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بدء
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaبَدِيْئَةٌ ذ : see بَدْءٌ; second sentence. ― -b2- Also, (M, K,) and ↓ بَدَاآءَةٌ, (K,) or ↓ بُدَاآءَةٌ, (M,) i. q. بَدِيهَةٌ, (K,) and بَدَاهَةٌ, (TA,) or بُدَاهَةٌ, i. e. The first occurrence of a thing, that happens to one unexpectedly: (M:) [or the first of anything: and an occurrence thereof by which one is taken unawares: accord. to explanations in the K in art. بده:] pl. of the first, بَدَايَا. (TA.) ― -b3- [And all app. signify The faculty of extemporizing; like بَدِيهَةٌ (q. v.) &c.] You say, جَيِّدَةٍ ↓ فُلَانٌ ذُو بَدَاآءَةٍ, i. e. بَدِيهَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ, [meaning] Such a one has a good faculty of extemporizing; or of uttering, or relating, things by means of the promptness of his intelligence. (TA.)
Derived headwords
بَدِيْئَةٌ
- 1.
بَدِيهَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