برقوق

Arabic

بَرْقُوق

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܐ (barqūqā), ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܝܳܐ (barqūqiyā), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκῐ́ᾱ (berikokkíā, apricot tree), from Ancient Greek πραικόκῐον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally over-ripe (peaches)), (mālum) praecoquum (literally over-ripe (apple)), from Latin praecox (overripe).

Noun

بَرْقُوق (barqūq) m (collective, singulative بَرْقُوقَة (barqūqa))

  1. plum, plums
    Synonyms: خَوْخ (ḵawḵ) (Syria, Jordania, Oman), إِجَّاص (ʾijjāṣ) (Al-Andalus, Iraq), عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʿayn al-baqar) (Tunisia, Libya, Al-Andalus), عَبْقَر (ʿabqar) (Al-Andalus)
  2. (al-Andalus, Mauritania, Western Sahara, West-Yemen) apricot, apricots
    Synonym: مِشْمِش (mišmiš) (elsewhere)
  3. (Mauritania, Western Sahara) peach, peaches
    Synonyms: خَوْخ (ḵawḵ) (general), دُرَّاق (durrāq) (Levant), فِرْسِك (firsik) (Southwest Arabia, Al-Andalus)

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References

  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden: Brill, pages 501–507
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 150
  • abricot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), برقوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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