Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:42:02 EDT David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
writes:
> almaaghrab  (="the west", the Arabic name of Morrocco, since it's on
> the west
> coast of Africa)
> gharab (="evening", since the sun sets in the west, so when it's
> over there,
> it's evening)
> ghurba (="the feeling of loneliness and otherness one gets in being
> in a country that isn't one's own",
>             you can kind of see this, since countries they invaded
> like Spain and such were to the     west...?)
> gharb (="crow".  Your guess is as good as mine.)
> -David
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I thought that it's almaghrab, with short /a/s..
But anyway, the Hebrew cognate of this root, /3RB/, has the basic meaning
of "mixing".  The west/evening is "mixing" because the sun sets, and the
colors of the sky mix around, and as it gets darker forms become less and
less distinct.  The root of "morning", /BQR/, by the way, means
"discernment/examination"


-Stephen (Steg)
 "barukh yotzereikh, barukh `oseikh, barukh qoneikh, barukh bor'eikh...
  hu yevareikh et yisrael meqaddesheikh!"