# باع
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baː.ʕa/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

بَاعَ • (bāʕa) I (non-past يَبِيعُ (yabīʕu), verbal noun بَيْع (bayʕ) or مَبِيع (mabīʕ))
* (transitive, ditransitive) to sell (to agree to transfer goods or provide services)
    بَاعَ زَيْدٌ مَتَاعَهُ. ― bāʕa zaydun matāʕahu. ― Zayd sold his possessions.
    بَاعَنِي بَعْضَ الْأَثَاثِ. ― bāʕanī baʕḍa l-ʔaṯāṯi. ― He sold me some furniture.

#### Descendants

* Maltese: biegħ

### Noun

بَاع • (bāʕ) m (plural أَبْوَاع (ʔabwāʕ))
* a linear measure derived from the distance between the two outspread arms of a man – which is mostly equal to his height, a قَامَة (qāma), a fathom, about 180 centimetres
* the body, including the limbs
    رَجُلٌ طَوِيلُ البَاعِ ― rajulun ṭawīlu l-bāʕi ― a man tall of body (literally, “a man tall in body, a man of great generosity”)
* the arms (especially when extended to their full reach)
* reach, power, ability, eminence, nobility, honour, generosity
    هُوَ قَصِيرُ البَاعِ ― huwa qaṣīru l-bāʕi ― He is lacking in power or ability, he is stingy
    لَهُ فِي ٱلْمَجْدِ سَابِقَةٌ وَبَاعُ ― lahu fī l-majdi sābiqatun wabāʕu ― He has precedence and eminence in glory, honour, dignity, or nobility

#### Declension
## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːʕ/, [ˈbæːʕ]

### Verb

باع • (bāʕ) I (non-past يبيع (yibīʕ), verbal noun بيع (bēʕ) or بياعة (biyāʕa))
* to sell

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

### References

* Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “باع”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 117
* El Dik, Dina, Iskander, Emad (2021) Yalla! Let's Learn Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Verbs, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 107

## Iraqi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic باع (bāʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːʕ/

### Verb

باع (bāʕ) I (non-past يبيع (ybīʕ))
* (transitive) to sell

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of باع (bāʕ) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | بعت (biʕit) | بعت (biʕit) | باع (bāʕ) | بعنا (biʕna) | بعتو (biʕtu) | باعو (bāʕaw) |
| past | f | بعت (biʕit) | بعتي (biʕti) | باعت (bāʕat) | بعنا (biʕna) | بعتن (biʕtan) | باعن (bāʕan) |
| present | m | ابيع (abīʕ) | تبيع (tbīʕ) | يبيع (ybīʕ) | نبيع (nbīʕ) | تبيعون (tbīʕūn) | يبيعون (ybīʕūn) |
| present | f | ابيع (abīʕ) | تبيعين (tbīʕīn) | تبيع (tbīʕ) | نبيع (nbīʕ) | تبيعن (tbīʕan) | يبيعن (ybīʕan) |
| imperative | m | | بيع (bīʕ) | | | بيعو (bīʕu) | |
| imperative | f | | بيعي (bīʕi) | | | بيعن (bīʕan) | |

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːʕ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

باع • (bāʕ) I (non-past يبيع (ybīʕ), active participle بايع (bāyiʕ), passive participle مبيوع (mabyūʕ))
* (transitive, ditransitive) to sell
    Antonym: شرى (šrā)
    بغيته يبيع لي ديك الدار اللي جات على الطريق الرئيسية.bḡītu ybīʕ li dīk ed-dār elli jāt ʕla ṭ-ṭrīq er-raʔīsiyya.I want him to sell me the house on the main road.

#### Conjugation
## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːʕ/, [bæːʕ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

باع • (bāʕ) I (present ببيع (bibīʕ))
* (transitive) to sell
    Antonyms: اشترى (ištara), شرى (šara)
    بعت سيّارتي لمحمود. ― biʕt sayyārti la-maḥmūd ― I sold my car to Mahmoud.

#### See also

* انباع (inbāʕ, “to sell, to be sold”, mediopassive)