بهق
Arabic
Etymology
Compare Hebrew בֹּהַק (bohaq), Aramaic בָּהֲקָא (bāhăqā), Ge'ez ዐበቅ (ʿäbäḳ), Tigrinya ዓብቅ (ʿabḳ), Amharic ዓበቅ (ʿabäḳ), Akkadian 𒅁𒄣 (/epqu/, “leprosy, white marks”), also denoting skin diseases, and Arabic عَبَاقِيَة (ʿabāqiya, “a kind of scar in the cheek”), Ge'ez በክ (bäk, “scab, wound”). The Aramaic בָּהַק (bāhaq, “to shine, to be white, to glisten”), can be potentially connected semantically as well to Aramaic בָּהַר (bāhar, “to shine bright”), Hebrew בָּהַר (bāhar), Aramaic בַּהְרָא (baherā, “bright skin spot”), Hebrew בַּהֶרֶת (bahəre, “bright skin spot”), found as the Arabic بَهَرَ (bahara, “to shine brightly”), whereas in Ethiopia there is Ge'ez በርሀ (bärhä, “to shine bright”), Tigre በርሃ (bärha, “to shine bright”), Tigrinya በርሄ (bärhe, “to shine bright”), Amharic በራ (bärra, “to shine”).
Declension
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | بَهَق bahaq |
الْبَهَق al-bahaq |
بَهَق bahaq |
| Nominative | بَهَقٌ bahaqun |
الْبَهَقُ al-bahaqu |
بَهَقُ bahaqu |
| Accusative | بَهَقًا bahaqan |
الْبَهَقَ al-bahaqa |
بَهَقَ bahaqa |
| Genitive | بَهَقٍ bahaqin |
الْبَهَقِ al-bahaqi |
بَهَقِ bahaqi |
Derived terms
- أَبْهَق (ʾabhaq, “affected with the disease termed بَهَق (bahaq)”)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ዐበቅ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 985
- Dillmann, August (1865), “በርሀ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 499
- Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1430
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “بهق”, 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, page 167
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “بهق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 267
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “بهق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1940
- “epqu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 4, E, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1958, page 246
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 54
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 93
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 103–104