سكة

See also: سکھ and سکه

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root س ك ك (s-k-k), likely borrowed at least partial semantics from Aramaic סִכְּתָא /‏ ܣܶܟܬܳܐ (sekkǝṯā, peg, nail, spike; ploughshare; coin stamp), from Akkadian 𒄑𒆕 (/sikkatu/, peg, nail, a lock or pin broach, cone, wedge, pyramid, pinnacle, plowshare).

Noun

سِكَّة (sikka) f (plural سِكَك (sikak))

  1. plowshare
  2. mattock, hoe
  3. die for coining, coin die, coin stamp
  4. coin
    دَار السِّكَّةdār as-sikkamint (for minting money)
  5. right of coining
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Ge'ez ሰኰት (säkʷät), ሰኮት (säkot).

Noun

سِكَّة (sikka) f (plural سِكَك (sikak))

  1. large street, high road
    سِكَّة حَدِيدsikkat ḥadīdrailroad
Declension

References

  • سكة” in Almaany
  • skh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 194
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), سكة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 332
  • Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19), Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 91
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), سكة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1387
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991), “sakʷat, sakot (pl. ʾaskʷāt) ሰኰት ፡ ሰኮት”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 497
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 52
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), سكة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 499
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 35
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