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بَرْزٌ
A man characterized by pleasing or goodly aspect, and by intelligence: fem. with ة: or a man of open condition or state: or pure in disposition; abstaining from what is unlawful and indecorous; of great dignity or estimation: fem. with ة: pl. fem. بَرْزَاتٌ: or, as also
بَرْزِىٌّ a man who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous, and in whose intelligence, or, as in some copies of the K, in whose excellence,
بِفَضْلِهِ, but this is app. a mistranscription, or, as some say, in whose abstinence from what is unlawful and indecorous, and his judgment, confidence is placed: and بَرْزَةٌ a woman whose good qualities or actions, or whose beauties, are apparent: or open in her converse; syn. مُتَاجِرَةٌ: or, as in some correct lexicons, disdainful of mean things; syn. مُتَجَالَّةٌ: or of middle age, (كَهْلَةٌ,) who is not veiled or concealed like young women: or of great dignity or estimation: or who goes or comes forth to people, and with whom they sit, and of whom they talk, and who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous, and is intelligent: or who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous, and goes or comes forth to men, and talks with them, and is advanced in age beyond those women who are kept concealed: or open in her converse, (مُتَجَاهِرَةٌ,) of middle age, (كَهْلَةٌ,) of great dignity or estimation, who goes or comes forth to people, and with whom they sit and talk, and who abstains from what is unlawful and indecorous: or in whose judgment, and her abstaining from what is unlawful and indecorous, confidence is placed: or who does not veil her face from a man and bend her head down towards the ground.
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