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بيظ

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of semen, the womb, and by extension, fertility and growth. It also extends to meanings of fattening and becoming robust after weakness.

Derived headwords

البِيْظَةnoun
  1. 1.
    wombclassical

    The uterus, the organ where a fetus develops.

بِيْظnoun
  1. 1.
    semenclassical

    The male reproductive fluid, also referred to as the 'water of the stallion'.

بَاطَverb
  1. 1.
    to ejaculateclassical

    A man ejaculates semen.

  2. 2.
    to deposit semenclassical

    A man deposits semen into the womb or the place of its settling.

يَبِيْظُverb
  1. 1.
    to ejaculateclassical

    He ejaculates semen (present tense of باظ).

بَيَظًاnoun
  1. 1.
    ejaculationclassical

    The act of ejaculating semen (masdar of باظ).

بَاطَverb
  1. 1.
    to become fatclassical

    A man's body becomes fat after a period of leanness.

بُوظًاnoun
  1. 1.
    fatteningclassical

    The process of becoming fat (masdar of باظ).

Parallel reading

البيظة: الرحم؛ عن كراع
The womb: the uterus; according to Kura'.
والجمع بيظ
And the plural is 'bayẓ'.
حملن لها مياها في الأداوى، ... كما يحملن في البيظ الفظيظا
They carried water for them in waterskins, ... just as they carry in the womb the abundant fluid.
الفظيظ ماء الفحل.
Al-faẓīẓ is the stallion's water (semen).
باط الرجل يبيظ بيظا
A man ejaculated, he ejaculates, ejaculation.
وباط يبوظ بوظا
And he ejaculated, he becomes fat, fattening.
إذا قرر أرون أبي عمير في المهبل
If he deposits the semen of the male in the womb.
أراد ابن الأعرابي بالأرون المني، وبأبي عمير الذكر، وبالمهبل قرار الرحم.
Ibn al-A'rābī meant by 'al-arūn' the semen, by 'abī 'umayr' the male organ, and by 'al-mahbal' the settling place of the womb.
البيظ ماء الرجل.
Al-bayẓ is the man's water (semen).
باط الرجل إذا سمن جسمه بعد هزال.
A man becomes fat if his body fattens after leanness.