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Soqotri Lexicon
دِقاڛٞن
di-ḳáŝen (pl. iľ-ḳíŝon)
text examples
wa-ľikán ˁag deʰ di-gédaḥ men rénhem diyáˁ wa-di-ḳáŝen ‘But that man who came from the continent was mean and prone to stealing’ (CSOL I 15:3)
root
etymology
On the semantic shift ‘forest’ - ‘thief’ cp. Amh. dur ‘wood, forest’ - dureyye ‘hoodlum, hooligan’ (Kane 1732)
continental MSA
- Mhr. ḳəŝnīt wood, forest