إختيار

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār, “selection, choice”), but resolved the initial sequence similarly to words like إسم (ʔism, “name”) (from Arabic اِسْم (ism)) rather than as in خِتْيَار (ḵityār).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔixt.ˈjaːr/

Noun

إختيار • (ʔiḵtyār) m (feminine إختيارة (ʔiḵtyāra) or (archaic) عجوز (ʕajūz), plural إختياريّة (ʔiḵtyāriyye) or (feminine, archaic) عجايز (ʕajāyiz))

  1. alternative form of ختيار (xityār, “old man”)

References

  • أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [ʔanīs ḵūrī frayḥa, Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (1947) “إختيار”, in مُعْجَمُ الأَلْفَاظِ العَامِّيَّةِ فِي اللَّهْجَةِ اللُّبْنَانِيَّة [muʕjamu l-ʔalfāẓi l-ʕāmmiyyati fī l-lahjati l-lubnāniyya, A dictionary of non-classical vocables in the spoken Arabic of Lebanon]‎[1], American University of Beirut, →OCLC, page 1b
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