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Form 1بَانَ5 senses · 3 main
maṣdarبَيْنُونَةٌ بُيُونٌ بَيْنٌ بَيَانٌmuḍāriʿيَبِينُ يَبُونُ

Core sense — it became separated from something; it became clear, apparentgenerated

1.1it (a thing) became separated, or cut off, from the thingعَنِ الشَّىْءِ

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she (a wife) became separated from the man by divorceبَانَتْ بِالطَّلَاقِ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ

The verb of the second line is also given as بَانَتْ.

she marriedبَانَتٌ

Said of a girl: [she became separated from her parents by marriage;] as though she went far from her father's house.

he became separated from his father, or mother, or both, by property that was his aloneبَانَ بِمَالٍ

The verb of the fourth line is also written بَانَ. The property is [what he received from him, or her, or them,] to be his alone.

El-Fárisee, on the authority of AZ, gives also بَانَ عَنْهُ and بَانَهُ [the first apparently meaning he became separated in this way from him, that is, from his father; the second being synonymous with أَبَانَهُ].

[the partner, or sharer, became separated from those he had been associated with]بَانَ الخَلِيطُ
[the she-camel's foreleg became drawn apart from her side]بَانَتْ يَدُ النَّاقَةِ عَنْ جَنْبِهَا

Maṣdar of the fifth line بَيْنٌ and بَيْنُونَةٌ; of the sixth بُيُونٌ.

he separated himself, or it separated itselfبَانَ
they separated themselvesبَانُوا

Or, said of a tribe: it journeyed away, and withdrew to a distance.

Muḍāriʿ of the last two lines يَبِينُ. [In one copy of the S it is said of a thing.]

1.1.1it (a thing, or an affair, or a case) became apparent, clear, plainبَانَ

. The same sense belongs to ابان (maṣdar إِبَانَةٌ), بيّن (maṣdar تَبْيِينٌ), تبيّن and استبان: [distinct, as though separate from others; and so,] apparent, evident, clear; and it was, or became, known.

the truth became clear, or became knownبَانَ الحَقُّ

And: the dawn has become apparent to him who has two eyes. A proverb, applied to a thing that becomes altogether apparent.

For the second line one says also ابان.

[right belief has become distinguished from error]قَدْ تَبَيَّنَ الرُّشْدُ مِنَ الغَىِّ

The third line is Qur'an 2:257.

shāhid
قَدْ بَيَّنَ الصُّبْحُ لِذِى عَيْنَيْنِ
[like a sound in which no letters can be made out]كَصَوْتٍ لَا يَسْتَبِينُ مِنْهُ حُرُوفٌ

The fourth is a phrase the lawyers use correctly.

1.1.2

[The TA seems to indicate that بَانَ () also means it became united, or connected, so that the verb has two opposite meanings; but I have not found the verb used in this sense, though بَيْنٌ means both disunion and union.]

1.2

بَانَهُ: see بَانَهُ, maṣdar بَوْنٌ, in the article on بون.

1.3

See also form 2, in two places.

