بهل

3 مُبَاهَلَةٌ مباهله مباهلة The act of cursing each other: (S, Mgh, Msb:) inf. n. of باهلهُ He cursed him, being cursed by him: (Msb:) [or rather] بَاهَلْتُهُ signifies I joined with him in imprecating the curse of God upon whichever of us did wrong. (JK.) Hence the saying of Ibn-Mes'ood, مَنْ شَاآءَ بَاهَلْتُهُ أَنَّ سُورَةَ القُصْرَى نَزَلَتْ بَعْدَ البَقَرَةِ [ Whosoever will, I will contend with him by imprecating the curse of God upon whichever of us is wrong, that the shorter chapter of “Women” came down from heaven after the chapter of “ The Cow” ]: or, accord. to one recital, he said لَا عَنْتُهُ: for when they differed respecting a thing, they used to come together, and say, ا@للّٰهِ عَلَى ↓ بَهْلَةُ الظَّالِمِ مِنَّا [ The curse of God be upon such of us as is the wrongdoer! ]. (Mgh.) باهل بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا and ↓ تبّهلوا and ↓ تباهلوا all signify They cursed one another: (K:) [or] they joined in imprecating a curse upon such of them as was the wrongdoer: (TA:) and ↓ ابتهلوا signifies the like: whence, ثُمَّ نَبْتَهِلْ, in the Kur [iii. 54], (Bd, TA,) as some explain it, (TA,) meaning ↓ ثُمَّ نَتَبَاهَلْ, i. e., Then let us imprecate a curse upon such of us as is the liar. (Bd. [But see also 8 below.])