ناقة

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ن و ق (n w q)
1 term

Apparently from Proto-Semitic *yanaḳ- (to suck) which left no trace in Arabic.

Pronunciation

Noun

نَاقَة (nāqaf (plural نَاقَات (nāqāt) or نُوق (nūq) or نِيَاق (niyāq) or أَنْيُق (ʔanyuq) or أَيْنُق (ʔaynuq) or أَيَانِق (ʔayāniq) or أَنْوُق (ʔanwuq) or أَنْؤُق (ʔanʔuq), masculine جَمَل (jamal))

  1. female camel

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References

  • 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 1298–1299
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “ناقة”, 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 354
  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “ناقة”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, pages 147–150
  • Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000–2005) “*nāḳ-at-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pages 212–213 Nr. 161
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 205
  • Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 126
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ناقة”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 971
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic نَاقَة (nāqa)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naː.qe/,
  • IPA(key): /naː.qa/,
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

ناقة (nāqaf (plural ناقات (nāqāt) or نوق (nūq), masculine جمل (jamal))

  1. female camel