ب ض ع

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

The root ب ض ع (b-ḍ-ʿ) primarily relates to cutting, splitting, or piercing. It extends metaphorically to sexual intercourse, marriage, and the act of understanding or clarifying something. It also denotes a portion or segment, particularly of time or flesh, and can refer to the vulva or dowry.

Derived headwords

البِضْعnoun

1.
cuttingclassical
The act of cutting or slicing, especially meat.
2.
vulvaclassical
The female external genitalia.
3.
marriageclassical
The act or state of marriage.
4.
sexual intercourseclassical
The act of sexual intercourse.
5.
dowryclassical
The dowry of a woman.
6.
divorceclassical
The act of divorce.
7.
a portion of timeboth
A segment of time, typically between three and nine (or sometimes up to ten) years or hours.
8.
a portion of fleshboth
A piece or chunk of flesh.

بَضَعَverb

1.
to cutclassical
To cut or slice something, especially meat.
2.
to splitclassical
To split or cleave something, like a wound.
3.
to penetrateclassical
To penetrate or pierce.
4.
to understandclassical
To understand or comprehend something.
5.
to clarifyclassical
To make something clear or explicit.

أَبْضَعَverb

1.
to cutclassical
To cut or slice something.
2.
to clarifyclassical
To make something clear or explicit to someone.

تَبْضِيعnoun

1.
intensive cuttingclassical
Intensive cutting or slicing, used for exaggeration.

المُبَاضَعَةnoun

1.
sexual intercourseclassical
The act of sexual intercourse.

البِضَاعnoun

1.
sexual intercourseclassical
The act of sexual intercourse.

الإِبْضَاعnoun

1.
clarificationclassical
The act of making something clear or explicit.

بَضُعَverb

1.
to understandclassical
To understand or comprehend.

بُضُوعnoun

1.
understandingclassical
Understanding or comprehension.
2.
saturationclassical
Being fully satisfied or filled, especially with water.

البُضْعnoun

1.
sexual intercourseclassical
The act of sexual intercourse.
2.
marriageclassical
Marriage.

البِضْعَةnoun

1.
piece of fleshboth
A piece or chunk of flesh.
2.
a portion (of time)both
A portion, typically between three and nine.

المِبْضَعnoun

1.
scalpelmodern
A surgical knife or scalpel used for cutting.

البَاضِعَةadjective

1.
skin-cutting (wound)classical
A type of wound that cuts the skin and splits the flesh, causing bleeding.
2.
flock of sheepclassical
A flock or group of sheep.
3.
cutting (sword)classical
A sword that cuts effectively.

بَضِيعnoun

1.
islandclassical
An island in the sea.
2.
veinclassical
A vein, as it emerges from the body.

Parallel reading

بضعت اللحم أبضعه بضعا: قطعته.

I cut the meat, I cut it with a cutting.

والبضع: تقطيع اللحم وجعله بضعة بضعة.

And al-biḍʿ: cutting the meat and making it piece by piece.

ومن المجاز: البضع: التزوج.

And from metaphor: al-biḍʿ: marriage.

ومن المجاز أيضا: البضع: المجامعة، كالمباضعة والبضاع.

And also from metaphor: al-biḍʿ: sexual intercourse, like al-mubāḍaʿah and al-biḍāʿ.

وبضعه أهله صدقة، أي المباشرة

And his family's intercourse with him is charity, meaning direct contact.

والبضع التبيين: يقال: بضع، أي بين كالإبضاع.

And al-biḍʿ is clarification: it is said, 'badaʿa', meaning clarified like al-ibḍāʿ.

ويقال: بضعه الكلام وأبضعه الكلام، أي بينه له، فبضع هو بضوعا، بالضم، أي فهم.

And it is said: the words clarified it to him and the words made him understand it, so he understood with understanding, meaning he comprehended.

البضع في الدمع: أن يصير في الشفر ولا يفيض.

Al-biḍʿ in tears: that it becomes on the eyelid and does not overflow.

وفي الحديث فإن البضع يزيد في السمع والبصر، أي الجماع.

And in the hadith, 'Indeed, sexual intercourse increases hearing and sight', meaning intercourse.

وله حصنني ربي من كل بضع تعني النبي) صلى الله عليه وسلم، أي من كل نكاح، وكان تزوجها بكرا من بين نسائه.

And 'My Lord protected me from every marriage', meaning the Prophet, peace be upon him, meaning from every marriage, and he had married her as a virgin among his wives.

