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بَهَأ

Root: بهأ

Form: 1

Full Definition

بَهَأI , and بَهِئَ, [Present.T ـَ] and بَهُؤَ, [Present.T ـُ] Verbal.Noun بَهْءٌ and بُهُوْءٌ and بَهَآءٌ; and به; He was, or became, sociable, friendly, or familiar, with him, or it; namely, a man, or a thing; and loved, or liked, his, or its, nearness: and he became familiar with it so as to have little, or no, reverence for it, or awe of it. بَهَوْا بِهِ occurs in a trad., as they relate it, for بَهَؤُوا به: and يَبْتَهِى , in a verse of El-Aashà, for يَبْتَهِئُ.
2 مَا بَهَأْتُ لَهُ I did not understand it; or I did not know it; as also مَا بَأَهْتُ لَهُ.
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