إختيار

Inherited from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār, “selection, choice”), but resolved the initial sequence similarly to words like إسم (ʔism, “name”) (from Arabic اِسْم (ism)) rather than as in خِتْيَار (ḵityār).

• IPA^(key): /ʔixt.ˈjaːr/

إِخْتْيَار • (ʔiḵtyār) m (feminine إختيارة (ʔiḵtyāra) or (dated) عجوز (ʕajūz), plural إختياريّة (ʔiḵtyāriyye) or (feminine, dated) عجايز (ʕajāyiz))

1. alternative form of ختيار (xityār, “old man”)
   • 2000 June 24, 35:53 from the start, in لُبْنَانُ الذَّاكِرَةِ وَٱليَوْم [lubnānu ḏ-ḏākirati wal-yawm, The Lebanon of Memory and of Today]‎^[1], spoken by سَلَام اَلرَّاسِي [salām ar-rāsī, Salam al-Rassi]:

     يِمْكِن عِشْرِين إِخْتْيَار بِبَيْرُوت، وعَجُوز كمان، بْيِحْكُولِي عَن الجِنّ

     yemkin ʕešrīn ʔəḵtyār bi bayrūt, w ʕajūz kamēn, byeḥkūli ʕan l-jenn. w ḡayr l-jenn!

     There are maybe twenty elderly men in Beirut, and elderly women too, who can tell me stories about djinns. And [even] things other than djinns!

• أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [ʔanīs ḵūrī frayḥa, Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (1947), “إختيار”, in مُعْجَمُ الأَلْفَاظِ العَامِّيَّةِ فِي اللَّهْجَةِ اللُّبْنَانِيَّة [muʕjamu l-ʔalfāẓi l-ʕāmmiyya(ti) fī l-lahjati l-lubnāniyya, A dictionary of non-classical vocables in the spoken Arabic of Lebanon]‎^[2] (overall work in Arabic), American University of Beirut, →OCLC, page 1b

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār). Doublet of the above.

• اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār /⁠ʔiḵtiyār⁠/) (alternative spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ʔix.ti.ˈjaːr/

إِخْتِيَار • (ʔiḵtiyār) m (plural إخْتِيَارَات (ʔiḵtiyārāt))

1. verbal noun of اختار (ḵtār, “to choose”)
2. choice

   Near-synonym: خَيَار (ḵayār)