مرسى الشيخ برغوت
Arabic
Etymology
Superficially literally “anchorage of the shaykh of the flea”, with a name looking like the Sudanese Arabic form بَرْغُوت (barḡūt) of بُرْغُوث (burḡūṯ, “flea”), related to be the name of a faqih whose tomb was to the north of the original anchorage, however from Beja baarʼuut referring to that sea-mark, of unknown further etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar.sa‿ʃ.ʃajx bar.ɣuːt/
Proper noun
مَرْسَى الشَّيْخ بَرْغُوت • (marsā š-šayḵ barḡūt) m
- the name of Port Sudan, a city in Sudan, before its expansion in 1900–1909 from an anchorage to a port
- Synonym: بُورْتْسُودَان (būrtsūdān)
Declension
| singular | singular invariable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوت marsā š-šayḵi barḡūt |
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| nominative | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu |
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| accusative | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu |
— |
| genitive | — | مَرْسَى الشَّيْخِ بَرْغُوتُ marsā š-šayḵi barḡūtu |
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References
- Morin, Didier (2012) “Arabic and Cushitic Toponymy: One Coast with Two Maps”, in Northeast African Studies[1], volume 12, number 1, Michigan State University Press, , page 222, where transcribed “marsa šayḫ Barud (or Baġhut) or ‘šayḫ al-barḫat’”. In German sources transcribed Marsa Scheich Barut. All spellings that cannot be found in Arabic when reverse-transcribed, as of 2021; but no English form of the old name can be found.