بَهْرٌ
Root: بهر
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بَهْرٌ
Verbal.Noun of 1 [q. v.]. You say, بَهْرًا لَهُ, an imprecation, meaning May he be overcome! or i. q.
تَعْسًا لَهُ [may he fall, having stumbled! or stumble and fall! &c.]: and thus used [app. in the latter sense] as an imprecation, accord. to Sb, it has no verb, but is put in the accus. case on the supposition of a verb. One says also, قُهْرًا , with damm to each. (TA in art. قهر.) And بَهْرًا مَا
أَسْخَاهُ [May he fall, having stumbled! &c.: how bountiful is he!], like as one says تَعْسًا لَهُ [when not meaning it to be understood as an imprecation].
2 It also signifies Distance, or remoteness: and remoteness from good or prosperity.
3 Disappointment.
4 Wonder; syn. عَجَبٌ. One says, بَهْرا meaning عَجَبًا [for أَعْجَبُ عَجَبًا I do wonder: or wonderful!]. So [sometimes] in the phrase بَهْرًا لَهُ [I do wonder at him, or it].
5 Love. Accord. to some, بَهْرًا لَكُمْ means Love to you.
6 الأَزْوَاجُ ثَلاَثَةٌ زَوْجُ بَهْرٍ وَزَوْجُ دَهْرٍ وَزَوْجُ مَهْرٍ is a saying of the Arabs, meaning Husbands are three: a husband who overcomes the eyes by his goodliness, or a husband of noble race, though he may be of little wealth; and a husband prepared for the accidents, or calamities, of fortune; and a husband from whom a dowry is got, or a husband who has not nobility of race, and who therefore doubles the dowry to make himself desired.
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2 It also signifies Distance, or remoteness: and remoteness from good or prosperity.
3 Disappointment.
4 Wonder; syn. عَجَبٌ. One says, بَهْرا meaning عَجَبًا [for أَعْجَبُ عَجَبًا I do wonder: or wonderful!]. So [sometimes] in the phrase بَهْرًا لَهُ [I do wonder at him, or it].
5 Love. Accord. to some, بَهْرًا لَكُمْ means Love to you.
6 الأَزْوَاجُ ثَلاَثَةٌ زَوْجُ بَهْرٍ وَزَوْجُ دَهْرٍ وَزَوْجُ مَهْرٍ is a saying of the Arabs, meaning Husbands are three: a husband who overcomes the eyes by his goodliness, or a husband of noble race, though he may be of little wealth; and a husband prepared for the accidents, or calamities, of fortune; and a husband from whom a dowry is got, or a husband who has not nobility of race, and who therefore doubles the dowry to make himself desired.
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