عقرب

Compare Jewish Palestinian Aramaic עַקְרַבָּא‎ (ʿaqraḇā), Classical Syriac ܥܶܩܰܪܒܳܐ‎ (ʿeqarbā), Hebrew עַקְרָב‎ (ʿaqrāḇ), Ugaritic 𐎓𐎖𐎗𐎁 (ʿqrb), Ge'ez ዐቅረብ (ʿäḳräb); attested as a Semitic word since Akkadian 𒀝𒊏𒁍 (aqrabu).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/
  • (Hijazi, Kuwaiti) IPA^(key): /ʕaɡ.rab/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/

عَقْرَب • (ʕaqrab) m (plural عَقَارِب‎ (ʕaqārib))

1. scorpion

   الْعَقْرَب‎ (al-ʕaqrab, “Scorpio”)

2. (astronomy) Scorpius, a constellation of the zodiac
3. (astrology) Scorpio, the zodiac sign for the scorpion
4. hour hand of a clock, so named from its ending in two prongs

• قَلْب اَلْعَقْرَب‎ (qalb al-ʕaqrab) (Antares)

• Maltese: għakreb
• Moroccan Arabic: عقرب‎ (ʕaqrab)
• → Armenian: աղրաբ (ałrab)
• → Azerbaijani: əqrəb / әгрәб
• → Khalaj: aqrab
• → Persian: عقرب‎ ('aqrab)
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: alacran
  • Portuguese: lacrau
• → Old Spanish: alacran
  • Spanish: alacrán
    • → Tagalog: alakdan
• → Ottoman Turkish: عقرب‎
  • Turkish: akrep
  • → Albanian: akrep
• → Uzbek: aqrab

• “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.

عَقرَب (aqrab) (definite accusative عَقرَبؽ‎, plural عَقرَبلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of aqrab (“scorpion”)

From Arabic عَقْرَب‎ (ʕaqrab).

عقرب • (akreb) (plural عقارب‎)

1. scorpion, any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones
2. (astronomy) Scorpius, a constellation of the zodiac
3. (astrology) Scorpio, the zodiac sign for the scorpion
4. hour hand of a clock, so named from its ending in two prongs

• Turkish: akrep

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “akrep”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 177
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “عقرب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 854
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Scorpio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1521
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “عقرب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3297–3298
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “akrep”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عقرب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1311

From Arabic عَقْرَب‎ (ʕaqrab).

عقرب • ('aqrab) (plural عقرب‌ها‎ ('aqrab-hâ))

1. scorpion

   Synonym: کژدم‎ (každom)

Learned borrowing from Arabic عَقْرَب‎ (ʕaqrab).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/, [ˈʕɑq.rˤɑb]

عقرب • (ʕaqrab) m (plural عقارب‎ (ʕaqārib))

1. scorpion
2. (astrology) Scorpio