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بشروش

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Coptic *ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲱϣ (*petrōš, the flamingo), from Egyptian dšr. Also found metathesized as Tunisian Arabic شَبْرُوش (šabrūš, flamingo).

Noun

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بَشْرُوش or بَشَرُوش (bašrūš or bašarūšm

  1. flamingo
    Synonyms: نُحَام (nuḥām), فْلامِينْغُو (flaminḡō), فْلَامِينْجُو (flamingō)

Declension

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References

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  • Behnstedt, Peter (2017) “A propos du lexique tunisien, ou : Qu'est-ce-qui est typiquement tunisien ?”, in Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun, editor, Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (Estudios de dialectología árabe; 13) (in French), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, →ISBN, page 107 of 103–113
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 196