ghawa syndrome

English

Etymology

Named after the resyllabification of dialectal Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (gahwa, “coffee”) as قْهَوَة‎ (ghawa), which is the prototypical example of the phenomenon.

Noun
Examples (dialectal Arabic)

ghawa syndrome (uncountable)

  1. (phonology) A phenomenon in some Arabic dialects in which the second consonant in a word forms a cluster with the first consonant.
    Synonym: Najdi resyllabification[1]
  2. (sociolinguistics) Imitation of such resyllabification due to perceived prestige or correctness.

Usage notes
  • Dialects exhibiting the phenomenon include some Iraqi dialects,[2] Sana Yemeni,[3] Najdi, Northern Israeli Bedouin Arabic,[4] Burayami of Oman,[5] and Najdi-descendant speakers of Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic.[6]

Coordinate terms
  • gahawa syndrome

Translations

References
  1. Palva, Heikki (2009), “From qəltu to gələt: Diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic”, in Arabic Dialectology‎, Brill, pages 17–40: “ […] and the Najdi resyllabification rule, e.g., gahawa → ghawa, yaxabuṭ → yxabuṭ, katabat → ktibat, zalama → zlima.”
  2. Palva, Heikki (2009), “From qəltu to gələt: Diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic”, in Arabic Dialectology‎, Brill, pages 17–40: “ […] This is an obvious major case of phonetic adaptation by immigrant Bedouin speakers, the ex-Bedouin rural population in southern Iraq included.”
  3. Rosenhouse, Judith (2013), “General and local issues in forensic linguistics: Arabic as a case study”, in Comparative Legilinguistics, issue 15, pages 53–68; 62.
  4. Rosenhouse, Judith (1995), “An Arabic Bedouin story and its linguistic analysis”, in Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, issue 30, pages 62–83; 71.
  5. Grünbichler, Elisabeth (2016), “Linguistic remarks on the dialect of Al-Buraymi, Oman”, in Arabic Varieties: Far and Wide, issue 267.
  6. Taqi, Hanan A. (2018), “The Ghawa Syndrome in Kuwaiti-Arabic verbs”, in Journal of Advances in Linguistics, issue 9, pages 1298–1312.
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