شلوق

From coastal African dialects, perhaps via Berber from Italian scirocco.

• شَلُوك‎ (šalūk)

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.luːq/, /ʃi.luːq/

شَلُوق or شِلُوق • (šalūq or šilūq) m

1. southeasterly wind, scirocco

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Maltese: xlokk
• >? Maltese: xellug

• as a part of a name variously spelled for the 16th-century Ottoman administrator of Alexandria محمد شلوق باشا‎ (Mahomet Sirocco)

Apparently from Coptic ϣⲁⲗⲟⲩⲕⲓ (šalouki), ⲥⲁⲗⲟⲩⲕⲓ (salouki), from Egyptian šlq, alternative form of šrq, which also passed as شَرُّوك‎ (šarrūk, “Schilbe”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.luːq/

شُلُوق • (šulūq) m

1. (obsolete) an unknown kind of river fish, perhaps Petrocephalus bane
   • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي‎ [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 168 line 9 – 169 line 1:

     ‏الْهَازِبَاء والبُنِّيّ والْجِرِّيث والشَبُّوط والشُلُوق من أصناف السمك‎

     Hāzibāʾ and Labeobarbus bynni and slime eel and the carp and šulūq are sorts of fish.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Seidel, Ernst (1915), “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen‎ (in German), volume 47, page 33 Anm. 81, finds the Arabic fish-name and no other place and knows no comparandum except شَلِيق‎ (šalīq, “lamprel or wrasse”)
• Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth (1928), “On Egyptian Fish-Names used by Greek Writers”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 14, →DOI, page 30, mentioning the Coptic without the Arabic

شلوق • (šoluq)

1. Alternative spelling of شلوغ‎ (šoluğ)