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Ḥikāya
(12,086 words)
(a.), verbal noun of
ḥakā , originally meaning “to imitate”, but which, in consequence of a readily explained semantic evolution, came to acquire the meaning of “to tell, to narrate”; similarly the noun
ḥikāya , starting from the meaning of “imitation”, has come to mean more specifically “mimicry”, and finally “tale, narrative, story, legend”. In classical Arabic the intensive form
ḥākiya meant a “mimic” and modern Arabic has adopted the active participle
ḥāk in to translate “gramophone”. The radical
ḥ .
k. y./
w. is not represented in the Ḳuʾrān but it is found in
ḥadīt̲h̲ …
Ḥikāya
(11,632 words)
(a.), nom verbal de
ḥakā signifiant à l’origine «imiter», mais qui en est arrivé, par suite d’une évolution sémantique explicable, à acquérir le sens de «raconter, narrer»; parallèlement, le substantif
ḥikāya, à partir du sens d’«imitation», a pris celui, plus particulier, de «mimique», pour finalement signifier «conte», «récit», «histoire», «légende». En arabe classique, l’intensif
ḥākiya désignait un «mime», et l’arabe moderne a adopté le participe actif
ḥākin pour traduire «phonographe». Le radical
h.k.y./w. n’est pas représenté dans le Ḳurʾān, mais on le relève dans le
ḥadīt…
Source:
Encyclopédie de l’Islam