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بكع

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of confronting someone with something unpleasant or striking them severely. It also has a dialectal usage related to location.

Derived headwords

بَكَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to confront with displeasureboth

    To meet someone with something they dislike or find unpleasant.

  2. 2.
    to strike severelyclassical

    To strike someone intensely and repeatedly in various parts of their body.

بَكْعًاnoun
  1. 1.
    confrontation with displeasureboth

    The act of confronting someone with something they dislike or find unpleasant.

  2. 2.
    severe strikingclassical

    Severe and repeated striking in different parts of the body.

بُكْعnoun
  1. 1.
    severe strikingclassical

    Severe and repeated striking in different parts of the body.

أَيْنَ بَكَعْother
  1. 1.
    where isclassical

    A dialectal expression used by the tribe of Tamim, meaning 'where is'.

Parallel reading

بَكَعَهُ بَكْعًا، أي استقبله بما يكره
He confronted him with displeasure, meaning he met him with what he disliked.
والبَكْعُ أيضًا: الضرب الشديد المتتابع في مواضع متفرقة من جسده
And al-bak' also: severe, successive striking in scattered places of his body.
وتميم تقول: أين بكع، بمعنى أين بقع
And Tamim says: 'Ayna bak' (where is bak'), meaning 'where is baqa'' (where is the place).