Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

تَبَاكِيرُ تباكير (assumed tropical:) The colours of palm-trees when the fruit begins to ripen. (TA voce تَبَاشِيرُ.)

مُبْكِرٌ مبكر : see بَكُورٌ.

مِبْكَارٌ مبكار : see بَكُورٌ, in three places.

ضرَبَاتٌ مُبْتَكِرَاتٌ ضربات مبتكرات : see بِكْرٌ. last sentence.

1 بَكِمَ أبكم ب بكم كم aor. بَكَمَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. بَكَمٌ, (S, K,) He was أَخْرَسٌ [meaning dumb, either by natural conformation or from inability to find words to express what he would say ]; (S, Msb, K; *) بَكَمٌ being syn. with خَرَسٌ, as is also بَكَامَةٌ [accord. to rule an inf. n. of بَكُمَ, which may also have the same signification as بَكِمَ, as well as another to be explained below]: (K:) or he had not understanding to reply, (T, Msb, TA,) nor ability to frame speech well, (T, TA,) though possessing the faculty of speech: [see أَبْكَمُ:] (T, Msb, TA:) or he was dumb, and moreover unable to find words to express what he would say, and weak in understanding, silly, or stupid: (K:) or he was dumb and deaf and blind by birth. (Th, K.) ― -b2- بَكُمَ, aor. بَكُمَ , (inf. n. بَكَامَةٌ, TK,) He refrained, (Lth, K) or, as some say, broke off, or ceased, (TA,) from speaking, intentionally, (Lth, K, TA,) or from ignorance. (Lth, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He cut himself off, or desisted, from marriage, or sexual intercourse, either from ignorance or intentionally. (K, TA.)

5 تبكّم عَلَيْهِ الكَلَامُ تبكم عليه الكلام His speech was, or became, impeded; he was unable to speak freely. (A, K.)

بَكِيمٌ بكيم كيم : see what follows, in two places.

أَبْكَمٌ ذ (T, S, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ بَكِيمٌ (S, K) i. q. أَخْرَسُ [meaning Dumb, either by natural conformation or from inability to find words to express what he would say ]: (S, Msb, K:) or not having understanding to reply, (IAar, T, Msb, TA,) nor ability to frame speech well, (T, TA,) though possessing the faculty of speech; whereas اخرس signifies speechless, or destitute of the faculty of speech, by natural conformation, (T, Msb, TA,) like the beast that lacks the faculty of articulation; (T, TA;) unable to find words to express what he would say; unable to reply: (AZ, TA:) or dumb by natural conformation: (IAth, TA:) fem. بَكْمَاآءُ: (TA:) pl. بُكْمٌ (Msb, K) and بُكْمَانٌ, (K,) both pls. of أَبْكَمُ, like as صُمٌّ and صُمَّانٌ are pls. of أَصَمُّ; and the pl. of ↓ بَكِيمٌ is أَبْكَامٌ. (TA.) In the Kur ii. 166, بُكْمٌ means persons in the condition of him who has been born dumb: or, as some say, deprived of their intellects: (Zj, TA:) or ignorant and ignoble; because not profiting much by the faculty of speech, so that they are as though they had been deprived of it. (IAth, TA.) The phrase فِتْنَةٌ صَمَّاآءُ بَكْمَاآءُ عَمْيَاآءُ, occurring in a trad., [lit.] meaning [ A sedition, or the like,] deaf, dumb, blind, applies to a فتنة that does not withdraw, or become removed: or, as some say, to one which, by reason of the confusion attending it, and the perishing of the sound and the sick therein, is likened to the deaf and dumb and blind who does not pursue the right course to a thing, but goes at random like the weak-sighted she-camel. (TA.)

