أستيكة
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology 1
A Cairene distortion of مستيكة (mastīka) valid for other Egyptian Arabic dialects now displaced by Cairene, colloquial byform of Arabic Standard مُصْطَكَى (muṣṭakā, “mastic”), then extended by French élastique and its descendant Ottoman Turkish الاستیق (elastik, elastık), لاستیق (lastik, lastık, “caoutchouc, rubber”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /asˈtiːka/
Noun
أستيكة • (astīka) f (plural أساتيك (asatīk))
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /asˈtiːka/
References
- Behnstedt, Peter (1980) “Zum ursprünglichen Dialekt von Alexandria”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 130, page 40
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “أستيكة”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 20a
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “مستيكة”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 821a
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