ʕrq / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ʕrq: arak, borage, erg.

ʕrq1

West Semitic, to gnaw, strip.

erg2, from Maghrebi Arabic ʕarq, ʕarg, colloquial pronunciation of Arabic ʕirq, vein, tract of sand extending along the ground (perhaps < *"something stripped off, strip, strand").

ʕrq2

Arabic root, to sweat. Perhaps a specialized semantic development of ʕrq1 (< *"to become emaciated"? < "to gnaw, strip&;rdquo;).

a. arak, arrack, raki, from Arabic ʕaraq, originally short for ʕaraq al-tamr, literally, sweat of the date (arak originally having been distilled from date wine), from ʕaraq, sweat;;
b. borage, probably from Arabic būʕaraq, from ʔabūʕaraq, father of sweat. Both a and b from Arabic ʕaraq, sweat, from ʕariqa, to sweat, perspire.
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