*sʕṭ: 'sweet odour; scented oil; to perfume, season with spices'

Root

FieldValue
Reconstruction*sʕṭ
Meaning'sweet odour; scented oil; to perfume, season with spices'
Basisproject

Reflexes

LanguageFormSourcesNote
Geezṣaʿaṭa (Y.M) ṣəʿṭa (yəṣʿaṭ), (T) ḍəʿṭa; ṣəʿuṭ; ṣəʿiṭ (LGz. 544)T; LGz. 544gloss withheld
Arabicsaʿīṭ 'sweet or pleasant odour, of wine and the like, or of anything; sharpness, pungency of odour', also 'the oil of the ben; the oil of mustard; the oil of jasmine'; suʿāṭ 'pungency of odour'; suʿāṭ al-misk 'the odour of musk' (Lane 1364)Lane 1364

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Notes

LGz. 544 derives Geez ṣ from s by assimilation to the glottalized ṭ and finds the same in Arabic ṣaʿaṭa: Lane 1690 gives ṣaʿaṭa as a dialectal variant of saʿaṭa 'pour medicine into the nose', Lane 1364 ṣaʿūṭ beside saʿūṭ 'errhine', which ISd takes as assimilation (as ṣirāṭ for sirāṭ), and BK 1 1339 refers ṣʿṭ to sʿṭ.

Updated 28 October 2026

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