خبيص
Arabic
Alternative forms
- خَبِيصَة (ḵabīṣa)
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic חַבִיצָא / חָבִיצָא (ḥābiṣā, ḥabiṣā) / ܚܒܺܝܨܳܐ (ḥəbīṣā), same dish, from חָבַצ (ḥābaṣ) / ܚܒܰܨ (ḥbaṣ, “to beat into a pulp, to press, to squeeze”).
Noun
خَبِيص • (ḵabīṣ) m
- a dish from flour and fat and dates or honey or the like for sweetening put together and fried for festive breakfast, khabees
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | خَبِيص ḵabīṣ |
الْخَبِيص al-ḵabīṣ |
خَبِيص ḵabīṣ |
| nominative | خَبِيصٌ ḵabīṣun |
الْخَبِيصُ al-ḵabīṣu |
خَبِيصُ ḵabīṣu |
| accusative | خَبِيصًا ḵabīṣan |
الْخَبِيصَ al-ḵabīṣa |
خَبِيصَ ḵabīṣa |
| genitive | خَبِيصٍ ḵabīṣin |
الْخَبِيصِ al-ḵabīṣi |
خَبِيصِ ḵabīṣi |
Derived terms
- خَبَصَ (ḵabaṣa, “to mix, to mingle”)
- خَبَّصَ (ḵabbaṣa, “to mix up, to jumble”)
- خَبَّاص (ḵabbāṣ, “one who jumbles things”)
- مِخْبَصَة (miḵbaṣa, “tool for mingling khabees”)
References
- “ḥbyṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “ḥbṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 36
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “خبيص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 457
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “خبيص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 697.
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “خبيص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 263
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خبيص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 319