طوج

Andalusian Arabic

Etymology

From Paleo-Hispanic, whence also a local Late Latin *taucia which is preserved in Catalan tossa (“bulk, volume; hillock”), Aragonese toza (“matorral”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤawd͡ʒ/, /tˤawt͡ʃ/

Noun

طَوْج (ṭawj) m (singulative طَوْجَة (ṭawja))

  1. esparto (Lygeum spartum)

Derived terms

  • طَوّاج (ṭawwāj, “esparto trader”)
  • طُوجَار (ṭūjār), أَطُوجَار (ʔaṭūjār, “field covered with esparto”)
  • طَوْجُول (ṭawjūl, “a kind of arrow”)

Descendants

  • → Spanish: atocha

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 828
  • Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 536
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