מטרקא

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Aramaic

Etymology

From טרק (ṭrq, to hit, sting, bite, close a door, mix), which is cognate with Akkadian 𒂀 (/⁠tarāku⁠/, to hit, knock) and Arabic طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, to knock, bang, strike), if the latter is not ultimately an Aramaic borrowing.

Noun

מטרקא (mṭrqʾ)

  1. (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic) goad, whip, device for driving livestock

Descendants

Taking Jewish Babylonian Aramaic as representative of all Aramaic:

Unsorted borrowings

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մտրակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 368–369
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 260
  • Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1474, page 118b
  • mṭrq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2015-08-21
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, pages 519a, 661a
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press