Where does “دقيقة” come from?
دقيقة (Arabic) comes from Arabic دَقِيق, from Arabic ق, from Nabataean 𐢏, from Phoenician 𐤒 — qoph; qop.
دقيقة (Arabic): minute; particle; nicety
Ancestry of “دقيقة”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Arabic | دَقِيق | flour; fine, thin; delicate, fragile; small;... |
| 2 | Arabic | ق | second-person masculine singular active... |
| 3 | Nabataean | 𐢏 | — |
| 4 | Phoenician | 𐤒 | qoph; qop |