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بَعِيجٌ

Root: بعج

Full Definition

بَعِيجٌ A belly slit, ripped, or rent, with a knife, so that what was in it is displaced and apparent, hanging down; as also بَعِجٌ , thought to be after manner of a rel. n.; and مَبْعُوجٌ .
2 Hence, بَطْنِى لِلْكِرَامِ بَعِيجٌ, an expression used by Aboo-Dhu-eyb, meaning My sincere, honest, or faithful, advice, or counsel, is liberally, or freely, given to the generous. (TA. [In a reading given in the S, بالكرام is substituted for للكرام]) [Or it may mean My secret is disclosed, or revealed, to the generous: or my whole mind.]
3 بَعِيجٌ is also applied to a man, and, without ة, to a woman, as signifying Having the belly slit, ripped, or rent, with a knife, so that what was in it is displaced and apparent, hanging down: pl., masc. and fem., بَعْجَى.
4 And [hence,] A woman who has brought forth many children (بَعَجَتْ بَطْنَهَا, and نَثَرَتْ, [see 1, and see art. نثر,]) to her husband.
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