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▪ According to Jeffery1938 a borrowing from Gz raqq ‘parchment’, thus via Gz ultimately of the same origin as ↗raqqa ‘(to be\come) thin, soft’ (parchment seen as the *‘thin material’).
▪ EgAr ²riqq ‘tambourine’ is prob. called so due to the instrument’s covering with a thin, parchment-like membrane.
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▪ eC7 (‘volume, scroll of parchment’) Q 52:(1-)3 wa-ṭ-ṭūri | wa-kitābin masṭūrin | fī raqqin manšūrin ‘By the Mount | And a Scripture inscribed | On fine parchment unrolled’
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▪ ↗raqqa
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▪ Jeffery1938: »The Lexicons take the word from ↗raqqa ‘to be thin’ (LA, xi, 414), which is plausible enough, but there can be little doubt that it is a foreign word borrowed from the Eth [Gz],¹ where raqq means ‘parchment’ (charta pergamena, membrana, Dillmann, Lex, 284), which translates Grk membránai in 2 Tim. iv: 13. It was an early borrowing and occurs many times in the old poetry.«
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1. Fraenkel, Fremdw, 246. [Gz] raqq is from raq(a)qa ‘to be thin’; cf. Hbr raq and Syr raq, so that [Gz] raqīq corresponds to [Ar] raqīq.

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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗raqqa, ↗¹raqq, ↗al-Raqqaẗ, ↗¹riqq, ↗²riqq, ↗ruqāq, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗RQː (RQQ).

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