بَائِسٌ

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بَائِسٌ Distressed; straitened in his means of subsistence, or in the conveniences of life; or poor: or one who is in want, and an object of pity for what he suffers: or in a state of pressing want: or in a state of trial, or affliction: or one who is crippled, or deprived of the power of motion, by disease, or who suffers from a protracted disease, and is in need: an epithet denoting pity, or grief: بُؤْسٌ occurs as its pl.; or is for ذَوُوبُؤْسٍ.

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