مرقاس

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Berber ⴰⵎ- (am-) +‎ ⴰⵔⴳⴰⵣ (argaz).

Pronunciation

  • (prescriptive) IPA(key): /mir.qaːs/
  • (common Andalusi) IPA(key): /mir.kaːs/, /mir.qaːsˤ/
  • (common Tunisian) IPA(key): [mɪrɡeːz]

Noun

مِرْقَاس • (mirqās) m (al-Andalus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)

  1. merguez, a highly spiced kind of chiefly lamb bratwurst
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 170:
      يَقُولُونَ ٱلْمِرْكَاسَ بِٱلْكَافِ. وَٱلصَّوَابُ ٱلْمِرْقَاسُ بِٱلْقَافِ.
      yaqūlūna l-mirkāsa bi-l-kāfi. waṣ-ṣawābu l-mirqāsu bi-l-qāfi.
      They say mirkās with k but the correct is mirqās with q.

Declension

Declension of noun مِرْقَاس (mirqās)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal مِرْقَاس
mirqās 		الْمِرْقَاس
al-mirqās 		مِرْقَاس
mirqās
nominative مِرْقَاسٌ
mirqāsun 		الْمِرْقَاسُ
al-mirqāsu 		مِرْقَاسُ
mirqāsu
accusative مِرْقَاسًا
mirqāsan 		الْمِرْقَاسَ
al-mirqāsa 		مِرْقَاسَ
mirqāsa
genitive مِرْقَاسٍ
mirqāsin 		الْمِرْقَاسِ
al-mirqāsi 		مِرْقَاسِ
mirqāsi

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