حظي

See also: خطي, حطي, خطئ, خطى, and حظى

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ح ظ و (ḥ-ẓ-w). Per Wehr, also from the root ح ظ ي (ḥ-ẓ-y).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.ðˤi.ja/

Verb

حَظِيَ • (ḥaẓiya) I, non-past يَحْظَى‎ (yaḥẓā)

  1. to enjoy, to be in the good graces of (عندـ)
  2. to acquire, obtain, attain (بِـ (bi-))
    • Louisa Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 1, Arabic translation "Dar wa Maktabat al-Hilal, Lebanon":
      لَا أَظُنُّ أَنَّ مِنَ َلْعَدْل أَن يَحْظَى بَعْض اَلنَّاس بِأَشْيَاء رَائِعَة وَجَدِيدَة بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ لَا.
      lā ʾaẓunnu ʾan min al-ʿadl ʾan yaḥẓā baʿḍ an-nās bi-ʾašyāʾ rāʾiʿa wa-jadīda baynamā naḥnu lā.
      I don't think it's fair that some people have wonderful and new things while we don't.

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “حظي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 398–399
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “حظي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 596–597
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “حظي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 219
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