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بغدذ

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to the city of Baghdad and its associated proper nouns. It also includes a less common usage related to a specific type of silence or stillness.

Derived headwords

بَغْدَاذname
  1. 1.
    Baghdadboth

    The name of the capital city of Iraq, historically a major center of the Islamic world.

بَغْدَادname
  1. 1.
    an arabicized word, masculine and feminineboth

    an arabicized word, masculine and feminine

بَغْدَانname
  1. 1.
    an arabicized word, masculine and feminineboth

    an arabicized word, masculine and feminine

مَغْدَانname
  1. 1.
    Baghdadclassical

    A form of the name Baghdad, noted as being a loanword (mu'arrab).

بَغْدَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to be silentclassical

    To be silent, specifically referring to the silence of chickens or fowl.

Parallel reading

بغداذ، وبغداد، وبغدان بالنون، ومغدان معرب، يذكر ويؤنث.
Baghdadh, and Baghdad, and Baghdan with nun, and Maghdan is a loanword; it is referred to as masculine and feminine.
فياليلة خرس الدجاج طويلة
O long night, the chickens were silent
ببغدان ما كادت عن الصبح تنجلي
in Baghdan, it hardly cleared by morning.
يعنى خرسا دجاجها.
He means its chickens were silent.