Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَصَقَ

Root: بصق

Form: 1

Full Definition

بَصَقَI , [Present.T ـُ] Verbal.Noun بَصْقٌ, i. q. بَزَقَ or بَسَقَ [He spat]: it is the most chaste of these three verbs. (TA in art. بسق.) بَصَقَ فِى وَجْهِهِ [lit. He spat in his face,] means he held him in contempt, or despised him.

def.2 He milked a ewe when she was with young.


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