يراع

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Arabic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably from Aramaic, the same word as or derivative of יַעְרָא / ܝܰܥܪܳܐ (yaʿrā, rushes, bushes, thicket), so doublet of وَعْر (waʕr). The sense of a coward may be instead from the root ر و ع (r-w-ʕ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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يَرَاع (yarāʕm (collective, singulative يَرَاعَة f (yarāʕa))

  1. piece of reed, reed-pipe or reed-pen
  2. glowworm, larviform gnat
    • a. 625, الأعشى [al-ʾaʿšā], quoting المسيب بن علس, edited by Geyer, Rudolf, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎[1], volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, pages 62–63:
      وَمَهًا يَرِفُّ كَأَنَّهُ إِذْ ذُقْتَهُ … عَانِيَّةٌ شُجَّتْ بِمَاءِ يَرَاعِ
      wamahan yariffu kaʔannahu ʔiḏ ḏuqtahu … ʕāniyyatun šujjat bi-māʔi yarāʕi
      An essence, which when tried, tastes like wine of ʿānah diluted with sump water [i.e. the water where gnats grow]
  3. quakebuttock, coward

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “يراع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 518a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “يراع”, 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[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1626b