مرسى الشيخ برغوت
Arabic
Etymology
Superficially literally “anchorage of the shaykh of the flea”, with a name looking like the Sudanese Arabic form بَرْغُوت (barḡūt) of بُرْغُوث (burḡūṯ, “flea”), related to be the name of a faqih whose tomb was to the north of the original anchorage, however from Beja baarʼuut referring to that sea-mark, of unknown further etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar.sa‿ʃ.ʃajx bar.ɣuːt/
Proper noun
مَرْسَى الشَّيْخ بَرْغُوت • (marsā š-šayḵ barḡūt) m
- the name of Port Sudan, a city in Sudan, before its expansion in 1900–1909 from an anchorage to a port
- Synonym: بُورْتْسُودَان (būrtsūdān)
Declension
Declension of noun مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوت (marsā š-šayḵi barḡūt)
| Singular | singular invariable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوت marsā š-šayḵi barḡūt | — |
| Nominative | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu | — |
| Accusative | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu | — |
| Genitive | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu | — |
References
- Morin, Didier (2012), “Arabic and Cushitic Toponymy: One Coast with Two Maps”, in Northeast African Studies, volume 12, issue 1, Michigan State University Press, DOI:, page 222, where transcribed “marsa šayḫ Barud (or Baġhut) or ‘šayḫ al-barḫat’”. In German sources transcribed Marsa Scheich Barut. All spellings that cannot be found in Arabic when reverse-transcribed, as of 2021; but no English form of the old name can be found.