بلج
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأَبْلَجُ ذ A man having a clear, a conspicuous, or a white, space between the eyes, not having the eyebrows joined: (ISh, TA:) or having such a space between the eyebrows, (K, * TA,) not having the eyebrows joined: (S, TA:) or having a wide space, or a space clear of hair, between the eyebrows: fem. بَلْجَاآءُ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] Bright of countenance; the Prophet being said by UmmMaabad to have been أَبْلَجُ الوَجْهِ; by which she did not mean the بَلَج of the eyebrows, for she described him as having joined eyebrows: (A'Obeyd, S, TA:) or fair, beautiful, and wide in countenance, whether long or short: or [alone, or] followed by ↓ بَلْجٌ, (assumed tropical:) open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance; (TA;) and so ↓ the latter alone: (K:) or ↓ the latter, (tropical:) open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance, with beneficence: (TA:) or the former, and ↓ the latter, and ↓ بَلِيجٌ, (assumed tropical:) liberal with acts of beneficence: (TA:) or the first, (tropical:) generous, beneficent, and open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance; although having joined eyebrows. (A, TA.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) Shining, bright, or shining brightly; applied to the dawn, or daybreak; (S, A, Msb;) and so ↓ بَلِيجٌ, applied to a thing [of any kind]: (TA:) and the former, anything (assumed tropical:) apparent, manifest, evident, or clear; (K;) thus applied to a face, and to the dawn, (TA,) and to the truth, (Msb, TA,) and to an affair or event, or a case, &c. (TA.) It is an act. part. n. of بَلِجَ. (Msb.) You say, الحَقُّ أَبْلَجُ وَ البَاطِلُ لَجْلَجٌ (tropical:) The truth is apparent, manifest, evident, or clear; [ and falsity is a cause of embarrassment, or hesitation, to the speaker; ] (S, A; *) i. e., the latter is agitated to and fro, without having utterance: (S in art. لج:) or the truth is lucid and direct; and falsity is confused and indirect. (TA in that art.) And حُجَّةٌ بَلْجَاآءُ (assumed tropical:) A manifest, an evident, or a clear, proof or argument. (Msb.)
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