فلقة

See also: فلقه‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ف ل ق‎ (f-l-q).

Noun

فِلْقَة • (filqa) f (plural فِلَق‎ (filaq))

  1. half (of a thing split)
  2. (anatomy) lobe
    Synonym: فَصّ‎ (faṣṣ)
  3. (botany) cotyledon
Declension

Noun

فَلْقَة • (falqa) f (plural فَلْقَات‎ (falqāt) or فَلَائِق‎ (falāʔiq) or فُلَّاق‎ (fullāq))

  1. (al-Andalus) splinter, spelk, sliver, a chip of wood split off
Declension
Descendants
  • → Aragonese: falca
  • → Asturian: falca
  • → Catalan: falca
  • → Spanish: falca, afalca
  • → Portuguese: falca

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) likely through Aramaic, also with the loaned sense of a “flat-surface, panel, plank, or a wooden surface”; compare Aramaic פּלגּה‎ (plaggā, “drum”) and see Ancient Greek φῠλᾰκή (phulakḗ, “a form of detention, stockade for punishment”).

Noun

فَلَقَة • (falaqa) f (plural فَلَقَات‎ (falaqāt))

  1. contrivance whereby the feet are held in a bastinado
  2. the bastinado itself, falaka
Declension
Descendants
  • → Catalan: falaca
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فلقه‎ (falaka)
    • Turkish: falaka
    • → Armenian: ֆալախա (falaxa)
  • → Portuguese: falaca

References

  • “فلقة” in Almaany
  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 982–983
  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019) Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 332
  • Corriente, Federico (2008), “falca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 293a
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “فلقة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 371
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “فلقة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2441–2442
  • Schiaparelli, Celestino (1871), “فَلِيقَة”, in Vocabulista in arabico. Pubblicato per la prima volta sopra un codice della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze, Firenze: Tipografia dei successori Le Monnier, page 156b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فلقة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 804
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “فلقة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981
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