بِغْيَةٌ
Root: بغى
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بِغْيَةٌ
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بُغْيَةٌ and
بَغِيَّةٌ A thing sought; as also
[originally an Verbal.Noun ]: or a thing wanted, needed, or required; an object of want or need; a want, or needful or requisite thing or affair: as in the saying, لِى فِىبَنِى
فُلَانٍ بَغْيَةٌ and بُغْيَةٌ [I have among the sons of such a one an object of want]: or the first signifies a state that one seeks; and the second, a thing itself that one wants: and the first, or third, signifies also a stray beast that is sought: the pl. of the second is بُغًى. اِرْتَدَّتْ عَلَى فُلَانٍ بِغْيَتُهُ [The thing that he sought was refused to such a one] is said of one who finds not what he seeks. .
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