mpakara

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Cypriot Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Cypriot Greek [Term?], Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (bakara), from Arabic بَكَرَة (bakara).

Noun[edit]

mpakara f

  1. pulley

References[edit]

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 163