ترعة

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic תַּרְעָא (tarʿā, opening, gate). Doublet of ثُغْرَة (ṯuḡra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tur.ʕa/

Noun

تُرْعَة (turʿa) f (plural تُرَع (turaʿ) or تُرْعَات (turʿāt))

  1. gate, portal
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Māgah, 25:
      إِنَّ أُحُدًا جَبَلٌ يُحِبُّنَا وَنُحِبُّهُ وَهُوَ عَلَى تُرْعَةٍ مِنْ تُرَعِ الْجَنَّةِ وَعَيْرٌ عَلَى تُرْعَةٍ مِنْ تُرَعِ النَّارِ‏.
      ʾinna ʾuḥudan jabalun yuḥibbunā wanuḥibbuhu wahuwa ʿalā turʿatin min turaʿi l-jannati waʿayrun ʿalā turʿatin min turaʿi n-nāri.
      ʾuḥud is a mountain which loves us and we love it, and it stands at one of the gates of Paradise. And ʿayr stands at one of the gates of Hell.’”
  2. mouth of a rivulet, of a watering-trough, of a water-tank or of an other source of water
  3. (rare) stair, flight of steps
  4. canal, channel of water

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 15
  • Freytag, Georg (1830), ترعة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 189
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), ترعة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 197
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ترعة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 303
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), ترعة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 171
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  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ترعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 139
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