برغش

Arabic

Etymology

You can help Wiktionary by providing a proper etymology. Compare بَرْغَز (barḡaz, young of a cow), بُرْعُم (burʿum, scion), بَزْر (bazr, seed).

Noun

بَرْغَش (barḡaš) m (collective, singulative بَرْغَشَة (barḡaša))

  1. any Nematocera insect: crane flies, gnats, mosquitoes
    Synonyms: بَعُوض (baʿūḍ), بَقّ (baqq) (Iraq), قِرْقِس (qirqis) (Syria), جِرْجِس (jirjis) (Syria), نَامُوس (nāmūs), خَمُوش (ḵamūš)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), برغش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 110
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), برغش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 82
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