بعضا

Arabic

Root
ب ع ض (b ʕ ḍ)
4 terms

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of بَعْض (baʕḍ, “some”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baʕ.dˤan/

Adverb

بَعْضًا • (baʕḍan)

partly
بَعْضَهُم بَعْضًا ― baʕḍahum baʕḍan ― each other

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: bəzən
→ Persian: بعضا
→ Ottoman Turkish: بعضا
- → Turkish: bazen, bazan
→ Uyghur: بەزەن (bezen)
→ Uzbek: baʼzan

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَعْضًا (baʕḍan). By surface analysis, (ba'z) +‎ (-an).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /baʔ.ˈzan/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäʔ.zǽn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zǽn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.zǽn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæʔ.zǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bäʔ.zǽn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ba'zan
Dari reading^?	ba'zan
Iranian reading^?	ba'zan
Tajik reading^?	ba'zan

Adverb

بعضا • (ba'zan) (Tajik spelling баъзан)

sometimes, occasionally

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بعضا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim