قعقع

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Reduplicated onomatopoeic root. Compare غَرْغَرَ (ḡarḡara, gurgle), وَسْوَسَ (waswasa, whisper), قَمْقَمَ (qamqama, grumble).

Verb[edit]

قَعْقَعَ (qaʕqaʕa) Iq, non-past يُقَعْقِعُ‎ (yuqaʕqiʕu)

  1. to clatter, to clank, to rattle
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Reduplicated and onomatopoeic, from the sound a magpie makes.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

قَعْقَع or قُعْقُع (qaʕqaʕ or quʕquʕm (plural قَعَاقِع (qaʕāqiʕ))

  1. magpie
Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 117
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قعقع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1064