ترعة

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Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic תַּרְעָא (tarʿā, opening, gate). Doublet of ثُغْرَة (ṯuḡra).

Pronunciation

Noun

تُرْعَة (turʕaf (plural تُرَع (turaʕ) or تُرْعَات (turʕāt))

  1. gate, portal
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Mājah, section 25:
      إِنَّ أُحُدًا جَبَلٌ يُحِبُّنَا وَنُحِبُّهُ وَهُوَ عَلَى تُرْعَةٍ مِنْ تُرَعِ الْجَنَّةِ وَعَيْرٌ عَلَى تُرْعَةٍ مِنْ تُرَعِ النَّارِ.
      ʔinna ʔuḥudan jabalun yuḥibbunā wanuḥibbuhu wahuwa ʕalā turʕatin min turaʕi al-jannati waʕayrun ʕalā turʕatin min turaʕi an-nāri.
      ʾuḥud is a mountain which loves us and we love it, and it stands at one of the gates of Paradise. And ʿayr stands at one of the gates of Hell.’”
  2. mouth of a rivulet, of a watering-trough, of a water-tank or of an other source of water
  3. (rare) stair, flight of steps
  4. canal, channel of water

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 15
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “ترعة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 189
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ترعة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 197
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ترعة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 303
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ترعة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 171
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ترعة”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 315
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ترعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 139