برقع

See also: ترفع

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ب ر ق ع (b-r-q-ʕ), originally referring to a blaze or patch on a face of a horse near its eyes, then to a hooded-horse blanket for its covering of the same places; by extension any covering. Connected to the root ر ق ع (r-q-ʕ), meaning "to patch", "to cover with fabric", "to adjoin patches like a quilt", "an odd patch or mark of a different color"; the four-letter root being augmented potentially with بِ (bi, with) in the sense of "a horse with a patch (on its face)".

Noun

بُرْقُع (burquʕ) m (plural بَرَاقِع (barāqiʕ))

  1. cover
  2. veil
    • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, بَقَائِي شَاءَ لَيْسَ هُمُ ٱرْتِحَالًا (baqāʔī šāʔa laysa humu rtiḥālan):
      وَحَجَّبَتِ النَّوَى الظَّبَيَاتِ عَنِّي / فَسَاعَدَتِ الْبَرَاقِعَ وَٱلْحِجَالَا
      waḥajjabati n-nawā ẓ-ẓabayāti ʕannī / fasāʕadati al-barāqiʕa wal-ḥijālā
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  3. yashmak
  4. curtain
  5. hooded-horse blanket

Declension

Descendants

  • Hijazi Arabic: برقع (burguʕ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: برقع (burku)
  • Persian: برقع (borqa')

Verb

بَرْقَعَ (barqaʕa) Iq, non-past يُبَرْقِعُ‎ (yubarqiʕu)

  1. to envelop
  2. to cover
  3. to veil
  4. to enshroud
  5. to conceal
  6. to wear feminine clothing
  7. (said of a male) to be effeminate, to be a catamite

Conjugation

References

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /burɡuʕ/

Noun

بُرقُع (burguʿ) m (plural بَراقِع (barāgiʿ))

  1. face cover
  2. niqab
  3. yashmak

Synonyms

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /bʊɾˈqaʔ/
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): /bʊɾˈqɑː/
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /buɾˈqaʔ/

Noun

برقع (borqa')

  1. burqa, burka
  2. veil
  3. mask

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برقع (borqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

Pronunciation

Noun

برقع (burqā) m (Hindi spelling बुरक़ा)

  1. burqa, burka

Descendants

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