عقعق

Arabic

عَقْعَقٌ أُورُوبِيٌّ

Alternative forms

Etymology

Onomatopoeic and reduplicated, compare نَعَقَ (naʕaqa, “to caw”). Parallel to Hebrew עַקְעָק (ʿaqʿāq, “magpie”)

Noun

عَقْعَق • (ʕaqʕaq) m (plural عَقاعِق (ʕaqāʕiq))

  1. magpie

Declension

References

  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 117
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عقعق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 861
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