بُوحٌ

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بُوحٌ has the following various significations assigned to it in explanations of the saying, اِبْنُكَ ٱبْنُ بُوحِكَ يَشْرَبُ مِنْ صَبُوحِكَ: The penis: the فَرْج [or pudendum, app. meaning, of a woman]: the نَفْس [meaning one's self]: coitus; syn. وَطْءٌ or جِمَاعٌ: and accord. to the last but one of these renderings, [and virtually accord. to the others also,] the saying means Thy son is the son of thyself, [who drinks of thy morningdraught]; he whom thou hast begotten, not he whom thou hast adopted: or بوح, here, is pl. of بَاحَةٌ; and the meaning is, he who has been born within the courts of thy house; or, in the court of thy house, not in the house of another: or بوح is here a subst. from بَاحَ الشَّىْءِ; and the meaning is, thy son is he whom thou hast openly acknowledged (بُحْتَ بِهِ), and whom his mother hath also, agreeably with thee: [accord. to some,] it signifies also i. q. أَصْلٌ [i. e. origin; or race, or stock, which it may mean in the saying above: or original, or primary, state, or condition]; [for] one says, رَجَعَ إِلَى بُوحِهِ [He returned, or reverted, to his original, or primary, state, or condition].

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