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بخق

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of blinding or causing blindness, specifically related to the eye. It also extends to a covering worn by a young girl to protect her headscarf.

Derived headwords

بَخَقَverb
  1. 1.
    he blinded his eyeboth

    he blinded his eye

  2. 2.
    he made it blindboth

    he made it blind

أَبْخَقَهَاverb
  1. 1.
    to blind it (her)both

    The transitive form of blinding, referring to the act of causing blindness to an eye (feminine noun).

بَخْقًاnoun
  1. 1.
    blindingboth

    The act or state of being blinded, the result of an eye injury that causes loss of sight.

البَخَقُnoun
  1. 1.
    blindnessclassical

    A state of being blind, characterized by the sinking or loss of an eye.

البَخْنَقُnoun
  1. 1.
    a cloth with which a young girl covers her headboth

    a cloth with which a young girl covers her head

Parallel reading

بخقت عينه أبخقها بخقا، أي عورتها
His eye was blinded, He blinded it with blinding, meaning he made it blind.
والبخق بالتحريك: العور بانخساف العين
And al-bakhq (with vowel movement) is blindness due to the sinking of the eye.
والبخنق: خرقة تقنع بها الجارية وتشد طرفيها تحت حنكها لتوقي الخمار من الدهن أو الدهن من الغبار
And al-bakhnaq is a cloth with which a young girl covers herself, and she ties its ends under her chin to protect the veil from grease or the grease from dust.