فلقة

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See also: فلقه

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ف ل ق (f l q)
5 terms

Noun

فِلْقَة (filqaf (plural فِلَق (filaq))

  1. half (of a thing split)
  2. (anatomy) lobe
    Synonym: فَصّ (faṣṣ)
  3. (botany) cotyledon
Declension

Noun

فَلْقَة (falqaf (plural فَلْقَات (falqāt) or فَلَائِق (falāʔiq) or فُلَّاق (fullāq))

  1. (al-Andalus) splinter, spelk, sliver, a chip of wood split off
Declension
Descendants
  • Aragonese: falca
  • Asturian: falca
  • Catalan: falca
  • Spanish: falca, afalca
  • Portuguese: falca

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) likely through Aramaic, also with the loaned sense of a “flat-surface, panel, plank, or a wooden surface”; compare Aramaic פּלגּה (plaggā, drum) and see Ancient Greek φῠλᾰκή (phulakḗ, a form of detention, stockade for punishment).

Noun

فَلَقَة (falaqaf (plural فَلَقَات (falaqāt))

  1. contrivance whereby the feet are held in a bastinado
  2. the bastinado itself, falaka
Declension
Descendants

References

  • فلقة” in Almaany
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 982–983
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “falca”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 332
  • Corriente, Federico (2008) “falca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 293a
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فلقة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 371
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلقة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2441–2442
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871) “فَلِيقَة”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze (in Arabic), Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 156b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فلقة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 804
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلقة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981