حُظ
ḥoẓ̂
basic morphological information

n. (m.)

luck
удача
حظ
CSOL III CSOL III
text examples

a. wa-tóˀo téte éngobk íľľiho ŝéṭaf wa-díˀʸho ḷe-ˀengéboʰ gedóḥoʰ kέḷˀeʰ ˁaf yáˁtšer wa-yɛˀɛtéˀen ŝéṭaf ẓ̂áḥyɛ wa-békyhɛr ˁámok ʸheʰ náˁaʰ ḥoẓ̂ mektéšɛb wa-ẓ̂eḷ ŝéṭaf ‘When they finished their work, I put my halved dates out to dry. But while they were drying a storm came, and the dates lumped together and stuck to each other, the raw ones and the ripe ones. I said: “What bad luck! These date-halves are spoiled”’ (CSOL III 12:9)

b. aḷ-déḥeẓ̂ mek ḥoẓ̂ ‘Your luck never lets you down!’ (CSOL III 16:90)

c. ˁemέreš áḷḷaʰ di-ḥoẓ̂ tóˀo ksö́weš beʸh ‘God blessed you by having you beside him (at that moment!)’ (CSOL III 8:19)

semantic notes

di-ḥoẓ̂ ‘lucky’: example c.

etymology

Borrowed from Arabic (Wehr 218)