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سقرقع

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سُقُرْقَعٌ ذ , an arabicized word from سُكُرْكَه, (S, K,) [or سُكُرْGَهْ, so written in Persian,] A certain beverage, (O, K,) the wine of the Abyssinians, (S,) made from ذُرَة [or millet ]: (S, K:) or a certain beverage of the people of El-Hijáz, from barley and [ other ] grains; to which they have become addicted: (Lth, K:) Lth says, (TA,) it is an Abyssinian word, (K, 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-h to the last, (K, TA,) except such as is reduplicative, like ذُرَحْرَحٌ. (TA.) [See also سُكُرْكَةٌ, and مِزْرٌ, and غُبَيْرَاآءُ.]

Derived headwords

سُقُرْقَعٌ
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