Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سُقُرْقَعٌ

سُقُرْقَعٌ, an arabicized word from سُكُرْكَه, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [or سُكُرْگَهْ, so written in Persian,] A certain beverage, (O, Ḳ,) the wine of the Abyssinians, (Ṣ,) made from ذُرَة [or millet]: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a certain beverage of the people of El-Ḥijáz, from barley and [other] grains; to which they have become addicted: (Lth, Ḳ:) Lth says, (TA,) it is an Abyssinian word, (Ḳ, TA,) not of the language of the Arabs, because (TA) there is not in the language a quinqueliteral-radical word having damm to the first syllable and fet-ḥ to the last, (Ḳ, TA,) except such as is reduplicative, like ذُرَحْرَحٌ. (TA.) [See also سُكُرْكَةٌ, and مِزْرٌ, and غُبَيْرَآءُ.]


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