بعثر

Arabic

Etymology

From the ب ع ث ر‎ (b-ʕ-ṯ-r).

Verb

بَعْثَرَ • (baʕṯara) Iq, non-past يُبَعْثِرُ‎‎ (yubaʕṯiru)

  1. to scatter, to turn over, to litter, to disperse
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 82:1-5:
      ‏إِذَا السَّمَاء انْفَطَرَتْ
      وَإِذَا الْكَوَاكِبُ انْتَثَرَتْ
      وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ
      وَإِذَا الْقُبُورُ بُعْثِرَتْ
      عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ
      ‎
      When the sky breaks apart,
      And when the stars commence to scatter,
      And when the seas gush forth,
      And when the graves are strewn,
      A soul will know what it has put forward and what it has set back.

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), “بعثر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 134
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “بعثر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 223
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “بعثر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 98
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