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• Etymon of deloul. It could be dialectal Arabic and not MSA. It could also be something else like Berber, etc.
• Etymon of nuggar. Various sources give Arabic "nuqqār" meaning transport ship. Is this standard Arabic?

  The q → g transformation occurs in some of the dialects. نُقَّار (nuqqār) would belong to the root ن ق ر (n q r) related to hollowing out and is plausible as the name of a kind of boat. Woodpeckers dominate search results. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

  @Vox Sciurorum: This is plausibly Egyptian Arabic (it's apparently a boat used on the Nile), but I can also find sources connecting this term to Sudan, which of course is also on the Nile. This article, p. 31, gives the romanizations Naggr/Nuggar and the Arabic spelling نجر (hope I transcribed that right). The verbal root ن ج ر (n j r) has the meaning 'to hew, carve, or plane wood', which seems potentially relevant. But IDK where the "q" would've come from under this theory. Would it be more plausible that q → g or j → g? 70.172.194.25 18:01, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

  According to Wikipedia the letter ج represents g in modern Egyptian Arabic while ق has other sounds. The ن ج ر (n j r) origin makes more sense. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:34, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

• Etymon of racahout, if standard Arabic.
• Etymon of Shaquille (name meaning "handsome"), currently given as شَكِيل (šakīl). Is this related to شَكْل (šakl, “shape”)?
• Etymon of Shazia ("rare, unique")
• Etymon of tallica, given as ta'līḳah.
• Etymon of ziraleet. Given as زَغَارِيد (zaḡārīd). I take it this is related to زَغْرَدَ (zaḡrada).
• لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”) - see Icelandic látún
• كِفِير (kifīr) - see Russian кефир (kefir)
• قر - see (translation table of confess) for Egyptian Arabic. Requested entries page for Egyptian Arabic has to be created? It doesn't look like it exists.
• رَاسِم (rāsim) - etymon of the name Rasim
• الغردقة - a city in Egypt, Hurghada

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• أَعْرَاف (ʔaʕrāf) - something like either the Purgatory or the Heights
• أَهُورَا (ʔahūrā) - God in Zoroastrianism. Heydari (talk|contibs) 17:09, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
• أَمِير اَلْبَحْر (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”) - this is the etymon of the word "admiral" in English, French, and so on.
• أَرْجَأَ (ʔarjaʔa)
• إمزاد - a bowed musical instrument of the Tuareg people
• إِذْلَال (ʔiḏlāl, “humiliation”)
• الحوت الجنوبي (“Piscis Austrinus”)

ب

• بَخَسَ (baḵasa) - وَيَا قَوْمِ أَوْفُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ (And O my people, give full measure and weight in justice and do not deprive the people of their due and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.)
• بِشْت (bišt)
• بَطَر (baṭar) nm. recklessness, wantonness ; v. be reckless or wanton, be disrespectful.
• بنكامات
• بَلَرْم (balarm)
• بَيَاتِيّ (bayātiyy) - a maqam
• بَنْغَازِيّ (banḡāziyy) or بِنْغَازِي (binḡāzī) (is the one with nisba ending the correct version for the name of the city?)
• بَسْطِيلَة (basṭīla) - pastilla
• بَصَارَة (baṣāra, “sharp-wittedness”)
• بَهْو (bahw, “foyer”)

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• تَعْوِيذ (taʕwīḏ) — amulet, talisman; charm, spell, incantation
• تَغَابَنَ (taḡābana, verb), تَغَابُن (taḡābun, noun)
• تَمَاشَقَ (tamāšaqa, verb), تَمَاشُق (tamāšuq, noun)
• تَضْمِين التَرَدُّد (taḍmīn at-taraddud, noun) Frequency Modulation or FM
• تَلَافَى (talāfā, verb)
• تَسْبِيحة (tasbīḥa)
• تَرَاوِيح (tarāwīḥ, “evening prayer”)
• تَيَمُّم (tayammum) - tayammum
• تَشْوِيش (tašwīš, “confusion; derangement”)
• تَصْنِيع (taṣnīʕ, “fabrication, working, treating, industrialization”)
• تَنَاظَرَ (tanāẓara)
• تَثْمِين (taṯmīn, “satisfaction? maybe evaluation?”)

