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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 176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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