اسبق asbaḳ A adj. compar. (from سبق He out- stripped) More or most surpassing or excellent; past times, days of yore.

بقا baḳā A s. f. Duration, permanence, remaining, eternity, immortality.

بقال baḳḳāl A adj. superl. (from بقل, used sub- stantively) A grain-merchant, shopkeeper, gro- cer.

بقايا baḳāyā A s. plur. (of بقيه baḳīya) Remain- ders, balances. بقاياتوجيه baḳāyā taujīh, Ac- count of balances.

بقر baḳar A s. m. (Heb. ) A bull. بقرعيد baḳar- īﻌd, A festival held in commemoration of Abra- hamʼs offering to sacrifice his son, Ismāʼīl (agree- able to Muhammadans, and not Isʼhāk). P.A. بقسميه ba-ḳasm-īya, On oath, by oath.

بقلةالحمقا baḳlatu-l-ḥamḳā A s. m. (The stupid herbage) Purslain.

بقله baḳla A s. A potherb.

بقم baḳam A s. f. Sappan wood. (Cœsalpinia sappan).

بقيه baḳīya A s. m. Remainder, balance.

زنبق zambaḳ P s. Name of a flower, the white jasmine, a lily, or an iris.

زيبق zībaḳ A s. m. Quicksilver.

سبق sabaḳ A (from سبق Chald. To precede, to leave behind) s. m. A lesson, lecture, reading.

طبق t̤abaḳ A s. m. (dakh. s. f.) 1. A cover. 2. A plate, a dish, a leaf, a disk. 3. Gold leaf, tinfoil, &c. 4. One thing following another or consecutive; the story of a house, a layer or stratum, &c. class, order, degree.

مطابقت mut̤ābaḳat A (inf. III. of طبق) s. f. Conformity, equality, identity, analogy, corres- pondence.

مطبق mut̤abbaḳ A (part. pass. II. of طبق) adj. Placed one thing over another, doubled, folded.