1 بَكَى بك بكى بكي كي , aor. بَكِىَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. بُكَاآءٌ and بُكًا (S, Msb, K) and مَبْكًى, (Har p. 11,) He wept; i. e. he lamented, or grieved, shedding tears at the same time; and he lamented, or grieved, alone; and he shed tears alone: (Er-Rághib, TA:) accord. to some, the preferable opinion is, that there is no difference between بُكَاآءُ and بُكًا: (TA:) or the former means the crying, or uttering of the voice [ of lamentation ], (S, IKtt, Msb, TA, &c.,) that accompanies البُكَاآء [so in copies of the S and in the TA, but correctly البُكَا]; (S, IKtt, TA;) and the latter (بُكًا), the shedding of tears: (S, IKtt, Msb, TA, &c.:) or the former, i. e. with medd, means the shedding of tears by reason of lamentation, or grief, and raising of the voice, or crying, [ at the same time, ] when the voice is predominant, being like رُغَاآءٌ, and ثُغَاآءٌ and other words of the same form applied to denote the uttering of a cry or of the voice; and the latter, [the shedding of tears &c. ] when lamentation, or grief, is predominant: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or by the former is meant the crying, or uttering of the voice [ of lamentation ]; and by the latter, the lamenting, or grieving. (Kh, TA.) تَبْكَاآءٌ and تِبْكَاآءٌ [may be inf. ns. of بَكَى or of ↓ بَكَّى, and] signify the same as بُكَاآءٌ: or much بُكَاء [or weeping, &c.]: (K:) MF asserts that تِبْكَاآءٌ (with kesr) and the former of these explanations are unknown; but both the word and the explanation are mentioned by Lh, as used in a form of words uttered by Arab women of the desert to fascinate men: ISd, however, says that it should be تَبْكَاآء, because it is an inf. n. of a class formed to denote muchness [of the attribute signified by the verb], like تَهْذَارٌ and تَلْعَابٌ &c.; and IAar says that تَبْكَاءٌ, with fet-h, has the latter of the two significations assigned to it above. (TA.) [See what is said of the measure تِفْعَالٌ voce بَيَّنَ.] You say, بَكَى لَهُ (MF, TA) and بَكَى عَلَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K, MF,) meaning [ He wept ] for, or over, him, or it: and only بَكَى بِهِ [or thus and also بَكَىمِنْهُ as appears from what follows] when meaning [ He wept ] because, or in consequence, of it: ('Ináyeh, MF, TA:) and بَكَاهُ and ↓ بَكَّاهُ, (As, AZ, S, Msb, K,) inf. n. of the former بُكَاآءٌ (K) [and بُكًا], and of the latter تَبْكِيَةٌ, (TA,) signify the same as بَكَى عَلَيْهِ; (As, AZ, S, Msb, * K;) the object being a man: (As, S:) and (or as some say, TA) he wept for, or over, him, i. e., one dead; or did so, and enumerated his good qualities or actions; syn. رَثَاهُ: (K:) or, as some say, بَكَاهُ means [ he wept because, or in consequence, of it, i. e.,] on account of being pained: and بَكَى عَلَيْهِ, [ he wept for, or over, him, ] by reason of tenderness of heart, or compassion: and [hence] it is said that بَكَيْتُهُ is originally بَكَيْتُ مِنْهُ: (TA:) [and ↓ بَكَّاهُ may have an intensive, or a frequentative, meaning; for it is said that] بَكِّى, addressed to the eye, signifies weep thou much, and repeatedly. (Ham p. 461.) ― -b2- [Hence,] بَكَت السَّحَابَةُ (assumed tropical:) The cloud rained. (Msb.) ― -b3- بَكَى also means He sang: [in the CK, وبَكَى عَنِّى is erroneously put for وبَكَى غَنَّى:] thus it has two contr. significations: (K, TA:) accord. to MF, it has this meaning only in relation to the pigeon and the like; but it is also used in this sense when said of a man, as in a verse cited voce جَنَازَةٌ, q. v. : and he observes that the assertion of its having two contr significations requires consideration, seeing that it is also said to signify رَثَى; [for in the performance of رِثَاآء, it is a common practice to sing;] but رِثَاآء is generally accompanied by lamentation, and غِنَاآء by rejoicing. (TA.) ― -b4- بَاكَيْتُهُ فَبَكَيْتُهُ: see 3.

2 بَكَّىَ see 1, in three places: -A2- and see also 4.

3 بَاكَيْتُهُ فَبَكَيْتُهُ باكيته فبكيته باكيته فبكيتة , (S, TA,) aor. of the latter أَبْكُوهُ, (TA,) or أَبْكِيهِ, retaining its original form, accord. to a rule observed in the case of a verb having an infirm letter [for its second or third radical] lest a verb with a radical ى should be confounded with one having a radical و, (Ham p. 670,) i. e. [ I vied with him, or strove to exceed him, in weeping, and I exceeded him therein, or] I was a greater weeper (أَبْكَى) than he. (S, TA.)

4 ابكاهُ أبكاه أبكى ابكاه ابكاة بكي [ He made him, or caused him, to weep; or] he did to him what made him to weep; (S, K;) as also ↓ استبكاهُ. (S.) And عَلَيْهِ ↓ بكّاهُ, inf. n. تَبْكِيَةٌ, He excited him to weep for him, or it; (K, TA;) namely, a person dead, (K,) or a thing lost. (TA.)

6 تباكى تباكى تباكي signifies تَكَلَّفَ البُكَاآءَ [i. e. He affected weeping; or endeavoured, or constrained himself, to weep ]. (S, K.) Hence, in a trad., فَاـِنْ لَمْ تَجِدُوا بُكَاآءً فَتَبَاكَوْا [ And if ye experience not weeping, endeavour to weep ]: (TA:) [or the words of the trad. are] اُتْلُوا القُرْاآنَ وَا@بْكُوا فَاـِنْ لَمْ تَبْكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا [ Peruse ye the Kur-án, and weep; or, if ye weep not, endeavour to do so ]. (Bd in xix. 59.) ― -b2- And He feigned, or made a show of, weeping. (Har p. 602.)

10 استبكاهُ استبكاه استبكاة ٱستبكاه ٱستبكى : see 4. ― -b2- Also He desired, or required, of him weeping. (TA.)

بَكِىٌّ بك بكى بكي كي One who weeps much; (S, K;) as also ↓ بَكَّاآءٌ. (K, but omitted in some copies and in the TA.) -A2- رَجُلٌ عَيِيٌّ بَكِىٌّ, A man unable to speak. (Mbr, TA.) [But perhaps this should be بَكِىْءٌ: see art. بكأ.]

