Candle

🏷  Semitic fake job hidden ruler pun spook name · symbol   —   by Gerry · Jul 2020 · 126 words

Candle symbolism, plus the spook name Chandler, may be a translation pun, using the fact that in Arabic & Persian, “candle” puns with “playing” & “joking”, i.e. mockery. The spelling is equivalent to Hebrew Shema and the Biblical name Simeon, so both meanings must have existed in Phoenician times already.

Arabic, Persian šmˁ = wax, candle, chandler, play, joke

شَمَعَ šmˁ šamaˁa : to play, to sport, to game; to joke or jest; to be mirthful, to laugh — Arabic (Wikt)

شمع šmˁ shamʻ : playing, jesting; wax; a wax-candle, taper; any candle; a lamp — Persian (Steingass)

شموع šmwˁ shamūʻ : frolicsome, jesting; playing, joking, being frolicsome; candles, wax-lights — Persian (Steingass)

شَمَّعَ šmˁ šammaˁa : to wax, to rub or smear with wax — Arabic (Wikt)

شَمَّاع šmˀˁ šammāˁ : chandler — Arabic (Wikt)

🏷  Semitic fake job hidden ruler pun spook name · symbol