برقوق
Arabic

Etymology
From Classical Syriac ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܐ (barqūqā), ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܝܳܐ (barqūqāyā), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκῐ́ᾱ (berikokkíā, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκῐον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “early-ripe (peaches)”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “early-ripe (apple)”), from Latin praecox (“early-ripe”).
Noun
بُرْقُوق or بَرْقُوق • (burqūq or barqūq) m (collective, singulative بُرْقُوقَة f (burqūqa) or بَرْقُوقَة (barqūqa))
- plum, plums
- (West-Yemen, al-Andalus, Sicily, Mauritania, Western Sahara) apricot, apricots
- Synonym: (elsewhere) مِشْمِش (mišmiš)
- (Mauritania, Western Sahara) peach, peaches
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Maltese: berquq
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Middle Armenian: պարկուկ (parkuk)
- Armenian: պարկուկ (parkuk), պառկուկ (paṙkuk)
- → Sicilian: barcocu, varcocu, bbarcocu
From البرقوق (al-barqūq, “the plum”):
- Andalusian Arabic: البرقوق (albarqúq)
- → Asturian: albaricoque
- → Catalan: albercoc (see there for further descendants)
- → Galician: albaricoque
- → Portuguese: albricoque
- → Spanish: albaricoque
- → Italian: albicocca
References
- Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, , →ISBN, pages 501–507
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 150
- “abricot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “برقوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Moroccan Arabic
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bar.quːq/
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).