بكى

From the root ب ك ي‎ (b-k-y). Cognate with Hebrew בָּכָה‎ (bakhá) and Ge'ez በከየ (bäkäyä).

• Noun: IPA^(key): /bu.kan/
• Verb: IPA^(key): /ba.kaː/

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بَكَى • (bakā) I, non-past يَبْكِي‎‎ (yabkī)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to cry, to weep (over)
2. (figurative) to rain
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 44:29:

     ‏فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنْظَرِينَ‎

     famā bakat ʕalayhimu s-samāʔu wālʔarḍu wamā kānū munẓarīna

     And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite

• ضَرَبَنِي وَبَكَى سَبَقَنِي وَٱشْتَكَى‎ (ḍarabanī wabakā sabaqanī waštakā, proverb)

• Gulf Arabic: بچى‎ (biča)
• Hijazi Arabic: بكي‎ (biki)
• Maltese: beka

بُكًى • (bukan) m

1. verbal noun of بَكَى (bakā) (form I)

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بكى”, 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, pages 146
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “بكى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 137
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “بكى”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 86

From Arabic بَكَى‎ (bakā).

• IPA^(key): /bka/

بكى • (bka) (form I, non-past يبكي‎ (yibki))

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep (over)

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• ضربني وبكى سبقني وشكى‎ (ḍrabni we-bka sbaqni we-ška, proverb)

From Arabic بَكَى‎ (bakā).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ka/, [ˈba.ka]

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بكى • (baka) (form I, present ببكي‎ (bibki))

1. to cry

   ‏ما بدّي اشوفك عمّ تبكي.‎‎

   mā biddī ašūfak ʕamm tibkī

   I don't want to see you crying.

   Synonym: عيّط‎ (ʕayyaṭ)