بَأْسٌ

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بَأْسٌ Might, or strength, in war or fight: courage; valour, or valiantness; prowess.
2 War, or fight; as also and بَأْسَآءُ : pl. of the first,أَبْؤَسٌ.
3 Hence, Fear, in the saying, لَا بأْسَ عَلَيْكَ, and بِكَ, [ There is no fear for thee: lit., there is no war against thee, or with thee]: the saying of which to an enemy implies the granting him security, or protection: and in the same sense it is used in a trad., in the phrase اِشْتَدَّ البَأْسُ [ Fear became vehement].
4 I. q. ضَرَرٌ [Harm, injury, &c.]: so in the phrase لَا بَأْسَ [There is, or will be, no harm, &c.; and لَا بَأْسَ بِكَذَا, and فِى كَذَا, There is, or will be, no harm in such a thing]. It is said in a trad., لَا بَأْسَ بِٱلْغِنَي لِمَنِ ٱتَّقَي [There is no harm in wealth to him who is pious]. بَاس also occurs for بَأْس; the being suppressed, agreeably with analogy; not altered by permutation.
5 Punishment: or severe punishment; as also بَئِسٌ , in measure like كَتِفٌ.
6 See also بُؤْسٌ, in two places.

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