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قر

Francis Joseph Steingass speculates that it is from Arabic قِرْد (qird, “monkey, ape”). His nineteenth-century dictionary gives "monkey" as the only noun definition while marking قر دادن (qer dâdan) as a "modern colloquial" verb for "to coquette about, sway the body as in a dance", so perhaps the verb emerged first with a literal meaning of "to give the monkey", and the current meaning of the noun

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c. 750 CEArabic

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