The Body Parts of the Horse in the Arabic Dialects of North Arabia and Egypt

This article investigates those terminological collections from the 19th-20th century which contain among others expressions about the body parts of the horse. From among these works four relevant collections were selected: the vocabularies by W. Rzewuski, A. Musil, C. R. Raswan, and J. C. Watson. The first three collected data among the ʿAnaza, the powerful confederation of tribes in the north of the Arabian peninsula, and primarily from the members of their largest tribe, the camel- and horse-herding Ruwala. Their vocabularies will be compared on the one hand to the classical terminology related to the body parts of the horse and on the other hand to the words collected by J. C. Watson in Egypt.