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نقق

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the sounds made by certain animals, particularly frogs, chickens, and sometimes cats. It also extends to specific terms for these animals and related sounds.

Derived headwords

نَقَّverb
  1. 1.
    it makes a sound, with kasra, a croaking sound, meaning, a soundboth

    it makes a sound, with kasra, a croaking sound, meaning, a sound

نَقِيقnoun
  1. 1.
    croaking, cluckingboth

    The sound made by a frog, chicken, or scorpion.

نَقَّاقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    frogclassical

    A female frog.

نَقْنَقَةnoun
  1. 1.
    repeated croaking/cluckingclassical

    The sound of a frog or chicken, intensified or repeated.

نَقْنَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to croak repeatedlyclassical

    To make a repeated or intensified croaking or clucking sound.

نَقْنَقnoun
  1. 1.
    male ostrichclassical

    A male ostrich.

نَقَانِقnoun
  1. 1.
    male ostrichesclassical

    Plural of نقنق (male ostrich).

Parallel reading

نق الضفدع والعقرب والدجاحة، ينبق نقيقا،، أي صوت.
The frog, scorpion, and hen croaked, making a nqiq sound, meaning a noise.
كأن نقيق الحب في حاويائه فحيح الأفاعي أو نقيق العقارب
As if the croaking of the love [seed] in its pod was the hissing of snakes or the croaking of scorpions.
وربما قيل للهر أيضا.
And it might also be said of a cat.
فظل يبكى حبجا بشر خلف استه مثل نقيق الهر
So he kept crying out loudly behind his rear end like the meowing of a cat.
والنقاقة: الضفدعة.
And al-naqqāqah: the frog.
والنقنقة: صوتها إذا ضوعف.
And al-naqnaqah: its sound when intensified.
والدجاجة تنقنق للبيض
And the hen clucks for the eggs
وكذلك النعامة.
And likewise the ostrich.
والنقنق بالكسر: الظليم، والجمع النقانق.
And al-naqnaq (with kasra): the male ostrich, and the plural is al-naqāniq.