بق

From the root ب ق ق‎ (b-q-q), from Proto-Semitic *baḳḳ- (“gnat”), ultimately stemming from Proto-Afroasiatic *ba(n)ḳ- (“troublesome insect”), with cognates in West Chadic, Fyer ḅakyáà-ŋ (“scorpion”), and to Cushitic, Hadiyya benḳ-aččo (“tick”). Uncertain if cognate to or continuing Aramaic בָּקָּא‎ / ܒܳܩܳܐ‎ (bāqā, baqqā, “gnat”), already found in lexical list ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu as Akkadian 𒁀𒀝𒄣 (ba-aq-qu /baqqu, bāqu/, “gnat”), also in diminutive forms 𒁍𒂵𒆪𒌝 (bu-qa-qu-um /buqāqu/), and 𒁀𒀝𒁀𒀝𒄣 (ba-aq-ba-aq-qu /baqbaqqu/); possibly inherited separately if Harsusi beqqét and beqáyt (“bug”) are not borrowed from Arabic, but attest a Modern South Arabian form.

بَقَّ • (baqqa) I, non-past يَبُقُّ‎‎ (yabuqqu)

1. to bear many children, to be prolific
2. to scatter, to disperse, to distribute, to spread out, to take forth, to abound with
3. to blather, to prattle, to talk too much

بَقّ • (baqq) m

1. verbal noun of بَقَّ (baqqa) (form I)

بَقّ • (baqq) m (collective, singulative بَقَّة‎ f (baqqa))

1. (obsolete) fecund human female
2. (obsolete, Iraq) any Nematocera insect: crane flies, gnats, midges

   Synonyms: بَعُوض‎ (baʕūḍ), بَرْغَش‎ (barḡaš), (Syria) قِرْقِس‎ (qirqis), (Syria) جِرْجِس‎ (jirjis), نَامُوس‎ (nāmūs), خَمُوش‎ (ḵamūš)

3. biting bug, tick and the like
   1. Cimex spp., including the bedbug
   2. Argas gen. et spp.
4. elm (Ulmus gen. et spp., usually classified with شَجَرَة‎ (šajara))

• Landsberger, Benno (1934) Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie ḪAR-RA = ḫubullu (Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; XLII. Nr. VI)‎ (in German), Leipzig: Salomon Hirzel, page 131

Uncertain. Behnstedt & Woidich derive it from Arabic بَقْبَقَ‎ (baqbaqa, “gurgle”), but others connect it to Latin bucca (“mouth”).

بق • (buʾʾ) m

1. (anatomy) mouth