بَحْتٌ
Root: بحت
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بَحْتٌ
Unmixed, free from admixture, or pure; applied to anything: anything that is eaten alone, without seasoning or condiment or any savoury food: and in like manner, seasoning, or condiment, or any savoury food, without bread: unmixed, or pure, in race, lineage, or parentage; applied [for instance] to an Arab, and to an Arab of the desert: originally an Verbal.Noun; [and therefore] the same as masc. and fem. and dual and pl.: but if you will, you may use بَحْتَةٌ as a fem. epithet, applied [for instance] to an Arab woman; and may use the dual and pl. forms: or the fem. is [properly] with ة; or, as some say, the word has no dual nor pl. nor dim. form. You say شَرَابٌ بَحْتٌ
Unmixed wine or beverage: and خَمْرٌ بَحْتٌ and بَحْتَةٌ and خُمُورٌ بَحْتَةٌ [unmixed wine and wines]. And خُبْزٌ بَحْتٌ
Bread without anything else [to season it]. And أَكَلَ الخُبْزَ بَحْتًا, and اللَّحْمَ بَحْتًا, He ate the bread without any seasoning or condiment or savoury food, and the flesh-meat without bread. And قَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِ قَفَارًا بَحْتًا
He presented to him food without any seasoning or condiment. And ادَّهَنَ بِدُهْنٍ بَحْتٌ
He anointed himself with ointment unmixed with any perfume. And مِسْكٌ بَحْنٌ [Unmixed, or unadulterated, and therefore] strong [-scented,] musk. And بَرْدٌ بَحْتٌ لَحْتٌ
Vehement, or intense, cold; [as though unmixed with any degree of warmth;] syn. صَادِقٌ: (K in art. لحت:) the last word is an imitative sequent.
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