12 55 Years of Arab Studies in Romania - Secţia de Arabă

}d}}}a (yər}d}}}i) “to satisfy, to content” 42 < ʔaṛd}}}ā (yŭrd}}}ī) “to satisfy, to please”.
r}wa (yər}wa) “to be or get watered or
irrigated”
≠
r}wa (yər}wi) “to water, to irrigate; to
recite” 43
šqa (yĭšqa) “to get tired, to become
fatigued; to take the trouble, to bother”
≠
šqa (yĭšqi) “to tire, to fatigue; to cause
some trouble or bother” 45
s}fa (yəs}fa) “to be or become clear,
limpid”
≠
< rawiya (yarwā) “to be irrigated”.
< ʔarwā (yurwī) “to give to drink, to
water; to tell, to relate” 44 .
< šaqiya (yašqā) “to be unhappy, to have
trouble”.
< ʔašqā (yŭšqī) “to make unhappy”.
< s}afā (yas}fū) “to be or to become clear,
limpid”.
s}fa (yəs}fi) “to make clear” 46 < ʔas}fā (yus}fī) “to filter, to clarify”.
d}}}wa (yəd}}}wa) “to shine”
≠
< d}}}āʔa (yad}}}ūʔu) “to shine”.
d}}}wa (yəd}}}wi) “to light, to illuminate” 47 < ʔad}}}āʔa (yud}}}īʔu) “to light, to
illuminate”.
t}fa (yət}fa) “to go out (light, fire)”
≠
t}fa (yət}fi) “to put out, to stifle (fire), to
switch off, to turn off (light)” 48
< t}afiʔa (yat}faʔu) “to go out (light)”.
< ʔat}}faʔa (yut}fiʔu) “to switch off (light)”.
ʕfa (yăʕfu) “to pardon, to give a pardon
to”
≠
< ʕafā (yaʕfū) “to forgive”.
ʕfa (yăʕfi) “to protect, to save, to < ʔafʕā (yuʕfī) “to heal, protect, save”.”
42
DAF 5: 132-135; ME 124 (l}l}āh yər}d}}}i ʕlīk “may God bless you”); DAM 119.
43
DAF 5: 252-253; ME 129.
44
In this case r}wa (yər}wi) could reflect as well Classical Arabic rawā (yarwī) “to bring water, to
give to drink”.
45
DAF 7: 143; ME 156.
46
DAF 8: 80; according to DAF, s}fa (yəs}fi) is used only in poetry.
47
DAF 8: 220-221. ME (31) quotes only d}}}wa (yəd}}}wi).
48
DAF 8: 310; ME 196 (nsīti ma-t}fīti-š d}}}-d}}}ŭw “you forgot to turn out the light”); DAM 152.
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