مركب

Originally a noun of place meaning “place of riding”, from the verb رَكِبَ (rakiba, “to ride”), from the root ر ك ب (r-k-b). Cognate with Hebrew מֶרְכָּבָה (merkaḇa, “chariot”), Ge'ez መርከብ (märkäb), Classical Syriac ܡܰܪܟܰܒܬܳܐ.

• IPA^(key): /mar.kab/

مَرْكَب • (markab) m (plural مَرَاكِب (marākib))

1. anything upon which one rides
   1. ship, boat, vessel
   2. saddle

• Maltese: mirkeb
• → Afar: márkab
• → Azerbaijani: mərkəb (“saddle-beast, donkey”)
• → Swahili: merikebu (“steamship”)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مركب (merkeb, “saddle-beast, donkey”)
  • Turkish: merkep

Derived from the passive participle of رَكَّبَ (rakkaba).

• IPA^(key): /mu.rak.kab/

مُرَكَّب • (murakkab)

1. compound, composed of multiple parts

• جَهْل مُرَكَّب m (jahl murakkab, noun)
• كَسْر مُرَكَّب m (kasr murakkab, “compound fraction”, noun)

مُرَكَّب • (murakkab) m (plural مُرَكَّبَات (murakkabāt))

1. (chemistry) compound

• → Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb
• Hijazi Arabic: مركب (murakkab)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مركب (mürekkeb)

  > Turkish: mürekkep (inherited)

  • → Albanian: myreqep, mireqep, mereçep
  • → Armenian: միւրէկկէպ (miwrēkkēp), մուրա̈քք^յա̈բ (muräkʻkʻ^yäb), միրէքէպ (mirēkʻēp), միւրէքէպ (miwrēkʻēp)
  • → Bulgarian: мурекеп (murekep) (obsolete)
  • → Crimean Tatar: mürekep, merekep
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

    Cyrillic script: мурѐћеп, мурѝћеп, мурѝкеп, мурѐћеф

    Latin script: murèćep, murìćep, murìkep, murèćef

• → Persian: مرکب (morakkab, “ink”)
• → Uyghur: مۇرەككەپ (murekkep)
• → Uzbek: murakkab

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ركب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1145
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ركب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 413

From Arabic مُرَكَّبْ (murakkab).

• IPA^(key): /mu.rak.kab/

مركب • (murakkab) m (plural مُرَكَّبات (murakkabāt))

1. (obsolete) kitchen
2. (chemistry) compound

مركب • (murakkab) (feminine مُرَكَّبة (murakkaba), common plural مُرَكَّبين (murakkabīn))

1. assembled
2. compound, composed of multiple part

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَكَّب (murakkab, “compound”), passive participle of رَكَّبَ (rakkaba, “to assemble, to compose, to combine”).

مركب • (mürekkeb)

1. composite, compound, composed of multiple parts

مركب • (mürekkeb) (plural مركبات (mürekkebat))

1. compound, a substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements
2. ink, a colorant-based solution used to color or dye a surface together with a quill

• Turkish: mürekkep
• → Albanian: myreqep, mireqep, mereçep
• → Armenian: միւրէկկէպ (miwrēkkēp), մուրա̈քք^յա̈բ (muräkʻkʻ^yäb), միրէքէպ (mirēkʻēp), միւրէքէպ (miwrēkʻēp)
• → Bulgarian: мурекеп (murekep) (obsolete)
• → Crimean Tatar: mürekep, merekep
• → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

  Cyrillic script: мурѐћеп, мурѝћеп, мурѝкеп, мурѐћеф

  Latin script: murèćep, murìćep, murìkep, murèćef

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْكَب (markab, “ship, boat; saddle”), a noun of place from the verb رَكِبَ (rakiba, “to ride”).

مركب • (merkeb)

1. (originally) anything mounted or ridden for travel, like a ship, boat, or vessel
2. (currently) ass, donkey, any domestic animal of the species Equus asinus asinus

   Synonyms: اشك (eşek), حمار (himar), خر (har)

• مركبجی (merkebci, “donkey-driver”)

• Turkish: merkep