بصر

بَصَرٌ بصر The sense of sight, (Lth, S,) or of the eye: (M, K:) or the light whereby the organ [ of sight ] (الجَارِحَة) perceives the things seen (المُبْصَرَات): (Msb:) pl. أَبْصَارٌ. (M, Msb, K.) [Hence,] صَلَاةُ البَصَرِ The prayer of sunset: or, as some say, of daybreak: because performed when the darkness becomes mixed with the light: (TA:) or because performed when the stars are seen: also called صَلَاةُ الشَّاهِدِ: (TA in art. شهد:) or because performed at a time when the eyes see corporeal forms, after the intervention of darkness, or before it. (JM.) And لَقِيَهُ بَصَرًا He met him when eyes saw one another: or at the beginning of darkness, when there remained enough light for objects to be distinguished thereby: [accord. to some,] the noun is used [in the sense which it here bears] only as an adv. n. [of time]. (M.) And رَأَيْتُهُ بَيْنَ سَمْعِ الأَرْضِ وَبَصَرِهَا (tropical:) I saw him in a vacant tract of land, or of the earth, where nothing but it heard or saw me. (A.) [See also سَمْعٌ, in two places.] ― -b2- See also بَصِيرَةٌ, first sentence, in four places. ― -b3- Also The eye; [and so ↓ بَاصِرَةٌ;] syn. عَيْنٌ; but of the masc. gender: (TA:) pl. as above: (Kur ii. 6, &c.:) but the sing. is also used in a pl. sense [like سَمْعٌ]. (TA in art. سمع.) See two exs. voce بَصِيرةٌ.