البَىٌّ
Root: بى
Full Definition
البَىٌّ
The low, ignoble, mean, or contemptible, man; as also
اِبْنُ , and ابن
هَيَّانَ, and ابن بَىّ, or هَىُّ بْنُ بَىّ, and
هَيَّانُ بْنُ : or the last two signify he whose stock and branch are unknown: or the same two, he who is unknown, and whose father also is unknown: (K in art. هى; and so the latter of them is explained in the S, both there and in the present art.:) and one says, مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ هَىِّ بْنِ بَىٍّ هُوَ, meaning I know not what man he is.. Accord. to some, هَىُّ بْنُ بَىٍّ was one of the sons of Adam, that went away in the earth when the rest of his children dispersed themselves, and no trace of him was afterwards perceived.
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