بَكَّاآءٌ بكاآء : see بَكِىٌّ.

بَاكٍ باك باكي part. n. of بَكَى [i. e. Weeping, &c.]: (K:) pl. بُكِىٌّ, (S, K,) of the measure فُعُولٌ, with the و changed into ى [and the second dammeh consequently into a kesreh, wherefore it is also, sometimes, pronounced بِكِىٌّ], (S,) and بُكَاةٌ, (K,) which is agreeable with analogy and usage, though said by Es-Semeen to have not been heard. (TA.) [The pl. of the fem., i. e. of بَاكِيَةٌ, is بَاكِيَاتٌ and بَوَاكٍ.]

أَبْكَى ذ [ A greater weeper, or one who weeps more, than another: see 3]. (S, TA.)

1 بَلَّهُ أبله بل بله بلة (S, M, &c.,) aor. بَلُ3َ , (S, M,) inf. n. بَلٌّ (M, Msb, K) and بِلَّةٌ, (M, K,) He moistened it (S, M, K) with water (M, Msb, K) &c.; (M;) and in like manner, ↓ بلّلهُ, (S, M, K,) but signifying he moistened it much. (S, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] بَلَّتِ الاـِبِلُ أَغْمَارَهَا [ The camels damped their thirst; ] i. e., drank a little. (TA in art. غمر.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] بَلَّ رَحِمَهُ, (T, S, M, K,) aor. بَلُ3َ , (T, M,) inf. n. بَلٌّ (with fet-h, TA [in the CK it has kesr]) and بِلَالٌ, (M, K,) (tropical:) He made close [or he refreshed ] his ties of relationship by behaving with goodness and affection and gentleness to his kindred; syn. وَصَلَهَا, (T, S, M, K,) and نَدَّاهَا: (T:) for, as some things are conjoined and commixed by moisture, and become disunited by dryness, بَلٌّ is metaphorically used to denote conjunction, as above, and يُبْسٌ to denote the contrary. (TA.) A poet says, وَالرِّحْمَ فا@بْلُلْهَا بِخَيْرِ البُلَّانْ فَاـِنَهَاا@شْتُقَّتْ مِنِ ا@سْمِ الرَّحْمٰنْ [(tropical:) And the ties of relationship, make thou them close &c. by the best mode, or modes, of doing so; for the name thereof is derived from the name of the Compassionate ]: here ↓البُلَّان may be a noun in the sing. number, like غُفْرَانٌ, or it may be pl. of بَلَلٌ, which may be either a subst. or an. inf. n., for some inf. ns. have pls., as شُغْلٌ and عَقْلٌ and مَرَضٌ. (M.) And it is said in a trad., بُلُّوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ وَلَوْ بِالسَّلَامِ (tropical:) Make ye close [or refresh ye ] your ties of relationship &c., though but, or if only, by salutation; syn. صِلُوهَا, (M,) or نَدُّوهَا بِالصِّلَةِ. (S.) And hence the saying in another trad., اـِذَ ا@سْتَشَنَّ مَا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ ا@للّٰهِ فَا@بْلُلْهُ بِالاـِحْسَانِ اـِلَى عِبَادَهِ (tropical:) [ When the tie between thee and God wears out, repair thou it, or refresh thou it, by beneficence to his servants ]. (TA.) [See also بِلَالٌ.] ― -b4- بَلَّكَ ا@للّٰهُ بِا@بْنٍ, (S, M, K,) and ا@بْنًا, (M, K,) (assumed tropical:) May God give thee a son. (S, M, K, TA.) Hence, perhaps, the phrase, بُلَّتْ يَدَاكَ بِهِ as meaning (assumed tropical:) Thou was given it. (Har p. 479.) You say also, بَلَلْتُهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) I gave to him. (T.) And ↓ لَا تَبْلُكَ عِنْدِى بَالَّةٌ, and ↓ بَلَالٌ, (T, S, M, K, [but in the K عِنْدَنَا, and “ or ” for “ and, ” and in the CK لا تَبَلُّكَ,]) (tropical:) No bounty, (S,) no good, or no benefit, shall betide thee from me, (T, S, K, TA,) nor will I profit thee, nor believe thee. (T.) ― -b5- بَلُّوا They sowed land. (ISh, T, K.) -A2- [بَلَّ as an intrans. verb perhaps primarily signifies It was, or became, moist; and has for its sec. pers. بَلِلْتَ or بَلَلْتَ, and for its aor. بَلَ3َ or بَلِ3َ , and for its inf. n. بَلَلٌ, and probably بِلَّةٌ &c. mentioned with that noun below. ― -b2- And hence,] بَلَّتِ الرِّيحُ, aor. بَلِ3َ , inf. n. بُلُولٌ, The wind was cold and moist. (M, K.) [See بَلِيلٌ.] ― -b3- [And hence, probably, as though originally said of one who had had a fever,] بَلَّ مِنْ مَرَضِهِ, aor. بَلِ3َ , inf. n. بَلٌّ (S, M, K) and بَلَلٌ and بُلُولٌ; (M, K) and ↓ ابلّ, and ↓ استبلّ; (S, M, K;) He recovered from his disease: (S, M:) and ↓ ابتلّ and ↓ تبلّل he became in a good condition after leanness, or meagerness: (M,Z:) or all have this latter signification: and the second (ابلّ) has the former also. (K.) ― -b4- And بَلَّ, (M, K,) aor. بَلِ3َ , (M,) inf. n. بُلُولٌ; and ↓ ابلّ; He (a man, TA) escaped, or became safe or secure, (M, K,) from difficulty, distress, or straitness. (TA.) ― -b5- بَلَّ فِى الأَرْض, (Msb, K, * TA,) aor. بَلِ3َ , inf. n. بَلٌّ; (Msb;) and ↓ ابلّ; (M, K;) He (a man, M) went away in, or into, the land, or country. (M, Msb, K.) And بَلَّتْ نَاقَتُهُ His she-camel went away. (TA.) And بَلَّتْ مَطِيَّتُهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهَا, (Fr, T, TA,) and على ↓ ابلّت وجها, (K,) His camel, or riding-camel, ran away, or went away, at random, to pasture, straying; syn. هَمَتْ ضَالَّةً. (Fr, T, K, TA. [In the CK, همت, which, as is said in the TA, is without teshdeed, is written هَمَّتْ.]) -A3- بَلِلْتُ مِنْهُ, (As, T, S, &c.,) inf. n. بَلَلٌ, (M,) I got him; got possession of him; (As, T, S, M, K;) got him in my hand. (S.) One says, لَئِنْ بَلَّتْ بِكَ يَدِى لَا تُفَارِقُنِى أَوْ تُؤَدِّىَ حَقِّى [ Assuredly if my hand get hold of thee, thou shalt not quit me unless thou give up, or pay, my right, or due ]. (S.) And hence the prov., مَا بَلَلْتُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ بِأَفْوَقَ نَاصِلٍ [ I did not get, in such a one, a man like an arrow with a broken notch and without a head ]; meaning I got a perfect man; one sufficient. (Sh, T.) ― -b2- Also, (T,) or بَلِلْتُهُ, (M, K,) I kept, or clave, to him, (T, M, K,) namely, a man, (T, K,) and constantly associated with him. (T.) And بَلَّ بِالشَّيْءِ, inf. n. بَلٌّ, He became devoted, or attached, to the thing, and kept to it constantly. (TA.) ― -b3- And بَلِلْتُ مِنْهُ, (M, K,) aor. بَلَ3َ , (TA,) inf. n. بَلَلٌ and بَلَالَةٌ and بُلُولٌ, I was tried by him (مُنِيتُ بِهِ [app. meaning بِحُبِّهِ by love of him ]), and loved him (عَلِقْتُهُ [in the CK عَلَقْتُهُ]); as also بَلَلْتُ به, (AA, M, K,) aor. بَلِ3َ , inf. n. بُلُولٌ (AA, TA.) And بَلِلْتُ بِهِ I was tried by him, as though by fire, (صَلِيتُ به, [in the CK صَلَيْتُ,]) and suffered distress, or misery, or fatigue (شَقِيتُ, for which شُفِيتُ is erroneously put in the copies of the K: TA). (M, K. *) ― -b4- مَا بَلَلْتُ بِهِ, (K,) aor. بَلَ3َ , inf. n. بَلَلٌ, (TA,) I did not light on, or meet with, or find, nor know, him, or it; expl. by مَا أَصَبْتُهُ وَ لَا عَلِمْتُهُ. (K.) -A4- بَلَّ, (Th, M, K,) inf. n. بَلَلٌ, (Th, S, M, K,) He (a man) was, or became, such as is termed أَبَلّ [which epithet see below]. (Th, S, M, K.)

