بخع

See also: نخع‎

Arabic

Etymology

Compare فَقَعَ‎ (faqaʕa); an expressive formation from interjection بَخ (baḵ).

Verb

بَخَعَ • (baḵaʕa) I, non-past يَبْخَعُ‎‎ (yabḵaʕu)

  1. to mentally depress, to buffet, to chagrin, to confound, to abase
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:6:
      ‏فَلَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ إِنْ لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا‎
      falaʕallaka bāḵiʕun nnafsaka ʕalā ʔāṯārihim ʔin llam yuʔminū bihāḏā l-ḥadīṯi ʔasafan
      Yet it may be, if they believe not in this account, that thou, Muḥammad, wilt get shook in grief over their footsteps.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:3:
      ‏لَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ‎
      laʕallaka bāḵiʕun nnafsaka ʔallā yakūnū muʔminīna
      It may be that thou, Muḥammad, reckon yourself buffeted, by reason that they believe not.

Conjugation

Verb

بَخِعَ or بَخَعَ • (baḵaʕa or baḵiʕa) I, non-past يَبْخَعُ‎‎ (yabḵaʕu)

  1. to humble, to submit, to resign oneself

Conjugation

References

  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 108
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “بخع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 55b
  • Ullmann, Manfred (2004), “Wollte Mohammed Selbstmord begehen? Die Bedeutung des arabischen Verbums baḫaʿa”, in Die Welt des Orients‎ (in German), volume 34, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 64–71, discovering that everything else given under ب خ ع‎ (b-ḵ-ʕ) are ghost words after guesses of the Scripture occurrences and corruptions of ن خ ع‎ (n-ḵ-ʕ) and ب خ ق‎ (b-ḵ-q).
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