Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dōrak, dōlak). Also found in Classical Persian دوره (dōra, winejug, scyphus, a kind of flask for measure), Old Armenian դորակ (dorak, a kind of liquid measure), Classical Syriac ܕܰܘܪܩܳܐ ܪܘܡܝܐ (dawrəqā rōmāyā, amphora with handles; a kind of measure of 80 Roman litres).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

دَوْرَق (dawraqm (plural دَوَارِق (dawāriq))

  1. flask with a elongate neck of usually glass for liquids

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Gulf Arabic: دولكة (dōlka)

References edit

  • دورق” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دورق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 24b
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 144
  • dwrqˀ**rwmyˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–