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خفقان: Arabic → Persian · Lexodus

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خفقان

"Palpitation" is from Arabic خَفَقَان (ḵafaqān). The more current "choking" senses are due to influence from خفه (xafe, “choked, stifled”), a native root.

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: خفقان (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 900 CE

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.