بعل

بَعْلٌ بعل A husband: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) pl. بُعُولَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and بُعُولٌ and بِعَالٌ. (K.) And A wife; as also بَعْلَةٌ; (S, Msb, K;) like زَوْجٌ and زَوْجَةٌ. (S, Msb. *) ― -b2- A lord, a master, an owner, or a possessor, (S, Msb, K,) of a thing, (K,) such as a house, and a beast, (TA,) or a she-camel: (S:) a head, chief, ruler, or person of authority. (El-Khattábee, TA.) ― -b3- [And hence,] A certain idol, (S, K,) of gold, (TA,) belonging to the people of Ilyás, (S, K,) who is said to be the same as Idrees, the grandfather, or an ancestor, of Noah, or to have been a grandson of Aaron, (Bd in vi. 85,) or the son of the brother of Aaron: (Jel ibid.:) it is mentioned in the Kur xxxvii. 123: accord. to one copy of the K, it belonged to the people of Jonas; and so in the Kitáb el-Mujarrad of Kr: accord. to Mujáhid, it means a deity that is not God: (TA:) or a certain king: (IAar, K:) but [SM says,] the correct explanation is the first: (TA:) or a certain idol belonging to the people of Bekk, in Syria; i. e., of the town now called Baala-Bekk: so in the Kur: (Bd, Jel: *) or it means in the dial. of El-Yemen a lord; and so in the Kur. (Bd.) ― -b4- Also One whom it is a necessary duty to obey; as a father, and a mother, and the like. (TA.) ― -b5- And A family, or household, whose maintenance is incumbent on a man. (TA.) ― -b6- And it may be a contraction of بَعِلٌ, as meaning Lacking strength, or power, or ability; unable to find the right way to accomplish his affair. (TA.) ― -b7- Also (tropical:) A weight, or burden. (K, TA.) You say, أَصْبَحَ فُلَانٌ بَعْلًا عَلَى أَهْلِهِ (tropical:) Such a one became a weight, or burden, upon his family; because of his ascendency over them. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) Elevated land, (S, K,) upon which comes neither running water nor torrent, (S,) or that is not rained upon more than once in the year: (K:) or (tropical:) land elevated above other land; as being likened to the man who is thus termed. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b9- (assumed tropical:) Any palm-trees, and other trees, and seed-produce, not watered: or such as are watered by the rain: (K:) or (tropical:) palm-trees (نَخْل) that imbibe with their roots, and so need not to be watered: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) metaphorically so applied: (Mgh:) AA says that it is syn. with عِذْىٌ, meaning what is watered by the rain: but As says that this latter word has the meaning just given, whereas بعل signifies what imbibes with its roots, without irrigation or rain: (S, Msb:) or palm-trees growing in land whereof the supply of water is near [ to the surface ], so that it suffices without their having irrigation or rain: (TA:) or large, so as to imbibe with the roots: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and (tropical:) a male palm-tree; (K, TA;) likened to the man who is thus termed: (TA:) and Az says that it is used as meaning (assumed tropical:) [ dates such as are termed ] قَسْب. (TA.) ― -b10- And (assumed tropical:) The tax, or impost, that is given for the watering of palm-trees. (K.)