Arabic root

ب-ك-ي

Ba-Kaf-Ya

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ba-Kaf-Ya (ب-ك-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: bakā (to cry / to weep).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 7 verses, across 6 of the 114 suras. The first is in 9:82.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
بَكَى bakā	to cry / to weep	verb, A1	Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling

In the Quran

فَلْيَضْحَكُوا۟ قَلِيلًا وَلْيَبْكُوا۟ كَثِيرًا جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

Then let them laugh a little: they will weep much, as the reward of what they used to earn.

Quran 9:82

وَجَآءُوٓ أَبَاهُمْ عِشَآءً يَبْكُونَ

And they came weeping to their father in the evening.

Quran 12:16

وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ

And that He it is who maketh laugh, and maketh weep,

Quran 53:43

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).