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• جَبَالَة (jabāla) - people and region of northwestern Morocco
• جلبي
• جَذْوَة (jaḏwa), جِذْوَة (jiḏwa, “ember”)
• جذبة

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• حَرَزَ (ḥaraza) Verb meaning "to protect".
• حَوَالَة (ḥawāla)
• حُمَّة (ḥumma, “fever”)
• حَمَّادَة (ḥammāda, “hamada”)
• حَكَوَاتِيّ (ḥakawātiyy, “storyteller”)
• حَوَالَة (ḥawāla, “transfer, trust”) - English hawala and descendants in several other languages. Does this also mean "charge, responsibility" (as in the Persian-derived havildar)?
• حَايِك (ḥāyik), حَيْك (ḥayk) - Maghrebi garment. See حايك, English haik.
• حَلْفَاء (ḥalfāʔ), حَلْفَا (ḥalfā) Cladium
• حَقَرَ (ḥaqara, “to despise”)

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• خَفَاجَة (ḵafāja) - a place in Iraq
• خَبِل (ḵabil) - confusion; mental disorder, insanity?
• خُصُومَة (ḵuṣūma, “quarrel, dispute; lawsuit”)
• خَنِيث (ḵanīṯ, “effeminate”)
• خَاتِمَة (ḵātima, “end, conclusion”)
• خِزْي (ḵizy)

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• دابق
• داروما
• دَاو (dāw) - dhow, a kind of boat
• دنقلا - a city in Sudan
• دَقْلَة نُور (daqla(t) nūr) - a variety of date
• دَلَّعَ (dallaʕa)
• دورية (see Swahili doria (“patrol”) borrowing. Baldi says "daurīya patrol, round; reconnaissance squad")

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• رَسْم إِمْلَائِيّ (rasm ʔimlāʔiyy) (dictational orthography) - "modern Arabic orthography"
• رَبَابَة (rabāba) - a musical instrument
• رَيَّان (rayyān) - full, abundant
• راشي - the Iraqi name for tahini
• رَزَحَ (razaḥa, “to be exhausted, emaciated, to sink to the ground”)

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• زَبَانِيَة (zabāniya, noun) npl., myrmidons --Strabismus (talk) 06:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
• زواوي
• زَغْزَغَ (zaḡzaḡa)
• زُلَيْح (zulayḥ)
• زَمَّارَة (zammāra)
• زَنْج (zanj)
• زُلَيْخَة (zulayḵa), زُلَيْخَا (zulayḵā), زُلَيْخَاء (zulayḵāʔ) Etymon of Zuleika and/or Suleika.
• زَبَاد (civet)

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• سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى (subḥānahu wataʕālā) - is this phrase worth having?
• سِبْس (sibs) or سبس - a form of reed pipe (musical instrument)
• سحوق - a type of hot sauce (apparently from Yemeni Arabic) (= sahawiq, or Hebrew skhug סחוג) —Stephen ^(Talk) 22:16, 3 August 2016 (UTC))
• سِرْيَة (sirya) - English siryah
• سَيَّار (sayyār) - planet
• سرمان - dragonfly (Wehr, Hans (1979) “سرمان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN)
• سلامية - a double reed instrument

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• شَاذِلِيّة (šāḏiliyya)
• شمة
• شُفْشُوفَة (šufšūfa) — ‘shufshuufa’, this is how everyone in (rebel areas of) Libya refers to Gaddafi, it's on all the graffiti etc.....I think it means "the curly-haired one" but would be good to get more info on this. May be specifically Libyan Arabic? (—Widsith, un-logged in) (I don’t know much about Libyan Arabic, but in Standard Arabic, شفشف (shafshafa) means to dry, dry out, parch, drain. In Libya, شفشوفة seems to mean "old frizzy-haired". —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
• شلبي
• شِيش طَاوُوق (šīš ṭāwūq) - shish taouk
• شُووَار (šūwār) - calm sea

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• ضُوم

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• طَنْبُورَة (ṭanbūra, “East African musical instrument”)
• طَفْل (ṭafl, “clay”) -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017_August_13
• طِفَال (ṭifāl, “potter clay”) -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017_August_13

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• عَثَمَ (ʕaṯama), عَثِمَ (ʕaṯima)
• عَزِير (ʕazīr). Borrowed into Turkish with the meaning of rent paid for pasturage. Not in Wehr-3 in the range عزر to عزي, may have been obsolete for centuries.
• عَكَفَ (ʕakafa)
• عُرُبًا (ʕuruban)
• عَقِيد (ʕaqīd)
• عَدِيم (ʕadīm, “not having, lacking; deprived (of)”)
• عَظَامَة (ʕaẓāma, “majesty; pride; exaltedness”)
• عقيل - an Arabic male given name, maybe derived from عقل

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• غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa)
• اِغْتَفَرَ (iḡtafara)
• غَرَّمَ (ḡarrama)

