محاق

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Arabic[edit]

Root
م ح ق (m-ḥ-q)

Noun[edit]

مَحْق (maḥqm

  1. effacement, obliteration
  2. eradication, extermination, annihilation, destruction

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Declension[edit]

Noun[edit]

مَحاق (maḥāqm, مُحاق (muḥāqm, مِحاق (miḥāqm

  1. the waning of the moon
  2. complete absence of moonlight, especially on the last three nights of the lunar month

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “محاق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 895
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “محاق”, 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[1] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie