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بعج

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

بَعِيجٌ بعيج A belly (S) slit, ripped, or rent, (S, K,) with a knife, (S,) so that what was in it is displaced and apparent, hanging down; (TA;) as also ↓ بَعِجٌ, thought to be after manner of a rel. n.; (L, TA;) and ↓ مَبْعُوجٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- Hence, بَطْنِى لِلْكِرَامِ بَعِيجٌ, an expression used by Aboo-Dhu-eyb, meaning (tropical:) My sincere, honest, or faithful, advice, or counsel, is liberally, or freely, given to the generous. (TA. [In a reading given in the S, بالكرام is substituted for للكرام]) [Or it may mean (tropical:) My secret is disclosed, or revealed, to the generous: or my whole mind. ] ― -b3- بَعِيجٌ is also applied to a man, and, without ة, to a woman, as signifying Having the belly slit, ripped, or rent, with a knife, so that what was in it is displaced and apparent, hanging down: pl., masc. and fem., بَعْجَى. (TA.) ― -b4- And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) A woman who has brought forth many children (بَعَجَتْ بَطْنَهَا, and نَثَرَتْ, [see 1, and see art. نثر,]) to her husband. (K.)

Derived headwords

بَعِيجٌ
  1. 1.
لِلْكِرَامِ بَعِيجٌ
بَعَجَتْ بَطْنَهَا