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بَعْض
some, a part of /ˈbaʕdˤ/
nounA1#224 most common
Also: part of, a few, certain ones
Example sentences
بَعْضُ النَّاسِ سُعَداءُ.
Some people are happy.
أُحِبُّ بَعْضَ الفَواكِهِ.
I like some fruit.
قَرَأْتُ بَعْضَ الكُتُبِ في العُطْلَةِ.
I read some of the books during the holiday.
يَخْتَلِفُ بَعْضُ الطُّلابِ مَعَ المُعَلِّمِ في بَعْضِ الأَحْيانِ.
Some of the students disagree with the teacher at times.
ساعَدَ النّاسُ بَعْضُهُم بَعْضًا بَعْدَ الزِّلْزالِ.
People helped one another after the earthquake.
بَعْضُ الحَقائِقِ تَظَلُّ غامِضَةً مَهْما حاوَلْنا فَهْمَها.
Some truths stay obscure no matter how hard we try to grasp them.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَعْضٌ | أَبْعاضٌ |
| Genitive | بَعْضٍ | أَبْعاضٍ |
| Accusative | بَعْضًا | أَبْعاضًا |
| Vocative | يا بَعْضُ | يا أَبْعاضُ |
Word family
بَعّضَto divide into parts
تَبْعيضpartitioning, division
أَبْعاضparts, portions
بَعُوضةmosquito, gnat
Etymology
بَعْض comes from the Arabic triliteral root b-ʿ-ḍ, which carries the idea of a part or a portion. From the sense of a piece cut out of a whole, the word came to mean some or a part of. It is a native Semitic term and involves no borrowing.
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