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بَهْرَجٌ

Root: بهرج

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بَهْرَجٌ an arabicized word, from نَبَهْرَهْ, which is Persian; or, as some say, it is an Indian word, originally نَبَهْلَهْ, meaning Bad, whence the Persian نَبَهْرَهْ, and hence the arabicized بَهْرَجٌ; applied to a dirhem, as meaning bad; false; adulterated; of bad silver; with which one cannot buy: or, as some say, in which the silver is predominant: or, accord. to IAar, of which the die has been falsified: or not coined in the government-mint: and signifies the same, applied to a dirhem; and so نَبَهْرَجٌ ; but [Mtr says,] I have not found it with ن, except on the authority of Lh and IKh says that it is a word of the vulgar: the pl. [of بهرج] is بَهَارِجُ, and [of نبهرج,] نَبَهْرَجَاتُ.
2 Hence, metaphorically, Bad; and false, or of no account; applied to a thing of any kind: anything rejected; not received or accepted; rejected as wrong or bad; as also نَبَهْرَجٌ : and a thing is termed مُبَهْرَجٌ when it is as though it were cast away, and not an object of emulous desire or envy, or not in request. You say, كَلَامٌ بَهْرَجٌ Bad language. And عَمَلٌ بَهْرَجٌ A bad action.
3 Allowed or allowable [to any person, to be taken or let alone, or to be possessed or made use of or done]; made allowable, free, or lawful. You say, دَمٌ بَهْرَجٌ Blood made to be of no account, to go for nothing, unretaliated, or uncompensated by a mulct; allowed to be taken or shed; as also مُبَهْرَجٌ . And مَكَانٌ بَهْرَجٌ A place free to the people in general to pasture their beasts in it. And مَآءٌ مُبَهْرَجٌ A water left free to those who come to water at it.


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