Talk:برق

"Berk" in Ottoman Turkish derived from old turkic - not arabic.Berk /"Bek" is also common in mongolian Language,the meaning is "strong","hard","steady"

RFV discussion: August–September 2020

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برق

Rfv-sense: telegraph --213.166.133.52 05:59, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

This source confirms as much, [1], the root is clearly related to telegrams [2] as is attested in Wehr, this must be a variant form. This is rfv-passed removing request and keeping. -Profes.I. (talk) 19:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

@Profes.I.: I don't think these are enough for the RFV to pass. Arabic requires 3 independent uses across the span of one year from durably archived sources. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:55, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps not, but these [3] certainly provide plenty of usage examples in this context. -Profes.I. (talk) 05:06, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

@Profes.I., I think the anon was silly to RFV this, as it's in Wehr, but it seems only the meaning "telegraph" is correct, not "telegram". In any case, we need durably archived quotations (from books and the like), so this won't do. I'll try to use it as a jumping-off point to find some quotations that will meet our requirements. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:16, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Well, I don't think my Arabic is up to the task of correctly formatting and translating these, but just the phrase google books:"البرق والهاتف" ("the telegraph and the telephone") produces more than enough results. Ideally, someone should add three to the entry, but in the mean time, we can put this back as RFV-kept. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:23, 14 September 2020 (UTC)