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البأت

Root: لبأ

Form: 4

Full Definition

البأتIV She excerned, or yielded, or emitted [either into, or from, her udder] her biestings.
2 أَلْبَؤُوا Their biestings became abundant.
3 See 1, in two places.
4 البأ He supplied a person with biestings as a travelling-provision.
5 البأ, Verbal.Noun إِلْبَاءٌ, He bound, or directed, a kid, or a young camel, to the extremity of the mother's teat, that it might suck the biestings.
6 البأهُ بِرِيقِهِ He poured his saliva into his mouth, as the first milk is poured into the mouth of an infant.
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