زيق

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See also: زیف, زيف, ريف, and ريق

Arabic

Etymology 1

See زِيج (zīj).

Noun

زِيق (zīqm (plural أَزْيَاق (ʔazyāq))

  1. alternative form of زِيج (zīj)
  2. hemmed border at the neck or other garment parts
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle Armenian: զիկ (zik)
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܝܼܩܵܐ (zīqā, shirt collar)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic זִיקָא / ܙܺܝܩܳܐ (zīqā, gust), from Akkadian 𒍣𒄿𒄣 (/⁠zîqu, zīqīqu⁠/, breeze, blast of air; storm, wind; ghost), where also 𒄑𒍣𒋡 (/⁠zâqu⁠/, to blow).

Alternative forms

Noun

زِيق (zīqm (obsolete, rare)

  1. gust, wind
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: صیق (sık, dust storm)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زيق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 619
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 171
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زيق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 270
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صيق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 537
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زيق”, 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 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1033
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زيق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1278
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زيق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 541
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 45