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القربق

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to a grocer's shop. It also has a specific historical usage referring to the city of Basra.

Derived headwords

القُرْبُقnoun
  1. 1.
    grocer's shopboth

    A shop where a grocer sells food and other household items.

  2. 2.
    Basraclassical

    The city of Basra, used metaphorically in a specific poetic context.

كربقother
  1. 1.
    grocer's shop (loanword)classical

    This is presented as the Persian or non-Arabic origin of the word for a grocer's shop.

Parallel reading

القربق، كجندب: دكان البقال
Al-qurbuq, like jundub: the grocer's shop.
معرب: كربه
It is an Arabized word: karbuh.
وأما في قول أبي قحفان العنبري: ما شربت بعد قليب القربق.
And as for the saying of Abu Qahfan al-Anbari: I have not drunk since the well of al-Qurbuq.
فالمراد: البصرة بعينها.
Then what is meant is: the city of Basra itself.