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بَهَآءٌ

Root: بهو

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بَهَآءٌ Beauty, or goodliness: beauty of aspect, of mien, or of external state or condition: a beautiful aspect, that excites admiration, and satisfies the eye: and, as an attribute of God, greatness, or majesty.
2 The froth of milk: or the glistening of the froth of milk.

def.2 As an epithet applied to a she-camel, it belongs to art. بهأ [in which it is explained].
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