صومعة

Arabic

Etymology

From an unknown Old South Arabian word, from which also Ge'ez ጾማዕት (ṣomaʿt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaw.ma.ʕa/

Noun

صَوْمَعَة • (ṣawmaʕa) f (plural صَوَامِع (ṣawāmiʕ))

  1. tower, minaret
    Synonyms: مِئْذَنَة (miʔḏana), مَنَارَة (manāra)
  2. a monk’s cell or a hermit’s hut; monastic cell, hermitage
    Synonyms: كِرْح (kirḥ), قَلَّايَة (qallāya)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:40:
      وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَّصَلَوَاتٌ وَّمَسٰجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا ٱسْمُ ٱللهِ كَثِيرًا
      walawlā dafʕu llāhi n-nāsa baʕḍahum bibaʕḍin llahuddimat ṣawāmiʕu wabiyaʕun wwaṣalawātun wwamasājidu yuḏkaru fīhā smu llāhi kaṯīran
      And were it not that God checks some people by others there in fact would have been demolished churches and monastic cells, and synagogues and mosques wherein the name of God is oft-mentioned.
  3. cellar, den; silo
    Synonym: قَبْو (qabw)
    Hyponyms: سِرْدَاب (sirdāb), بَدْرُوم (badrūm), مَطْمُورة (maṭmūra)

Declension

References

  • Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 84, page 23
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 269
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 200–201
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 557
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 52
  • Rudolph, Wilhelm (1922) Die Abhängigkeit des Qorans von Judentum und Christentum (in German), Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, page 7
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صومعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 727
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.