بس

Form 1 · 2 entries · Qur'ānic frequency 2

Form 1بَسٌّ4 senses · 1 main

muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُmaṣdarبَسٌّ

Core sense — breaking, or crumbling; mixing meal with clarified butter or olive-oilgenerated

1.1breaking, or breaking in pieces—حَطْمٌ

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[Also mixing: see بَسِيسَةٌ. This, or the former, is probably the primary meaning.]

1.1.2he broke it, crumbled it, or bruised it—بَسَّهُ

Said of wheat and the like, so making it what is called بَسِيسَة.

Or he mixed سَويق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour and the like, with clarified butter or with olive-oil, so making it what is called بسِيسَة.

Or he moistened سَوِيق and flour with a little water, but made it more moist than in the action called لَتٌّ. So Yaakoob, and ISk.

Or بَسٌّ means the making, or preparing, of بسِيسَة by stirring about, or moistening, سَوِيق or flour, or ground أَقِط, with clarified butter or with olive-oil; it is then eaten without being cooked.

1.1.3and the mountains shall be crumbled with a violent crumbling—وَبُسَّتِ الجِبَالُ بَسًّا

Hence the saying in the Qur'ān 56:5.

That is, like flour, and سَوِيق, and become earth. Or: become dust clinging to the earth; or be levelled; or mixed with the dust; or reduced to powder and scattered in the wind.

Qur’ān 56:5 matched to Lane’s own quotation of it Lane cites “Kur lvi. 5”

Qur’ān 56:5 Lane quotes this verse

وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّا

And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms,Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1

56:5

وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّا

And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms,

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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signifies The act of breaking: or breaking in pieces: syn. حَطْمٌ . (TA.) [And The act of mixing: see بَسِيسَةٌ . This, or the former, is probably the primary signification.] [And hence, app.,] بَسَّهُ , aor. بَسُسَ , inf. n. بَسٌّ , (M, Msb,) He broke it, crumbled it, or bruised or brayed it; said of wheat, &c.; thus making it what is termed بَسِيسَة : (Msb:) or he mixed it, namely, سَويق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., with clarified butter, or with olive-oil; thus making it what is termed بسِيسَة : (M:) or he moistened it, namely, سَوِيق , and flour, with a little water; (ISk, Msb;) but making it more moist than one does in the action termed لَتٌّ : (Yaakoob, cited in the S; and ISk, in the Msb:) or بَسٌّ signifies the making, or preparing, بسِيسَة , by stirring about, or moistening, سَوِيق , or flour, or ground أَقِط , with clarified butter, or with olive-oil; (S, K;) after which it is eaten, without being cooked. (S.) [And hence the saying in the Kur lvi. 5,] وَبُسَّتِ الجِبَالُ بَسًّا And the mountains shall be crumbled with a vehement crumbling, (Lh, M, A, K,) like flour, and سَوِيق , (A,) and become earth: (Fr, K:) or become dust cleaving to the earth: (AO, M, TA:) or be levelled: (M, TA:) or mixed with the dust: (Zj, M, TA:) or reduced to powder and scattered in the wind. (TA.)

Derived nouns 1

Nounبَسِيسَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — crumbled wheat; meal mixed with clarified butter or oil; barley with date-stones for camelsgenerated

Wheat and the like, broken, or crumbled; or سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour and the like, mixed with clarified butter or with olive-oil.

Or what is stirred about with olive-oil, or with clarified butter, and not wetted with water.

Or سويق or flour, or ground أَقِط, stirred about, or moistened, with clarified butter or with olive-oil, and then eaten without being cooked.

Or سويق and flour, moistened with a little water, but more moist than what is prepared in the manner called لَتٌّ. So Yaakoob, and ISk. It is used as travelling-provision.

Also bread dried and pounded, and [mixed with water so that it is] drunk like as سويق is drunk.

IDrd thinks it to be what is called فَتُوث.

Also barley mixed with date-stones, for camels.

Or, according to As, anything that one mixes with another thing: such as سويق with اقط, which one then moistens with fresh butter; and such as barley with date-stones, which one then moistens, for camels.

Plural بُسُسٌ, explained in the K as meaning messes of سويق moistened, or stirred about with water and the like.

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Wheat, &c., broken, or crumbled, or bruised: (Msb:) or سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., mixed with clarified butter, or with olive-oil: (M:) or what is stirred about with olive-oil, or with clarified butter, and not wetted [with water]: (Lh, M:) or سويق , or flour, or ground أَقِط , stirred about, or moistened, with clarified butter, or with oliveoil; (S, K;) after which it is eaten, without being cooked: (S:) or سويق , and flour, moistened with a little water, (ISk, Msb,) but more moist than such as is prepared in the manner termed لَتٌّ ; (Yaakoob, cited in the S; and ISk, in the Msb;) and used as travelling-provision: (TA:) and bread dried and pounded, and [mixed with water so that it is] drunk like as سويق is drunk: (M, K: *) IDrd thinks it to be what is termed فَتُوث : also barley mixed with date-stones, for camels: (M, TA:) or, accord. to As, anything that one mixes with another thing: such as سويق with اقط , which one then moistens with fresh butter: and such as barley with date-stones, which one then moistens, for camels: (Msb, * TA:) pl. بُسُسٌ , (IAar, TA,) which is explained in the K as signifying messes of سويق moistened, or stirred about with water, &c. ( أَسْوِقَةٌ مَلْتُوتَةٌ ). (TA.)