Aramaic

Noun

מטרקא • ‎(mṭrqʾ)

1. (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic) goad, prodding stick

   מטרקא טייא דפסיק רישיה‎ ― an Arabian goad whose top portion is cut off

Descendants

Taking Jewish Babylonian Aramaic as representative of all Aramaic:

• Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡀࡈࡓࡀࡒࡉࡀ pl ‎(maṭraqia)
• Classical Syriac: ܡܛܪܩܐ ‎(maṭrəqā)
  • → Old Armenian: մտրակ ‎(mtrak), մտրուակ ‎(mtruak)
    • Armenian: մտրակ ‎(mtrak)
• → Arabic: مِطْرَقَة ‎(miṭraqa), مِطْرَق ‎(miṭraq), مَطْرَقَة ‎(maṭraqa), مَطْرَق ‎(maṭraq) (either borrowed from Aramaic or its cognate)
  • → Aragonese: matraca
  • → Catalan: matraca
  • → French: matraque
  • → Persian: مطرقه ‎(metraqe), مطرق ‎(metraq)
  • → Portuguese: matraca
  • → Spanish: matraca
    • → English: matraca
  • → Georgian: მათრახი ‎(matraxi)
    • → Armenian: մաթրախ ‎(matʿrax)
  • → Mingrelian: მატრახი ‎(maṭraxi), მართახი ‎(martaxi)
  • → Svan: მრდაყკ ‎(mrdaq̇ḳ), მჰდრაყ ‎(mhdraq̇)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մտրակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, pages 368–369
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1896) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 260
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1474, page 118b
• “mTrq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2015-08-21
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, pages 519a, 661a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press