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Egyptian Arabic
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیزاق (kızak, “something used for sliding on it, slide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
قِزَق • (qazaq, ʔazaʔ) m (plural قِزَقَات (qazaqāt, ʔazaʔāt))
- dolly, trolley, lever, slipway
2017 July 15, Mai Diab, “تابع اعمال الدكتور/ احمد محمد حسين القزق البحري بمدينة “برنيس”, in يوميات مهندس منسي, archived from the original on 2017-01-16:و القزق البحري الذي نحن بصدده ذو قدرة مناسبة تماما لخدمة وحدات النقل النهري المناسبة للخدمة في نهر النيل.- And the nautical lever that we design has a power totally adequate for the service of river transport units, such as suited for the Nile.
2018 March 22, Ḵayr Rāġib, “«موانئ البحر الأحمر» تحقق 862 مليون جنيه إيرادات في 8 أشهر”, in المصر اليوم (in Arabic), archived from the original on 2018-06-25:ناقش مجلس إدارة الهيئة العامة لموانئ البحر الأحمر، برئاسة اللواء مهندس هشام أبوسنة، الخميس، عددا من الموضوعات الهامة، ومنها مشروع إنشاء قزق (رافع ميكانيكي) للسفن ذات الحمولات حتى 800 طن على مساحة 40 ألف م2 بميناء سفاجا، وقزق (رافع ميكانيكي) للسفن ذات الحمولات حتى 400 طن على مساحة 40 ألف م2 بميناء القصير.- The council of the administration of the general group for the ports of the Red Sea, under the leadership of the General Engineer Hašām Abū Sunna has discussed on Friday a number of important topics including the construction of a qazaq (a mechanical lever) for ships of a load of up to 800 tonnes on a space of forty thousand square metres on the Port of Safāgā and a qazaq (a mechanical lever) for ships of a load of up to 400 tonnes on a room of forty thousand square miles on the port of Al-Quṣayr.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قازیق (kazık, “pale, stake, post driven into the ground; a pivot on which a thing turns”). Doublet of the literary خَازُوق (ḵāzūq, “pale, stake, pile, post”).
Pronunciation
Noun
قَزَق • (qazaq, ʔazaʔ) m (collective, singulative قَزَقَة f (qazaqa, ʔazaʔa))
- poles, posts (such as used for telecommunication)
References
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 699
- Procházka, Stephan (2009) “Turkish Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 589-590