بعيد

Arabic

Etymology 1

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb بَعُدَ (baʕuda, “to be far”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʕiːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

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Adjective

بَعِيد • (baʕīd) (feminine بَعِيدَة (baʕīda) or بَعِيد (baʕīd), masculine plural بَعِيدُون (baʕīdūn) or بُعَدَاء (buʕadāʔ) or بُعُد (buʕud) or بُعْدَان (buʕdān) or بِعَاد (biʕād) or بَعِيد (baʕīd), feminine plural بَعِيدَات (baʕīdāt) or بَعِيد (baʕīd), elative أَبْعَد (ʔabʕad))

1. far, remote, distant

   Synonym: قَصِيَ (qaṣiya)

   Antonym: قَرِيب (qarīb)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:83:

     وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ

     wa-mā hiya mina ẓ-ẓālimīna bi-baʕīdin

     And it is not far off from the wrongdoers.

2. improbable
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 50:3:

     أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا ذَٰلِكَ رَجْعٌ بَعِيدٌ

     ʔa-ʔiḏā mitnā wa-kunnā turāban ḏālika rajʕun baʕīdun

     When we have died and have become dust? That is a distant return.

   • a. 944 CE, Al-Māturīdi, edited by مجدي باسلّوم [Majdi Baslom], تَأْوِيلَات أَهْل السُّنَّة - تَفْسِير الْمَاتُرِيدِيّ (taʔwīlāt ʔahl as-sunna(t) - tafsīr al-māturīdiyy), 1st edition, volume 5, Beirut: Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah, published 2005, →ISBN, page 94:

     لَكِنَّ هَذَا بَعِيدٌ، لِأَنَّهُ لَوْ جَازَ هَذَا فِي هَذَا لَجَازَ مِثْلُهُ فِي جَمِيعِ القُرْآنِ، أَنْ يُجْعَلَ أَوَّلُ الآيَةِ فِي آخِرِهَا، وَآخِرُهَا فِي أَوَّلِهَا.

     lakinna haḏā baʕīdun, liʔannahu law jāza haḏā fī haḏā lajāza miṯluhu fī jamīʕi l-qurʔāni, ʔan yujʕala ʔawwalu l-ʔāyati fī ʔāḵirihā, waʔāḵiruhā fī ʔawwalihā.

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Declension

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: بعيد (bʕīd)
• Maltese: bgħid
• Moroccan Arabic: بعيد (bʕīd)
• → Persian: بعید (ba'id)
• Turkish:
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بعید

Etymology 2

Diminutive of بَعْد (baʕd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ʕaj.da/

Preposition

بُعَيْدَ • (buʕayda)

1. shortly after, soon after

Antonyms

• قُبَيْلَ (qubayla)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “بعد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَعِيد (baʕīd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʕiːd/

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Adjective

بعيد • (bʕīd) (feminine بعيدة (bʕīda), common plural بعاد (bʕād), masculine plural بعيدين (bʕīdīn), feminine plural بعيدات (bʕīdāt), elative أبعد (ʔabʕad) or بعد (bʕad))

1. far, remote, distant

   Synonym: (reciprocal) مباعد (mbāʕad, mbāʕid)

   Antonyms: قريب (qrīb), (reciprocal) مقارب (mqārib)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَعِيد (baʕīd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʕiːd/,

• Audio (Jerusalem)

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Adjective

بعيد • (baʕīd) (feminine بعيدة (baʕīde), common plural بعاد (baʕād), elative أبعد (ʔabʕad))

1. far, distant

   Antonym: قريب (ʔarīb)