مكوك

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Arabic

 مكوك on Arabic Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Aramaic מָקוֹק (māqōq), ܡܩܘܩ (māqōq), whence also Ge'ez ማዕከክ (maʿkäk, tub, laver), from Middle Iranian *makōk, whence Persian مکوک (makôk), Old Armenian մակոյկ (makoyk).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَكُّوك (makkūkm (plural مَكَاكِيك (makākīk) or مَكَاكِيّ (makākiyy))

  1. (rare) drinking-cup
  2. a liquid measure, about the size of a cup
  3. weaver’s shuttle
    • 2016 April 1, “مكوك الحايك.. رحلة مستمرة منذ 5000 سنة”, in Souriat, archived from the original on 12 December 2019:
  4. space shuttle, transport capsule, space ship

Declension

References

  • mqwq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 207–208
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مكوك”, 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 1137
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 60
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 41
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 702
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مكوك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1075
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مكوك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1215

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

Sense 1 from Arabic مَكُّوك (makkūk), and sense 2 from phonetic similarity.

Pronunciation

Noun

مَكّوك (makkūkm (plural مَكّوكات (makkūkāt))

  1. space shuttle, transport capsule, spaceship
  2. (euphemistic) euphemistic form for مكوت (makkūt, buttocks)
    Synonym: (also euphemistic) دبة (dabba)