Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَائِنٌ

Root: بين

Full Definition

بَائِنٌ In a state of separation or disunion; or separated, severed, disunited, or cut off; as also أَبْيَنُ , occurring in a verse cited above, voce بَيِّنَ. [Hence,] اِمْرَأَةٌ بَائِنٌ A woman separated from her husband by divorce; as also : the former without ة: like طَالِقٌ and حَائِضٌ: you say [to a wife] أَنْتِ بَائِنٌ [Thou art separated from me by divorce.]
2 طَلَاقٌ بَائِنٌ is a tropical phrase; and so is طَلْقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ; [signifying the same as] تَطْلِيقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ A divorce that is [as it were] cut off; i. q. [in the second and third of these phrases, and مُبَانٌ in the first]: بائنة being here used in the sense of a pass. part. n.: or it [is a possessive epithet, and thus] means having separation: this kind of divorce is one in the case of which the man cannot take back the woman unless by a new contract; nor without her consent. (MF in art. بت.)
3 قَوْسٌ بَائِنَةٌ, and بَائِنٌ, A bow that is widely separate from its string: contr. of بَانِيَةٌ; this signifying one that is so near to its string as almost to stick to it: each of these denotes what is a fault.
4 بِئْرٌ بَائِنَةٌ: see بَيُونٌ.
5 نَخْلَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ A palm-tree of which the racemes have come forth from the spathes, and of which the fruit-stalks have grown long.
6 البَائِنُ also signifies He who comes to the milch beast [meaning the she-camel, when she is to be milked,] from her left side; and المُعَلِّى, he who comes to her from her right side: or the former, he who stands on the right of the she-camel when she is milked, and holds the milking-vessel, and raises it to the milker, who stands on her left, and is called المُسْتَعْلِى: two persons are engaged in milking the she-camel; one of them holds the milking-vessel on the right side, and the other milks on the left side; and the milker is called المُسْتَعْلِى and المُعَلِّى; and the holder, البائن: pl. بُيَّنٌ. It is said in a prov., اِسْتُ البَائِنِ أَعْرَفُ, or, as some say, أَعْلَمُ; meaning He who has superintended an affair, and exercised himself diligently in the management thereof, is better acquainted with it than he who has not done this.
7 طَوِيلٌ بَائِنٌ Excessively tall, far above the stature of tall men.

def.2 See also بَيِّنٌ.


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