بُهِتَ

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بُهِتَI , the most chaste form of the verb in the sense here following, and that which most commonly obtains, and the only form allowed by Th and IKt; and بَهِتَ, Present.T ـَ; and بَهُتَ, in which the dammeh is said to give intensiveness to the signification, as in قَضُوَ الرَّجُلُ, Present.T ـُ; and بَهَتَ, Present.T ـُ and ـَ; Verbal.Noun بَهْتٌ; He was, or became, confounded, perplexed, or amazed, and unable to see his right course; not knowing what to prefer nor what to postpone: (TA in art. اشر:) he looked at a thing that he saw with a look of wonder: he was, or became, affected with wonder: he was, or became, cut short, (انْقَطَعَ, K, TA,) and was silent, being confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course: he was overcome by an argument, an allegation, or a plea. All these forms occur in different readings of the saying in the Kur [ii. 260], فَبُهِتَ ٱلَّذِى كَفَرَ and فَبَهِتَ &c., explained in the Wá'ee as meaning, And he who disbelieved remained in confusion, or perplexity, not seeing his right course, looking as one in wonder: but accord. to him who reads فَبَهَتَ, the word الذى may hold the place of a noun in the accus. case [as will be seen from what follows].

def.2 بَهَتَهُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun بَهْتٌ, He, or it, caused him to become confounded, perplexed, or amazed, not seeing his right course: (Zj, Msb: [Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof, assigns this meaning to بهّتهُ :]) or took him unawares, or by surprise, or unexpectedly, or suddenly. Zj cites as an ex. of the former meaning the saying in the Kur [xxi. 41], تَأْتِيهِمْ بَغْتَةً فَتَبْهَتُهُمْ, i. e., It shall come upon them suddenly, or unawares, and cause them to become confounded, &c.: or, and shall overcome them: J cites the same as an ex. of the latter of the two meanings in the preceding sentence; but his doing so requires consideration; for the meaning which he gives is taken from the word بغتة; not from البَهْتُ. [But it is said also that] مُبَاهَتَةٌ [Verbal.Noun of باهتهُ ] signifies The taking, or coming upon, [one] unawares, by surprise, or unexpectedly.
2 بَهَتَهُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun بَهْتٌ and بَهَتٌ and بُهْتَانٌ, or the last is a simple subst., He calumniated him; slandered him; accused him falsely; said against him that which he had not done: [or he did so in such a manner as to make one to be confounded, or perplexed, or amazed, at the falsity of the charge, and not to see his right course: (see بُهْتَانٌ, below:)] he lied against him; forged a lie, or lies, against him; and i. q. قَابَلَهُ بِالكَذِبِ [he accused him to his face falsely, or with falsehood]; البَهْتُ signifies اِسْتِقْبَالُكَ أَخَاكَ بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ [thy accusing thy brother, or fellow, to his face, of that which is not in him]: and بَهَتَهَا, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun بَهْتٌ, he accused her falsely of adultery; and forged a lie against her. [See also اِغْتَابَهُ.] In the saying of Abu-n-Nejm, سُبِّى الحَمَاةَ وَٱبْهَتِى عَلَيْهَا [Revile thou the mother-in-law, and calumniate her, or forge lies against her], على is [said by J to be] redundant, or pleonastic; for one does not say, بَعَتَ عَلَيْهِ, but only بَهَتَهُ. Upon this, F says, in the K, that فَٱبْهَتِى عليها [thus in the K] is a mistake; that J is in error, and that the right reading is فَٱنْهَتِى عليها, with ن: but this assertion made by F depends upon the authority of relaters of the verse in which the word in question occurs. IB says that ابهتى may be here rendered trans. by means of على because it is syn. with اِفْتَرِى, which is so rendered trans., in like manner as is done in other instances, of which he gives an ex. from the Kur [xxiv. 63], يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ, meaning يَخْرُجُونَ عن امره: he adds that, accord. to J, عن in this ex. should be considered redundant; but that عن and على are not used redundantly like ب.
3 بَهَتَ الفَحْلَ عَنِ النَّاقَةِ He removed the stallion from the she-camel in order that a stallion of more generous race might cover her.

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