حانوت

Arabic

Alternative forms

• حَانُوَة (ḥānuwa), حَانَاة (ḥānāh) — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic חָנוּתָא / ܚܳܢܽܘܬܴܐ (ḥānūṯā), as also Ge'ez ሐኖት, ሓኖት (ḥänot, ḥanot) and Hebrew חָנוּת (ḥānūṯ). Compare Armenian խանութ (xanutʻ) (shop, store).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.nuːt/ (singular)
• IPA^(key): /ħa.waː.niːt/ (plural)

Noun

حَانُوت • (ḥānūt) m (plural حَوَانِيت (ḥawānīt))

1. tavern, pub

   Synonym: خَمَّارَة (ḵammāra)

2. shop, store

   Synonyms: دُكَّان (dukkān), مَتْجَر (matjar)

3. (archaeology, Algeria, Tunisia) sepulchral chamber in a rock mass, hypogeum

Declension

Declension of noun حَانُوت (ḥānūt)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَانُوت ḥānūt	الْحَانُوت al-ḥānūt	حَانُوت ḥānūt
Nominative	حَانُوتٌ ḥānūtun	الْحَانُوتُ al-ḥānūtu	حَانُوتُ ḥānūtu
Accusative	حَانُوتًا ḥānūtan	الْحَانُوتَ al-ḥānūta	حَانُوتَ ḥānūta
Genitive	حَانُوتٍ ḥānūtin	الْحَانُوتِ al-ḥānūti	حَانُوتِ ḥānūti
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَانُوتَيْن ḥānūtayn	الْحَانُوتَيْن al-ḥānūtayn	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
Nominative	حَانُوتَانِ ḥānūtāni	الْحَانُوتَانِ al-ḥānūtāni	حَانُوتَا ḥānūtā
Accusative	حَانُوتَيْنِ ḥānūtayni	الْحَانُوتَيْنِ al-ḥānūtayni	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
Genitive	حَانُوتَيْنِ ḥānūtayni	الْحَانُوتَيْنِ al-ḥānūtayni	حَانُوتَيْ ḥānūtay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَوَانِيت ḥawānīt	الْحَوَانِيت al-ḥawānīt	حَوَانِيت ḥawānīt
Nominative	حَوَانِيتُ ḥawānītu	الْحَوَانِيتُ al-ḥawānītu	حَوَانِيتُ ḥawānītu
Accusative	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta	الْحَوَانِيتَ al-ḥawānīta	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta
Genitive	حَوَانِيتَ ḥawānīta	الْحَوَانِيتِ al-ḥawānīti	حَوَانِيتِ ḥawānīti

Descendants

• Maltese: ħanut
• → French: hanout
• → Italian: canova
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek: χανουτέριος (khanoutérios, “wine-seller”) (Sicily)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 172
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حانوت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 433
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حانوت”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 501
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 365–366
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• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 238
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[4] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 45
• Sperber, Daniel (1970) “On Pubs and Policemen in Roman Palestine”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[5], volume 120, page 262
• Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 56
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حانوت”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 222