Where does “ملعقة” come from?

ملعقة (North Levantine Arabic) comes from Arabic ملعقة, from Arabic لَعِقَ, from Arabic ع — second-person masculine singular active...

ملعقة (North Levantine Arabic): spoon

Definitions

  1. spoon

Ancestry of “ملعقة”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicملعقةspoon; skimmer
2Arabicلَعِقَto lick; lick
3Arabicعsecond-person masculine singular active...
Every word from Arabic ع →Every word from Arabic لَعِقَ →Every word from Arabic ملعقة →