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بَكَى

to weep, to cry /baˈkaː/

verbA2#976 most common

Also: to cry, to mourn, to lament

Example sentences

بَكَى الوَلَدُ كَثِيرًا.
The boy cried a lot.
بَكَتِ البِنْتُ عِنْدَمَا سَقَطَتْ.
The girl cried when she fell.
بَكَى الطِّفْلُ لِأَنَّهُ فَقَدَ لُعْبَتَهُ.
The child cried because he lost his toy.
بَكَى الجَمِيعُ فِي الجَنَازَةِ بِحُرْقَةٍ.
Everyone wept with anguish at the funeral.
بَكَى الشَّاعِرُ أَطْلَالَ الدِّيَارِ الَّتِي هَجَرَهَا أَهْلُهَا.
The poet wept for the ruins of the dwellings whose people had abandoned them.
لَمَّا سَمِعَ نَبَأَ المَوْتِ، بَكَى بُكَاءً مُرًّا لَمْ يَهْدَأْ إِلَّا عِنْدَ الفَجْرِ.
When he heard the news of the death, he wept so bitterly that he did not settle until dawn.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgأَبْكِي (ʾabkī)بَكَيْتُ (bakaytu)سَأَبْكِي (saʾabkī)
2sgتَبْكِي (tabkī)بَكَيْتَ (bakayta)سَتَبْكِي (satabkī)
3sgيَبْكِي (yabkī)بَكَى (bakā)سَيَبْكِي (sayabkī)
1plنَبْكِي (nabkī)بَكَيْنَا (bakaynā)سَنَبْكِي (sanabkī)
2plتَبْكُونَ (tabkūna)بَكَيْتُمْ (bakaytum)سَتَبْكُونَ (satabkūna)
3plيَبْكُونَ (yabkūna)بَكَوْا (bakaw)سَيَبْكُونَ (sayabkūna)

Word family

بُكَاء (bukāʾ)weeping, crying
يَبْكِي (yabkī)he weeps (present tense)
بَاكٍ (bākin)one who weeps; weeping (participle)
أَبْكَى (ʾabkā)to make someone cry
بَكَّاء (bakkāʾ)given to much weeping

Etymology

Arabic بَكَى comes from the common Semitic root b-k-y, meaning to weep. The same root produced words for crying across the Semitic family, from Hebrew to Akkadian. It has no Indo-European source. The cognates below are all Semitic.

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