عقرب

From Proto-Semitic *ʕaḳrab-. Compare Jewish Palestinian Aramaic עַקְרַבָּא (ʿaqraḇā), Classical Syriac ܥܶܩܰܪܒܳܐ (ʿeqarbā), Hebrew עַקְרָב (ʿaqrāḇ), Ugaritic 𐎓𐎖𐎗𐎁 (ʿqrb), Ge'ez ዐቅረብ (ʿäḳräb); attested as a Semitic word since Akkadian 𒀝𒊏𒁍 (aqrabu).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/
  • (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʕaɡ.rab/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/

عَقْرَب • (ʕaqrab) m (plural عَقَارِب (ʕaqārib))

1. scorpion

   الْعَقْرَب (al-ʕaqrab, “Scorpio”)

2. (astronomy) Scorpius, a constellation of the zodiac
3. (astrology) Scorpio, the zodiac sign for the scorpion
4. hour hand of a clock, so named from its ending in two prongs

• قَلْب اَلْعَقْرَب (qalb al-ʕaqrab) (Antares)

• Maltese: għakreb
• Moroccan Arabic: عقرب (ʕaqrab)
• → Armenian: աղրաբ (aġrab)
• → Azerbaijani: əqrəb / әгрәб
• → Khalaj: aqrab
• → Persian: عقرب ('aqrab)
• → Old Navarro-Aragonese: alacran
  • Aragonese: alacrán, alicrán, arraclán, arriclán
• → Old Catalan: alacrà
  • Catalan: alacrà, alicrà, aliacrà
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: alacran
  • Portuguese: lacrau, lacraia, alacrau, alacrara
• → Old Spanish: alacran
  • Spanish: alacrán
    • → Tagalog: alakdan
• → Swahili: akrabu
• → Ottoman Turkish: عقرب (ʼakreb)
  • Turkish: akrep
  • → Albanian: akrep
  • → Armenian: ախրէպ (axrēp)
  • → Laz: აკრეპი (aǩrep̌i), აქრები (akrebi) — Artasheni, ანკრეპი (anǩrep̌i)
• → Uzbek: aqrab

• “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.

From Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab).

عقرب • (ʔagrab) f (plural عقارب (ʔagārib))

1. scorpion (arachnid of the order Scorpiones)
2. (astronomy) Scorpius

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[1] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 5
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 66

From Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaɡ.rab/

عقرب • (ʕagrab) m (plural عَقارِب (ʕagārib))

1. scorpion
2. (astrology) Scorpio, the zodiac sign for the scorpion
3. hour hand of a clock, so named from its ending in two prongs

عَقرَب (aqrab) (definite accusative عَقرَبؽ, plural عَقرَبلار)

1. Arabic spelling of aqrab (“scorpion”)

From Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/

عقرب • (ʕaqrab) m (plural عقارب (ʕqārib))

1. scorpion

Borrowed from Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab, “scorpion”), itself from Proto-Semitic *ʕaḳrab-.

عقرب • (ʼakreb) (definite accusative عقربی (ʼakrebi), plural عقارب (ʼakarîb))

1. scorpion, any of the arachnids in the order Scorpiones provided with pincers and a sting

   Synonym: كژدم (kejdum)

2. hour hand, little hand, the short hand of a clock or watch face that indicates the hours

   Synonym: ساعت عقربی (saʼat ʼakrebi)

3. (astronomy) Scorpius, a constellation of the zodiac in the southern celestial hemisphere
4. (astrology) Scorpio, the zodiac sign for the scorpion covering October 23 - November 22

• Turkish: akrep
• → Albanian: akrep
• → Armenian: ախրէպ (axrēp)
• → Laz: აკრეპი (aǩrep̌i), აქრები (akrebi) — Artasheni, ანკრეპი (anǩrep̌i)

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “عقرب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 362
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akrep”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 177
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “akreb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 29
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عقرب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 854
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scorpio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1521
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عقرب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3297
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akrep”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عقرب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1311

Borrowed from Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab).

عقرب • (aqrab) (plural عقرب‌ها (aqrab-hâ))

1. scorpion

   Synonym: کژدم (každom)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 172:

     چو عقربیست بمه زلف او که بر جانم
     ازو بهر سر مو صد هزار نیش آید

     čū aqrabē-st ba-mah zulf-i ō ki bar jānam
     az ō ba-har sar-i mō sad hazār nēš āyad

     The tresses that are upon [the face of] my beloved are like a scorpion on the moon;
     A hundred thousand stings come from her from the end of every strand of hair.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (astronomy) Scorpius (constellation)
3. (astrology) Scorpio (zodiac)
4. hour hand of a clock

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عقرب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Learned borrowing from Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.rab/, [ˈʕɑq.rˤɑb]

عقرب • (ʕaqrab) m (plural عقارب (ʕaqārib))

1. scorpion
2. (astrology) Scorpio