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(ûrg)
(ûrg)n.
An extensive area of desert covered with shifting sand dunes.
[Colloquial Arabic (Maghrebi dialect) 'arq, 'arg, from Arabic 'irq, vein, small mountain, thin tract of sand extending along the ground (in reference to the veinlike appearance of the dunes); see ʿrq1 in the Appendix of Semitic roots.]
- Indo-European root: gheslo-
- Indo-European root: gheu-
- Indo-European root: gheu(ə)-
- Indo-European root: ghos-ti-
- Indo-European root: ghrebh-
- Indo-European root: ghrebh-
- Indo-European root: ghredh-
- Indo-European root: ghrendh-
- Indo-European root: ghrē-
- Indo-European root: ghrēi-
- Indo-European root: ghwer-
- Indo-European root: ghwībh-
- Indo-European root: ghē-
- Indo-European root: gleubh-
- Indo-European root: gnō-
- Indo-European root: gr̥ə-no-
- Indo-European root: gwei-
- Indo-European root: gwelə-
- Indo-European root: gwen-
- Indo-European root: gwerə-
- Indo-European root: gwerə-
- Indo-European root: gwet-
- Indo-European root: gwhedh-
- Indo-European root: gwhen-
- Indo-European root: gwher-