Proto-Semitic root
*bky-
‘to weep, cry, lament’ 1, ‘weeping, lamentation’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to weep, lament; weeping
Record S44 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
The agent noun ‘professional mourner’ is 3618.
Reflexes17 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianbakû (CAD B 35)bikītugloss withheld
- Eblaiticba-ga-um /bakāHum/ (= Sum. ér) (VE 717; Krebernik 1983, 27; Bonechi 2008, 12)ba-ga-um, da-ba-ga /b-k-y/: names ba-ga, ba-ga-da-mu (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 115)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic4
- Ugariticbky (DULAT 217)tbky (KTU 1.6 i 9, Anat weeping for Baal)ybkygloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicbəḵā (LGz. 94)
- AramaicDA bky (DNWSI 163)gloss withheld
- Amoritebakūt 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 115)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicbakābukāʾ (Leslau CDG 94)gloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic bky (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 60)Dhofari bky 1 (Al-Jallad 2026, 28)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian9
- Geezbakaya (HALOT 129)
- Mehribekū (LGz. 94)
- Tigrebäka (LGz. 94)
- Hararibäka (LGz. 94)
- Tigrinyabäḵäyä (LGz. 94)
- Guragebäk’ä (LGz. 94)
- Gafatbäššä (LGz. 94)
- East EthiopicSel. Wol. bäčä, Zwy. bäčī (EDG 136 apud SEDonline 1654)gloss withheld
- Jibbalibéké (JL 25 apud SEDonline 1654)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.