بهج

Form 1بَهُجَ3 senses · 2 main

muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُ·ـَيَفْعَلُmaṣdarبَهَاجَةٌ بَهَجٌ

Core sense — he, or it, was beautiful, or goodly; he was joyful; it rejoiced himgenerated

1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredthe plant, or herbage, was, or became, beautiful [&c.]—بَهِجَ النَّبَاتُ

maṣdar بَهَاجَةٌ and بَهْجَةٌ (AZ, [but some seem to regard this as a simple substantive,]) and بَهَجَانٌ.

He, or it, was, or became, beautiful, or goodly: or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid.

Said of a plant: it was, or became, beautiful and bright. Said of a man: he had a laughing, or happy, look in the beautiful parts of the face, such as the cheeks and the lines of the forehead; or he had a joyful, glad, or happy, look.

With kesr. [But this is probably a figurative meaning, from بَهِجَ in the sense that follows.]

1.1.1he was, or became, joyful, glad, or happy—بَهِجَ

With kesr; maṣdar بَهَجٌ and ابتهج.

he rejoiced in it, or at it; he was made joyful by it—بَهِجَ بِهِ

Also لَهُ and ابتهج بِهِ, in the same sense.

on this sense [See also 10.]

1.2it rejoiced a person; it made a person joyful, glad, or happy—بَهَجَ

Said of a thing, or of an affair or event.

Muḍāriʿ بَهَجَ and ابهج, the latter being the more approved.

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, aor. بَهُجَ , (AZ, S, Msb, &c.,) inf. n. بَهَاجَةٌ (AZ, S, L, K) and بَهْجَةٌ (AZ, L, [but some seem to regard this as a simple subst.,]) and بَهَجَانٌ , (L,) He, or it, was, or became, beautiful, or goodly: (AZ, S, L, Msb, K:) or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid: or it (a plant) was, or became, beautiful and bright; and he (a man) was, or became, characterized by a laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or by the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; or by a joyful, glad, or happy, aspect, or appearance. (L.) You say also, بَهِجَ النَّبَاتُ , with kesr, meaning The plant, or herbage, was, or became, beautiful [&c.]. (TA, [but this is probably a tropical signification, from بَهِجَ in the sense here following.]) بَهِجَ , (S, A, L, K,) with kesr, (S,) aor. بَهَجَ , (K,) inf. n. بَهَجٌ ; (L;) and ابتهج ; (S, A, L, Msb, K;) He was, or became, joyful, glad, or happy. (S, A, L, Msb, K.) You say, بَهِجَ بِهِ , (S, A,) and لَهُ ; (TA;) and ابتهج بِهِ ; (A, Msb;) He rejoiced in it, or at it; or became rejoiced by it, or at it. (S, A, Msb, TA.) [See also 10.] بَهَجَ , (S, K,) aor. بَهَجَ ; (K;) and ابهج ; (S, A, K;) the latter of which is the more approved; (TA;) It (a thing, TA, or an affair or event, S, A) rejoiced; or made joyful, glad, or happy; (S, A, K;) a person. (S, A.)

Form 2بهّج1 sense

maṣdarتَبْهِيجٌ

Core sense — he beautified it, he made it beautiful, or goodlygenerated

2.1

. He beautified it; he made it beautiful, or goodly.

ISd says: I have not heard this except in the saying of El-ʿAjjāj, as though meaning [Leave this subject, and] beautify, or adorn, still more this nobility [already beautified, or adorned,] by your describing it.

shāhid

دَعْ ذَا وَبَهِّجْ حَسَبًا مُبَهَّجَا

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, (ISd, L,) inf. n. تَبْهِيجٌ , (K,) He beautified; rendered beautiful, or goodly. (ISd, L, K.) ISd says, I have not heard this, except in the saying of El-'Ajjáj, 1 as though meaning [Leave thou this subject, and] beautify, or adorn, the more this nobility [already beautified, or adorned,] by thy describing it. (L.) دَعْ ذَا وَبَهِّجْ حَسَبًا مُبَهَّجَا

Form 3بَاهجهُ1 sense

maṣdarمُبَاهَجَةٌ

Core sense — he competed with him in beauty, or goodlinessgenerated

3.1

. He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in beauty, or goodliness [as explained in the TK; or in glory, or excellence].

Synonymous with بَاهَاهُ and بَارَاهُ, both of these meaning the same.

