خرشنة

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Arabic

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خَرْشَنَة
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Etymology

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From the root خ ر ش (ḵ-r-š) dealing with "scratching", "scrapping", "peeling", "to snatch or claw at." Uncertain reference to perhaps its slender beak, the distinguishing characteristic from the wider-billed gulls; from a common practice of forming a nest by scratching a groove in sand; a forked-shaped tail; or simply from its swooping down and snatching small fish.

Perhaps semantically related to שחף (shákhaf, seagull; unidentified non-kosher aquatic bird), also with an etymology meaning to peel, generally suggested to reference an "emaciated or slender figure".

Noun

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خَرْشَنَة (ḵaršanaf (plural خَرْشَنَات (ḵaršanāt))

  1. tern, Sterna
  2. (when in plural also) Charadriiformes

Declension

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References

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  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خرشنة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[1] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 329