قزح

From the root ق ز ح‎ (q-z-ḥ). Compare Hebrew קֶצַח‎ (qeṣaḥ, “black cumin (Nigella sativa))”). Jewish Palestinian Aramaic קִיצְחָא‎ (qiṣḥā, “black cumin (Nigella sativa))”) is likely a Hebraism. But there is also Ugaritic 𐎖𐎕𐎈 (qṣḥ, “black cumin (Nigella sativa)”). Whereas the Classical Syriac lexicographers give ܟܷܣܚܳܐ‎ (kesḥā, “small onion”).

قَزَحَ • (qazaḥa) I, non-past يَقْزَحُ‎‎ (yaqzaḥu)

1. (transitive) to put scents to, to add aromates to

قَزَحَ • (qazaḥa) I, non-past يَقْزَحُ‎‎ (yaqzaḥu)

1. (intransitive) to splash, to emit driblets, to spatter

قَزَّحَ • (qazzaḥa) II, non-past يُقَزِّحُ‎‎ (yuqazziḥu)

1. (transitive) to put scents to, to add aromates to
2. (transitive) to embellish, to dress up, to formulate exquisitely

   Synonym: دَبَّجَ‎ (dabbaja)

قَزْح • (qazḥ) m

1. verbal noun of قَزَحَ (qazaḥa) (form I)
2. dog urine

قُزَح • (quzaḥ) m

1. a god or demon of the rainstorm of the pagan Arabs, translatable as “thunder god” or “rain demon”. Related to a certain ritual of “standing” (وُقُوف‎ (wuqūf)) performed at a hill (the hill termed جَبَل قُزَح‎ (jabal quzaḥ), now جَبَل عَرَفَة‎ (jabal ʕarafa, “Mount Arafat”)) east of Mecca at dawn where he was apparently believed to dwell, or perhaps the hill itself was deified.
   • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 9:78:

     ‏فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ أَتَى قُزَحَ فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَ «هَذَا قُزَحُ وَهُوَ الْمَوْقِفُ وَجَمْعٌ كُلُّهَا مَوْقِفٌ»‎‎

     falammā ʔaṣbaḥa ʔatā quzaḥa fawaqafa ʕalayhi waqāla “haḏā quzaḥu wahuwa l-mawqifu wajamʕun kulluhā mawqifun”

     When it became morning he went to quzaḥ and stood at him and said: “This is quzaḥ, and it is the place of standing, and all of jamʿ is a place for standing.”

• قَوْس قُزَح‎ (qaws quzaḥ, “rainbow”)

قِزْح • (qizḥ) m (collective, singulative قِزْحَة‎ f (qizḥa), plural أَقْزَاح‎ (ʔaqzāḥ))

1. black cumin (Nigella sativa)

   Synonyms: شُونِيز‎ (šūnīz), حَبَّة سَوْدَاءُ‎ (ḥabba sawdāʔ), كَمُّون أَسْوَد‎ (kammūn ʔaswad)

2. onion seeds
3. anything scented added to dishes while cooking
4. serpent excrement

• Al-Azmeh, Aziz (2014) The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 187
• Baldick, Julian (1997) Black God. The Afroasiatic Roots of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions., London: I. B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 30
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• Freytag, Georg (1835), “قزح”, 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 439
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• “قزح” in Almaany
• “qṣḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ksḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

Borrowed from Arabic قُزَح‎ (quzaḥ).

قزح • (Kuzah)

1. Kuzah, a god or demon of the pagan Arabs who presided over clouds, meteors and rainstorms

• قوس قزح‎ (kus kuzah, “rainbow”)

• Turkish: Kuzah

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