ب ق ل

Arabic

Etymology

Akin to Akkadian 𒁀𒋡𒀀𒇻 (ba-qa-a-lu /⁠baqālu⁠/, “to sprout, malt”) and Ge'ez በቈለ (bäḳʷälä), በቍለ (bäḳʷlä, “to sprout”). ب ق ر (b-q-r) may be distantly related.

Root

ب ق ل • (b-q-l)

1. related to germination

Derived terms

• Form I: بَقَلَ (baqala, “to come forth, to appear; to put forth what is to be gathered”)
  • Verbal noun: بَقْل (baql)
  • Active participle: بَاقِل (bāqil)
  • Passive participle: مَبْقُول (mabqūl)
• Form II: بَقَّلَ (baqqala, “to let pasture on بَقْل (baql); to produce down”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْقِيل (tabqīl)
  • Active participle: مُبَقِّل (mubaqqil)
  • Passive participle: مُبَقَّل (mubaqqal)
• Form IV: أَبْقَلَ (ʔabqala, “to let pasture on بَقْل (baql); to produce بَقْل (baql)”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْقَال (ʔibqāl)
  • Active participle: مُبْقِل (mubqil)
  • Passive participle: مُبْقَل (mubqal)
• Form V: تَبَقَّلَ (tabaqqala, “to go forth to get بَقْل (baql)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَقُّل (tabaqqul)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَقِّل (mutabaqqil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَبَقَّل (mutabaqqal)
• Form VIII: اِبْتَقَلَ (ibtaqala, “to pasture upon بَقْل (baql)”)
  • Verbal noun: اِبْتِقَال (ibtiqāl)
  • Active participle: مُبْتَقِل (mubtaqil)

• بَقْل (baql, “harvestable plants”)
• بَقِل (baqil, “producing بَقْل (baql)”)
• بَقَّال (baqqāl, “producing herbs”)
• بِقَالَة (biqāla, “بَقْل (baql) trade”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ب ق ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 103–104
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ب ق ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 143
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب ق ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 236–237
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ب ق ل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[4] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 150–151
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ب ق ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 135
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ب ق ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103