بِنَآءٌ
Root: بنى
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بِنَآءٌ
[originally an Verbal.Noun: then applied to A building; a structure; an edifice;] a thing that is built, or constructed; pl. أَبْنِيَةٌ, and pl. pl. أَبْنِيَاتٌ: and
بُنْيَانٌ [also] has this meaning; [and is likewise originally an Verbal.Noun;] or this signifies a wall; syn. حَائِطٌ; or it may be a pl., [or rather a coll. gen. n., meaning buildings, structures, edifices, or walls,] of which the sing. [or n. un.] is
, and as such may be masc. and fem:
بِنْيَةٌ and
بُنْيَةٌ also signify [the same as بِنَآءٌ as explained above; or] a thing that one has built, framed, or constructed; or, accord. to some, the former of these two relates to objects of the senses, and the latter to objects of the mind, to glory or honour or the like; and their pls. are
بِنًى and
بُنًى ; or, accord. to the S and M, these two appear to be sings.; [or they may be pls. or sings.; for J says that] البُنَى is like البِنَى; one says, بُنْيَةٌ and بُنًى, and بِنْيَةٌ and بِنًى; [and ISd says that] بِنْيَةٌ and بُنْيَةٌ signify as above, and so بِنًى and بُنًى; or, accord. to Aboo-Is-hák, بِنًى is pl. of بِنْيَةٌ; or it may be used by poetic licence for بِنَآءٌ: accord. to IAar, بِنًى signifies buildings, or structures, of clay: and also [tents] of wool; and بِنَآءٌ likewise signifies a tent in which the Arabs of the desert dwell, in the desert, such as is called
خِبَآء; and طِرَافٌ and قُبَّةٌ and مِضْرَبٌ are names applied to dwellings of the same kind; pl. أَبْنِيَةٌ: the moveable dwelling, such as the
خَيْمَة
and
مِظَلَّة
and
فُسْطَاط
and
سُرَادِق
and the like, is called بِنَآءٌ as being likened to the building of burnt bricks and of clay and of gypsum. [See also بَنِيَّةٌ.]
2 Also The roof, or ceiling, of a house or chamber or the like; as in the Kur [ii. 20], الَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الأَرْضَ فِراشًا وَ السَّمَآءَ بِنَآءً [Who hath made for you the earth as a bed, and the heaven as a roof, or ceiling]: so says AZ: or the meaning here is, as a tent (قُبَّة) pitched over you.
3 And The body, with the limbs or members.
4 And i. q. نِطْعٌ [A thing that is spread on the ground to serve as a table for food &c., made of leather; like مِبْنَاةٌ]: occurring in a trad., where it is mentioned as spread on the ground, on a day of rain, for Mohammad to pray upon: so says Sh.
2 Also The roof, or ceiling, of a house or chamber or the like; as in the Kur [ii. 20], الَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الأَرْضَ فِراشًا وَ السَّمَآءَ بِنَآءً [Who hath made for you the earth as a bed, and the heaven as a roof, or ceiling]: so says AZ: or the meaning here is, as a tent (قُبَّة) pitched over you.
3 And The body, with the limbs or members.
4 And i. q. نِطْعٌ [A thing that is spread on the ground to serve as a table for food &c., made of leather; like مِبْنَاةٌ]: occurring in a trad., where it is mentioned as spread on the ground, on a day of rain, for Mohammad to pray upon: so says Sh.
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