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بَاسِطٌ

Root: بسط

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بَاسِطٌ act. part. n. of بَسَطَ.
2 It is said in the Kur [vi. 93], وَالمَلَائِكَةُ بَاسِطُوا أَيْدِيهِمْ, meaning The angels being made to have dominion over them by absolute force and power And again, in the Kur [xiii. 15], كَبَاسِطِ كَفَّيْهِ إِلَى المَآءِ لِيَبْلُغَ Like the supplicator of water, making a sign to it [with his two hands], in order that it may [reach his mouth, and so] answer his prayer; or, but it will not answer his prayer.
3 البَاسِطُ God, who amplifies, or enlarges, or makes ample or plentiful, the means of subsistence, to whomsoever He will, by his liberality and his mercy: or who diffuses (يَبْسُطُ) the souls in the bodies at the time of [their] being animated.
4 مَآءٌ بَاسِطٌ Water that is distant from the herbage, or pasturage, but less so than what is termed مُطْلِبٌ. And خَمْسٌ بَاسِطٌ A difficult [journey of the kind termed] خِمْسَ [i. e. of five days, whereof the second and third and fourth are without water]; syn. بَائِصٌ. And عُقْبَةٌ بَاسِطَةٌ (ISK, S, M, K [in the CK, erroneously, عَقَبَةٌ]) [A stage of a journey, or march or journey from one halting-place to another,] that is far, or distant, or long: or in which are two nights to the water. You say, سِرْنَا عُقْبَةً بَاسِطَةً [We journeyed a stage, &c.,] that was far, or distant, or long.
5 رَكِيَّةٌ قَامَةٌ بَاسِطَةٌ, [in the CK,] and قامَةُ باسِطَةٌ, as a prefixed n. with its complement imperfectly decl., as though they made it determinate, i. q. ↓قَامَةٌ وَبَسْطَةٌ [A well measuring, or of the depth of, a man's stature and an arm's length]. AZ says, حَفَرَ الرَّجُلُ قَامَةً بَاسِطَةً The man dug to the depth of his stature and his arm's length


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