Pers. (Arab.) khanjar dagger.<br />
hanger \(...) The suggestion has been offered that this is the same word as the Pers. Arab.<br />
khanjar: see handjar. But...<br />
Hanif \Arab. hanif, app. the same as Heb. hanef impious...<br />
haras \a. OF. haraz (12th c.), later haras ‘horses and mares kept only for breed’ (Cotgr.), in<br />
med.L. haracium, of uncertain origin; Diez suggests relationship to Arabic faras horse.<br />
hardim \Arab. hardhawn, lizard, land crocodile.<br />
har<strong>em</strong> \a. Arab. haram, and harim lit. (that which is) prohibited or unlawful, that which a man<br />
<strong>de</strong>fends and fights for, as his family, a sacred place, sanctuary, enclosure; the wo-men's part of<br />
the house; wives, women; from harama to prohibit, forbid, make unlawful...<br />
harka \a. Moroccan Arab. harka military expedition, classical Arab. haraka mov<strong>em</strong>ent.<br />
harmala \(...) from S<strong>em</strong>itic; cf. Arab. harmil wild rue...<br />
harmattan \ (...) but acc. to Christaller, Dict. Asante & Fante Lang. (Basel 1881), a borrowed<br />
foreign word, viz. ‘Sp. harmatan, an Arabic word’. (But no such Arabic word has been found.)<br />
hashish \Arab. hashish dry herb, hay, the dry leaves of h<strong>em</strong>p pow<strong>de</strong>red, the intoxicant thence<br />
prepared.<br />
hatti \Persian khatt-i-sharif, khatt-i-humayun, f. Arab. khatt line, written line, writing + i<br />
(Pers.) connective + (a) Arab. sharif noble, honourable, sacred, and (b) Pers. humayun sacred,<br />
august, royal, imperial.<br />
havildar \Pers. hawal-dar, hawala-dar, f. Arab. hawalah charge + Pers. dar holding, hol<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
hazard \a. OF. hasard, -art (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.): cf. Pr., Sp., Pg. azar (...). The ori-gin of<br />
the French word is uncertain, but its source was prob. Arabic. According to William of Tyre, the<br />
game took its name from a castle called Hasart or Asart in Palestine, during the siege of which<br />
it was invented: see Littré s.v. The true Arab name of this castle appears to have been ‘Ain<br />
Zarba (Prof. Margoliouth). Mahn proposes vulgar Arab. az-zahr or az-zar ‘die’ (Bocthor); but<br />
early evi<strong>de</strong>nce for this sense is wanting.<br />
hegira \a. med.L. hegira (F. hégire, Sp. hegira, It. egira), ad. Arab. hijrah <strong>de</strong>parture from one's<br />
country and friends, spec. al hijrat the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina; f. hajara to<br />
separate, go away...<br />
henna \a. Arab. henna , . See also alcanna.<br />
Hezbollah \a. Pers. hezbollah, Arab. hizbullah Party of God, f. hezb, hizb party + allah Allah.<br />
hikayat \Malay, ad. Arab. hikaya story, narrative.<br />
Hobson-Jobson \Corruption by British soldiers in India of Arab. Ya Hasan! Ya Husayn! = O<br />
Hasan! O Husain!<br />
hollock \a. Sp. aloque (in Minsheu haloque) adj., light red, n., a species of wine of fine red<br />
colour, a. Arab. haluqi, adj. from haluq, an aromatic of clear red colour (Dozy)...<br />
hookah \a. Arab. (Pers., Urdu) huqqah casket, vase, cup, ‘the bottle through which the fumes<br />
pass in smoking tobacco’...<br />
hookum \a. Hindi, a. Arab. hukm, f. hakama (cf. hakim).<br />
horn \Representing well-known uses of Heb. qeren horn, found also in Syriac, Arabic, and the<br />
S<strong>em</strong>itic langs. generally...<br />
houbara \mod.L. (C. L. J. L. Bonaparte Saggio d'una Distribuzione Metodica <strong>de</strong>gli Animali<br />
Vertebrati (1832) 84), f. Arab. hubari bustard.<br />
houri \a. F. houri (1654 in Hatz.-Darm.), a. Pers. huri, f. Arabic hur pl. of haura‘ f<strong>em</strong>., in hural-<br />
, ayun (f<strong>em</strong>ales) gazelle-like in the eyes, f. hawira to be black-eyed like a gazelle.<br />
house \a. OF. huche (12th c. in Littré), houce (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. housse (med.L.<br />
hucia, houcia, hussia, housia). According to Darmesteter-Thomas, perh. adopted during the<br />
Crusa<strong>de</strong>s from Arabic gushiah, ‘tegumentum, velum’...<br />
howdah \Pers. and Urdu haudah, modified from Arab. haudaj, a litter carried by a camel or an<br />
elephant.<br />
Howeitat \Arab. (al-) Huwaytat, Arab tribes in north-western Saudi Arabia.<br />
Hubshee \Pers. habshi, Arab. habashi, of or belonging to Habesh or Abyssinia.<br />
hulwa \a. Urdu and Arab. halwa sweetmeat.<br />
hummum \Corruption of Arab. hammam hot bath (hammam). (Arab. hammam, hummum<br />
means ‘coal, fuel, ashes’.)<br />
huzoor \a. Arab. hudur (pronounced in India as huzur) presence (<strong>em</strong>ployed as a title), f. hadara<br />
to be present.<br />
hygeen \Arab. hajin dromedary, pronounced in Egypt hagin...<br />
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