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Jibbali
dít - medicine
(JL 43)
Unlike other MSA forms (like Mhr. adōwi ‘to give medicine’, JM 76) the Jib. term cannot be qualified as Arabism for certain, since there seems to be no derived form in -t in Arabic.
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PS
*dwy/ˀ
- to be ill, sick
(SED I No. 12ᵥ; HALOT 216; DRS 231)