discIs it taken from a Phoen or Libyan name (barkaẗ, barqaẗ ?), or was it called al-Barqaẗ after its †burqaẗ, i.e., ‘hard ground, hard soil’ (cf. BRQ_11 s.v. ↗BRQ)?, or after its ‘spotted’ surface—a reinterpretation of the adj. barqāʔᵘ, f. of †ʔabraqᵘ ‘blotty, spotted, stained (goat, eye), piebald (black and white)’ (BRQ_14 s.v. ↗BRQ)?