بكرة

Compare بَكَرَ (bakara, “to be early”). Unrelated to Hebrew בקר (bóqer, “morning”) despite similarity in form and meaning.

بُكْرَة • (bukra) f (plural بُكَر (bukar))

1. early morning

• Maltese: bokra

Adverbial accusative of بُكْرَة (bukra, “early morning”).

بُكْرَةً • (bukratan)

1. early in the morning

• Cypriot Arabic: pukra
• Egyptian Arabic: بكرة (bukra), بكره (bukra), بكرا (bukra)
• Hijazi Arabic: بكرة (bukra)
• South Levantine Arabic: بكرة (bukra), بكرا (bukra)

From the ideas of rising early of بَكَرَ (bakara) or بَكَّرَ (bakkara), i.e. anticipating the movement of the axle or rope and being placed into position before.

بَكَرَة • (bakara) f (plural بَكَر (bakar) or بَكَرَات (bakarāt))

1. pulley, block, wheel in a simple machine

• → Armenian: պաքարա (pakʻara)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مقره (makara), بكره (bekre), ماقاره (makara), مقاره (makara)
  • Turkish: makara
  • → Albanian: makara
  • → Armenian: մախարա (maxara)
  • → Cypriot Arabic: mpakara
  • → Macedonian: макара (makara)
  • → Romanian: macara

• بكره (bukra), بكرا (bukra)

From Arabic بُكْرَةً (bukratan).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbok.ɾɑ]

بكرة • (bukra)

1. tomorrow

From Arabic بُكْرَةً (bukratan).

• IPA^(key): /buk.ra/, [bʊk.ra]

بكرة • (bukra)

1. tomorrow

• اليوم (al-yōm, “today”)
• أمس (ʔams, “yesterday”)

From Arabic بَكَرَة (bakara).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ka.ra/

بكرة • (bakara) f (plural بَكَرات (bakarāt))

1. spool (of thread)
2. pulley, wheel in a simple machine

From Arabic بُكْرَة (bukra) and its adverbial form بُكْرَةً (bukratan).

• IPA^(key): /bukra/, /bikra/

بكرة • (bukra)

1. tomorrow
2. one day soon, someday soon, one of these days

   بكرة بس ترجع تشمّس منصير بدنا نضل نسقي

   bukra bas tirjaʕ tšammis minṣīr baddna nḍall nisʔi

   Someday soon once the sun starts coming back out we'll have to constantly water [the lawn]

   بكرة بتشوف ― bukra bitšūf ― One day soon you'll see

• The "one day soon" sense contrasts with شي يوم (šī yōm, literally “some day”), which does not imply that the day in question is impending.

• بكرا (bukra) (alternative spelling)

بكرة • (bukrit-, bikrit-) f

1. (obsolete) crack of dawn (only used in compounds)

• اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)
• مبارح (mbāriḥ, “yesterday”)

Inherited from Arabic بَكَرَة (bakara, “pulley”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ka.ra/

بكرة • (bakara) f (plural بكرات (bakarāt))

1. large spool of thread

   Coordinate term: ماسورة (māsūra, “spool”) (smaller)

From بَقْرا (bagra, “I read, I will read”) in another Arabic variety with ق (g).

• IPA^(key): /bakara/, /baɡara/

بكرة • (bakara, bagara)

1. Only used in حكرة بكرة (ḥakara bakara, ḥagara bagara, “eeny, meeny, miny, moe”) and related phrases

• بكرا (bukra)

From Arabic بُكْرَةً (bukratan).

• IPA^(key): /buk.ra/, [ˈbuk.rˤɑ]

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بكرة • (bukra)

1. tomorrow

• بعد بكرة (baʕd bukra, “the day after tomorrow”)

• اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)
• مبارح (mbāreḥ, “yesterday”)