أو البضع: الفرج نفسه، نقله الأزهري، ومنه الحديث عتق بضعك فاختاري أي صار فرجك بالعتق حرا فاختاري الثبات على زوجك أو مفارقته.

Or al-biḍʿ: the vulva itself, narrated by Al-Azharī, and from it is the hadith: 'Your vulva is freed, so choose', meaning your vulva became free with emancipation, so choose to remain with your husband or to leave him.

وقيل: البضع: المهر، أي مهر المرأة، وجمعه البضوع.

And it was said: al-biḍʿ: the dowry, meaning the woman's dowry, and its plural is al-buḍūʿ.

وقيل: البضع: الطلاق، نقله الأزهري.

And it was said: al-biḍʿ: divorce, narrated by Al-Azharī.

والبضع: ع. والبضع، بالكسر: الطائفة من الليل.

And al-biḍʿ: a place name. And al-biḍʿ, with kasra: a portion of the night.

يقال: مضى بضع من الليل.

It is said: a portion of the night has passed.

تقول: بضع سنين، وبضعة عشر رجلا.

You say: 'bithʿa' years, and 'bithʿata ʿashara' men.

فإن البضع ما بين الثلاث إلى التسع أو هو ما بين الثلاث إلى الخمس

For al-biḍʿ is between three and nine, or it is between three and five.

أو هو ما بين الواحد إلى الأربعة.

Or it is between one and four.

أو من أربع إلى تسع، نقله ابن سيده، وهو اختيار ثعلب.

Or from four to nine, narrated by Ibn Sidah, and it is the choice of Thaʿlab.

وإذا جاوزت لفظ العشر ذهب البضع، لا يقال بضع وعشرون، ونقله الجوهري أيضا هكذا.

And when it exceeds the word 'ten', al-biḍʿ is gone; it is not said 'bithʿa and twenty', and Al-Jawharī also narrated it thus.

يقال له: بضعة وعشرون رجلا، وبضع وعشرون امرأة، وهو لكل جماعة تكون دون عقدين.

It is said for him: 'bithʿatun wa ʿishrūna' men, and 'bithʿa wa ʿishrūna' women, and it is for any group that is less than two contracts.

لا بارك الله في بضع وستين (من السنين تملاها بلا حسب ... ولا حياء ولا قدر ولا دين)

May God not bless sixty-something (years that you fill without reckoning... nor modesty, nor value, nor religion).

وقد جاء في الحديث بضعا وثلاثين ملكا.

And it came in the hadith: thirty-something angels.

صلاة الجماعة تفضل صلاة الواحد ببضع وعشرين درجة.

The prayer of the congregation is preferred over the prayer of an individual by twenty-something degrees.

يذكر البضع مع المذكر بهاء، ومعها بغير هاء أي يذكر مع المؤنث ويؤنث مع المذكر.

Al-biḍʿ is mentioned with the masculine with 'hāʾ', and with it without 'hāʾ', meaning it is mentioned with the feminine and made feminine with the masculine.

يقال: بضعة وعشرون رجلا، وبضع وعشرون امرأة، ولا يعكس.

It is said: 'bithʿatun wa ʿishrūna' men, and 'bithʿa wa ʿishrūna' women, and it is not reversed.

فلبث في السجن بضع سنين أي خمسة.

So he stayed in prison for a number of years, meaning five.

البضع: ما بين الواحد إلى الخمسة.

Al-biḍʿ: what is between one and five.

ما بين الثلاثة إلى السبعة.

Between three and seven.

خمسة أو سبعة.

Five or seven.

عشرة، ويروى عن الفراء ما بين الثلاثة إلى ما دون العشرة.

Ten, and from Al-Farra' it is narrated: between three and less than ten.

البضع: لا يكون أقل من ثلاث ولا أكثر من عشرة.

Al-biḍʿ: it is not less than three nor more than ten.

والصواب غير محدود، أي في الأصل.

And the correct is 'unlimited', meaning in origin.

وإنما صار مبهما لأنه بمعنى القطعة، والقطعة، غير محدودة.

It became ambiguous because it means a piece, and a piece is unlimited.

والبضعة: القطعة من اللحم، هذه بالفتح وأخوتها بالكسر مثل القطعة، والفلذة، والفدرة، والكسفة والخرقة، وما لا يحصى، ونقل الصاغاني مثل ذلك، ومثل البضعة الهبرة فإنه أيضا بالفتح.

