أنوق
Arabic
Etymology
Unknown. Maybe from the root ء ن ق (ʾ-n-q), maybe natively from نَاقَة (nāqa, “female camel”) or via a lost Aramaic term as in struthiocamelus (“ostrich”), but this is less likely since old dictionaries understand the word as ذَكَر الرَّخَم (ḏakar ar-raḵam, “male of the Egyptian vulture”), maybe from ع ن ق (ʿ-n-q) as in another name of a long-necked bird عَنْقَاء (ʿanqāʾ), the form of a color or defect adjective, compared to Aramaic אִינְקָא (ʾinqā) for a large bird, however regularly compared to Ge'ez አንቄ (ʾänḳe), አንቄት (ʾänḳet), maybe a borrowing from a regional form of it, since in Ethiopian Semitic the Proto-Semitic pattern KaLīM shifted to KaLūM.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔa.nuːq/
Noun
أَنُوق • (ʾanūq) m
- vulture, kite (bird)
Declension
Declension of noun أَنُوق (ʾanūq)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أَنُوق ʾanūq | الْأَنُوق al-ʾanūq | أَنُوق ʾanūq |
| Nominative | أَنُوقٌ ʾanūqun | الْأَنُوقُ al-ʾanūqu | أَنُوقُ ʾanūqu |
| Accusative | أَنُوقًا ʾanūqan | الْأَنُوقَ al-ʾanūqa | أَنُوقَ ʾanūqa |
| Genitive | أَنُوقٍ ʾanūqin | الْأَنُوقِ al-ʾanūqi | أَنُوقِ ʾanūqi |
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “أنوق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 66a
- Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “أنوق”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “أنوق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
- Levy, Jacob (1867) Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 43a
- Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2005), “*ˀan(V)ḳ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 9–10 Nr. 6
- Wehr, Hans (1960), “أنوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz