بغي

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ب غ ي (b-ḡ-y).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ɣijj/
  • Rhymes: -ijj

Noun

بَغْي (baḡy) m

  1. transgression, injustice, wrong
    • a. 1967, مُحَمَّد مَهْدِيّ اَلْجَوَاهِرِيّ (muḥammad mahdiyy al-jawāhiriyy), دِيوَان الْجَوَاهِرِيّ (dīwān al-jawāhiriyy), part 1, Sidom/Beirut, Lebanon: اَلْمَكْتَبَة اَلْعَصْرِيَّة (al-maktaba(t) al-ʕaṣriyya), published October 1967, OCLC 14975897, page 138:
      يَتَمَهَّلُ الْبَاغِي عَوَاقِبَ بَغْيِهِ / وَتَرَاهُمْ يَسْتَعْجِلُونَ عَوَاقِبَا
      yatamahhalu l-bāḡī ʕawāqiba baḡyihi / watarāhum yastaʕjilūna ʕawāqibā
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Noun

بَغِيّ (baḡiyy) f (plural بَغَايَا (baḡāyā))

  1. prostitute
  2. unchaste, harlot, strumpet, callet
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:20:
      قَالَتْ أَنَّى يَكُونُ لِي غُلَامٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِي بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا
      qālat ʔannā yakūnu lī ḡulāmun walam yamsasnī bašarun walam ʔaku baḡiyyan
      How can I have a boy if no man has touched me and I am not unchaste?

Declension

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

Root
ب غ ي

From Arabic بَغَى (baḡā, to want).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biɣi/

Verb

بغي (biḡi) (form I, non-past يِبْغى (yibḡa))

  1. to want
    Synonym: بغى (baḡa)
    أبغى أروح الملاهي
    ʼabḡa ʼarūḥ al-malāhi
    I want to go to the amusement park

Usage notes

The past forms of the verbs بغي (biḡi) and بغى (baḡa) are intertwined in Hijazi but only non-past of بغي (biḡi) are used.

Conjugation

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