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برغوث

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Arabic

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بُرْغُوث
 برغوث on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *purḡūṯ- (flea).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بُرْغُوث (burḡūṯm (plural بَرَاغِيث (barāḡīṯ))

  1. flea

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gulf Arabic: برغوث (barḡūṯ)
  • Maltese: bergħud
  • Moroccan Arabic: برغوت (barḡūt)

References

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  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “برغوث”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 73
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “برغوث”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 110
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 212
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “برغوث”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 82