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إِرْهَز

írhɛz

basic morphological information

n. (m.)

rice
рис
أرز

LS 73; CSOL I 476; CSOL II 392; Naumkin et al. 2015a:57

text examples

a. wa-rʸaḥ héʸhen írhɛz wa-tɛʰ di-ˁífef ‘Rice and lamb meat was brought to them’ (CSOL I 17:42)

b. aˁšéroʰ hes šᵉer be-ˀírhɛz wa-ˁeméroʰ hes tenogíľin kúľľeʰ ṭad ḥŝeʸh írhɛz ḥŝey wa-šᵉer ḥŝeʸh ‘She mixed barley with rice, then said to her: “Separate the rice from the barley” (CSOL II 20:13)

root

ˀrz

etymology

Side by side with Mhr. yerēz ‘rice’ and Jib. irɔ́z ‘rice’, an early borrowing from Arb. ˀaruzz-. For the Greek (and, eventually, Iranian) etymon of the Arabic word see Frisk 429.