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بكعه

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns actions of confronting, striking, and giving. It describes meeting someone with displeasure, striking them severely and repeatedly, or giving something in its entirety. It also encompasses the idea of going away and the act of cutting or dividing.

Derived headwords

بَكَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to confront with displeasureclassical

    To meet someone with something they dislike or find unpleasant.

  2. 2.
    to cut offclassical

    To sever or cut something, implying a complete separation.

  3. 3.
    to strike severelyclassical

    To hit someone hard and repeatedly in various parts of the body.

  4. 4.
    to give entirelyclassical

    To give something in its entirety or all at once.

بَكْعnoun
  1. 1.
    strikingclassical

    The act of striking severely and repeatedly.

تَبْكِيعnoun
  1. 1.
    cuttingclassical

    The act of cutting or dividing something.

Parallel reading

بَكَعَهُ، كَمَنَعَهُ: اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ بِمَا يَكْرَهُ
He confronted him with what he disliked.
وَقَطَعَهُ
And he cut him off.
وَبَكَتَهُ، كَبَكَعَهُ
And he rebuked him, as if he struck him.
وَضَرَبَهُ شَدِيدًا مُتَتَابِعًا فِي مَوَاضِعَ مُتَفَرِّقَةٍ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ
And he struck him severely and repeatedly in various parts of his body.
وَالشَّيْءَ: أَعْطَاهُ جُمْلَةً
And the thing: he gave it entirely.
وَمَا أَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَكَعَ
And I don't know where he went.
وَالتَّبْكِيعُ: التَّقْطِيعُ
And al-tabki'u: the cutting.