حانوت

Arabic

Alternative forms

حَانُوَة (ḥānuwa), حَانَاة (ḥānāh) — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic חָנוּתָא / ܚܳܢܽܘܬܴܐ (ḥānūṯā), as also Ge'ez ሐኖት, ሓኖት (ḥänot, ḥanot) and Hebrew חָנוּת (ḥānūṯ). Compare Armenian խանութ (xanutʻ) (shop, store).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ħaː.nuːt/ (singular)
IPA^(key): /ħa.waː.niːt/ (plural)

Noun

حَانُوت • (ḥānūt) m (plural حَوَانِيت (ḥawānīt))

tavern, pub
Synonym: خَمَّارَة (ḵammāra)
shop, store
Synonyms: دُكَّان (dukkān), مَتْجَر (matjar)
(archaeology, Algeria, Tunisia) sepulchral chamber in a rock mass, hypogeum

Declension

Declension of noun **حَانُوت** (ḥānūt)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	حَانُوت ḥānūt	الْحَانُوت al-ḥānūt	حَانُوت ḥānūt
nominative	حَانُوتٌ ḥānūtun	الْحَانُوتُ al-ḥānūtu	حَانُوتُ ḥānūtu
accusative	حَانُوتًا ḥānūtan	الْحَانُوتَ al-ḥānūta	حَانُوتَ ḥānūta
genitive	حَانُوتٍ ḥānūtin	الْحَانُوتِ al-ḥānūti	حَانُوتِ ḥānūti
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	حَانُوتَيْن ḥānūtayn	الْحَانُوتَيْن al-ḥānūtayn	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
nominative	حَانُوتَانِ ḥānūtāni	الْحَانُوتَانِ al-ḥānūtāni	حَانُوتَا ḥānūtā
accusative	حَانُوتَيْنِ ḥānūtayni	الْحَانُوتَيْنِ al-ḥānūtayni	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
genitive	حَانُوتَيْنِ ḥānūtayni	الْحَانُوتَيْنِ al-ḥānūtayni	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
plural	basic broken plural diptote
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	حَوَانِيت ḥawānīt	الْحَوَانِيت al-ḥawānīt	حَوَانِيت ḥawānīt
nominative	حَوَانِيتُ ḥawānītu	الْحَوَانِيتُ al-ḥawānītu	حَوَانِيتُ ḥawānītu
accusative	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta	الْحَوَانِيتَ al-ḥawānīta	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta
genitive	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta	الْحَوَانِيتِ al-ḥawānīti	حَوَانِيتِ ḥawānīti

Descendants

Maltese: ħanut
→ French: hanout
→ Italian: canova
⇒ Byzantine Greek: χανουτέριος (khanoutérios, “wine-seller”) (Sicily)

References

Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 172
Freytag, Georg (1830) “حانوت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 433
Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حانوت”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 501
Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 365–366
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Sperber, Daniel (1970) “On Pubs and Policemen in Roman Palestine”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[4] (in German), volume 120, page 262
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