ṣqʿ

Arabic root, to be(come) white, covered with frost. moussaka, from colloquial Egyptian Arabic musaqqaʿa, chilled, moussaka, feminine passive participle of Egyptian colloquial saqqaʿa, to chill, variant of ṣaqqaʿa, denominative from ṣaqʿa, cold (weather), frost, from ṣaqiʿa, be(come) white, covered with frost.

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