ط و ق

ط و ق

Arabic

Etymology

There are no inherited formations or cognates in other Semitic languages, all is denominal from طَوْق‎ (ṭawq, “ring, hoop, collar”); and here, the uncommon form I is derived from the more developed form II, the form I sense “to be capable of or be able to sustain” developed from the form II sense ”to put around the neck, to make bear”.

Root

ط و ق • (ṭ-w-q)

1. related to surrounding

Derived terms

• Form I: طَاقَ‎ (ṭāqa, “to bear, to be capable of or to sustain”)
  • Verbal noun: طَوْق‎ (ṭawq), طَاقَة‎ (ṭāqa)
  • Active participle: طَائِق‎ (ṭāʾiq)
  • Passive participle: مَطُوق‎ (maṭūq)
• Form II: طَوَّقَ‎ (ṭawwaqa, “to put a hoop, ring, collar etc. around; to encircle, to surround; to cramp, to restrict that developments come out from the inner of or encroach upon from the outside, to lock up artistically or with legal power, to close off, to cordon off; to endow or to emburden with; to embrace in a good sense, to hug, to receive with open arms so to say, or perhaps to have someone on the lap”)
  • Verbal noun: تَطْوِيق‎ (taṭwīq)
  • Active participle: مُطَوِّق‎ (muṭawwiq)
  • Passive participle: مُطَوَّق‎ (muṭawwaq)
• Form IV: أَطَاقَ‎ (ʾaṭāqa, “to be able to bear or to sustain; to master, to be capable to submit”)
  • Verbal noun: إِطَاقَة‎ (ʾiṭāqa)
  • Active participle: مُطِيق‎ (muṭīq)
  • Passive participle: مُطَاق‎ (muṭāq)
• Form V: تَطَوَّقَ‎ (taṭawwaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَطَوُّق‎ (taṭawwuq)
  • Active participle: مُتَطَوِّق‎ (mutaṭawwiq)
  • Passive participle: مُتَطَوَّق‎ (mutaṭawwaq)

• طَوْق‎ (ṭawq, “anything that surrounds another thing, ring-shaped border, hoop, headband, necklace etc.”)
  • طَوْقِيّ‎ (ṭawqiyy)
• طَاقَة‎ (ṭāqa, “utmost ability, power; energy”)
• طَائِق‎ (ṭāʾiq, “prominence, curved extremity”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ط و ق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 69–71
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ط و ق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 80
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ط و ق”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 122
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ط و ق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1894–1895
• Toll, Christopher (1969), “Einige metrologische und metallurgische Termini im Arabischen”, in Orientalia Suecana‎ (in German), volume 18, pages 144–146
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ط و ق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 792–793
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ط و ق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 672