مهرق

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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From the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian مهره (muhra).

Noun

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مُهْرَق (muhraqm (plural مَهَارِق (mahāriq))

  1. polished parchment, wax paper, membrane of papyrus and the like
  2. (figurative, probably archaic) desert bare of herbage
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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مُهْرَق (muhraq) (feminine مُهْرَقَة (muhraqa), masculine plural مُهْرَقُونَ (muhraqūna), feminine plural مُهْرَقَات (muhraqāt))

  1. passive participle of أَهْرَقَ (ʔahraqa, to spill), see هَرَقَ (haraqa)
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Adjective

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مُهْرِق (muhriq) (feminine مُهْرِقَة (muhriqa), masculine plural مُهْرِقُونَ (muhriqūna), feminine plural مُهْرِقَات (muhriqāt))

  1. active participle of أَهْرَقَ (ʔahraqa, to spill)
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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “مهرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 386b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مهرق”, 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[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1414b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مهرق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1203a