From the root ب ك ر (b k r). Compare Hebrew בְּכוֹר (bəḵōr, “firstborn”).

بَكَرَ • (bakara) I (non-past يَبْكُرُ (yabkuru), verbal noun بُكُور (bukūr))

1. to be early [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘at something’]
2. to come early [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to something’]

   بَكَرَ إِلَيْهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُغادِرَ بَيْتَهُ.

   bakara ʔilayhi qabla ʔan yuḡādira baytahu.

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3. to get up early

بَكَّرَ • (bakkara) II (non-past يُبَكِّرُ (yubakkiru), verbal noun تَبْكِير (tabkīr))

1. to be early [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘at something’]
2. to come early [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to something’]
3. to get up early
4. to early or prematurely [with فِي (fī) or بِ (bi, + verbal noun) ‘do something’]

بَكْر • (bakr) m

1. a male given name, Bakr

   أبو بكر، بو بكر ― The father of Bakr

بِكْر • (bikr) m (plural أَبْكَار (ʔabkār))

1. firstborn child
2. male or female virgin, celibate
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:36:

     فَجَعَلْنَاهُنَّ أَبْكَارًا

     fajaʕalnāhunna ʔabkāran

     And [we] made them virgins

   • Traditional, “يَا مَرْيَمُ الْبِكْرُ فُقْتِ [O Virgin Mary Ye Surpassed]”‎^[1]:

     يَا مَرْيَمُ الْبِكْرُ فُقْتِ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ وَكُلَّ نَجْمٍ بِأَفْلَاكِ السَّمَاءِ سَرَى

     yā maryamu l-bikru fuqti š-šamsa wālqamara wakulla najmin biʔaflāki s-samāʔi sarā

     O Virgin Mary, ye surpassed the sun and the moon and all the stars that orbited the heavenly spheres by night.

• → Ottoman Turkish: بكار (bekâr)
  • Turkish: bekâr
  • → Albanian: beqar
  • → Armenian: պէքեար (pēkʻear)
  • → Greek: μπεκιάρης (bekiáris)
  • → Macedonian: беќар (beḱar)
  • → Romanian: becher
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бѐћа̄р

    Latin script: bèćār

• → Persian: بکر (bekr)

بُكَر • (bukar) pl

1. plural of بُكْرَة (bukra)

بَكَّر • (transliteration needed) m (plural بَكَّرَات)

1. (dialectal) a pair of pliers

Borrowed from Arabic بِكْر (bikr, “firstborn; virgin”). Doublet of بكار (bekâr, “bachelor”).

بكر • (bikr or bikir)

1. virgin, chaste, in a state of virginity, not having had sexual intercourse

بكر • (bikr or bikir) (definite accusative بكری (bikri), plural ابكار (ebkâr))

1. firstborn, firstling, the first child born to in the birth order of a couple through childbirth

   Synonym: نخست زاد (nuhust zad)

2. virgin, maid, vestal, a woman or female animal who has never had any sexual intercourse

   Synonyms: بتول (betul), دوشیزه (duşize)

3. (of a woman) virginity, maidenhood, the state or characteristic of being a virgin or a maiden

   Synonyms: بكارت (bekâret), قیزلق (kızlık)

4. hymen, maidenhead, a membrane which occludes the vaginal opening in human females

   Synonyms: بكارت (bekâret), قیزلق (kızlık)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bikr”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 602
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bikr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 129
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 272
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Virgo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1768
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 862
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bikir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 376

From Arabic بَكَّرَ (bakkara).

• IPA^(key): /bak.kar/, [ˈbak.kar]

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بكّر • (bakkar) II (present ببكّر (bibakker))

1. to be early

   Antonym: تأخّر (tʔaḵḵar)

• بكّير (bakkīr, “early”)