Arabic edit

Root
ح ر ق (ḥ-r-q)
 
حَرَّاقَة

Noun edit

حَرَّاقَة (ḥarrāqaf (plural حَرَّاقَات (ḥarrāqāt))

  1. vessel for war, fire launcher, battleship
  2. mole cricket (a sword-billed gryllus of the Gryllotalpidae family)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

unsorted; also said to be from the plural of قُرْقُور (qurqūr), both already attested from the eighth century

Noun edit

حَرَاقَة (ḥarāqaf

  1. fire

Declension edit

Adjective edit

حَرَّاقَة (ḥarrāqaf

  1. feminine of حَرَّاق (ḥarrāq, burning, hot)

References edit

  • Corriente, Federico (2008) “حراقة”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 250
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 147–148
  • Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.[1] (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, pages 143–144