▪ ʕRQ_1: From WSem *√¹ʕRQ ‘to gnaw, strip’ – Huehnergard2011. ▪ ʕRQ_2: From Ar root √²ʕRQ ‘to sweat’. Perhaps a specialized semantic development of *√¹ʕRQ (< *‘to become emaciated’?) – Huehnergard2011.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl erg, from MġrAr ʕarq, ʕarg, coll. pronunciation of Ar ʕirq ‘vein; tract of sand extending along the ground’ (perh. < *‘s.th. stripped off, strip, strand’).
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl arak, arrack, raki (< Tu rakı), from Ar ʕaraq, originally short for ʕaraq al-tamr, lit. ‘sweat of the date’ (arak originally having been distilled from date wine); borage, prob. from Ar būʕaraq, from ʔabū ʕaraq ‘father of sweat’; all from Ar ʕaraq ‘sweat’, from ʕariqa ‘to sweat, perspire’.