بيعة

From the verb بايع :to give alliance to, from root ب ي ع (b-y-ʕ).

بِيعَة • (bīʕa) f (plural بِيَع (biyaʕ))

1. mode or manner of selling

بَيْعَة • (bayʕa) f

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

• → Azerbaijani: beyət
• → Bashkir: бәйғәт (bəyğət)
• → Chagatai: بیعت
  • Uyghur: بەيئەت (bey'et)
  • Uzbek: bayʼat
• → Ottoman Turkish: بیعت (beyʿat)
  • Turkish: biat
• → Persian: بیعت (bey'at)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: बैअत (baiat)
    • Urdu: بَیعَت (baiʻat)
  • → Punjabi:
    • Shahmukhi script: بَیْعَت (baiʻat)
• → Swahili: bia

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

• IPA^(key): /biː.ʕa/
• (Al-Andalus) IPA^(key): /baj.ʕa/

بِيعَة • (bīʕa) f (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 llahuddimat ṣawāmiʕu wabiyaʕun wwaṣalawātun wwamasājidu 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)

• كَنِيسَة (kanīsa)

• → Ottoman Turkish: بیعه (bia)

• “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