خنزير

See also: خنزیر‎

Arabic

Etymology

An old borrowing of Aramaic חֲזִירָא‎ (ḥăzīrā) / ܚܙܺܝܪܳܐ‎ (ḥəzīrā), akin to Hebrew חֲזִיר‎ (ḥăzīr) and Ugaritic 𐎃𐎐𐎇𐎗 (ḫnzr), and Akkadian 𒄷𒍣𒊏 (ḫuzīru) is a rare borrowing particular to Old Assyrian.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xin.ziːr/
- (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /χənˈziːr/
Audio (file)

Noun

خِنْزِير • (ḵinzīr) m (plural خَنَازِير‎ (ḵanāzīr), feminine خِنْزِيرَة‎ (ḵinzīra))

pig, swine, hog
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3:
  ‏حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَيْتَةُ وَٱلدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ ٱلْخِنزِيرِ […]‎
  ḥurrimat ʕalay-kumu l-maytatu wa-d-damu wa-laḥmu l-ḵinzīri […]
  Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, and pork  […]
(derogatory) pig, despicable, disgusting person
(derogatory) porky, pig, state henchman
- 2000, فاضل العزاوي, القلعة الخامسة, Cologne: منشورات الجمل, page 86:
  ‏وفي الليالي إذ كنا نجوع كان حسين يتسلل الى غرفتهم بخفة القط ويسرق مختلف الأطعمة الشهية. معلبات وحليب وجبنة وفواكه كنا نوزعها على فقراء المعتقل الآخرين، قائلين:
  ―كلوا، إنها من غرفة الخنازير.‎‎
  In nights when we were hungry Hussayn sneaked into their room in cat’s stealth and stole diverse desirable foodstuff. Tins and and milk and a cheese and fruits we shared amongst the other poor inmates, saying:
  Eat, it’s from the bacon’s room.

Declension

Declension of noun خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِنْزِير ḵinzīr	الْخِنْزِير‎ al-ḵinzīr	خِنْزِير ḵinzīr
Nominative	خِنْزِيرٌ ḵinzīrun	الْخِنْزِيرُ‎ al-ḵinzīru	خِنْزِيرُ ḵinzīru
Accusative	خِنْزِيرًا‎ ḵinzīran	الْخِنْزِيرَ‎ al-ḵinzīra	خِنْزِيرَ ḵinzīra
Genitive	خِنْزِيرٍ ḵinzīrin	الْخِنْزِيرِ‎ al-ḵinzīri	خِنْزِيرِ ḵinzīri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِنْزِيرَيْن‎ ḵinzīrayn	الْخِنْزِيرَيْن‎ al-ḵinzīrayn	خِنْزِيرَيْ‎ ḵinzīray
Nominative	خِنْزِيرَانِ‎ ḵinzīrāni	الْخِنْزِيرَانِ‎ al-ḵinzīrāni	خِنْزِيرَا‎ ḵinzīrā
Accusative	خِنْزِيرَيْنِ‎ ḵinzīrayni	الْخِنْزِيرَيْنِ‎ al-ḵinzīrayni	خِنْزِيرَيْ‎ ḵinzīray
Genitive	خِنْزِيرَيْنِ‎ ḵinzīrayni	الْخِنْزِيرَيْنِ‎ al-ḵinzīrayni	خِنْزِيرَيْ‎ ḵinzīray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَنَازِير‎ ḵanāzīr	الْخَنَازِير‎ al-ḵanāzīr	خَنَازِير‎ ḵanāzīr
Nominative	خَنَازِيرُ‎ ḵanāzīru	الْخَنَازِيرُ‎ al-ḵanāzīru	خَنَازِيرُ‎ ḵanāzīru
Accusative	خَنَازِيرَ‎ ḵanāzīra	الْخَنَازِيرَ‎ al-ḵanāzīra	خَنَازِيرَ‎ ḵanāzīra
Genitive	خَنَازِيرَ‎ ḵanāzīra	الْخَنَازِيرِ‎ al-ḵanāzīri	خَنَازِيرِ‎ ḵanāzīri

Derived terms

خَنَازِيرِيّ‎ (ḵanāzīriyy, “scrofulous”)
خِنْزِير بَرِّيّ‎ (ḵinzīr barriyy, “boar”)
بَصَل الْخِنْزِير‎ (baṣal al-ḵinzīr, “sea onion”)
عُشْبَة الْخِنْزِير‎ (ʕušba al-ḵinzīr, “hogweed”)

Descendants

Maltese: ħanżir
Moroccan Arabic: خنزير‎ (ḵanzīr)
→ Ge'ez: ኀንዚር (ḫänzir), ሕንዚር (ḥənzir), ሐንዚር (ḥänzir), ሐንዘር (ḥänzär)
→ Hausa: alhanzir (“warthog”)
→ Mehri: ḫənzir
→ Malay: khinzir
→ Shehri: ḫanzír
→ Sicilian: canzirru
→ Swahili: hanziri
→ Ottoman Turkish: خنزیر‎ (hınzır)
- Turkish: hınzır
- → Georgian: ხინძირი (xinʒiri) – Chveneburi
- → Laz: ხინძირი (xinżiri, “piggishness, filthiness”)
- → Mingrelian: ხინძირი (xinʒiri, “filthy, dirty”)

References

Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 110–111
Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 24
Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 126
Landsberger, Benno (1934) Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie ḪAR-RA = ḫubullu (Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; XLII. Nr. VI)‎ (in German), Leipzig: Salomon Hirzel, page 101
Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 149–152 Nr. 111
Růžička, Rudolf (1909), “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), volume VI, issue 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 183
Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 50

Malay

خنزير

Etymology

From Arabic خِنْزِير‎ (ḵinzīr).

Pronunciation

(Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /xinze(r)/
(Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /xinzɪ(r)/
Rhymes: -ze(r), -e(r)

Noun

خنزير (plural خنزير-خنزير or خنزير۲‎, informal 1st possessive خنزيرکو‎, 2nd possessive خنزيرمو‎, 3rd possessive خنزيرڽ‎)

Jawi spelling of khinzir
Synonym: بابي‎ (babi)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خِنْزِير‎ (ḵinzīr).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xan.ziːr/

Noun

خنزير • (ḵanzīr) m (plural خنازر‎ (ḵnāzir), feminine خنزيرة‎ (ḵanzīra))

pig
Synonym: حلوف‎ (ḥallūf)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خِنْزِير‎ (ḵinzīr).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xan.ziːr/, [xanˈziːr]
Audio (Ramallah) (file)

Noun

خنزير • (ḵanzīr) m (plural خنازير‎ (ḵanāzīr))

pig
‏خنزير بري‎‎ ― ḵanzīr barri ― boar

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.