زقاق

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See also: رقاق, رفاق, and زفاف

Arabic

Etymology

With progressive dissimilation in voicedness (compare for this phenomenon in a like measure رُزْدَاق (ruzdāq) and قَتَاد (qatād)) from Aramaic 𐡔𐡒𐡒𐡀 / 𐡵𐡳𐡳𐡠 / שְׁקָקָא / ܫܩܳܩܳܐ (šəqāqā), from Akkadian 𒋢𒋡𒄣𒌑 (su-qa-qu-u₂ /⁠suqāqu⁠/), which is the diminutive of the same word as present in سُوق (sūq).

Pronunciation

Noun

زُقَاق (zuqāqm or f (plural أَزِقَّة (ʔaziqqa))

  1. alley, lane, corridor

Declension

Descendants

References

  • 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, pages 93–94
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زقاق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1238
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “sucáḱé”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 176

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

Pronunciation

Noun

زقاق (zugāgm (plural أزقة (ʔazigga))

  1. alley
  2. alleyway

See also

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? zuqāq
Dari reading? zuqāq
Iranian reading? zoğâğ
Tajik reading? zuqoq

Noun

زقاق (zoqâq)

  1. street
  2. lane

Synonyms

Descendants