قروعة

قَرُّوعَة (noun)

Etymology: Given the rarity of the term and unusual variation and usual inter-Semitic origins of the names of infectious diseases—cf. مَوَتَان (mawatān), طَاعُون (ṭāʕūn), بَهَق (bahaq), بَاسُور (bāsūr), نَاسُور (nāsūr)—, أَقْرَع (ʔaqraʕ, “bald; mangy”) separately developed in Arabic, قَرْعَاء (qarʕāʔ, “a garden devoid of vegetation; calamity, malheur”) is just its feminine, and the present term is rather an unattested Aramaic derivation from ܩܪܥ / קְלַע (qraʕ, “to rend”), compare Classical Syriac ܩܱܪܥܬܴܐ (qarʕəṯā, “baldness on the head”), in Syriac and elsewhere usually קורחתה / ܩܘܰܕܚܬܴܐ (qurḥəṯā, “baldness on the head”), verb קְרַח / ܩܕܱܚ (qraḥ, “to make bald; to be bald”), in the same meaning Hebrew קָרַח (qāraḥ) and comparing to قَرَحَ (qaraḥa, “to wound”), قَرَاح (qarāḥ), قِرْوَاح (qirwāḥ, “land open to sun due to no trees nor water”), and Ge'ez ቀርሐ (ḳärḥä, “to shave, to make bald”).

Meaning: scabies, mange

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