بعض

See also: تعض

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ب ع ض (b-ʕ-ḍ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʕdˤ/

Noun

بَعْض • (baʕḍ) m

  1. some, part
    بَعْضُ الشَّرِّ أَهْوَنُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ
    baʕḍu aš-šarri ʔahwanu min baʕḍin
    Some evils are lesser than others.
  2. In reduplication, expresses English each other
    نَظَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ
    naẓara baʕḍuhum ʔilā baʕḍin
    They looked at each other.
    (literally, “some of them looked at some [others].”)

Usage notes

  • The above example shows the formally correct use of بَعْض (baʕḍ, each other) with a preposition. Note, however, that in contemporary Arabic one will frequently hear and read the same sentence as: نَظَرُوا إلَى بَعْضِهِمُ البَعْض (naẓarū ʔilā baʕḍihimu l-baʕḍ).

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Persian: بعضی (ba'zi)
    • Azerbaijani: bəzi
    • Ottoman Turkish: بعضی
    • Uzbek: ba'zi
    • Uyghur: بەزى (bezi)
  • Swahili: baadhi
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Verb

بَعَّضَ • (baʕʕaḍa) II, non-past يُبَعِّضُ‎ (yubaʕʕiḍu)

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Conjugation

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South Levantine Arabic

Root
ب ع ض
1 term

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʕdˤ/, [baʕdˤ]
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Determiner

بعض • (baʕḍ)

  1. some, several
    Synonyms: كم (kam), أكم (ʔakam)
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Pronoun

بعض • (baʕḍ)

  1. one another, each other
    Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  2. (+ مع) together
    Synonym: سوا (sawa)
  3. (+ ورا) back to back, in a row
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Usage notes

  • The reciprocal usage of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) is a shortening of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Derived terms

  • القلوب عند بعض (il-ʔulūb ʕind baʕḍ))
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