And al-biḍʿah: a piece of flesh, this is with fatha and its sisters with kasra like al-qiṭʿah, al-filthah, al-fudrah, al-kisfah, and al-khirqah, and what cannot be counted, and Al-Sāghānī narrated similarly, and like al-biḍʿah is al-habrah, which is also with fatha.

ويقال: فلان بضعة من فلان يذهب به إلى التشبيه.

And it is said: 'So-and-so is a piece of so-and-so', referring to resemblance.

فاطمة بضعة مني، يريبني ما رابها، ويؤذيني ما آذاها.

Fatima is a piece of me; what troubles her troubles me, and what harms her harms me.

وبضع لحام في إهاب مقدد

And a piece of meat in a tanned hide.

ندهدق بضع اللحم للباع والندى ... وبعضهم تغلى بذم مناقعه

We tear off pieces of meat for generosity and giving... and some of them boil with dispraise of their sources.

جاءوا بعنز غثة سمينه بلا بضاع وبلا سدينه

They brought a weak, fat goat without meat and without fat.

وهو ما يبضع به العرق والأديم.

And it is what is used to cut the vein and the leather.

تبضعه بعد الجلد شقا خفيفا وتدمى، إلا أنها لا تسيل الدم، فإن سال فهي الدامية، وبعد الباضعة المتلاحمة.

It cuts it after the skin with a light cut and causes bleeding, but it does not flow with blood; if it flows, it is al-dāmiyah, and after al-bāḍiʿah is al-mutalāḥimah.

في البضعة بعيران.

For the wound, two camels.

فرق بواضع، كما قاله الليث.

A flock with pieces cut off, as Al-Layth said.

الباضع في الإبل كالدلال في الدور، كذا في اللسان والعباب.

Al-bāḍiʿ in camels is like al-dalāl in houses, as in Al-Lisān and Al-ʿUbāb.

من يحمل بضائع الحي ويجلبها نقله الصاغاني عن ابن عباد.

One who carries the belongings of the living and brings them, narrated by Al-Sāghānī from Ibn ʿAbbād.

مثل قدامى النسر ما مس بضع

Like the front of the eagle, it did not touch anything.

البضعة: السيوف، والخضعة: السياط.

Al-biḍʿah: swords, and al-khuḍʿah: whips.

أنه ضرب رجلا أقسم على أم سلمة ثلاثين سوطا كلها تبضع أي تشق الجلد وتقطع وتحدر الدم، وقيل تحدر أي تورم.

That he flogged a man who swore an oath against Umm Salamah thirty lashes, all of which cut, meaning they split the skin, cut it, and drew blood; and it was said 'taḥdir' meaning it swelled.

بضعت من صاحبي بضوعا: إذا أمرته بشيء فلم يفعله فدخلك منه.

I was displeased with my companion with displeasure: if you ordered him to do something and he did not do it, and you became displeased with him.

بضعت من الماء بضعا، وزاد غيره: وبضع بالماء أيضا، وزاد في المصادر بضوعا، بالضم، وبضاعا، بالفتح، أي رويت، كما في الصحاح، وزاد غيره: وامتلأت.

I was satisfied with water with satisfaction, and others added: and 'badaʿa' with water also, and added to the masdars 'buḍūʿan', with damma, and 'biḍāʿan', with fatha, meaning I was quenched, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ, and others added: and I was filled.

حتى متى تكرع لا تبضع.

Until when do you drink without being satisfied.

ساد تجرم في البضيع ثمانيا يلوي بعيقات البحار ويجنب

He traveled for eight nights in the island, turning along the shores of the seas and avoiding.

فلما رأين الشمس صارت كأنها ... فويق البضيع في الشعاع خميل

And when they saw the sun, it became as if... above the island in the haze, like a thicket.

البضيع: جزيرة من جزائر البحر.

Al-baḍīʿ: an island from the islands of the sea.

البضيع: مرسى بعينه دون جدة مما يلي اليمن، غلب عليه هذا الاسم.

Al-baḍīʿ: a specific anchorage south of Jeddah, facing Yemen, which became known by this name.

والبضيع: العرق، لأنه يبضع من الجسد، أي يسيل والصاد لغة فيه وقد تقدم.

And al-baḍīʿ: the vein, because it emerges from the body, meaning it flows, and 'ṣād' is a dialect for it, as has been mentioned.

البضيع: جبل نجدي.

Al-baḍīʿ: a Najdi mountain.