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صفحة: XII
dialect , for instance , in Southern Arabia , where the denotations of the root › wr [ strikingly range over both light and dark semantic values . ~ Yemen ›› r ‘ purity’ | ›› ri ‘ of fair complexion’ | ›› r ‘ indigo of Yemen’ | › uw › r ‘ indigo used for dyeing black clothes’ | › awwar ‘ dye with indigo’ ( Piamenta 1990 : 112 ) . || Mehri ›› wer ‘ noir ’ ( Landberg 510 ) [ These data invite interpretation in the light of MacLaury’s aforementioned 1992 seminal paper postulating a shift from brightness to hue in the evolution of color systems . Significantly , several Arabic dialects exemplified in fig . 1—for instance , Palestinian—retain highly archaic residual categorizations of brightness & whiteness such as the term › awar & › uwar ‘ Kalkstein ( mehlig , gelblich- weiss ); gelb , rot ( Leder ) ’ ( Bauer 1957 : 169 , 191 , 253 ) , denoting a light-warm category as at Stage I in the B & K sequence . MacLaury ( 1997 : 53-54 ) has pertinently noted that a brightness category is not “ constrained by universal hue perception of fixed elemental points” and can therefore fluctuate more widely than a hue category . ] x-b-r Sinai Beduin xibra , pl xab › riy ‘ an area inhabited by Beduin’ ( Bailey 1991 : 435 ) ~ Dath › na xab › r ‘ compagnon de route’ ( Landberg I , 551 ) ~ Daw › sir ( Najd ) xubra ‘ group , one’s own group ’ ( Kurpershoek 1999 : 351 ) ~ Yemen xab › r , pl xubr ‘ comrade , companion’ ( Piamenta I , 119 ) , xab › rin / xab › r / xubrah / xubr › ‘ Freund’ ( Behnstedt 1987 : 247 ) ~ Rwala beduin xabra › , pl xab › ri ‘ a large or small depression in a plain where rain water gathers and camels are watered ’ ( Musil 1928 : 340 , 584 ) ~ Lebanon tx › bar ‘ s’associer’ ( Landberg 549 ) || Classical Ar xubrah ‘ sheep bought for being slaughtered ( Hava 155 ) || Syriac › abr › ‘ socius’ ( Brockelmann 1928 : 212 ) , e ›› abbar ‘ be intimate , be a companion , ally oneself with’ ( J . Payne Smith 1903125 ) || Hebrew ›› b › r ‘ associate , friend ’ ( M . Jastrow 1903 : 421 ) . x- › -r Rwala beduin mux › ar ‘ iron rod holding the wooden roller of a water hoist’ ( Musil 1928 : 339 ) ~ Malta ‹› atar › ‘ cudgel’ || Syriac › u › r › ‘ virga , baculus’ ( Brockelmann 1928 : 228 ) || Jewish Aram › u › r › , Assyrian xu › aru & xu › artu ‘ Stab , Szepter’ ( Gesenius & Buhl 1915 : 225 ) . x-l-f Negev Beduin › ax › af , yixlif ‘ change’ : › axlaf al- › i › wih & al-m ››› d ‘ He changed his shoes & the time of an appointment . ’
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