2 بَلَّ3َ see 1, first sentence.

4 ابلّ أبال أبل أبلى اـبل ابل بال بل بلا بلي وبل It (wood, or a branch or twig,) had the sap, (المَاآء, K,) or the produce of the rain, (O,) flowing in it. (O, K.) ― -b2- See also بَلَّ, in four places. -A2- He (a man) resisted, or withstood, and overcame. (As, T, S. [See also أَبَلَ.]) And ابلّ عَلَيْهِ He overcame him. (M, K.) [See an ex. in a verse of Sá'ideh, cited voce خَسْفٌ.] ― -b2- He wearied by badness, or wickedness: (M, K:) or he wearied another in aiding him to accomplish his desire. (TA. [See مُبِلٌّ.]) -A3- أَبْلَلْتُهُ I made him to go away. (Msb.)

5 تَبَلَّ3َ see 8: ― -b2- and see also بَلَّ.

8 ابتلّ أبتل ابتل بتل ٱبتل ٱبتلى It became moist or moistened (S, M, Msb, * K) with water (M, Msb, K) &c.; (M;) and in like manner, [but signifying it became much moistened, being quasi-pass. of بلّلهُ,] ↓ تبلّل. (M, K.) ― -b2- See also بَلَّ.

10 اـِسْتَبْلَ3َ see بَلَّ.

R. Q. 1 بَلْبَلَ بلبل , inf. n. بَلْبَلَةٌ and بِلْبَالٌ, (M, K,) the latter with kesr, (TA,) [but written in the CK with fet-h,] He put people in motion; and roused, or excited, them. (M, K.) ― -b2- Also, (T,) inf. n. بَلْبَلَةٌ, (K,) He scattered, dispersed, or put asunder, his goods, commodities, or householdutensils and furniture. (IAar, T, K. * [In the CK, والمَتاعُ is erroneously put for وَالمَتَاعِ.]) ― -b3- And He divided, or disunited, opinions. (Fr, T, K; but only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is mentioned.) ― -b4- And He (God) [ mixed or confounded or] made discordant the tongues, or languages, of a people. (T.) ― -b5- [See also بَلْبَلَةٌ below.]

R. Q. 2 تَبَلْبَلَ بلبل تبلبل He (a man) was moved by grief [or anxiety: see بَلْبَلَةٌ, below]. (Har p. 94.) ― -b2- تَبَلْبَلَتِ الأَلْسُنُ The tongues, or languages, became mixed, or confounded. (S, K.) -A2- تَبَلْبَلَتِ الاـِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels went on seeking the herbage, or pasture, and left not of it aught. (S, K.)

بَلْ بل is a particle of digression: (Mughnee, K:) or, accord. to Mbr, it denotes emendation, wherever it occurs, in the case of a negation or an affirmation: (T, TA:) or it is a word of emendation, and denoting digression from that which precedes; as also بَنْ, in which the ن is a substitute for the ل, because بل is of frequent occurrence, and بن is rare; or, as IJ says, the latter may be an independent dial. var. (M.) When it is followed by a proposition, the meaning of the digression is either the cancelling of what precedes, as in وَقَالُوا ا@تَّخَذَ ا@لرَّحْمٰنُ وَلَدًا سُبْحَانَهُ بَلْ عِبَادٌ مُكْرَمُونَ [ And they said, “ The Compassionate hath gotten offspring: ” extolled be his freedom from that which is derogatory from his glory! nay, or nay rather, or nay but, they are honoured servants (Kur xxi. 26)], or transition from one object of discourse to another, as in قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ تَزَكَّى وَ ذَكَرَ ا@سْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ا@لْحَيَاةَ ا@لدُّنْيَا [ He hath attained felicity who hath purified himself, and celebrated the name of his Lord, and prayed: but ye prefer the present life (Kur lxxxvii. 