جرجس

From Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).

• جَاوْرْجِيُوس (jāwrjiyūs)
• جُورْج (jōrj) (especially Lebanon)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒur.d͡ʒus/
• (Egypt) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪrɡɪs]

جُرْجُس • (jurjus) m

1. (Saint) George, a legendary Christian martyr
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English George

Borrowed from Aramaic גַּרְגִּישְׁתָּא (gargīštā) / ܓܰܪܓܶܫܬܴܐ (gargeštā), of unknown origin.

• قِرْقِس (qirqis)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒir.d͡ʒis/

جِرْجِس • (jirjis) m (obsolete)

1. sealing earth, terra sigillata
2. a kind of lunt or fuse from rope grass
   • c. 910, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamaḏānī, Kitāb al-Buldān‎^[1]:

     وَمِنْ عَجَائِبِ مِصْرَ : حَشِيشَةٌ يُقَالُ لَهَا ٱلدِّيسُ ، يُتَّخَذُ مِنْهَا حِبَالٌ لِلسُّفُنِ ، تُسَمَّى تِلْكَ ٱلْحِبَالُ ٱلْقِرْقِسُ، يُؤْخَذُ مِنَ ٱلْقِرْقِسِ قِطْعَةٌ فَيُشْعَلُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ كَٱلشَّمْعِ ، ثُمَّ يُطْفِئُ فَيَمْكُثُ سَائِرَ ٱللَّيْلِ ، فَإِذَا ٱحْتَاجُوا إِلَيْهِ أَخَذُوا طَرَفَهُ فَأَدَارُوهُ كَٱلْمِخْرَاقِ.

     wamin ʕajāʔibi miṣra : ḥašīšatun yuqālu lahā d-dīsu , yuttaḵaḏu minhā ḥibālun li-s-sufuni , tusammā tilka l-ḥibālu l-qirqisu, yuʔḵaḏu mina l-qirqisi qiṭʕatun fayušʕalu bayna ʔaydīhim kaš-šamʕi , ṯumma yuṭfiʔu fayamkuṯu sāʔira l-layli , faʔiḏā ḥtājū ʔilayhi ʔaḵaḏū ṭarafahu faʔadārūhu kal-miḵrāqi.

     Of the wonders of Egypt, there is a grass called diss, and one makes from it ropes for ships, these ropes are called qirqis, one takes from the qirqis a piece and torches it like a candle between the hands, then one extinguishes and it bides the whole night; if you need to put it to use then you take its tip and twist it like a kerchief to burn.

From Classical Syriac ܓܰܪܓܳܣܴܐ (gargāsā, “a type of gnats”), ultimately probably onomatopoeic. Compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic דגירגצא, גירגצא, גרגצא.

• قِرْقِس (qirqis)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒir.d͡ʒis/

جِرْجِس • (jirjis) m (collective, singulative جِرْجِسَة f (jirjisa))

1. (Syria, obsolete) any Nematocera insect: crane flies, gnats, mosquitoes

   Synonyms: بَعُوض (baʕūḍ), (Iraq) بَقّ (baqq), نَامُوس (nāmūs), بَرْغَش (barḡaš), خَمُوش (ḵamūš)

   • 660–688, Qays Ibn Al-Malawwaḥ ?, quoted by Ibn Duraid’s jamhara al-luġa and aṣ-Ṣaġānī's ʕubāb az-zāḫir wa-lubāb al-fāḫir:

     فَلَيْتَ ٱلْأَفَاعِي يَعْضَضْنَنَا … مَكَانَ البَرَاغِيثِ وَٱلْقِرْقِسِ
     يُحَرَّمْنَ جَنْبِيَّ نَوْمَ الْفِرَاشِ … وَيُؤْذِينَ جِسْمِيَ إِنْ أَجْلَسِ

     falayta l-ʔafāʕī yaʕḍaḍnanā … makāna l-barāḡīṯi wal-qirqisi
     yuḥarramna janbiyya nawma l-firāši … wayuʔḏīna jismiya ʔin ʔajlasi

     If only the vipers bit us … at the place of gnats and midges!
     They would have saved my sides for bed-sleep … and allow my chain to sit

2. bimaculated lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata), of which Melanocorypha bimaculata subsp. rufescens occurs in summer in Arabia and Northeastern Africa and in the Northern and Western edges of Greater Syria in winter, a gamebird, the other subspecies Melanocorypha bimaculata subsp. bimaculata East and South of the Caspian Sea)

• جرجس (اسم) on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• “grgšh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “grgs”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جرجس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 182
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 252
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “جرجس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 263
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “قرقس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[4] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 263
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جرجس”, 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^[5] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 275
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قرقس”, 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^[6] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 723
• Shirihai, Hadoram, Svensson, Lars (2018) Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. Volume 1: Passerines: Larks to Warblers, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 57