بَرْحٌ
Root: برح
Full Definition
بَرْحٌ
Difficulty, distress, affliction, or adversity; evil, or mischief; annoyance, molestation, or hurt; severe punishment; trouble, inconvenience, or fatigue; a difficult, a distressing, an afflictive, or adverse, and a wonderful, thing or event: and annoyance, or molestation, by distressing importunity or pressing; a subst. from 2: and بِنْتُ بَرْحٍ, [and app. اِبْنُ بَرْحٍ also,] a calamity, misfortune, or disaster; or a great, or terrible, thing, affair, or case; as also
بِنْتُ , and
اِبْنُ ; pl. بَنَاتُ بَرْحٍ and بَنُو بَرْحٍ. [See also تَبْرِيحٌ.] You say, لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ بَرْحًا
I experienced from him, or it, [great] difficulty, distress, affliction, or adversity; [great] annoyance, molestation, or hurt; a phrase having an intensive signification, like لَيْلٌ أَلْيَلُ [and لَيْلٌ لَائِلٌ]; and so بَرْحًا. When used as an imprecation, the more approved way is to put the two words in the accus. case: but sometimes they are put in the nom. case; as in the saying of a poet, بَرْحٌ لَعيْنَكَ بَارِحٌ [May great difficulty, &c., befall thy two eyes!]. You say also, لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ بَنَاتِ بَرْحٍ, and بَنِي بَرْحٍ, I experienced from him, or it, difficulties, distresses, afflictions, or adverse events; and calamities, misfortunes, or disasters: and, in the same sense, لقيت منه البِرَحِينَ , and
, and
; or, accord. to some copies of the K, , and
, and
, as duals; but the former reading is the more correct: [MF disapproves of the form بَرَحِينَ, and it is not mentioned in the
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