Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَكْءٌ

Root: بكأ

Full Definition

بَكْءٌ [originally Verbal.Noun of 1, q. v.: and hence,] Poverty; or paucity of wealth.
2 And Paucity of speech, except as to things requiring speech.


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