بهء

1 بَهَأ بِهِ ذ , and بَهِئَ, (AZ, S, Mgh, K,) [aor. بَهَاَ ,] and بَهُؤَ, (K,) [aor. بَهُاَ ] inf. n. بَهْءٌ and بُهُوْءٌ (AZ, S, K) and بَهَاآءٌ; (K;) and به ↓ ابتهأ; (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA;) He was, or became, sociable, friendly, or familiar, with him, or it; (AZ, S, Mgh, K;) namely, a man, (AZ, S,) or a thing; (Mgh;) and loved, or liked, his, or its, nearness: (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA:) and he became familiar with it so as to have little, or no, reverence for it, or awe of it. (Mgh, TA.) بَهَوْا بِهِ occurs in a trad., as they relate it, for بَهَؤُوا به: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) and ↓ يَبْتَهِى, in a verse of El-Aashà, for يَبْتَهِئُ. (As, O, TS, L.) ― -b2- مَا بَهَأْتُ لَهُ I did not understand it; or I did not know it; (ISk, S, K;) as also مَا بَأَهْتُ لَهُ. (ISk, S.)