14-16)]: (Mughnee, K: *) and in all such cases it is an inceptive particle; not a conjunctive. (Mughnee.) When it is followed by a single word, it is a conjunction, (S, * Msb, * Mughnee, K,) and requires that word to be in the same case as the word before it: (S:) and if preceded by a command or an affirmation, (Mughnee, K,) as in اِضْرَبْ زَيْدًا بَلْ عَمْرًا [ Beat thou Zeyd: no, 'Amr ], (Msb, Mughnee, K,) and قَامَ زَيْدٌ بَلْ عَمْرٌو [ Zeyd stood: no, 'Amr ], (M, Mughnee, K,) or جَاآءَنِى أَخُوكَ بَلْ أَبُوكَ [ Thy brother came to me: no, thy father ], (S,) it makes what precedes it to be as though nothing were said respecting it, (S, * Msb, * Mughnee, K,) making the command or affirmation to relate to what follows it: (S, * Msb, * Mughnee:) [and similar to these cases is the case in which it is preceded by an interrogation: see أَمْ as syn. with this particle:] but when it is preceded by a negation or a prohibition, it is used to confirm the meaning of what precedes it and to assign the contrary of that meaning to what follows it, (Mughnee, K,) as in مَا قَامَ زَيْدٌ عَمْرٌو [ Zeyd stood not, but 'Amr stood ], (Mughnee,) or مَا رَأَيْتُ زَيْدًا بَلْ عَمْرًا, [ I saw not Zeyd, but I saw 'Amr ], (S,) and لَا يَقُمْ زَيْدٌ بَلْ عَمْرٌو [ Let not Zeyd stand, but let 'Amr stand]. (Mughnee.) Mbr and 'Abd-El-Wárith allow its being used to transfer the meaning of the negation and the prohibition to what follows it; so that, accord. to them, one may say, مَازَيْدٌ قَائِمًا بَلْ قَاعِدًا [as meaning Zeyd is not standing: no, is not sitting ], and بَلْ قَاعِدٌ [ but is sitting ]; the meaning being different [in the two cases]. (Mughnee, K. *) The Koofees disallow its being used as a conjunction after anything but a negation [so in the Mughnee, but in the K a prohibition,] or the like thereof; so that one should not say, ضَرَبْتُ زَيْدًا بَلْ اـِيَّاكَ [ I beat Zeyd: no, thee ]. (Mughnee, K.) Sometimes لَا is added before it, to corroborate the meaning of digression, after an affirmation, as in the saying, وَجْهُكَ البَدْرُ لَا بَلِ الشَّمْسُ لَوْ لَمْ يُقْضَ لِلشَّمْسِ كَسْفَةٌ وَ أُفُولُ [ Thy face is the full moon: no, but it would be the sun, were it not that eclipse and setting are appointed to happen to the sun ]: and to corroborate what precedes it, after a negation, as in وَ مَا هَجَرْتُكَ لَا بَلْ زَادَنِى شَغَفًا هَجْرٌ وَ بَعْدٌ تَرَاخَى لَا اـِلَى أَجَلِ [ And I did not abandon thee, or have not abandoned thee: no, but abandonment and distance, protracted, not to an appointed period, increased, or have increased, my heart-felt love ]. (Mughnee, K. *) ― -b2- Sometimes it is used to denote the passing from one subject to another without cancelling [what precedes it], and is syn. with وَ, as in the saying in the Kur [lxxxv. 20 and 21], وَا@للّٰهُ مِنْ, وَ رَائِهِمْ مُحِيطٌ بَلْ هُوَ قُرْاآنٌ مَجِيدٌ [ And God from behind them is encompassing: and it is a glorious Kur-án: or here it may mean اـِنَّ, as in an ex. below]: and to this meaning it is made to accord in the saying, لَهُ عَلَىَّ دِينَارٌ بَلْ دِرْهَمٌ [ I owe him a deenár and a dirhem ]. (Msb.) ― -b3- In the fol- lowing saying in the Kur [xxxviii. 1],وَا@لْقُرْاآنِ ذِى ا@لذِّكْرِبَلِ ا@لَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فِى عِزَّةٍ وَشِقَاقٍ, it is said to signify اـِنَّ; [so that the meaning is, By the Kur-án possessed of eminence, verily they who have disbelieved are in a state of pride and opposition; ] therefore the oath applies to it. (Akh, S.) ― -b4- Sometimes the Arabs use it in breaking off a saying and commencing another; and thus a man commences with it a citation, or recitation, of verse; in which case, it does not form any part of the first verse, but is a sign of the breaking off, or ending, of what precedes. (Akh, S.) ― -b5- Sometimes it is put in the place of رُبَّ, (S, Mughnee,) as in the saying of the rájiz, بَلْ مَهْمَهٍ قَطَعْتُ بَعْدَ مَهْمَهٍ [ Many a far-extending desert have I traversed, after a far-extending desert ]. (S: [and a similar ex. is given in the Mughnee.]) ― -b6- What is deficient in this word [supposing it to be originally of three letters] is unknown; and so in the cases of هَلْ and قَدْ: it may be a final و or ى or they may be originally بَلّ and هَلّ and قَدّ. (Akh, S.)

