نوتي

Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναύτης (naútēs, seaman) and ναυτίλος (nautílos, seaman; nautilus mollusc), possibly via Aramaic, compare the Aramaic borrowings with this ending نُمِّيّ (nummiyy) and سَكِّيّ (sakkiyy) or دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though seemingly an old loanword.

Noun

نُوتِيّ or نَوْتِيّ • (nūtiyy or nawtiyy) m (plural نَوَاتِيّ (nawātiyy) or نُوتِيَّة (nūtiyya) or نَوْتِيَّة (nawtiyya))

  1. seaman, mariner, sailor
    Synonym: مَلَّاح (mallāḥ)
  2. nautilus, a marine mollusc of a spiral shell

Declension

Descendants

  • Ge'ez: ኖትያዊ (notəyawi)

References

  • nwṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نوتي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 733
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 221
  • Garosi, Eugenio (2022 December 1) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 417
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 408
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “نوتي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2863
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 61
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