Arabic

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خَرْبَقHelleborus niger

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܚܘܪܒܟܢܐ (ḥurbaḵnā, hellebore) which is by metathesis from Akkadian 𒌑𒃼𒁍𒄷 (/⁠qarbuḫu⁠/).

Noun

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خَرْبَق (ḵarbaqm

  1. hellebore (Helleborus gen. et spp., also Veratrum album syn. Helleborus albus)
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Middle Armenian: խարբախ (xarbax)
  • Persian: خربق (xarbaq)

Etymology 2

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Augmented from the root خ ر ب (ḵ-r-b).

Verb

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خَرْبَقَ (ḵarbaqa) Iq (non-past يُخَرْبِقُ (yuḵarbiqu), verbal noun خَرْبَقَة (ḵarbaqa))

  1. to dissect, to lacerate, to rive
  2. to corrupt, to mar, to spoil
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References

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  •   خربق on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
  • ḥwrbkn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 141
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خربق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 471
  • Levey, Martin (1973) Early Arabic Pharmacology. An Introduction Based on Ancient and Medieval Sources, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 60
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[2] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 119
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[3] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 180
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خربق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 326

Moroccan Arabic

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Root
خ ر ب ق
1 term

Etymology

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From Arabic خَرْبَقَ (ḵarbaqa).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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خربق (ḵarbaq) Iq (non-past يخربط (yḵarbaq), verbal noun تخربيق (tḵarbīq), active participle مخربق (mḵarbaq), passive participle مخربق (mḵarbaq))

  1. to talk rubbish, to ramble on
    داك الباحث غير كيخربق٬ ما عارفش علاش كيتكلم فمعظم الأحيان.
    dāk el-bāḥit ḡīr kayḵarbaq, ma ʕārifš ʕlāš kayitkallam f-muʕḍam el-ʔaḥyān.
    That researcher is just talking rubbish, he doesn't know what he is talking about most of the time.
  2. to confuse
    خربقتيني دابا.ḵarbaqtīni dāba.Now you confused me.
  3. to scribble
    ما تخربقش بالستيلو فوق الطابلة.
    ma tḵarbaqš b-es-stīlu fūq eṭ-ṭābla.
    Don't scribble with the pen on the table.

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of خربق
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m خربقت (ḵarbaqt) خربقتي (ḵarbaqti) خربق (ḵarbaq) خربقنا (ḵarbaqna) خربقتوا (ḵarbaqtu) خربقوا (ḵarbqu)
f خربقت (ḵarbqāt)
non-past m نخربق (nḵarbaq) تخربق (tḵarbaq) يخربق (yḵarbaq) نخربقوا (nḵarbqu) تخربقوا (tḵarbqu) يخربقوا (yḵarbqu)
f تخربقي (tḵarbaqi) تخربق (tḵarbaq)
imperative m خربق (ḵarbaq) خربقوا (ḵarbqu)
f خربقي (ḵarbqi)