بعض

• IPA^(key): /baʕdˤ/

بَعْض • (baʕḍ) m

1. some, part

   بَعْضُ الشَّرِّ أَهْوَنُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ

   baʕḍu aš-šarri ʔahwanu min baʕḍin

   Some evils are lesser than others.

2. In reduplication, expresses English each other

   نَظَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ

   naẓara baʕḍuhum ʔilā baʕḍin

   They looked at each other.

   (literally, “Some of them looked at some .”)

• The above example shows the formally correct use of بَعْض (baʕḍ, “each other”) with a preposition. Note, however, that in contemporary Arabic one will frequently hear and read the same sentence as: نَظَرُوا إلَى بَعْضِهِمُ البَعْض (naẓarū ʔilā baʕḍihimu l-baʕḍ).

• → Persian: بعض (ba'z)
• →⇒ Persian: بعضی (ba'zi)
  • → Azerbaijani: bəzi
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بعضی
    • Turkish: bazı
    • → Laz: ბაზი (bazi)
  • → Uzbek: ba'zi
  • → Uyghur: بەزى (bezi)
• → Swahili: baadhi
• → Urdu: بعض (bāz)

بَعَّضَ • (baʕʕaḍa) II (non-past يُبَعِّضُ (yubaʕʕiḍu), verbal noun تَبْعِيض (tabʕīḍ))

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From Arabic بَعْض (baʕḍ).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʕadˤ/

بعض • (baʕaḍ)

1. one another, each other
2. together

• The reciprocal usage of بعض (baʕḍ) is a shortening of بعضـ... البعض

From Arabic بَعْض (baʕḍ).

• IPA^(key): /baʕdˤ/,

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بعض • (baʕḍ)

1. some, several

   Synonyms: كم (kam), أكم (ʔakam)

   بعض الناس ― baʕd in-nās ― some people

بعض • (baʕḍ)

1. one another, each other

   بحبّو بعض.

   biḥebbu baʕḍ

   They love each other.

2. together

   Synonym: سوا (sawa)

3. back to back, in a row

   عملت تلات فحوصات كورونا تلات إيّام ورا بعض.

   ʕmilt talāt fḥūṣāt korōna talāt-iyyām wara baʕḍ

   I did three coronavirus tests three days in a row.

• The reciprocal usage of بعض (baʕḍ) is a shortening of بعضـ... البعض (baʕḍ-⟨pronoun⟩ il-baʕḍ, literally “some of ⟨pronoun⟩ ... some ”).

• القلوب عند بعض (il-ʔulūb ʕind baʕḍ))