بقشة

Arabic

Alternative forms

• بُقْجَة (buqja), بُقْچَة (buqča)

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]‎^[1], 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 envelope […] 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^[2]:
   • 2014 April 2, “حفظ الثياب… بدأت بـ”البقجة“ وانتهت بـ“السكرتون“”, in eSyria‎^[3]:
2. fried pastry in such a form
   • 2017 January 10, “طريقة عمل حلى البقشة على اصوله”, in Ṭarīqa‎^[4]:
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)‎^[5] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 342 Nr. 789
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بقشة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[6] (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^[7] (in German), Routledge, →ISBN, page 199