Cypriot Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Cypriot Greek [Term?], Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (bakara), from Arabic بَكَرَة (bakara).

Noun edit

mpakara f

  1. pulley

References edit

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 163