مَرْقَح
márḳaḥ or mórḳaḥ (du. marḳáḥi, pl. meréḳeḥ)
basic morphological information

n. (m.)

stick
палка
عصا
LS 406; CSOL I 636; CSOL II 567; Naumkin et al. 2015a:82
text examples

a. édof díˀʸheʰ ḷe-márḳaḥ yeḥófer degdέgeʰ négrihin ‘He took his stick and started to dig pits in the barren place’ (CSOL I 6:16)

b. ḳaḷ ˁéyyek ḷázˁam wa-tšáḳaḷ oˀógik be-márḳaḥ ‘Unless you sit and quiet down, I will beat you with a stick’ (Naumkin et al. 2015a:20)

c. dómik ḷe-dέfɛʰ di-ˁag wa-ḷaḷ di-ˁan ľidmέ eṣóˀodš di-míˁiʰ be-mórḳaḥ ‘I went to sleep next to one man. When he was almost asleep, I poked him in the side with a stick’ (Naumkin–Kogan 2021:531)

d. triʰ díˀʸheʰ mórḳaḥ tóˀo ľibḷέgš yeḥobíˀin wa-yaḥríṭeṭ tóˀo bekéľeʰ ‘The second is his (Moses’) staff — whenever he would throw it, it would creep and crawl as a snake’ (ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:541)

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