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حَصْحٞص
ḥáṣḥeṣ
text examples
a. yegóuraḥ deʸh máḥṣaṣ ˁaf taˁʸhέf meʸh ṣáḳareʰ kaḷ ḥáṣḥeṣ ‘One sweeps small pebbles unto it intill the dirt is not seen, only the pebbles’ (CSOL II 10:3)
b. déboḷk ḥáṣḥeṣ díˀʸho di-ḳáˁar wa-nógiľk meʸh óˀoben deš di-ˁeḳároʰ ˁaf yekέˀɛ ḥáṣḥeṣ deʰ ḳéyhɛn ‘I collected pebbles for home and then set the bigger ones apart so that only the little ones remained’ (CSOL II 20:13)
root
etymology
PWS *ḥVṣ-; *ḥVṣVṣ- pebble, gravel
continental MSA
- Mhr. ḥəṣṣáyt milk-heating stone: a stone put in the fire till it is hot and then put in milk to heat it