مرقاس

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Arabic

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Etymology

Borrowed from Berber ⴰⵎ- (am-) +‎ ⴰⵔⴳⴰⵣ (argaz).

Pronunciation

Noun

مِرْقَاس (mirqāsm (al-Andalus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)

  1. merguez, a highly spiced kind of chiefly lamb bratwurst
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 170:
      يَقُولُونَ ٱلْمِرْكَاسَ بِٱلْكَافِ. وَٱلصَّوَابُ ٱلْمِرْقَاسُ بِٱلْقَافِ.
      yaqūlūna l-mirkāsa bi-l-kāfi. waṣ-ṣawābu l-mirqāsu bi-l-qāfi.
      They say mirkās with k but the correct is mirqās with q.

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