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سحَاط
sḥaṭ (yésḥaṭ/ľisḥáṭ)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. ˁemɛ́roʰ tésḥiṭ ḳáˁar tenófiˁ sḥáṭoʰ ˁážeʰ díˀseʰ ḳáˁar ‘She said (to the girl): “Sweep the house and prepare everything!” And she swept the house’ (CSOL I 1:59)
b. wa-tóˀo ˁatégḷoʰ sḥátoʰ di-ksóˀoʰ ḷe-fέne men térhi wa-ḳéŝeˁ ‘And as they (the two wadis) joined each other, they swept along everything they found in front of them, be it green or dry’ (Bulakh 2024:141)
root
derivates
- mósḥiṭ broom
etymology
Also in Jib. sḥaṭ ‘to brush the floor with the hand, to flick away sand, dust, dung’. Further etymology uncertain, cf. Kogan 2015:595.