صقاع

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤi.qaːʕ/

Noun

صِقَاع • (ṣiqāʕ) m (plural صُقُع (ṣuquʕ) or أَصْقِعَة (ʔaṣqiʕa))

1. a rag bound under or before the mouth to protect the beneath from stains (e.g. to protect a woman’s muffler from the oil in her hair)
   • c. 1110, Al-Ḥarīriyy ed. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, “المقامة الصورية”, in Les séances de Hariri, volume 1, Paris, published 1822, page 330:

     وَقَد بَذَلَ لَهَا مِنَ الصَّدَاقِ شَلَّاقًا وَعُكّازًا. وَصِقَاعًا وَكُرَّازًا. فَأَنْكَحُوهُ إِنْكَاحَ مِثْلِهِ

     wa-qad baḏala la-hā mina ṣ-ṣadāqi šallāqan wa-ʕukkāzan. wa-ṣiqāʕan wa-kurrāzan. fa-ʔankaḥū-hu ʔinkāḥa miṯli-hī

     And he offered for her of dowry a beggar’s knapsack and mendicant’s staff, and a mouth-rag and a drinking-jar. And they gave him off to marriage in such a fashion.

Declension

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “صقاع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 508
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صقاع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1707