مهرق

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Arabic

Etymology 1

From the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian مهره (muhra).

Noun

مُهْرَق (muhraqm (plural مَهَارِق (mahāriq))

  1. polished parchment, wax paper, membrane of papyrus and the like
  2. (figurative, probably archaic) desert bare of herbage
Declension

Etymology 2

Adjective

مُهْرَق (muhraq) (feminine مُهْرَقَة (muhraqa), masculine plural مُهْرَقُونَ (muhraqūna), feminine plural مُهْرَقَات (muhraqāt))

  1. passive participle of أَهْرَقَ (ʔahraqa, to spill), see هَرَقَ (haraqa)
Declension

Adjective

مُهْرِق (muhriq) (feminine مُهْرِقَة (muhriqa), masculine plural مُهْرِقُونَ (muhriqūna), feminine plural مُهْرِقَات (muhriqāt))

  1. active participle of أَهْرَقَ (ʔahraqa, to spill)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “مهرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 386b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مهرق”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1414b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مهرق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1203a