قمز

Unknown. Possibilities:

• From Arabic قَفَزَ (qafaza, “to jump”), with a sporadic sound shift similar to Maltese qabeż.
• From Arabic قَمَصَ (qamaṣa, “to rear one's legs; to saunter”), with ص (ṣ) > ز (z) as in Arabic لَزِقَ (laziqa, “to stick”), بَزَقَ (bazaqa, “to spit”) or newer North Levantine Arabic زَقَّف (zaʔʔaf, “to clap”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.maz/, (Druze, coastal Syria) /ˈqa.maz/

قَمَز • (ʔamaz) I

1. to jump

• أَنِيس خُورِي فْرَيْحَة [ʔanīs ḵūrī frayḥa, Anis Khuri Frayha, Anis Freiha] (1947), “قمز”, 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]‎^[1] (overall work in Arabic), American University of Beirut, →OCLC, ق, page 144b: “قَمَز الولدُ: قفز ووثب. ― ʔamaz al-waladu: qafaza wa waṯaba. ― قَمَز (ʔamaz): (of a child) to jump, hop.”

Form II intensive of the above.

• IPA^(key): /ʔam.maz/, (Druze, coastal Syria) /qam.maz/

قَمَّز • (ʔammaz) II (non-past يقمز (yʔammiz), active participle مقمِّز (mʔammiz) or مقمَّز (mʔammaz))

1. to skip over [transitive or with عن ‘over’]

   Synonym: قفى (ʔaffa)