طحبش

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Either from طحش (ṭaḥaš, “to attack, to charge”) with an infixed ـبـ (-b-),[1] or from طبش (ṭabaš, “to slam”) with an infixed ـحـ (-ḥ-).[2] The ـبـ (-b-) infix would be as in شحبر (šaḥbar, “to blacken, stain with ink”)[1] from the root of شَحَّر (šaḥḥar, “to blacken”), and the ـحـ (-ḥ-) infix would be as in بحلق (baḥlaʔ, “to stare at, ogle”)[2] from the root of بَلْقَا (balʔa, “wide-open (eye)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤaħbaʃ/ [ˈtˤɑħ.bɑʃ]

Verb

طحبش • (ṭaḥbaš) Iq (non-past يطحبش (yṭaḥbiš), verbal noun طحبشة (ṭaḥbaše) or تطحبش (tṭiḥbuš) or طحبيش (ṭaḥbīš, ṭiḥbīš), active participle مطحبش (mṭaḥbaš, mṭaḥbiš))

  1. (transitive) to smash, break beyond repair
  2. (intransitive) to make a racket

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (August 1935), “طحبش”, in Quadriliterals from the dialect of Ras al-Matn (Lebanon) (Ph. D. Thesis), University of Chicago, Illinois, published 1938, →OCLC, Faʿbal, page 58
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (August 1935), “طحبش”, in Quadriliterals from the dialect of Ras al-Matn (Lebanon) (Ph. D. Thesis), University of Chicago, Illinois, published 1938, →OCLC, Faḥʿal, page 52
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