Etymograph

English

Mashq

Mashq comes from Arabic مَشْق ‘verbal noun of مَشَقَ (mašaqa) (form I)’, and goes back to مَشَقَ ‘to stretch out’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَشَقَmašaqa‘to stretch out’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَشْقmašq‘verbal noun of مَشَقَ (mašaqa) (form I)’
  3. EnglishtodayMashq

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَشَقَmašaqa‘to stretch out’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَشْقmašq‘verbal noun of مَشَقَ (mašaqa) (form I)’
  3. EnglishtodayMashq

Today it means

name A calligraphic form of Arabic.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic مَشَقَ / Mashq