قرس

Chadian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic قِرْشْ (qirš, “any of a number of currency units”), with an irregular change of š > s, ultimately from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus (“thick (penny)”). Compare Sudanese Arabic قروش (gurūš, “money”).

Noun

قرس • (gurus) m

  1. money
    • 2019, الكتاب المقدس بالعربي الدارجي هنا تشاد [The Bible in Chadian Arabic]‎[1], N'Djamena: Alliance biblique du Tchad, مَتَّى [Matthew] 26:9:
      كَنْ بَاعَوْا الْعِطِرْ دَا، يَلْقَوْا قُرُسْ كَتِيرْ أَشَانْ يَنْطُوهْ لِلْمَسَاكِينْ.»
      kan bāʔo al-ʔitir da, yalgo gurus katīr ʔašān yantūh le-l-masākīn
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

  • Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎[2] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 53
  • Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 518
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