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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA fertile valley in eastern Lebanon, spanning the Baalbek-Hermel and Beqaa governorates. · A governorate of Lebanon, one of two spanned by the Beqaa valley.
Adapted from Arabic البِقَاع (al-biqāʕ, literally “the Beqaa”) or local North Levantine Arabic البْقاع (l-bʔāʕ, l-bqāʕ), seemingly originally from بِقَاع (biqāʕ, “splotches, patches, areas, regions”).
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