أنوق

Arabic

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe from the root ء ن ق (ʔ-n-q), maybe natively from نَاقَة (nāqa, “female camel”) or via a lost Aramaic term as in struthiocamelus (“ostrich”), but this is less likely since old dictionaries understand the word as ذَكَر الرَّخَم (ḏakar al-rraḵam, “male of the Egyptian vulture”), maybe from ع ن ق (ʕ-n-q) as in another name of a long-necked bird عَنْقَاء (ʕanqāʔ), the form of a color or defect adjective, compared to Aramaic אִינְקָא (ʾinqā) for a large bird, however regularly compared to Ge'ez አንቄ (ʾänḳe), አንቄት (ʾänḳet), maybe a borrowing from a regional form of it, since in Ethiopian Semitic the Proto-Semitic pattern KaLīM shifted to KaLūM.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.nuːq/

Noun

أَنُوق • (ʔanūq) m

1. vulture, kite (bird)

Declension

Declension of noun أَنُوق (ʔanūq)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَنُوق ʔanūq	الْأَنُوق al-ʔanūq	أَنُوق ʔanūq
Nominative	أَنُوقٌ ʔanūqun	الْأَنُوقُ al-ʔanūqu	أَنُوقُ ʔanūqu
Accusative	أَنُوقًا ʔanūqan	الْأَنُوقَ al-ʔanūqa	أَنُوقَ ʔanūqa
Genitive	أَنُوقٍ ʔanūqin	الْأَنُوقِ al-ʔanūqi	أَنُوقِ ʔanūqi

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “أنوق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 66a
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “أنوق”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أنوق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate
• Levy, Jacob (1867) “אִינְקָא”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums‎^[3] (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 43a
• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) “*ˀan(V)ḳ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 9–10 Nr. 6
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “أنوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz