Arabic-L:LING:Phoenix response

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Date:  18 Oct 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Phoenix response

  FYI:  In his Qur'aan Commentary on Q2.7 [/xatama/],
al-Zamaxshari (died 1155 C.E.)(and al-BaiDaawi copies) notes that
if a person is absent for a long time, one says of him:

/?Taarat  bi-hi  l-9anqaa'u/ = "the Phoenix has flown off
with him", metaphorically.

                                           Mike Schub

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