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In terse, clear archival mode: The phonetic resemblance between the Arabic ṣadaqa and the Dari ṣadqa is not accidental in the loose, historical sense, because both move through the same Indo-Iranian–Semitic trade, devotional, and household registers. But their semantic fields diverge. In Arabic, ṣadaqa is anchored in the triliteral root ṣ-d-q, whose core meaning is […]
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