Quranic root
بعر
b · ʿ · r
The root preserves two principal lexical poles: camel terminology and animal dung.
Its lexical branches extend from the designation of a camel and the dung it produces to verbs for voiding, throwing, cleaning, or causing dung to soil a milker, as well as terms for dung-containing bodily passages and animals characterized by such behavior.
- Maqāyīs · row 794
- Mufradāt · row 139
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
بَعِير
baʿīr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A camel, whether male or female.
A general designation that applies to either sex. In the supplied Quranic occurrences it appears in the construction حِمْلُ بَعِيرٍ, a camel-associated load.
- Lane · entry 36740
- Mufradāt · row 139
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:65word 22
“(of) a camel's (load)”
A beast of burden or carrier, including an ass.
In Quran 12:72, the word is attested with the sense of an ass or, more broadly, anything that carries; in حِمْلُ بَعِيرٍ it identifies the carrier associated with the measured load.
- Lane · entry 36740
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:72word 9
“(of) a camel”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 12 Classical meanings
بَعَرَ
To void dung.
Said of animals, especially camels, sheep, and goats, and of certain other specified hooved animals.
- Lane · entry 36733
بَعَرَ
To throw a piece of animal dung at someone.
A transitive use in which a piece of بَعْر is used as the object thrown.
- Lane · entry 36733
بَعَرَتْ
For a widow to throw away the final piece of dung marking the completion of her waiting period before remarriage.
A conventional expression referring to the traditional act that ended the widow's prescribed waiting period.
- Lane · entry 36733
بَعِرَ
For a camel to become a بَعِير.
Said of a camel.
- Lane · entry 36733
بَاعَرَ
To foul one's milker with dung.
Said of a ewe, she-goat, or she-camel; the act is regarded as a fault because dung may fall into the milking vessel.
- Lane · entry 36735
بَاعَرَ
To hasten to one's milker.
Said of a ewe, goat, or camel in the cited construction بَاعَرَتْ إِلَى حَالِبِهَا.
- Lane · entry 36735
أَبْعَرَ
To clean an intestine or gut of its dung.
A transitive use referring to removing dung from the intestine or gut.
- Lane · entry 36736
بَعْرٌ
Animal dung.
A collective noun for dung of camels, sheep, goats, and similar animals, as well as certain other specified hooved animals; its individual noun and plural forms are also attested.
- Lane · entry 36737
بِعَارٌ
The fouling of a milker with dung by a ewe, she-goat, or she-camel.
The act is treated as a fault because the dung may be cast into the milking vessel.
- Lane · entry 36739
بَاعِرٌ
A widow who throws the final piece of dung to mark the end of her waiting period.
A specialized designation connected with the traditional widow's waiting-period idiom.
- Lane · entry 36741
مَبْعَرٌ
The place or passage of dung, especially the rectum or intestine containing it.
Said of the dung-containing passage of a quadruped; the plural is مَبَاعِرُ.
- Lane · entry 36742
مِبْعَارٌ
An animal that fouls its milker with dung.
Said of a ewe, she-goat, or she-camel characterized by this behavior.
- Lane · entry 36745
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The carrier or ass interpretation of بَعِير in 12:72 is construction-specific; the supplied contextual rendering presents the phrase as a camel or camel-load, so the alternative should not be generalized to every occurrence.