śrq / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root śrq: Saracen, sirocco.

śrq

West Semitic, to be(come) red, rise (of the sun); noun *śarq-, rising (of the sun), east.

Saracen, sarsen, sirocco, from Arabic šarq, east, sunrise, from šaraqa, to rise, shine.

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