بَهِيجٌ
Root: بهج
Full Definition
بَهِيجٌ
Beautiful, or goodly; as also
بَهِجٌ and
بَهْجٌ : or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid: or, applied to a plant, it has this last meaning; and, applied to a man, characterized by a laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or characterized by the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; having a joyful, glad, or happy, aspect or appearance: the fem. epithet is
مِبْهَاجٌ . (A, K, TA: [in the CK مَبْهاجٌ.]) It is applied to a plant, or herbage, in the Kur xxii. 5 and l. 7. And
مِبْهَاجٌ is applied to a woman, as meaning One in whom beauty, or goodliness, &c., predominates; as also
بَهْجَةٌ ; pl. of the former, مَبَاهِيجُ: and to a camel's hump, meaning
2 See also بَهِجٌ.
2 See also بَهِجٌ.
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