[ بَلٌّ بل Moist, or containing moisture: or rather moistened; being, app., an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n. ; like خَلْقٌ in the sense of مَخْلُوقٌ. Hence,] رِيحٌ بَلَّةٌ and ↓بَلِيلٌ and ↓بَلِيلَةٌ A wind in which is moisture: (S:) or the last, a wind mixed with feeble rain: (T:) and the second, a wind cold with moisture; (M, K;) or the same, a wind cold with rain; (A, TA;) the north wind, as though it sprinkled water by reason of its coldness: (TA:) and ↓ بَلَلٌ also signifies a cold north wind: (Ibn- 'Abbád, TA:) بَلِيلٌ is used alike as sing. and pl. : (K:) it has no pl. (M.) -A2- بَلٌّ بِشَىْءٍ A man (M) devoted, or attached, to a thing, and keeping to it constantly. (M, K. [In the CK and in my MS. copy of the K, اللَّهْجُ is erroneously put for اللَّهِجُ.]) ― -b2- And بَلٌّ, alone, Much given to the deferring of payment to his creditors, by repeated promises; (T;) withholding, by swearing, what he possesses of things that are the rightful property of others. (IAar, T, K.) See also أَبَلٌّ, in two places.

بِلٌّ بل Allowable, or lawful; i. e., to be taken, or let alone, or done, or made use of, or possessed: (T, S, M, K:) so in the dial. of Himyer: (T, S. M:) or a remedy; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K;) from the phrase بَلَّ مِنْ مَرَضِهِ [q. v.]: (A' Obeyd, T, S, M:) or it is an imitative sequent to حِلٌّ, (M, K,) as some say: (M:) so As thought until he heard that it was said to be of the dial. of Himyer in the first of the senses explained above: (S, M:) A'Obeyd and ISk say that it may not be so because it is conjoined with حِلٌّ by وَ: (T:) and A'Obeyd says, We have seldom found an imitative sequent conjoined by و. (TA.) Hence the phrase, هُوَ لَكَ حِلٌّ وَبِلٌّ It is to thee lawful and allowable: or lawful and a remedy. (M, K. *) And hence the saying of El-'Abbás the son of 'Abd-El-Muttalib, respecting [the well of] Zemzem, هِىَ لِشَارِبٍ حِلٌّ وَ بِلٌّ It is to a drinker lawful &c. (T, S, M.)

