بَاخِسٌ

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بَاخِسٌ Any one who acts wrongfully, or unjustly. It is said in a prov., تَحْسِبُهَا حَمْقَآءَ وَ هِىَ بَاخِسٌ; so runs the prov.; but accord. to Th, you may also say بَاخِسَةٌ; i. e., [Thou thinkest her stupid,] but she is wrongful, or unjust: applied to him who feigns himself to be of weak understanding when he is crafty and cunning. The origin of the prov. was this: a man of the Benu-l-' Ambar, of Temeem, mixed his property with that of a woman, coveting the possession of it, and thinking that she was stupid, and that she did not take care of her property nor know it: then he made a division with her, after he had mixed; but she was not content with the division until she took her property: she complained of him to those in authority, so that he released himself from her by giving her what she desired of the property: and the man was reproved for his conduct; it being said to him, “ Thou cheatest a woman: is not this wrongful conduct (بَخْس)? ” whereupon he replied in the words above, which became a proverb.

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