Words

v. n. ḥíṣiḳ/ḥéṣiḳ ‘spinning, twisting’: wa-ṭad ŝáˁfɛr ˁáŝer éḳḥa wa-dɛg ṭa wa-ḷaṭ neḥaṣáḳʸhi ḷe-ṭahedédši wa-ḷaḷ yetetóˀo be-ḥéṣiḳ yóuṣaḷ déʸhi wa-ṭánˀeʰ ˁaf ľákɛn ḳayd ‘One plait would contain ten threads, and another one less than that. Then we plait them together. When their plaiting is finished, we add further threads to them until it becomes a rope’ (Naumkin et al. 2022:276)

pass. ḥíṣaḳ (yeḥóuṣaḳ/ľiḥṣóḳ)

ḥéṣaḳ men gedíd ‘to start anew’: ḳáre ˁag sóraʰ tóˀo éraḥ mes faḳḥ ˁéḷaṭ wa-ḥéṣaḳ men gedíd ‘A man was reading aloud a sura from the Koran. When he got to the middle, he made a mistake and turned back to the beginning’ (CSOL II 24:12)

Another derivate from the same Arabic root is ḥásanaʰ ‘good deed’: di-gédaḥ be-ṭeʸh ḥásanaʰ yóuṣaḷ heʸh ˁáŝer ḥasanát ‘for one who performs one good deed, ten more will be bestowed on him’ (ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:83)