بَهُوتٌ

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بَهُوتٌ [A great, or frequent, calumniator, slanderer, or false-accuser; as also بَهَّاتٌ , mentioned in the S only as an epithet applied to him who calumniates, slanders, or accusely falsely;] an intensive epithet from البَهْتُ; [i. e.] an intensive form of the act. part. n. from البُهْتَان [Verbal.Noun of بَهَتَهُ]: or i. q. مُبَاهِتٌ ; i. e., one who confounds, or perplexes, or amazes, the hearer, by what he forges against him: and one who falsely accuses a woman of adultery, and forges a lie against her: pl. بُهُتٌ and بُهْتٌ, and, accord. to the K, also بُهُوتٌ; but ISd and MF hold it to be pl. of بَاهِتٌ, not of بَهُوتٌ; the former observing, that a word of the measure فَاعِلٌ is one of those which have a pl. of the measure فُعُولٌ, but not so one of the measure فَعُولٌ; and that, as to the saying of A'Obeyd, that عُذُوبٌ is pl. of عَذُوبٌ, it is a mistake; for it is only pl. of عَاذِبٌ, and the pl. of عَذُوبٌ is عُذُبٌ. (TA. [But see art. عذب.])

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