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بَهْجَةٌ

Root: بهج

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بَهْجَةٌ Beauty, or goodliness: or beauty of colour of a thing: or its beauty and brightness or splendour: or in plants or herbage, beauty and brightness or splendour; and in a man, the laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; or joyfulness, gladness, or happiness, of aspect or appearance. You say رَوْضَةٌ ذَاتُ بَهْجَةٍ غَالِبَةٍ [A meadow, or garden, of surpassing beauty, &c.]. And رَجُلٌ ذُو بَهْجَةٍ A man possessed of beauty, or goodliness: or of beauty and brightness, &c.
2 Also Happiness, joy, or gladness.
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