بق

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بق

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From Proto-Semitic *baḳḳ- (“gnat”), ultimately stemming from Proto-Afroasiatic *ba(n)ḳ- (“troublesome insect”), with cognates in West Chadic, Fyer ḅakyáà-ŋ (“scorpion”), and to Cushitic, Hadiyya benḳ-aččo (“tick”). Uncertain if cognate to or continuing Aramaic בָּקָּא / ܒܳܩܳܐ (bāqā, baqqā, “gnat”), already found in lexical list ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu as Akkadian 𒁀𒀝𒄣 (ba-aq-qu /⁠baqqu, bāqu⁠/, “gnat”), also in diminutive forms 𒁍𒂵𒆪𒌝 (bu-qa-qu-um /⁠buqāqu⁠/), and 𒁀𒀝𒁀𒀝𒄣 (ba-aq-ba-aq-qu /⁠baqbaqqu⁠/); possibly inherited separately if Harsusi beqqét and beqáyt (“bug”) are not borrowed from Arabic, but attest a Modern South Arabian form.

verb بَقَّ · baqqa · يَبُقُّ · بَقّ · بَقِيق

to bear many children, to be prolific
to scatter, to disperse, to distribute, to spread out, to take forth, to abound with
to blather, to prattle, to talk too much

noun بَقّ · baqq · الْبَقّ · بَقٌّ

noun from verb verbal noun of بَقَّ (baqqa) (form I)

noun بَقّ · baqq · بَقَّة · الْبَقّ

collective, obsolete fecund human female
Iraq, collective, obsolete any Nematocera insect: crane flies, gnats, midges
Similar: بَعُوض, بَرْغَش, قِرْقِس, جِرْجِس, نَامُوس, خَمُوش
collective Cimex spp., including the bedbug
collective Argas gen. et spp.
collective elm (Ulmus gen. et spp., usually classified with شَجَرَة (šajara))

In English

prattle to talk incessantly; to babble
blather to talk rapidly without making much sense
bedbug small nocturnal insect pest of humans

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {بق},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A8%D9%82},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}