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بَسْمَلَ

Root: بسمل

Form: Q. 1

Full Definition

بَسْمَلَ
Q. 1 Verbal.Noun بَسْمَلَةٌ, He said, or wrote, بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ [In, or with, the name of God I recite, or read, or I begin, &c.]: or بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَانِ الرَّحِيمِ [In, or with, the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]: a verb of the kind termed مَنْحُوت i. e. compounded of two [or more] words; like حَمْدَلَ and حَوْقَلَ and حَسْبَلَ &c.: said by some to be post-classical, not heard from the chaste Arabs; but authorized by many of the leading lexicologists, as ISk and Mtr; and occurring in the poetry of 'Omar Ibn-Abee-Rabee'ah [who is said to have been born in the year of the Flight 23].


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