بيعة

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ب ي ع (b y ʕ)
11 terms

Corresponding to بَاعَ (bāʕa, to sell) and بَايَعَ (bāyaʕa, to give alliance to).

Noun

بِيعَة (bīʕaf (plural بِيَع (biyaʕ))

  1. mode or manner of selling
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Noun

بَيْعَة (bayʕaf

  1. a striking together the hands as a sign that a bargain has been made, as a sign of allegiance or loyalty, and the obedience to such a contract itself
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Etymology 2

From Aramaic בֵיעֲתָא / ܒܹܝܥܬ݂ܳܐ (bēʿṯā, egg; any egg–shaped object; oval top of an arch or other architectural element).

Pronunciation

Noun

بِيعَة (bīʕaf (plural بِيَع (biyaʕ))

  1. a church
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:40:
      وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَّصَلَوَاتٌ وَّمَسٰجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا ٱسْمُ ٱللهِ كَثِيرًا
      walawlā dafʕu llāhi n-nāsa baʕḍahum bibaʕḍin lahuddimat ṣawāmiʕu wabiyaʕun waṣalawātun wamasājidu yuḏkaru fīhā smu llāhi kaṯīran
      And were it not that God checks some people by others there in fact would have been demolished churches and monastic cells, and synagogues and mosques wherein the name of God is oft-mentioned.
  2. a synagogue
    Synonyms: كَنِيس (kanīs), صَلَاة (ṣalāh)
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References

  • بيعة” in Almaany
  • 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 204
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 274
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 86–87