إستبرق

From Middle Persian stplk (/⁠stabrag⁠/, “shot silk”), from stpl (/⁠stabr⁠/, “strong”); compare Classical Persian ستبر (sitabr, “strong, thick”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔis.tab.raq/

إِسْتَبْرَق • (ʔistabraq) m

1. silk brocade
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 44:53:

     يَلْبَسُونَ مِنْ سُنْدُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍ مُتَقَابِلِينَ

     yalbasūna min sundusin wa-ʔistabraqin mutaqābilīna

     dressed in fine silk and rich brocade, facing one another.

• Cheung, Johnny (2017) On the (Middle) Iranian borrowings in Qurʾānic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 58–60
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “إستبرق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.