ع ر ك

Arabic

Root

ع ر ك • (ʕ-r-k)

1. related to rubbing and toughening
2. hence, related to skirmishing

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: عَرَكَ (ʕaraka, “to rub, to scrub; to toughen”)
  • Verbal noun: عَرْك (ʕark)
  • Active participle: عَارِك (ʕārik)
  • Passive participle: مَعْرُوك (maʕrūk)
• Form I: عَرِكَ (ʕarika, “to be tough”)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَعْرُوك (maʕrūk)
• Form I: عَرَكَ (ʕaraka, “to suffer menstruation”)
  • Verbal noun: عَرَاك (ʕarāk), عُرُوك (ʕurūk), عَرْك (ʕark)
  • Active participle: عَارِك (ʕārik)
• Form III: عَارَكَ (ʕāraka, “to make rub against, to crowd together; to fight against”)
  • Verbal noun: مُعَارَكَة (muʕāraka)
  • Active participle: مُعَارِك (muʕārik)
  • Passive participle: مُعَارَك (muʕārak)
• Form IV: أَعْرَكَ (ʔaʕraka, “to suffer menstruation”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاك (ʔiʕrāk)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِك (muʕrik)
• Form VI: تَعَارَكَ (taʕāraka, “to fight each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَارُك (taʕāruk)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَارِك (mutaʕārik)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَارَك (mutaʕārak)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَرَكَ (iʕtaraka, “to fight each other”)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِرَاك (iʕtirāk)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَرِك (muʕtarik)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَرَك (muʕtarak)

Nouns

• عَرْك (ʕark, “incision, cut; vulva; dung of a beast or bird of prey”)
• عَرَك (ʕarak, “fishermen”, collective); singulative عَرَكِيّ (ʕarakiyy), plural of variety عُرُوك (ʕurūk)
• عَرُوك (ʕarūk, “fisherman’s instrument”); pl. عُرُك (ʕuruk)
• عَرْكة f (ʕarka, “quarrel”)
• مَعْرَكَة f (maʕraka, “battlefield; battle”); pl. مَعَارِك (maʕārik)
• مُعْتَرَك m (muʕtarak, “battlefield”)
• مَعْرَك m (maʕrak, “battlefield”)
• عَرِك (ʕarik, “being a wave or man etc. that prostrates often”)
• عَرِيكَة (ʕarīka, “camel's hump; nature, disposition”); pl. عَرَائِك (ʕarāʔik)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ر ك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 145
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ر ك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 232–234
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ر ك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2023–2024
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ع ر ك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 711