بَصَرٌ

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بَصَرٌ The sense of sight, or of the eye: or the light whereby the organ [of sight] (الجَارِحَة) perceives the things seen (المُبْصَرَات): pl. أَبْصَارٌ. [Hence,] صَلَاةُ البَصَرِ The prayer of sunset: or, as some say, of daybreak: because performed when the darkness becomes mixed with the light: or because performed when the stars are seen: also called صَلَاةُ الشَّاهِدِ: (TA in art. شهد:) or because performed at a time when the eyes see corporeal forms, after the intervention of darkness, or before it. And لَقِيَهُ بَصَرًا He met him when eyes saw one another: or at the beginning of darkness, when there remained enough light for objects to be distinguished thereby: [accord. to some,] the noun is used [in the sense which it here bears] only as an adv. n. [of time]. And رَأَيْتُهُ بَيْنَ سَمْعِ الأَرْضِ وَبَصَرِهَا I saw him in a vacant tract of land, or of the earth, where nothing but it heard or saw me. [See also سَمْعٌ, in two places.]
2 See also بَصِيرَةٌ, first sentence, in four places.
3 Also The eye; [and so بَاصِرَةٌ ;] syn. عَيْنٌ; but of the masc. gender: pl. as above: but the sing. is also used in a pl. sense [like سَمْعٌ]. (TA in art. سمع.) See two exs. voce بَصِيرةٌ.

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