قنطرة

Etymology
Multiple confounded etymologies:
 * Via from, from the idea of an arch vaulting a central point.
 * From from the root  related to binding.
 * From, its plural , a vulgar form of employed as such in Medieval Latin and the source of 🇨🇬 – which would ascribe to Arabic the first attestation of this Romance form, the 6th-century poet ’s vers كقنطرة الروميّ أقسم رَبّها لتْكتَنَفَنَ حتى تشاد بِقَرْمَد.
 * From –  –, meaning a “gelding” and because of this a “beast of burden” and then “trellis; chevrons, spars, gantry”, compare for such development the etymologies of , , ,.
 * A genuine formation from the root from which, , the  being not a rare augment.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bridge