بَلَّةٌ أبله بل بله بلة [ A single act of moistening. ― -b2- And hence,] The least sprinkling (أَدْنَى بَلَلٍ lit. the least moisture ) of good. (TA in art. هل.) You say, جَاآءَنَا فُلَانٌ فَلَمْ يَأْتِنَا بِهَلَّةٍ وَلَا بَلَّةٍ [ Such a one came to us and did not bring us anything to rejoice us nor the least sprinkling of good ]: هلّة, accord. to ISK, being from الفَرَحُ and الاِسْتِهْلَالُ, and بلّة from البَلْلُ and الخَيْرُ. (S.) And مَا أَصَابَ هَلَّةً وَلَا بَلَّةً He did not obtain, or has not obtained, anything. (S.) ― -b3- Wealth, or competence: (Fr, TA:) or wealth, or competence, after poverty; (Fr, T, K, TA;) as also ↓ بُلَّى. (K.) ― -b4- Remains of herbage or pasture; (K;) as also ↓ بُلَّةٌ. (Fr, T, K.) ― -b5- The freshness of youth; as also ↓ بُلَّةٌ; (M, K; *) but the former word is the more approved. (M.) ― -b6- See also an ex. voce بَلَلٌ.

بُلَّةٌ أبله بل بله بلة : see بَلَلٌ, in two places: ― -b2- and see also بَلَّةٌ, in two places. ― -b3- Also A state of moisture. (M.) ― -b4- The moisture of fresh pasture. (S, M, K.) The rájiz (Iháb Ibn- 'Omeyr, TA) says, describing [wild] asses, وَ فَارَقَتْهَا بُلَّةُ الأَوَابِلِ حَتَّى اـِذَا أَهْرَأْنَ بِالأَصَائِلِ meaning that they went in the cool of the evening to the water after that the herbage had dried up: الاوابل means the wild animals that are satisfied with green pasture, so as to be in no need of water. (S.)

بِلَّةٌ أبله بل بله بلة : see بَلَلٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also Good, good fortune, prosperity, or wealth: and sustenance, or means of subsistence. (M, K.) ― -b3- Health; soundness; or freedom from disease. (T, K, TA.) ― -b4- A repast prepared on the occasion of a wedding, or on any occasion. (Fr, K.) ― -b5- (tropical:) The tongue's fluency, and chasteness of speech: (K, TA:) or its readiness of diction or expression, and facility; (M;) and [so in the M, but in the K “ or, ”] its falling upon the [ right ] places of utterance of the letters, (T, M, A, K,) and its regular and uniform continuance of speech, (T, M, K,) and its facility. (K.) You say, مَا أَحْسَنٌ بِلَّةَ لِسَانِهِ (tropical:) [ How good is the fluency, &c., of his tongue! ]. (T, M, TA.)

بَلَلٌ بلل بلة Moisture; (S, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ بِلَّةٌ (S, M, K) and ↓ بِلَالٌ and ↓ بُلَالَةٌ (M, K) [and several other dial. vars. occurring in phrases in this paragraph]: or ↓ بِلَّةٌ signifies an inferior, or inconsiderable, degree of moisture; (Lth, T, K; [an ambiguity in the K in this place has occasioned several mistakes in Freytag's Lex. voce بَلَلٌ;]) and ↓ بِلَالٌ is an anomalous pl. of this word; (M, TA;) and is pl. also of ↓ بُلَّةٌ: (S, TA:) and بُلَّانٌ, occurring in a verse cited above (see 1) may be pl. of بَلَلٌ. (M.) [Using syns. of بَلَلٌ in the sense explained above,] you say, طَوَيْتُ ↓ السِّقَاآءَ عَلَى بُلُلَتِهِ, (S, K,) and ↓ بُلَلَتِهِ, (K,) or ↓ بَلَلَتِهِ, (T, M,) I folded the skin while it was moist, (T, S, M, K,) before it should break in pieces, (T,) or lest it should break in pieces. (M.) And [hence,] ↓ طَوَيْتُ فُلَانًا عَلَى بُلُلَتِهِ, (T, *S, M, *K, *) and ↓ بُلَلَتِهِ, (T, S, K,) and ↓ بَلَلَتِهِ, and ↓ بُلَالَتِهِ, and ↓ بَلَالَتِهِ, (K,) and ↓ بُلَّتِهِ, (S, K,) and ↓ بَلَّتِهِ, (M, K,) and ↓ بُلَاتِهِ, (S, K,) and ↓ بَلَاتِهِ, (K) and ↓ بُلُولَتِهِ, (S, K,) which is of the dial. of Temeem, (TA,) and ↓ بُلُولِهِ, (K,) (tropical:) I bore with, suffered, or tolerated, such a one, (S, K,) notwithstanding his vice, or fault, (T, S, M, K,) and evil conduct: (S:) or [so in the M and K, but in the S “ and, ”] I treated him with gentleness, or blandishment, (S, K,) while some love, or affection, remained in him; (S, M, K;) and this is the true meaning; (M;) and in like manner, نَفْسِهِ ↓ عَلَى بِلَالٌ. (S, TA.) And ↓ طَوَاهُ عَلَى بِلَالِهِ, and ↓ بُلُولِهِ, (tropical:) He feigned himself heedless of, or inattentive to, his vice, or fault; like as one folds a skin upon its fault [to conceal that fault]. (T.) And اِنْصَرَفَ القَوْمَ ↓ بِبَلَلَتِهِمْ, and ↓ بِبُلُلَتِهِمْ, and ↓ بِبُلُولَتِهِمْ, (assumed tropical:) The people, or company of men, turned away, or back, having some good, or somewhat good, remaining, in them, or among them; expl. by وَفِيهِمْ بَقِيَّةٌ [in which the last word generally implies something good; as, for instance, in the Kur xi. 118]: (M, K:) or, in a good state, or condition: (K:) or this latter is meant when one says, بِبُلُلَتِهِمْ. (T.) ― -b2- Abundance of herbage; or of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life. (TA.) ― -b3- See also بَلٌّ. ― -b4- مَا أَحْسَنَ بَلَلَهُ How good is his adornment of himself! or his manner of undertaking a task, or taking upon himself a responsibility! (K: expl. in some copies by تَجَمُّلَهُ; and so in the TA: in others by تَحَمُّلَهُ.)

