إرزيز

• IPA^(key): /ʔir.ziːz/

إِرْزِيز • (ʔirzīz) m

1. piercing, sticking, stabbing
2. hail or small hail like snow
   • a. 525, Aš-Šanfara, أقيموا بني أمي صدور مطيكم (first line)‎:

     وَلَيْلَةِ نَحْسٍ يَصْطَلِيَ القَوْسَ رَبُّهَا … وَأَقْطُعَهُ ٱللَّاتِي بِهَا يَتَنَبَّلُ
     دَعَسْتُ عَلَى غَطَشٍ وَبَغْشٍ وَصُحْبَتِي … سُعَارٌ وَإِرْزِيزٌ وَوَجْرٌ وَأَفْكُلُ

     wa-laylati naḥsin yaṣṭaliya l-qawsa rabbu-hā … wa-ʔaqṭuʕa-hū l-lātī bi-hā yatanabbalu
     daʕastu ʕalā ḡaṭašin wabaḡšin wa-ṣuḥbatī … suʕārun wa-ʔirzīzun wa-wajrun wa-ʔafkulu

     And the ill-fated night when the master warmed up his bow, … and his arrowtips, in the handling of which he had trow
     I trod upon darkness and rain-shower and my following … was the heat of night and snowy hail and timid gulps and shivering

Of onomatopoeic origin from a ringing telephone, as أَرَزَّ (ʔarazza, “to telephone”). Displaced by هَاتِف (hātif) and تِلِفُون (tilifūn).

إِرْزِيز • (ʔirzīz) m

1. (obsolete by the 1950s, Egypt) telephone