إختيار

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

Inherited from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār, “selection, choice”), but resolved the initial sequence similarly to words like إسم (ʔism, “name”) (from Arabic اِسْم (ism)) rather than as in خِتْيَار (ḵityār).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔixt.ˈjaːr/

Noun

إِخْتْيَار • (ʔiḵtyār) m (feminine إختيارة (ʔiḵtyāra) or (archaic) عجوز (ʕajūz), plural إختياريّة (ʔiḵtyāriyye) or (feminine, archaic) عجايز (ʕajāyiz))

  1. alternative form of ختيار (xityār, “old man”)

References

  • أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [ʔanīs ḵūrī frayḥa, Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (1947), “إختيار”, in مُعْجَمُ الأَلْفَاظِ العَامِّيَّةِ فِي اللَّهْجَةِ اللُّبْنَانِيَّة [muʕjamu l-ʔalfāẓi l-ʕāmmiyyati fī l-lahjati l-lubnāniyya, A dictionary of non-classical vocables in the spoken Arabic of Lebanon]‎[1] (overall work in Arabic), American University of Beirut, →OCLC, page 1b


Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār). Doublet of the above.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔix.ti.ˈjaːr/

Noun

إِخْتِيَار • (ʔiḵtiyār) m (plural إخْتِيَارَات (ʔiḵtiyārāt))

  1. verbal noun of اختار (ḵtār, “to choose”)
  2. choice
    Near-synonym: خَيَار (ḵayār)
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