قوقع

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), partially via Latin cochlea, or from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē), κόγχος (kónkhos), partially via Latin concha.

Pronunciation

Noun

قَوْقَع (qawqaʕm (plural قَوَاقِع (qawāqiʕ))

  1. cochlea, shell of a mollusk
  2. shell mollusk

Declension

References

  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 374–375
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1077
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قوقع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 420
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قوقع”, 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 516
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قوقع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1065