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Egyptian Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic أَبُو (ʔabū, “father/possessor of”) + دَقِيق (daqīq, “flour”), thus literally "father or possessor of flour".
Pronunciation
Noun
أَبُو دَقِيق • (ʾabu diʾīʾ) m (no plural)
- butterfly
Synonyms
References
- Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
- Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
- Lane, Edward William (1863). An Arabic - English Lexicon derived from the best and the most copious eastern sources London: Williams and Northgate.