ن خ و

Arabic

Etymology

The Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou suggests variation from ن خ ع (n-ḵ-ʕ) related to “spitting”, known as an irreverent gesture in antiquity.

Root

ن خ و • (n-ḵ-w)

1. related to pride

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: نَخَا (naḵā, “to be prideful or haughty; to praise”)
  • Active participle: نَاخٍ (nāḵin)
  • Passive participle: مَنْخُوّ (manḵuww)
• Form I: نَخِيَ (naḵiya, “to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: نَخْوَة (naḵwa)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: نَخَّى (naḵḵā, “to fill with courage”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْخِيَة (tanḵiya)
  • Active participle: مُنَخٍّ (munaḵḵin)
  • Passive participle: مُنَخًّى (munaḵḵan)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَخَى (intaḵā, “(with على) to be prideful or haughty with someone”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِخَاء (intiḵāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَخٍ (muntaḵin)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَخًى (muntaḵan)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْخَى (istanḵā, “to fill with courage”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْخَاء (istinḵāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْخٍ (mustanḵin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْخًى (mustanḵan)

Nouns and adjectives

• نَخْوَة f (naḵwa, “pride, haughtiness, nobility”)

References

• Corriente, Federico (2005) “ن خ و”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1152
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1250–1251
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن خ و”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1223
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن خ و”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 1109