بليغ

Arabic

Root
ب ل غ (b-l-ḡ)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb بَلَغَ (balaḡa, to be reach, to go far). Related to بَلَاغَة (balāḡa, eloquence).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.liːɣ/
  • Rhymes: -iːɣ

Adjective

بَلِيغ • (balīḡ) (feminine بَلِيغَة (balīḡa), masculine plural بَلِيغُون (balīḡūn) or بُلَغَاء (bulaḡāʔ), feminine plural بَلِيغَات (balīḡāt), elative أَبْلَغ (ʔablaḡ))

  1. eloquent
  2. intense, deep (impression)
  3. serious, grave (injury)

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: bəliğ
  • Persian: بلیغ
  • Ottoman Turkish: بلیغ
    • Turkish: beliğ

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بليغ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “بلغ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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