حزاق

Arabic

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.zaːq/, /ħu.zaːq/

Noun

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

  1. an iron-spiked dog-collar
  2. diaphragm, membrane
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح‎ [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, 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.
    Synonym: حِجَاب‎ (ḥijāb)
  3. hiccup, hiccough, alternative form of حَازُوقَة‎ (ḥāzūqa)
  4. fart, flatus

Declension

Noun

حَزَّاق • (ḥazzāq) m (obsolete)

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

Declension

Descendants

  • → Spanish: alfazaque

References

  • “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, page 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, page 336
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “حزاق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 281b

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ح ز ق‎
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic حُزَاق‎ (ḥuzāq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħzaːq/

Noun

حزاق • (ḥzāq) m

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