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أَبْلَجُ

Root: بلج

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أَبْلَجُ A man having a clear, a conspicuous, or a white, space between the eyes, not having the eyebrows joined: or having such a space between the eyebrows, not having the eyebrows joined: or having a wide space, or a space clear of hair, between the eyebrows: fem. بَلْجَآءُ.
2 [Hence,] Bright of countenance; the Prophet being said by UmmMaabad to have been أَبْلَجُ الوَجْهِ; by which she did not mean the بَلَج of the eyebrows, for she described him as having joined eyebrows: or fair, beautiful, and wide in countenance, whether long or short: or [alone, or] followed by , open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance; and so ↓ the latter alone: or ↓ the latter, open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance, with beneficence: or the former, and the latter, and بَلِيجٌ , liberal with acts of beneficence: or the first, generous, beneficent, and open and pleasant, or cheerful, in countenance; although having joined eyebrows.
3 Also Shining, bright, or shining brightly; applied to the dawn, or daybreak; and so بَلِيجٌ , applied to a thing [of any kind]: and the former, anything apparent, manifest, evident, or clear; thus applied to a face, and to the dawn, and to the truth, and to an affair or event, or a case, &c. It is an act. part. n. of بَلِجَ. You say, الحَقُّ أَبْلَجُ وَ البَاطِلُ لَجْلَجٌ The truth is apparent, manifest, evident, or clear; [and falsity is a cause of embarrassment, or hesitation, to the speaker;] i. e., the latter is agitated to and fro, without having utterance: (S in art. لج:) or the truth is lucid and direct; and falsity is confused and indirect. And حُجَّةٌ بَلْجَآءُ A manifest, an evident, or a clear, proof or argument.


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