وقعة

See also: وقعه‎ and وقعہ‎

Arabic

Etymology

From the root و قع‎ (w-q-ʕ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /waq.ʕa/

Noun

وَقْعَة • (waqʕa) f

  1. fall, push, blow, drop, tumble
  2. event, incident, occurrence

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: vəqə
  • → Ottoman Turkish: وقعه‎ (vaka)
  • → Persian: وقعه‎ (vaq'e)
  • → Tajik: вақъа (vaqʾa)
  • → Uyghur: ۋەقە‎ (weqe)

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