بُلَلٌ بلل بلة , like صُرَدٌ, (K,) or بُلُلٌ, (so in a copy of the T, accord. to the TT,) Seed; grain for sowing. (ISh, T, K.)

بَلَلَةٌ بلل بلله بللة بلة and its pl. : see four exs. voce بَلَلٌ.

بُلَلَةٌ بلل بلله بللة بلة and its pl.: see three exs. voce بَلَلٌ ― -b2- The sing. also signifies Garb, guise, aspect or appearance, external state or condition. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.) You say, اـِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ البُلَلَةِ Verily he is goodly, or beautiful, in garb, &c. (Ibn- 'Abbád, TA.) ― -b3- You say also, كَيْفَ بُلَلَتُكَ, and ↓ بُلُولَتُكَ, meaning How is thy state, or condition? (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

بُلُلَةٌ بلل بلله بللة بلة : see three exs. voce بَلَلٌ.

بَلَالِ بلال a subst. signifying The making close the ties of relationship by behaving with goodness and affection and gentleness to one's kindred: (K:) changed in form from بَالَةٌ; q. v. (TA.) [See also بِلَالٌ.]

بَلَالٌ بلال : see what next follows.

بُلَالٌ بلال : see what next follows.

بِلَالٌ بلال : see بَلَلٌ, in four places. ― -b2- Also Water; (T, S, M, K;) and so ↓ بُلَالٌ and ↓ بَلَالٌ. (K.) You say, مَا فِى سِقَائِهِ بِلَالٌ There is not in his skin any water: (T, S:) or anything whatever: (so in a copy of the S:) and in like manner one says of a well. (T.) And ↓ مَا فِى البِئْرِ بَالُولٌ There is not any water in the well. (K.) ― -b3- And Anything with which one moistens the fauces, of water or of milk: (S, Msb, K:) such is said to be its meaning. (Msb.) ― -b4- And hence the saying, اِنْضَحُوا الرَّحِمَ بِبَلَالِهَا, i. e. صِلُوهَا بِصِلَتِهَا [ Make ye close the ties of relationship by behaving with that goodness and affection and gentleness to kindred which those ties require: see بَلَّ رَحِمَهُ; and see also بَلَالِ]. (S.)

بُلُولٌ بلول : see two exs. voce بَلَلٌ.

بَلِيلٌ بليل ليل : see بَلٌّ.

بَلَالَةٌ بلاله بلالة : see an ex. voce بَلَلٌ.

بُلَالَةٌ بلاله بلالة : see بَلَلٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also The quantity with which a thing is moistened. (Har p. 107.) ― -b3- And A remain, or remainder; (T, and Har ubi suprá;) as also عُلُالَةٌ. (Har ubi suprá.) You say, مَا فِيهِ بُلَالَةٌ وَلَا عُلَالَةٌ There is not in it anything remaining. (T, and Har ubi suprá.)

بُلُولَةٌ بلوله بلولة : see two exs. voce بَلَلٌ: ― -b2- and see an ex. voce بُلَلَةٌ.

بَلِيلَةٌ بليل بليله بليلة ليل ليلة : see بَلٌّ. ― -b2- Also Wheat boiled in water, [in the present day, with clarified butter, and honey, ] and eaten. (TA.) -A2- And i. q. صِحَّةٌ [ Health, or soundness, &c. ]. (TA.)

بُلَّى بل بلى بلي لي : see بَلَّةٌ.

بَلَّانٌ بلان A hot bath: (K:) the ا and ن are augmentative: for the hot bath is thus called because he who enters it is moistened by its water or by his sweat: (TA:) pl. بَلَّانَاتٌ, (K,) occurring in a trad., and said by IAth to be originally بَلَّالَاتٌ. (TA in art. بلن; in which, as well as in the present art., it is mentioned in the K.) ― -b2- It is now applied to A man who serves [ the bathers, by washing them &c., ] in the hot bath: [fem. with ة:] but this is a vulgar application of the word. (TA.)

بُلَّانٌ بلان : see 1.