Quranic root
بقر
b · q · r
The root links the bovine collective بَقَر with the image of broad cleaving or opening. This orientation extends lexically to exposing, investigating deeply, and expanding.
From splitting open and making wide come expressions for examining closely, ranging broadly in knowledge or possessions, digging, and abundance, alongside the established bovine noun branch.
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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.
بَقَر
baqar
- Part of speech
- Noun · Collective
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Cattle; bovines collectively, including oxen, bulls, and cows.
A collective noun for the bovine kind; the corresponding singulative is بَقَرَة.
- Lane · entry 36862
- Mufradāt · row 146
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:70word 10
“[the] cows”
Quran 6:144word 5
“the cows”
بَقَرَة
baqarah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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 cow; an individual bovine.
The singulative of the collective بَقَر; the Quranic plural form بَقَرَات is included under this citation headword.
- Lane · entry 36862
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:69word 13
“a cow”
Quran 12:43word 6
“cows”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:67بَقَرَةًۭ ۖa cow
- 2:68بَقَرَةٌۭ(is) a cow
- 2:69بَقَرَةٌۭa cow
- 2:70ٱلْبَقَرَ[the] cows
- 2:71بَقَرَةٌۭ(is) a cow
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 27 Classical meanings
بَقَرَ
To slit, rip, split, or cut lengthwise; to open or lay open; to widen.
Used of opening an animal’s belly, widening a house or tent, and opening or revealing a story.
- Lane · entry 36857
بَقَرَ الأَرْضَ
To cleave or search the ground in order to find water.
A specialized expression reported of the hoopoe searching for the place of water.
- Lane · entry 36857
بَقَرَ
To inspect a person’s condition or affairs; to inquire and search deeply into knowledge.
Used with people, their circumstances, or the sciences.
- Lane · entry 36857
بَقِرَ
To become bewildered, amazed, or stupified; to become perplexed or doubt a matter.
The sources attest both bewilderment or astonishment and doubt concerning a thing.
- Lane · entry 36857
بَقِرَ
To become tired, fatigued, weary, or jaded, to the point of impaired sight.
A separate intransitive use describing extreme weariness.
- Lane · entry 36857
بَقَّرَ
To dig around a tract and make wells; in a children’s game, to dig surrounding pits.
The digging sense is associated with making wells, while the children’s use refers to playing al-baqqīrā.
- Lane · entry 36858
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تَبَقَّرَ
To become ripped open or open.
Attested of a she-camel’s belly becoming opened.
- Lane · entry 36859
تَبَقَّرَ
To expand or become extensive or abundant in knowledge, wealth, or family; to be diffuse in speech.
Used with في العلم, في المال, في الأهل, and with الكلام.
- Lane · entry 36859
بَقَرُ الوَحْشِ
Wild cattle: wild oxen, bulls, or cows, including names applied to certain bovine antelopes.
The expression refers collectively to wild bovines and is also used with regional zoological variation.
- Lane · entry 36862
مِلْءُ مَسْكِ البَقَرَةِ
A large quantity.
An idiom literally referring to the amount that fills the hide of a bull or cow.
- Lane · entry 36862
عَيْنُ البَقَرِ
The ox-eye plant or flower.
A plant name identified with buphthalmum.
- Lane · entry 36862
عُيُونُ البَقَرِ
A black, large, round grape; in Palestine, a kind of plum.
A regional plant and fruit designation.
- Lane · entry 36862
بَقَرٌ
A family or household under a person’s care; also a large company of people.
The expression can include dependents, property, or a large group of people.
- Lane · entry 36862
بَقِيرٌ
Slit, ripped, split, or cut lengthwise; having the belly ripped open.
Used of an animal, especially a she-camel, whose belly has been opened.
- Lane · entry 36863
بَقِيرٌ
A foal born in a membrane that is ripped open over it.
A specialized noun connected with the membrane being split at birth.
- Lane · entry 36863
بَقِيرٌ
A sleeveless garment slit in the middle and worn by putting the head through the opening.
A women’s garment of the burd or itb type, without sleeves or a bosom opening.
- Lane · entry 36863
بَقَّارٌ
A grave-digger.
A professional designation synonymous with حَفَّار.
- Lane · entry 36865
بَقَّارٌ
A worker in iron; a blacksmith.
A separate occupational use of the same form.
- Lane · entry 36865
بَقَّارٌ
An owner, possessor, or attendant of cattle.
Refers to a person associated with oxen, bulls, or cows.
- Lane · entry 36865
بَقَّارِيَّةٌ
A strong staff or stick.
Apparently a staff used for driving oxen, bulls, or cows.
- Lane · entry 36866
البَاقِرُ
The lion.
Named in reference to the lion’s ripping open the belly of its prey.
- Lane · entry 36867
بَاقِرٌ
A person who searches deeply into the sciences; one who ranges widely in knowledge.
An epithet for extensive or penetrating knowledge.
- Lane · entry 36867
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فِتْنَةٌ بَاقِرَةٌ
A sedition or discord that severs society; a great, wide-spreading upheaval.
A conventional expression for strife that divides people and may corrupt religion.
- Lane · entry 36867
بَيْقَرَةٌ
Abundance of wealth, camels or similar livestock, commodities, or household goods and furnishings.
A noun for plentiful possessions or resources.
- Lane · entry 36869
بَيْقَرَ
To expand in wealth or other matters; to travel widely across the land.
The verb is used for becoming extensive in possessions and for ranging broadly during travel.
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البَقَّيرَى
A children’s game involving digging pits around them.
The designation is connected with the Form II digging expression بَقَّرَ.
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البَيْقَرَان
A plant called bayqarān.
It is said to split the earth as it emerges and to cleave it with its roots.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Lane unit concerning the hoopoe refers to a tradition associated with Qur'an chapter 27, but no secure modern Quran word location for that lexical construction is supplied here; it is therefore kept as a broader Classical usage rather than assigned a Quran example.