خوخة

See also: جوجه‎

Arabic

خَوْخَة

Etymology 1

Singulative noun composed of خَوْخ‎ (ḵawḵ, “peach; plum”) +‎ ـَة‎ (-a).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaw.xa/

Noun

خَوْخَة • (ḵawḵa) f (singulative, collective خَوْخ‎ m (ḵawḵ))

  1. singulative of خَوْخ‎ (ḵawḵ)
Declension

Etymology 2

خَوْخَة

Most likely from Old South Arabian 𐩭𐩭‎ (ḫḫ) from which also Ge'ez ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, “door, gate, wall opening”), from which Amharic ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, “space between letters”); also found in Shehri ḫɔh, Mehri ḫā, Soqotri ḥe which there even replaced the Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”), and Biblical Hebrew חוֹחַ‎ (ḥōaḥ, “crevice, fissure; bramble, thicket; hole, hiding place”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaw.xa/

Noun

خَوْخَة • (ḵawḵa) f (plural خُوَخ‎ (ḵuwaḵ))

  1. wicket, aperture
    1. hatch, loophole, peephole (in a building’s wall)
      Synonyms: مَنْوَر‎ (manwar), وَصْوَص‎ (waṣwaṣ), وَصْْوَاص‎ (waṣwāṣ), كَوَّة‎ (kawwa), كُوَّة‎ (kuwwa), ثُغْرَة‎ (ṯuḡra)
    2. sluice gate, canal lock (in a passage)
Declension

References

  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 260
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 51
  • Weninger, Stefan (2007), “Ethiopic Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
  • Weninger, Stefan (2009), “Der Jemen als lexikalisches Ausstrahlungszentrum in der Antike”, in Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica in memoriam Alexander Sima‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, →ISBN, pages 405 Nr. 13

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خَوْخَة‎ (ḵawḵa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xuː.xa/
  • (file)

Noun

خوخة • (ḵūḵa) f (singulative, collective خوخ‎ m (ḵūḵ), paucal خوخات‎ (ḵūḵāt))

  1. singulative of خوخ‎ (ḵūḵ)
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