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

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lġa (yĭlġi) “to invalidate, to abolish, to
do away” 56
< ʔalġā (yulġī) “to abolish, to do away”.
lqa (yĭlqa) “to find, to meet”
≠
< laqiya (yalqā) “to encounter, to meet”.
lqa (yĭlqi) “to throw” 57 < ʔalqā (yulqī) “to throw”.
md}}}a (yĭmd}}}a) “to be sharp; to get lost” < mad}}}ā (yamd}}}ī) “to be sharp; to go
≠
away”.
md}}}a (yĭmd}}}i) “to sign; to get lost” 58 < ʔamd}}}ā (yūmd}}}ī) “to spend, to pass; to
undersign, to sign”.
mla (yĭmla) “to be or become filled,
full”
≠
< maliʔa (yamlaʔu) “to be full”.
mla (yĭmli) “to fill” 59 < ʔamlaʔa (yumliʔu) “to fill”.
hān (yhūn) “to be easy; to be or become
despicable”
≠
hān (yhīn) “to despise, to have a low
opinion of” 60
< hāna (yahūnu) “to be easy; to be
despicable”.
< ʔahāna (yuhīnu) “to despise”.
As a final remark, I would like to underline that all verbs quoted here
belong to the traditional Moroccan vocabulary. Interviews with educated speakers
clearly show that the increasing influence of modern written Arabic in Moroccan
dialects has no influence as regarding the number of form IV verbs: not a single
example quoted by my informants could be identified as a contemporary
borrowing.
Bibliography
Aguadé, Jordi. 2003. “Estudio descriptivo y comparativo de los fonemas del árabe dialectal
marroquí”. Estudios de dialectología norteafricana y andalusí, 3.
Aguadé, Jordi / Benyahia, Laila. 2005. Diccionario de árabe marroquí. Árabe marroquí-español /
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DAF 11: 60-62; for lġa (yĭlġa) “to babble, to chirp” DAF gives also the variant lġa yĭlġi. ME
(70) mentions only lġa (yĭlġi) “to babble, to chirp”.
57
DAF 11: 73-74; ME 71 (quotes only lqa, yĭlqa “to find”); TAR 2: 746-747.
58
DAF 11: 219-220; ME 78.
59
DAF 11: 237.
60
DAF 12: 106-107; ME 52 (quotes only hān, yhīn “to despise”).
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