Acknowledgments
Heartful thanks to Atiqa Hachimi for giving me a crash course in Arabic transliteration and to Wael El-Dakhakhni for his painstaking Arabic support. Thanks also to Diana Barrero, Fiona Purton, Neil Ramjewan, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández for their thoughtful comments that helped clarify and sharpen the piece.
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Notes
1 For a graphic and profound understanding on Arabic triconsonantal roots, particularly of the body, see the illustrated book: White (2020).