خنزير

An old borrowing of Aramaic חֲזִירָא (ḥăzīrā) / ܚܙܺܝܪܳܐ (ḥəzīrā), akin to Hebrew חֲזִיר (ḥăzīr) and Ugaritic 𐎃𐎐𐎇𐎗 (ḫnzr), and Akkadian 𒄷𒍣𒊏 (ḫuzīru) is a rare borrowing particular to Old Assyrian.

• IPA^(key): /xin.ziːr/
  • (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /χənˈziːr/

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خِنْزِير • (ḵinzīr) m (plural خَنَازِير (ḵanāzīr), feminine خِنْزِيرَة (ḵinzīra))

1. pig, swine, hog
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3:

     حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَيْتَةُ وَٱلدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ ٱلْخِنزِيرِ […]

     ḥurrimat ʕalay-kumu l-maytatu wa-d-damu wa-laḥmu l-ḵinzīri […]

     Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, and pork  […]

2. (derogatory) pig, despicable, disgusting person
3. (derogatory) porky, pig, state henchman
   • 2000, ar:فاضل العزاوي, القلعة الخامسة, Cologne: منشورات الجمل, page 86:

     وفي الليالي إذ كنا نجوع كان حسين يتسلل الى غرفتهم بخفة القط ويسرق مختلف الأطعمة الشهية. معلبات وحليب وجبنة وفواكه كنا نوزعها على فقراء المعتقل الآخرين، قائلين:
     ―كلوا، إنها من غرفة الخنازير.

     In nights when we were hungry Hussayn sneaked into their room in cat’s stealth and stole diverse desirable foodstuff. Canned food and milk and cheese and fruits we shared amongst the other poor inmates, saying:
     Eat, it’s from the pig’s room.

• خَنَازِيرِيّ (ḵanāzīriyy, “scrofulous”)
• خِنْزِير بَرِّيّ (ḵinzīr barriyy, “boar”)
• بَصَل الْخِنْزِير (baṣal al-ḵinzīr, “sea onion”)
• عُشْبَة الْخِنْزِير (ʕušba al-ḵinzīr, “hogweed”)

• Maltese: ħanżir
• Moroccan Arabic: خنزير (ḵanzīr)
• → Chinese: 恨賊勒 / 恨贼勒 (hènzéilè)
• → Ge'ez: ኀንዚር (ḫänzir), ሕንዚር (ḥənzir), ሐንዚር (ḥänzir), ሐንዘር (ḥänzär)
• → Hausa: alhanzir (“warthog”)
• → Mehri: ḫənzir
• → Malay: khinzir
• → Shehri: ḫanzír
• → Sicilian: canzirru
• → Swahili: hanziri
• → Ottoman Turkish: خنزیر (hınzır)
  • Turkish: hınzır
  • → Georgian: ხინძირი (xinʒiri) — Chveneburi
  • → Laz: ხინძირი (xinżiri, “piggishness, filthiness”)
  • → Mingrelian: ხინძირი (xinʒiri, “filthy, dirty”)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 110–111
• Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 24
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 126
• Landsberger, Benno (1934) Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie ḪAR-RA = ḫubullu (Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; XLII. Nr. VI)‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Salomon Hirzel, page 101
• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 149–152 Nr. 111
• Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 183
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 50

From Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /xinze(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /xinzɪ(r)/
• Rhymes: -ze(r), -e(r)

خنزير (plural خنزير-خنزير or خنزير٢)

1. Jawi spelling of khinzir.‎

   Synonym: بابي (babi)

From Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr).

• IPA^(key): /xan.ziːr/

خنزير • (ḵanzīr) m (plural خنازر (ḵnāzir), feminine خنزيرة (ḵanzīra))

1. pig

   Synonym: حلوف (ḥallūf)

From Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr).

• IPA^(key): /xan.ziːr/, [xanˈziːr]

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خنزير • (ḵanzīr) m (plural خنازير (ḵanāzīr))

1. pig

   خنزير بري ― ḵanzīr barri ― boar