بوء

2 بوّأهُ مَنْزِلًا ذ He lodged him in an abode; (Fr, T, M, K;) as also بوّاهُ فِى مَنْزِلٍ, (M, K,) and مَنْزِلًا ↓ اباآءهُ: (T, * M, K:) or, as also بوّأ لَهُ مَنْزِلًا, (the latter mentioned by Fr, T,) he prepared for him an abode, (S, Mgh,) and assigned, or gave, him a place therein: (S:) and بَوَّأْتُهُ دارًا and بوّاتُ لَهُ دارًا I lodged him in a house: (Msb:) and بَوَّأْتُكَ بَيْتًا I took for thee a house: and ↓ تَبَوَّاآ لِقَوْمِكُمَا بِمِصْرَ بُيُوتًا [in the Kur x. 87] means take ye two, for your people, in Egypt, houses: (Akh, T:) or ↓ تَبَوُّؤٌ [or تَبَوُّؤُ مَكَانٍ] signifies a man's putting a mark upon a place, when it pleases him, that he may abide there: (El-'Itreefee, T:) or ↓ تبوّأهُ he put it [a place] into a right, or proper, state; and prepared it: (Sh, * T:) or بَيْتًا ↓ تبوّأ he took a house as a place of abode, or as a dwelling: (Msb:) or مَنْزِلًا ↓ تبوّأ he looked for the best place that could be seen, and the most level, or even, and the best adapted by its firmness, for his passing the night there, and took it as a place of abode; (Fr, T;) or he took for himself a place of abode; (T, Mgh;) or he alighted and sojourned in a place of abode: and ↓ استباآءهُ he took it as a مَبَاآءَة [or place of abode ]: (S:) and بوّأ المَكَانَ and بِهِ ↓ اباآء (K) and ↓ تبوّأ [i. e. تبوّأ بِهِ] (Sh, T, K) he alighted in the place, and stayed, or dwelt, in it: (Sh, T, K:) or به ↓ اباآء he stayed, or dwelt, in it, i. e., a place: (Akh, T:) and المَكَانَ ↓ تبوّأ he alighted and abode in the place: (M:) [whence, in the Kur lix. 9,] ا@لدَّارَوَ ا@لْاـِيمَانَ ↓ وَا@لَّذِينَ تَبَوَّؤُوا [ and they who have made their abode in the City of the Prophet and in the faith ]; the faith being likened to a place of abode; or the meaning may be مَكَانَ الاـِيمَانِ [ the place of the faith ]. (M.)