بخع

Compare فَقَعَ (faqaʕa); an expressive formation from interjection بَخ (baḵ).

بَخَعَ • (baḵaʕa) I (non-past يَبْخَعُ (yabḵaʕu), verbal noun بَخْع (baḵʕ))

1. to mentally depress, to buffet, to chagrin, to confound, to abase
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:6:

     فَلَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ إِنْ لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا

     falaʕallaka bāḵiʕun nafsaka ʕalā ʔāṯārihim ʔin lam yuʔminū bihāḏā l-ḥadīṯi ʔasafan

     Yet it may be, if they believe not in this account, that thou, Muḥammad, wilt get shook in grief over their footsteps.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:3:

     لَعَلَّكَ بَاخِعٌ نَّفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ

     laʕallaka bāḵiʕun nafsaka ʔallā yakūnū muʔminīna

     It may be that thou, Muḥammad, reckon yourself buffeted, by reason that they believe not.

بَخَعَ or بَخِعَ • (baḵaʕa or baḵiʕa) I (non-past يَبْخَعُ (yabḵaʕu), verbal noun بُخُوع (buḵūʕ) or بَخَاعَة (baḵāʕa))

1. to be humble, to submit, to resign oneself

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 108
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بخع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 55b
• Ullmann, Manfred (2004) “Wollte Mohammed Selbstmord begehen? Die Bedeutung des arabischen Verbums baḫaʿa”, in Die Welt des Orients‎ (in German), volume 34, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 64–71, discovering that everything else given under ب خ ع (b-ḵ-ʕ) are ghost words after guesses of the Scripture occurrences and corruptions of ن خ ع (n-ḵ-ʕ) and ب خ ق (b-ḵ-q).