زربية

Etymology

 * William Hoyt Worrell considers it a genuine Arabic word. It is according to him from and originally meant a “rug streaked with canals”, a “striped rug”, formed as, ,.
 * It could be borrowed from from, which Theodor Nöldeke and Arthur Jeffery find most appealing, but Wolf Leslau and Siegmund Fraenkel assume that the Ge'ez word is from the Arabic.
 * It has been suggested to be from a by, but this is doubtful for not being attested in any Persian.
 * It would rather be a, as Jeffery corrects, but it is unsensible that this would come to mean a carpet.
 * It could be a, a parallel to such a formation being found in , to which Wilhelm Eilers and Johnny Cheung lean, and when borrowed been treated as a broken plural with the singular back-formed from the plural, but one has to assume for 🇨🇬 an unusual meaning “splendour, lustre” from and the frequency of such a term is doubtful.
 * It could, as Nabīl al-Waġlīsiyy reconstructs, reflect the name of the land of Azerbaijan as it is renowned yore and today for opulent rug manufacturing, being a of a different segmentation including  and lacking the hamzated onset.

Noun

 * 1) carpet, rug