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محاق

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
م ح ق (m ḥ q)
5 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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مَحْق (maḥqm

  1. effacement, obliteration
  2. eradication, extermination, annihilation, destruction
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Etymology 1.2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ma.ħaːq/, /mu.ħaːq/, /mi.ħaːq/

Noun

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مَحاق or مُحاق or مِحاق (maḥāq or muḥāq or miḥāqm

  1. the waning of the moon
  2. complete absence of moonlight, especially on the last three nights of the lunar month
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References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “محاق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 895
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “محاق”, 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[1] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie