بَهْوٌ
Root: بهو
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بَهْوٌ
Ampleness; or an ample state, or condition: so in the saying, هُوَ فِى بَهْوٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ [He is in an ample state, or condition, of life]: and this is [said to be] the primary signification.
2 Anything ample, wide, or spacious. [Hence,] نَاقَةٌ بَهْوَةٌ الجَنَبَيْنِ A she-camel wide in the two sides.
3 A wide, or spacious, tract of land, in which are no mountains, between two elevated tracts.
4 A wide covert, or hiding-place, of a [wild] bull, which he makes for himself at the foot of the kind of tree called أَرْطًى [q. v.]: pl. [of pauc.] أَبْهَآءٌ and [of mult.] بُهُوٌّ and [quasi-pl.-n.] بَهِىٌّ.
5 Any vacant, or intervening, space.
6 The interior of the chest, or breast, of a man and of any beast: or the space that intervenes between the two breasts and the uppermost part of the chest is called بَهْوُ الصَّدْرِ: or the part between [or within] the extremities of the ribs that project over the belly: and in her that is pregnant, whatever she be, the resting-place of the fœtus, between the two haunches: pl. [of pauc.] أَبْهَآءٌ and أَبْهٍ and [of mult.] بُهِىٌّ and [quasi-pl. n.] بَهِىٌّ [in the TA بِهِىٌّ, which seems to be a mistake].
7 A tent that is placed in advance, before the other tents: pl. أَبْهَآءٌ. In a trad., Arabs are spoken of as removing with their أَبْهَآء.
2 Anything ample, wide, or spacious. [Hence,] نَاقَةٌ بَهْوَةٌ الجَنَبَيْنِ A she-camel wide in the two sides.
3 A wide, or spacious, tract of land, in which are no mountains, between two elevated tracts.
4 A wide covert, or hiding-place, of a [wild] bull, which he makes for himself at the foot of the kind of tree called أَرْطًى [q. v.]: pl. [of pauc.] أَبْهَآءٌ and [of mult.] بُهُوٌّ and [quasi-pl.-n.] بَهِىٌّ.
5 Any vacant, or intervening, space.
6 The interior of the chest, or breast, of a man and of any beast: or the space that intervenes between the two breasts and the uppermost part of the chest is called بَهْوُ الصَّدْرِ: or the part between [or within] the extremities of the ribs that project over the belly: and in her that is pregnant, whatever she be, the resting-place of the fœtus, between the two haunches: pl. [of pauc.] أَبْهَآءٌ and أَبْهٍ and [of mult.] بُهِىٌّ and [quasi-pl. n.] بَهِىٌّ [in the TA بِهِىٌّ, which seems to be a mistake].
7 A tent that is placed in advance, before the other tents: pl. أَبْهَآءٌ. In a trad., Arabs are spoken of as removing with their أَبْهَآء.
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