بهق

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Hebrew בֹּהַק‎ (bohaq), Aramaic בָּהֲקָא‎ (bāhăqā), Ge'ez ዐበቅ (ʿäbäḳ), Tigrinya ዓብቅ (ʿabḳ), Amharic ዓበቅ (ʿabäḳ), Akkadian 𒅁𒄣 (/epqu/, “leprosy, white marks”), also denoting skin diseases, and Arabic عَبَاقِيَة‎ (ʿabāqiya, “a kind of scar in the cheek”), Ge'ez በክ (bäk, “scab, wound”). The Aramaic בָּהַק‎ (bāhaq, “to shine, to be white, to glisten”), can be potentially connected semantically as well to Aramaic בָּהַר‎ (bāhar, “to shine bright”), Hebrew בָּהַר‎ (bāhar), Aramaic בַּהְרָא‎ (baherā, “bright skin spot”), Hebrew בַּהֶרֶת‎ (bahəre, “bright skin spot”), found as the Arabic بَهَرَ‎ (bahara, “to shine brightly”), whereas in Ethiopia there is Ge'ez በርሀ (bärhä, “to shine bright”), Tigre በርሃ (bärha, “to shine bright”), Tigrinya በርሄ (bärhe, “to shine bright”), Amharic በራ (bärra, “to shine”). The Arabic word may be specifically from Aramaic בהקיתא‎ / ܒܗܩܝܬܐ‎ (behqīṯā) denoting a skin disease, omitting the ending.

Noun

بَهَق • (bahaq) m

skin disease like vitiligo or poliosis
lichen

Declension

Declension of noun بَهَق (bahaq)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَهَق bahaq	الْبَهَق‎ al-bahaq	بَهَق bahaq
Nominative	بَهَقٌ bahaqun	الْبَهَقُ‎ al-bahaqu	بَهَقُ bahaqu
Accusative	بَهَقًا‎ bahaqan	الْبَهَقَ‎ al-bahaqa	بَهَقَ bahaqa
Genitive	بَهَقٍ bahaqin	الْبَهَقِ‎ al-bahaqi	بَهَقِ bahaqi

Derived terms

أَبْهَق‎ (ʾabhaq, “affected by the disease termed بَهَق (bahaq)”)
بَهَّقَ‎ (bahhaqa, “to transmit the disease termed بَهَق (bahaq) to”)
تَبَهَّقَ‎ (tabahhaqa, “to be affected by the disease termed بَهَق (bahaq)”)
اِنْبَهَقَ‎ (inbahaqa, “to be affected by the disease termed بَهَق (bahaq)”)

Descendants

→ Middle Armenian: բահաղ (bahał), պահաղ (pahał), պահակ (pahak)
→ Persian: بهق‎ (bahaq)

References

“bhqy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 192
Dillmann, August (1865), “ዐበቅ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 985
Dillmann, August (1865), “በርሀ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 499
Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1430
Freytag, Georg (1830), “بهق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 167
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Lane, Edward William (1863), “بهق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1940
“epqu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 4, E, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1958, page 246
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 54
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 93
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 103–104