زقاق

See also: رقاق‎, رفاق‎, and زفاف‎

Arabic

Etymology

With progressive dissimilation in voicedness (compare for this phenomenon in a like measure رُزْدَاق‎ (ruzdāq) and قَتَاد‎ (qatād)) from Aramaic 𐡔𐡒𐡒𐡀‎ / 𐡵𐡳𐡳𐡠‎ / שְׁקָקָא‎ / ܫܩܳܩܳܐ‎ (šəqāqā), from Akkadian 𒋢𒋡𒄣𒌑 (su-qa-qu-u₂ /suqāqu/), which is the diminutive of the same word as present in سُوق‎ (sūq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zu.qaːq/

Noun

زُقَاق • (zuqāq) m or f (plural أَزِقَّة‎ (ʔaziqqa))

  1. alley, lane, corridor

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: sqaq
  • → Catalan: atzucac
  • Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: zikak
  • → Persian: زقاق‎ (zoqâq)

References

  • Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 93–94
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “زقاق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1238
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “sucáḱé”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 176

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic زُقَاق‎ (zuqāq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuˈɡaːɡ/

Noun

زقاق • (zugāg) m (plural أزقة‎ (ʔazigga))

  1. alley
  2. alleyway

See also

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic زُقَاق‎ (zuqāq).

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /zʊqɒːq/

    Noun

    زقاق • (zoqâq)

    1. street
    2. lane

    Synonyms

    Descendants

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