بقشة

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Turkic languages, in consequence of the Mongol pressure and again after the Ottoman territory gains from Ottoman Turkish بوغچه (boğça, bohça).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /buq.ʃa/

Noun

بُقْشَة • (buqša) f (plural بُقَش (buqaš))

  1. bundle, a cloth tied up for carrying things other than cloths
    • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, pages 231 line 1 a fine–232 line 3:
      ثُمَّ جَاءَ أَحَدُ ٱلْفِتْيَانِ بِبُقْشَةٍ […] وَهِيَ ٱلسَنَبِيَّةُ فَأَخَذَهَا ٱلنَّائِبُ بِيَدِهِ وَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي وَأَدْخَلَنِي إِلَى دُوَيْرَةٍ يُسَمُّونَهَا فَرْدْخَانَةً […]
      ṯumma jāʔa ʔaḥadu l-fityāni bibuqšatin […] wahiya s-sanabiyyatu faʔaḵaḏahā n-nāʔibu bi-yadi-hī waʔaḵaḏa bi-yadī waʔadḵalanī ʔilā duwayratin yusammūnahā fardḵānatan […]
      Then came one of the boys with a bundle […] this is an envelop […] and the lieutenant took it with his hand and took me by the hand and made enter into a maisonette they call recovery room […]
    • 2009 November 1, “بقشة.. وقفّة ومهفة”, in Al-Bayān‎:
    • 2014 April 2, “حفظ الثياب… بدأت بـ”البقجة“ وانتهت بـ“السكرتون“”, in eSyria‎:
  2. fried pastry in such a form
    • 2017 January 10, “ar: طريقة عمل حلى البقشة على اصوله”, in Ṭarīqa‎:
  3. a kind of square shawl often used for wrapping bundles
  4. (Yemen, until decimalisation in 1974) a sub unit of the riyal

Declension
Declension of noun بُقْشَة (buqša)
Singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal بُقْشَة
buqša		 الْبُقْشَة
al-buqša		 بُقْشَة
buqšat
Nominative بُقْشَةٌ
buqšatun		 الْبُقْشَةُ
al-buqšatu		 بُقْشَةُ
buqšatu
Accusative بُقْشَةً
buqšatan		 الْبُقْشَةَ
al-buqšata		 بُقْشَةَ
buqšata
Genitive بُقْشَةٍ
buqšatin		 الْبُقْشَةِ
al-buqšati		 بُقْشَةِ
buqšati
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal بُقْشَتَيْن
buqšatayn		 الْبُقْشَتَيْن
al-buqšatayn		 بُقْشَتَيْ
buqšatay
Nominative بُقْشَتَانِ
buqšatāni		 الْبُقْشَتَانِ
al-buqšatāni		 بُقْشَتَا
buqšatā
Accusative بُقْشَتَيْنِ
buqšatayni		 الْبُقْشَتَيْنِ
al-buqšatayni		 بُقْشَتَيْ
buqšatay
Genitive بُقْشَتَيْنِ
buqšatayni		 الْبُقْشَتَيْنِ
al-buqšatayni		 بُقْشَتَيْ
buqšatay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal بُقَش
buqaš		 الْبُقَش
al-buqaš		 بُقَش
buqaš
Nominative بُقَشٌ
buqašun		 الْبُقَشُ
al-buqašu		 بُقَشُ
buqašu
Accusative بُقَشًا
buqašan		 الْبُقَشَ
al-buqaša		 بُقَشَ
buqaša
Genitive بُقَشٍ
buqašin		 الْبُقَشِ
al-buqaši		 بُقَشِ
buqaši

Further reading
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 342 Nr. 789
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بقشة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 102b
  • Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic‎ (in German), Routledge, →ISBN, page 199
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