بقية

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.qij.ja/

Noun

بَقِيَّة • (baqiyya) f (plural بَقَايَا (baqāyā))

1. rest, remainder
   • 2017 October 29, “السلطات اللبنانية: تحرير ثلاثة مواطنين خطفوا في بغداد”, in Libya Akhbar‎, archived from the original on 29 October 2017:

     وَأَسْفَرَتِ ٱلْعَمَلِيَّةُ ٱلَّتِي نَفَّذَتْهَا ٱلْمُخَابَرَاتُ ٱلْعِرَاقِيَّةُ وِفْقَ ٱلْبَيَانِ عَنِ «ٱعْتِقَالِ بَعْضِ ٱلْخَاطِفِينَ وَقَتْلِ أَحَدِهِمْ خِلَالَهَا، وَتَتِّمُ مُلَاحَقَةُ بَقِيَّةِ أَفْرَادِ ٱلْعِصَابَةِ».

     waʔasfarati l-ʕamaliyyatu llatī naffaḏathā l-muḵābarātu l-ʕirāqiyyatu wifqa l-bayāni ʕani “ʕtiqāli baʕḍi l-ḵāṭifīna waqatli ʔaḥadihim ḵilālahā, watattimu mulāḥaqatu baqiyyati ʔafrādi l-ʕiṣābati”.

     And the operation which the Iraqi intelligence carried out, led, according to the statement, to “the arrest of a deal of the kidnappers and to the killing of one of them during the course of it, and the pursuit of the rest of the individuals of the gang is proceeding.”

Declension

Descendants

• Maltese: bqija

References

• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “بقية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 76

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَقِيَّة (baqiyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡij.ja/

Noun

بقية • (bagiyya) f (plural بَقايا (bagāya))

1. rest, remainder