فخ

Arabic

Etymology 1

Compare فَاحَ‎ (fāḥa), فَاخَ‎ (fāḵa), نَفَحَ‎ (nafaḥa), نَفَخَ‎ (nafaḵa), فَحَّ‎ (faḥḥa).

Verb

فَخَّ • (faḵḵa) I, non-past يَفِخُّ‎ or يَفَخُّ‎‎ (yafiḵḵu or yafaḵḵu)

  1. to snore
    Synonym: غَطَّ‎ (ḡaṭṭa)
  2. to lie resupine
  3. to diffuse, to be respired
Conjugation

Noun

فَخّ • (faḵḵ) m

  1. verbal noun of فَخَّ (faḵḵa) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic פחא‎ / ܦܚܐ‎ (paḥḥā, “trap, snare, gin”).

Noun

فَخّ • (faḵḵ) m (plural فِخَاخ‎ (fiḵāḵ) or فُخُوخ‎ (fuḵūḵ))

  1. trap, snare, gin
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فق‎ (fak)

References

  • “فخ” in Almaany
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 119
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “فخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 321
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “فخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 946
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