عقرب

Compare Jewish Palestinian Aramaic עַקְרַבָּא‎ (ʿaqraḇā), Classical Syriac ܥܶܩܰܪܒܳܐ‎ (ʿeqarbā), Hebrew עַקְרָב‎ (ʿaqrāḇ), Ugaritic 𐎓𐎖𐎗𐎁 (ʿqrb), Ge'ez ዐቅረብ (ʿäḳräb); attested as a Semitic word since Akkadian, see Aqrabuamelu.

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/
  • (Hejazi) IPA^(key): /ʕaɡ.rab/

عَقْرَب • (ʿaqrab) m (plural عَقَارِب‎ (ʿaqārib))

1. scorpion

   الْعَقْرَب‎ (al-ʿaqrab, “Scorpio”)

2. dial

• قَلْب اَلْعَقْرَب‎‎ (qalb al-ʿaqrab) (Antares)

• Maltese: għakreb
• → Albanian: akrep
• → Armenian: աղրաբ (ałrab)
• → Azerbaijani: əqrəb / әгрәб
• → Persian: عقرب‎ (ʿaqrab)
• → Old Portuguese: alacran
  • → Portuguese: lacrau
• → Old Spanish: alacran
  • Spanish: alacrán
    • → Tagalog: alakdan
• → Turkish: akrep

• “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.

From Arabic عَقْرَب‎ (ʿaqrab).

• IPA^(key): /ʔæɣˈɾæb/

عقرب • ('aqrab) (plural عقرب‌ها‎ ('aqrab-hâ) or عقارب‎)

1. scorpion

• کژدم‎ (každom)