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• فَرْفَار (farfār): proposed etymon for Spanish fanfarrón, English fanfaronade (فَرْفَار (farfār). medieval Arabic = "lightness and frivolity", talkative, shouting)
• فَرِيكَة (farīka): Arabic Wikipedia: فريكة. Almaany: [1]. => English freekeh, farik
• فَسْخ (fasḵ) and فَسَخَ (fasaḵa), from which Turkish fesih[2]
• فَوْزِيّ (fawziyy, “triumph”)
• فَطِيرَة (faṭīra)
• فول مدمس - an Arabic dish
• فَوْرَة (fawra) - outburst; excitement
• فاسق - sinful/offender

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• قَاصِد (qāṣid)
• قَائِم (qāʔim)
• قَحْطَان (qaḥṭān)
• قَنْبُوس (qanbūs)
• قَنْدُورَة (qandūra), كَندُورَة (gandūra)
• قَعْدَة (qaʕda), قِعْدَة (qiʕda)
• قصعة المساكين (“Corona Borealis”)

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• كرد - the name of a maqam
• كُرَة اَلْقَدَم اَلْأَمْرِيكِيَّة (kura(t) al-qadam al-ʔamrīkiyya, “American Football”)
• كُرَة الرِّيشَة (kura(t) ar-rīša, “badminton”)
• كُرَة صَوْلَجَان (kura(t) ṣawlajān, “golf”)
• كُشَرِي (kušarī) - an Egyptian dish
• كاوالا - a flute
  • كولة - a flute

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• لَعِيب (laʕīb) - Supposedly means "super-skilled player". Etymon of La'eeb, the mascot of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.
• لَفَش (lafaš). Etymon of nefasch.
• لونجا - a type of musical piece

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• مراقي (marāqi (?)) - hypochondriac, please check and add the romanisation to Appendix:List of Balkanisms
• مُسْتَعْلٍ (mustaʕlin)
• ماروم
• مَوْصِل (mawṣil, “noun of place from the verb وَصَلَ (waṣala, “to arrive”)”)
• مُوَصِّل (muwaṣṣil, “conductor”, active participle of the verb وَصَّلَ (waṣṣala, “to put together”))
• مَشَدَة (mašada)
• مزي distinguished, stylish, clever, witty (Root 5071 & 5243 ممز in Dictionnaire Larousse Compact Plus Arabe‑Français, by Daniel Reig, 2008, →ISBN)
• مجل
• مُهَنَّد (muhannad)
• مِقَشّة (miqašša, tool noun), مَقاشّ (maqāšš, “tongs or broom?”)
• مِحَشَّة (miḥašša)
• مِلْحَفَة (milḥafa)
• مَعْرُوض (maʕrūḍ) (with two possible plurals, depending on the sense?)
• مِسَمَّن (misamman) - a type of flatbread
• مِرْزَم (mirzam)
• مِئْزَر (miʔzar)
• مَرْحُوم (marḥūm) - deceased, the late
• مَنْفَعَة (manfaʕa, “usefulness; advantage”)
• مَكِين (makīn)
• مَرَشّ (marašš, “sprinkling bottle; some kind of glass container, maybe used to store perfume”) - the page exists but this word is missing
• مسكوف - an Iraqi fish dish
• مَدْخُول (madḵūl, “revenue, receipts, returns”)
• مزهر - a frame drum
• مُبَذِّر (mubaḏḏir, “spendthrift”)
• مَا دَامَ (mā dāma) - while, as long as
• مُفْسِد (mufsid) - corrupt (person) - see فسد

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• نَبَجَ (nabaja)
• نَسِيم الْبَحْر (nasīm al-baḥr, “sea breeze”)
• نَتَشَ (nataša)
• نَجَزَ (najaza)
• نَطْرُون (naṭrūn) - source of natrón, natron, etc.
• نَدِيم (nadīm)
• نَطَحَ (naṭaḥa), نَطْح (naṭḥ)
• نَاصِبَة (nāṣiba)
• نَبَأَ (nabaʔa, “to announce, (?) utter in a low voice”, verb) — from the root ن ب ء
• نَوْلُون (nawlūn, “fare for a ship, freight”)
• نيوم - new planned community in Saudi Arabia

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• واتهموه
• وَأَرَ (waʔara)
• وَسْطانِيّ (wasṭāniyy, “middle, central, medium”)
• وَطَر (waṭar)
• وَهَرَ (wahara)
• وَسْوَاسْ (waswās) (literally "whispers" but usually used to mean something like obsessiveness or worry)

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• رَاطَنَ (rāṭana)
• يرغول - a traditional wind instrument