بقع

بَقِعَ

Of a bird or dog, to be black-and-white, variegated, or pied.

Applied to animals whose coloration is mixed or party-coloured.

• Lane · entry 36878

بَقِعَ

To become wetted or marked in scattered spots.

Used of a body affected by sprinkled water, with some portions wetted and others not.

• Lane · entry 36878

بَقَعَ

To go away or disappear so that one's trace is lost.

Attested especially in the negative expression meaning “I do not know where he went.”

• Lane · entry 36878

بَقَعَتْهُمُ الدَّاهِيَةُ

For a calamity or misfortune to befall people.

A verbal construction with a calamity as subject and the affected people as object.

• Lane · entry 36878

بُقِعَ

To be assailed with foul speech, calumny, slander, or false accusation.

Used in the passive construction بُقِعَ بِقَبِيحٍ and related expressions.

• Lane · entry 36878

بَقَّعَ

To mark, wet, or affect something in scattered spots, leaving portions distinct from others.

Of a dyer, leaving parts of cloth undyed; of a person, sprinkling water on a garment; and of rain, falling only in scattered places.

• Lane · entry 36879

اِنْبَقَعَ

To go away quickly or run.

A derived verbal use denoting rapid departure or movement.

• Lane · entry 36880

اُبْتُقِعَ لَوْنُهُ

For one's color to change because of grief or sorrow.

Used of a person's altered complexion or color under emotional distress.

• Lane · entry 36881

بَقْعَةٌ

A place where water remains and stagnates.

The place is characterized as not being a usual watering place for people or animals.

• Lane · entry 36882

بُقْعَةٌ

A spot or small portion of a surface that differs from what surrounds it, including an undyed or water-retaining patch in cloth.

This is a surface-level extension of the notion of visible difference and is distinct from the land-plot sense used in the Quran.

• Lane · entry 36883

حَسَنُ البُقْعَةِ

To have a favorable station or standing with a ruler or commander.

A figurative expression for one's position in a person's favor.

• Lane · entry 36883

أَرْضٌ بَقِعَةٌ

Land containing separated patches of vegetation or bare areas.

The description may refer to vegetation occurring in patches or to bare places produced by locusts.

• Lane · entry 36884

بَقَاعِ

Discolorations left on the body when dust and sweat dry or whiten upon the skin.

Occurs in the idiom خُرْءُ بَقَاعِ and related expressions for visible marks on the body.

• Lane · entry 36885

بَقِيعٌ

A place containing the roots or remnants of trees of various kinds, or a spacious tract containing trees.

The term can denote a wooded or formerly wooded open place, as in بَقِيعُ الغَرْقَدِ.

• Lane · entry 36886

بَاقِعَةٌ

A cautious, wary, and cunning bird that avoids frequented watering places.

The bird drinks from stagnant or secluded water because it fears being caught.

• Lane · entry 36887

بَاقِعَةٌ

A person who is highly cunning, perceptive, experienced, and difficult to deceive.

A figurative extension from the wary bird; it may also describe someone skilful or quick in intellect.

• Lane · entry 36887

بَاقِعَةٌ

A calamity or misfortune that befalls a person.

A figurative noun for a harmful event.

• Lane · entry 36887

أَبْقَعُ

Piebald or parti-coloured, especially black-and-white.

Applied particularly to a crow or similar bird, and also to a dog; the feminine is بَقْعَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 36888

أَبْقَعُ

Bad, evil, wicked, mischievous, or ill-omened.

A figurative use based on the traditional association of the pied crow with bad or ominous qualities.

• Lane · entry 36888

أَبْقَعُ

Leprous.

An extended adjectival use recorded as a distinct Classical meaning.

• Lane · entry 36888

بُقْعَانُ

People of mixed or contrasting coloring, especially a term applied to the servants or slaves of Syria.

The designation is explained through mixtures of whiteness, redness, yellowness, or blackness.

• Lane · entry 36889

بُقَعٌ

Waterers whose bodies have become wet in scattered places.

A plural usage referring to people whose bodies show irregular wet patches from carrying or drawing water.

• Lane · entry 36889

بُقَعٌ

People wearing patched garments.

The expression describes their poor or degraded condition through the contrasting patches of their clothing.

• Lane · entry 36889

بُقْعُ الذُّرَى

Camels having white humps.

A descriptive plural construction for contrasting coloration on the humps.

• Lane · entry 36889

الأَبْقَعُ

A mirage.

The term is explained by the mirage's varying or changing hues.

• Lane · entry 36889

أَرْضٌ بَقْعَاءُ

Land containing or diversified with small pebbles and stones.

An adjectival description of stony, pebbly ground.

• Lane · entry 36889

سَنَةٌ بَقْعَاءُ

A barren or irregularly productive year, including a year whose rain falls only in scattered areas or is scant.

The description can emphasize barrenness, a mixture of fruitful and barren areas, patchy rainfall, or little rain.

• Lane · entry 36889

مُبَقَّعُ الرِّجْلَيْنِ

Having the legs wetted in some places, so that those places differ in color from the rest.

A participial description of irregularly wet legs or similar surfaces.

• Lane · entry 36891

بُقْعَةٌ

A man whose abundant speech wanders without a clear beginning or end.

A rare Classical description of rambling or directionless talk.

• Maqāyīs · row 814

بَقَعَ

To swear an oath to someone.

A rare attested verbal usage distinct from the color and patch meanings.

• Maqāyīs · row 814