Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic

Kaye, Alan S.; Piamenta, Moshe

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“…At the same time, in Yemeni Arabic, we find miqrāʿ (pl. maqāriʿ ), meaning ‘one of several smooth stones laid under a pot on fire to raise it and ventilate the fire’ and qurāʿ ‘breakfast’ (Piamenta, 1990–1991, p. 394).…”

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“…Compare also Yemeni ḥumayš ‘complete, perfect’ (Piamenta, 1990–1991, p. 107) with Geʿez ʾagmara ‘complete’ and Arabic jamr ‘charcoal for cookin’ (see above).…”

Section: Yemeni Terms For Tribal Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yemeni qirdāʿ ‘to heap, to pile up’ is probably a cognate with Geʿez qardu ‘hill’ (Leslau, 1991, p. 440; Piamenta, 1990–1991, p. 394). The fact that a traveller who built a little heap of stones in front of people laid an obligation on them to feed him suggests that he came to be under their protection; thus, the phrase ʾanā qardaʿt is synonymous with ʾanā waṯṯant .…”

Section: Yemeni Terms For Tribal Protectionmentioning

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Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes

Atbuosh

2022

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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This paper reflects on some Arabic terms, previously noted by scholars, of small‐scale monument types, which have a symbolic and semantic conflation of ‘cooking fire’ and ‘permanent occupation’, such as raḍfa, jamara, ʾaṯfiya and rabaʿa. The paper discusses more terms that confirm this conflation and widen it to include the concept of tribal protection, as a parallel with the pre‐Islamic practice of the ‘fire of alliance’, described by classical Muslim writers and alluded to in Ancient South Arabian inscriptions. The association of fire terminology with tribal protection concepts appears to be related to the idea of food‐sharing alliances.

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Section: Yemeni Terms For Tribal Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compare also Yemeni ḥumayš ‘complete, perfect’ (Piamenta, 1990–1991, p. 107) with Geʿez ʾagmara ‘complete’ and Arabic jamr ‘charcoal for cookin’ (see above).…”

Section: Yemeni Terms For Tribal Protectionmentioning

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Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes

Atbuosh

2022

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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“…For the latter assumption, one might refer to Arabic talla “to pour”, tilla “moisture” (Lane, 1863–1893: 310–311). Derivatives of a root TLL like tilāl or tillāl meaning “foam, slobber” in Yemeni Arabic (Piamenta, 1990: 52) could even indicate an attribute like “sparkling” to the preceding “wine”, which sounds at least tempting from a modern perspective. The last word remains obscure, as apart from the first letter, the reading is not certain (a combination ḥʾ x or perhaps ḥk x seems also imaginable), and it is not even clear whether the text is complete to the left.…”

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“…Referring to the parallel from TA 12943 quoted below, one is tempted to propose an adjective ḥdṯ “new” here, but this is hardly supported by the characters in question. If our reading of the last letter as f is correct, one might think of a derivative of the root ḤNF in a sense of “flattering” (thus attested in Aramaic and Yemeni Jewish Arabic; see Jastrow, 1926: 484–485, and Piamenta, 1990: 111, respectively), likewise relating to a certain characteristic of the wine. In default of any parallel, however, this remains pure speculation.…”

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Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia

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Garnier

Stein

2021

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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Two amphoras found at burials outside the ancient city of Thāj, Saudi Arabia, bear inscriptions mentioning wine. The chemical analysis of the content of one of them confirms the presence of wine and more precisely as red wine. Contextual information from one of the graves suggests that wine was consumed as part of burial rituals. One inscription is in Aramaic and the other is in South Arabian cursive or zabūr—in fact the first attestation for this particular script in the core region of the so‐called Hasaitic writing culture. Complementing the recent discoveries of zabūr inscriptions from Mleiha (Sharjah, UAE), this inscription buttresses our idea of the emergence of writing in East Arabia in the Hellenistic period.

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The Directionality of Emphasis Spread in Arabic

Watson

1999

Linguistic Inquiry

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Many modern Arabic dialects exhibit asymmetries in the direction of emphasis (for most dialects, pharyngealization) spread. In a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, emphasis has two articulatory correlates, pharyngealization and labialization: within the phonological word, pharyngealization spreads predominantly leftward, and labialization spreads rightward, targeting short high vowels. Since asymmetries in the directionality of spread of a secondary feature are phonetically motivated and depend on whether the feature is anchored to the onset or the release phase of the primary articulation, it is argued that the unmarked directionality of spread should be encoded in the phonology as a markedness statement on that feature. This article considers phonological emphasis in Arabic. It is divided into two parts. I first discuss an article by Davis (1995) on asymmetries in emphasis spread (spread of [RTR]) in two dialects of Palestinian Arabic, and argue for the significance of directionality in emphasis spread. I then present further supporting arguments for a hypothesis regarding directionality of spread by considering data from S . an»ānī, a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, in which emphasis has two articulatory correlates, pharyngealization and labialization, and by discussing the asymmetries in the directionality of spread, particularly of labialization, in this dialect. Emphasis Spread and Grounded PhonologyIn an article on emphasis spread in two modern Palestinian dialects of Arabic, Davis (1995) adopts Grounded Phonology (Archangeli and Pulleyblank 1994) to account for sets of opaque Thanks to Barry Heselwood for spectrographic analysis of my data and for reading and commenting on various drafts of this article; to James Dickins; to Judith Broadbent; and to S. J. Hannahs, Mike Davenport, Phil Carr, and other members of the Phonology Reading Group at Durham University for providing critical comments on earlier versions. Thanks also to two anonymous reviewers for LI.

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Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic

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Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes

Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes

Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia

The Directionality of Emphasis Spread in Arabic

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