bird
→
to tell a person's fortune
2 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Classical Arabic | |
| language 2 | Geez | |
| lexeme 1 | ṭāˀir- | |
| lexeme 2 | taṭayyara | |
| meaning 1 | a flying thing (bird, or insect) | huwa sākin-u ṭ-ṭāˀir-i He is grave, staid, sedate, or motionless (so that if a bird alighted upon him, it would be still; for if a bird alight upon a man, and he move in the least, the bird flies away). |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to divine by observing the flight of birds (LGz. 600; cf. also LLA 1245) | |
| reference | SED II: No. 235 Lane: 1903-1905 | |
| comment | For these two meanings in other Semitic cognates see SED II No. 235. Arb. ṭāˀir- also signifies a thing from which one augurs either good or evil; an omen, a bodement, of good, or of evil [Lane 1904]. |
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