شلوق

Arabic

Etymology 1

From coastal African dialects, perhaps via Berber from Italian scirocco.

Alternative forms

  • شَلُوك (šalūk)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.luːq/, /ʃi.luːq/

Noun

شَلُوق or شِلُوق • (šalūq or šilūq) m

  1. southeasterly wind, scirocco
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: xlokk
  • >? Maltese: xellug
Trivia

Etymology 2

Apparently from Coptic ϣⲁⲗⲟⲩⲕⲓ (šalouki), ⲥⲁⲗⲟⲩⲕⲓ (salouki), from Egyptian šlq, alternative form of šrq, which also passed as شَرُّوك (šarrūk, Schilbe).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃu.luːq/

Noun

شُلُوق • (šulūq) m

  1. (obsolete) an unknown kind of river fish, perhaps Petrocephalus bane
Declension

References

  • Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen (in German), volume 47, page 33 Anm. 81, finds the Arabic fish-name and no other place and knows no comparandum except شَلِيق (šalīq, lamprel or wrasse)
  • Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth (1928) “On Egyptian Fish-Names used by Greek Writers”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 14, →DOI, page 30, mentioning the Coptic without the Arabic

Persian

Adjective

شلوق • (šoluq)

  1. Alternative spelling of شلوغ (šoluğ)
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