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, (A, K,) inf. n. مُبَاهَجَةٌ , (A,) He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in beauty, or goodliness; [as expl. in the TK; or in glory, or excellence;] syn. بَاهَاهُ (A, K) and بَارَاهُ , (K,) both of these meaning the same. (TA.)

Form 4أَبْهَجَ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — it rejoiced him; the land became beautiful in its herbagegenerated

4.1

See 1, last sentence.

4.1.1the land, or earth, became beautiful and bright in its plants, or herbage—أَبْهَجَتِ الأَرْضُ

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see 1, last sentence. أَبْهَجَتِ الأَرْضُ The land, or earth, became beautiful, or goodly, (S, L, K,) or beautiful and bright or splendid, (L,) in its plants, or herbage. (S, L, K.)

Form 6تباهج الرَّوْضُ1 sense

Core sense — the meadows became abundant in blossoms or flowersgenerated

6.1figurative · مجاز — inferred

The meadows, or gardens, became abundant in blossoms or flowers [as though vying, one with another, in beauty, or goodliness: see 3].

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The meadows, or gardens, became abundant in blossoms or flowers [as though vying, one with another, in beauty, or goodliness: see 3]. (K, TA.)

Form 8إِبْتَهَجَ1 sense

Core sense — he rejoiced, he became joyful, glad, or happygenerated

8.1

See 1, in two places.

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see 1, in two places.

Form 10استبهج1 sense

Core sense — he rejoiced, he became rejoiced at itgenerated

10.1

Same as اِسْتَبْشَرَ [i.e. he rejoiced, or became rejoiced; بِهِ at it, or by it; or at, or by, the announcement of it].

[See also بَهِجَ.]

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i. q. اِسْتَبْشَرَ [i. e. He rejoiced, or became rejoiced; بِهِ at it, or by it; or at, or by, the annunciation of it]. (K.) [See also بَهِجَ .]

Nounبَهْجٌ1 sense

Core sense — beautiful, or goodly; beautiful and brightgenerated

1

The feminine is formed with ة. See بَهِيجٌ, in two places.

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, fem. with ة : see بَهِيجٌ , in two places.

Nounبَهِجٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — joyful, glad, or happygenerated

1

Joyful, glad, or happy; as also بَهِيجٌ and مُبْتَهِجٌ.

1.1

See also بَهِيجٌ.

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Joyful, glad, or happy; (S, K;) as also بَهِيجٌ (S, A, K) and مُبْتَهِجٌ . (A, TA.) See also بَهِيجٌ .

Nounبَهْجَةٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — beauty, goodliness; a happy look of the face; happiness, joygenerated

1a meadow, or garden, of surpassing beauty [&c.]—رَوْضَةٌ ذَاتُ بَهْجَةٍ غَالِبَةٍ

a man possessed of beauty, or goodliness; or of beauty and brightness—رَجُلٌ ذُو بَهْجَةٍ

on this sense Beauty, or goodliness: or beauty of colour of a thing: or its beauty and brightness or splendour.

on this sense In plants or herbage, beauty and brightness or splendour; in a man, the laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, such as the cheeks and the lines of the forehead; or the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; or a joyful, glad, or happy, look.

1.1

Also happiness, joy, or gladness.

Qur’ānic occurrences بَهْجَة

27:60

أَمَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَأَنزَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَأَنۢبَتْنَا بِهِۦ حَدَآئِقَ ذَاتَ بَهْجَةٍ مَّا كَانَ لَكُمْ أَن تُنۢبِتُوا۟ شَجَرَهَآ ۗ أَءِلَـٰهٌ مَّعَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ يَعْدِلُونَ

Or, Who has created the heavens and the earth, and Who sends you down rain from the sky? Yea, with it We cause to grow well-planted orchards full of beauty of delight: it is not in your power to cause the growth of the trees in them. (Can there be another) god besides Allah? Nay, they are a people who swerve from justice.

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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Beauty, or goodliness: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) 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. (L.) You say رَوْضَةٌ ذَاتُ بَهْجَةٍ غَالِبَةٍ [A meadow, or garden, of surpassing beauty, &c.]. (A.) And رَجُلٌ ذُو بَهْجَةٍ A man possessed of beauty, or goodliness: (S:) or of beauty and brightness, &c. (L.) Also Happiness, joy, or gladness. (Ham p. 403.)

Nounبَهِيجٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — beautiful, or goodly; beautiful and bright; having a happy lookgenerated

1figurative · مجازa woman in whom beauty, or goodliness, predominates—مِبْهَاجٌ

Beautiful, or goodly; as also بَهِجٌ and بَهْجٌ: or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid.

Applied to a plant, it has this last meaning; applied to a man, characterized by a laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, such 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, look.

The feminine adjective is مِبْهَاجٌ; in the CK مَبْهاجٌ.

It is applied to a plant, or herbage, in the Qur'ān 22:5 and 50:7.

Applied also to a camel's hump, meaning fat, because beauty, or goodliness, is combined [in this case] with fatness; plural as above.

Also بَهْجَةٌ in this sense; the plural of the former is مَبَاهِيجُ.

Qur’ān 22:5 approximate — somewhere between 22:2 and 22:11 Lane cites “Kur xxii. 5”

Qur’ān 22:5 the verse Lane’s citation points to, and it uses this root

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ٱلْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ ۚ وَنُقِرُّ فِى ٱلْأَرْحَامِ مَا نَشَآءُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ نُخْرِجُكُمْ طِفْلًا ثُمَّ لِتَبْلُغُوٓا۟ أَشُدَّكُمْ ۖ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَيْلَا يَعْلَمَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عِلْمٍ شَيْـًٔا ۚ وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَآءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنۢبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍ

O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection, (consider) that We created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed, in order that We may manifest (our power) to you; and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term, then do We bring you out as babes, then (foster you) that ye may reach your age of full strength; and some of you are called to die, and some are sent back to the feeblest old age, so that they know nothing after having known (much), and (further), thou seest the earth barren and lifeless, but when We pour down rain on it, it is stirred (to life), it swells, and it puts forth every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs).Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

1.1

See also بَهِجٌ.

Qur’ānic occurrences بَهِيج

22:5

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّنَ ٱلْبَعْثِ فَإِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ عَلَقَةٍ ثُمَّ مِن مُّضْغَةٍ مُّخَلَّقَةٍ وَغَيْرِ مُخَلَّقَةٍ لِّنُبَيِّنَ لَكُمْ ۚ وَنُقِرُّ فِى ٱلْأَرْحَامِ مَا نَشَآءُ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ نُخْرِجُكُمْ طِفْلًا ثُمَّ لِتَبْلُغُوٓا۟ أَشُدَّكُمْ ۖ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُتَوَفَّىٰ وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰٓ أَرْذَلِ ٱلْعُمُرِ لِكَيْلَا يَعْلَمَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عِلْمٍ شَيْـًٔا ۚ وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَآءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنۢبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍ

O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection, (consider) that We created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed, in order that We may manifest (our power) to you; and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term, then do We bring you out as babes, then (foster you) that ye may reach your age of full strength; and some of you are called to die, and some are sent back to the feeblest old age, so that they know nothing after having known (much), and (further), thou seest the earth barren and lifeless, but when We pour down rain on it, it is stirred (to life), it swells, and it puts forth every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs).

50:7

وَٱلْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَـٰهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَٰسِىَ وَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍۭ بَهِيجٍ

And the earth- We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs)-

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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Beautiful, or goodly; (S, A, L, Msb, K;) as also بَهِجٌ (Ham p. 403) and بَهْجٌ : (AZ, TA:) 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: (L:) the fem. epithet is مِبْهَاجٌ . (A, K, TA: [in the CK مَبْهاجٌ .]) It is applied to a plant, or herbage, (S, A,) in the Kur xxii. 5 and l. 7. (S.) And مِبْهَاجٌ is applied to a woman, as meaning One in whom beauty, or goodliness, &c., predominates; (L, TA;) as also بَهْجَةٌ ; (TA;) pl. of the former, مَبَاهِيجُ : (A, TA:) and to a camel's hump, meaning fat; (A, K;) because beauty, or goodliness, is combined [in this case] with fatness; pl. as above. (A, TA.) See also بَهِجٌ .

Nounمِبْهَاجٌ1 sense

Core sense — a woman in whom beauty, or goodliness, predominatesgenerated

1

See بَهِيجٌ, in two places.

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: see بَهِيجٌ , in two places.

Nounمُبْتَهِجٌ1 sense

Core sense — rejoicing, joyful, glad, or happygenerated

1

See بَهِجٌ.

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: see بَهِجٌ .

Derived nouns 6