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The squint-eyed (1)

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Anti-witchcraft and anti-curse magic
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
05.04.04 Anti-witchcraft and anti-curse magic
Mesopotamian loanwords in Mandaic
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.05 Mesopotamian loanwords
11.01.05.05.01 Mesopotamian loanwords in Aramaic
11.01.05.05.01.01 Mesopotamian loanwords in Mandaic

Keywords
Mandaic language
naming

Period
Sasanid Empire

Channel
Mandean culture

Text
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia 9:
In the Mandaic magical text “The scroll of the annihilation of the Eyes”, there occurs an expression aina zruqtia, which, according to the Mandean priests themselves refers to “eye that glances to and fro”. Since Mandean incantantations clearly preserve the terminology of Babylonian sorcery, it is certain that zruqtia derives from Babylonian zarāqu “to be cross-eyed” from which zāriqu means “the squint-eyed”. The Mandaic aina zruqtia so corresponds to the Babylonian expression ênāšu zarriqa “his eyes squint”.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia 9

Bibliography

Drower 1938, 19 (a note of S. Langdon)

Drower, Ethel Stefana. “S̱ẖafta ḏ Pis̱ẖra ḏ Ainia. A Mandaean Magical Text Translated and Transliterated. Part 2.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1938) 1-20.

Amar Annus

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