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, (M, Mgh, Msb, K,) [aor. يَبِينُ ,] inf. n. بَيْنُونَةٌ and بُيُونٌ (M, Mgh, K) and بَيْنٌ , (M, K,) It (a thing) became separated, severed, disunited, or cut off, (M, Mgh, Msb, K,) عَنِ الشَّىْءِ from the thing. (Mgh.) And بَانَتْ , (M, K,) or بَانَتْ بِالطَّلَاقِ , (Msb,) She (a wife) became separated by divorce, (M, Msb, K,) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ from the man. (M, K.) And بَانَتٌ said of a girl, [She became separated from her parents by marriage;] she married: (ISh, T:) as though she became at a distance from the house of her father. (ISh, TA.) And بَانَ , (M,) or بَانَ بِمَالٍ , aor. يَبِينُ , (T,) inf. n. بُيُونٌ (T, M) and بَيْنٌ , (M,) He became separated from his father, or mother, or both, by property [which he received from him, or her, or them,] (AZ, T, M,) to be his alone: (AZ, T:) and ElFárisee states, on the authority of AZ, that one] says also, بَانَ عَنْهُ and بَانَهُ [the former app. meaning he became separated thus from him, i. e., from his father; and the latter being syn. with أَبَانَهُ , q. v.]. (M.) And بَانَ الخَلِيطُ , inf. n. بَيْنٌ and بَيْنُونَةٌ , [The partner, or copartner, or sharer, &c., became separated from the person, or persons, with whom he had been associated.] (T.) And بَانَتْ يَدُ النَّاقَةِ عَنْ جَنْبِهَا , inf. n. بُيُونٌ , [The fore leg of the she-camel became withdrawn, or apart, from her side.] (T.) And بَانَ , (S, M, Msb,) and بَانُوا , (K,) aor. يَبِينُ , (S,) inf. n. بَيْنٌ and بَيْنُونَةٌ , (S, M, Msb, K,) He separated himself, or it separated itself; (S; [in one copy of which it is said of a thing;]) and they separated themselves: (K:) or it (a tribe, M, Msb) went, journeyed, went away, or departed; and went, removed, retired, or withdrew itself, to a distance, or far away, or far off. (Msb.) بَانَ , (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. يَبِينُ , (T, Msb,) inf. n. بَيَانٌ ; (T, S, Mgh, K;) and ابان , (T, S, M, &c.,) inf. n. إِبَانَةٌ ; (T, Msb;) and بيّن , (T, S, M, &c.,) inf. n. تَبْيِينٌ ; (S;) and تبيّن ; and استبان ; (T, S, M, &c.,) all signify the same; (T, M, Msb;) i. e. It (a thing, T, S, M, Mgh, or an affair, or a case, Msb) was, or became, [distinct, as though separate from others; and thus,] apparent, manifest, evident, clear, plain, or perspicuous: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and it was, or became, known. (K.) You say, بَانَ الحَقُّ [The truth became apparent, &c.; or known]; as also ابان . (T.) And 1 The dawn has become apparent to him who has two eyes: a prov.: (S, M:) applied to a thing that becomes altogether apparent, or manifest. (Har p. 542.) And it is said in the Kur [ii. 257], قَدْ تَبَيَّنَ الرُّشْدُ مِنَ الغَىِّ [The right belief hath become distinguished from error]. (TA.) And the lawyers, correctly, use the phrase, كَصَوْتٍ لَا يَسْتَبِينُ مِنْهُ حُرُوفٌ [Like a sound whereof letters are not distinguishable]. (Mgh.) قَدْ بَيَّنَ الصُّبْحُ لِذِى عَيْنَيْنِ [It seems to be indicated in the TA that بَانَ , aor. يَبِينُ , inf. n. بَيْنٌ and بَيْنُونَةٌ , also signifies It was, or became, united, or connected; thus having two contr. meanings; but I have not found the verb used in this sense, though بَيْنٌ signifies both disunion and union.] بَانَهُ , aor. يَبِينُ , inf. n. بَيْنٌ : see بَانَهُ , aor. يَبُونُ , inf. n. بَوْنٌ , in art. بون . See also 2, in two places.
Form 2بيّن4 senses · 2 main
maṣdarتَبْيِينٌ

Core sense — he made it clear, he explained itgenerated

2.1

Intransitive: see form 1, in two places.

2.1.1figurative · مجازthe trees, or their leaves, appeared as they began to growبيّن الشَّجَرُ
the horn came forthبيّن القَرْنُ
2.2

بيّن بِنْتَهُ: see form 4.

2.2.1[he made it distinct, as though separate from others; and so,] he made it apparent, clear, plainبيّنهُ

Said of a thing, or of an affair, or a case. Maṣdar تَبْيِينٌ, تِبْيَانٌ and تَبْيَانٌ.

The second of these three maṣdars is irregular: by rule it should be of the measure تَفْعَالٌ, but تَبْيَانٌ is known only on the view of those who allow analogy as an authority, and that view is outweighed by the contrary one.

تِبْيَانٌ is the only maṣdar of its measure except تِلْقَآءٌ, according to most of the leading authorities. Some add تِمْثَالٌ, maṣdar of مَثَّلَ. El-Hareeree adds, in the Durrah, تِنْضَالٌ, maṣdar of نَاضَلَهُ. Esh-Shiháb adds, in his commentary on the Durrah, تِشْرَابٌ, maṣdar of شَرِبَ الخَمْرَ, and says that تَشْرَابٌ has also been heard, which agrees with analogy. [To these may be added تَبْكَآءٌ and تِمْشَآءٌ, and perhaps other cases of the same kind.]

But some reject تِفْعَالٌ altogether as the measure of a maṣdar, saying that the words handed down as instances of it are simple nouns used as maṣdars, like طَعَامٌ in place of إِطْعَامٌ.

Sb says that تِبْيَانٌ is not a maṣdar; if it were, it would be تَبْيَانٌ. It is from بَيَّنْتُ, as غَارَةٌ is from أَغَرْتُ.

The same is said with ابانهُ (maṣdar إِبَانَةٌ), تبيّنهُ and استبانهُ. [بيّنهُ is the most common in this sense; it often means he explained it, and he proved it.] All these verbs also mean he made it known, he notified it.

I knew it, [or distinguished it,] clearlyاِسْتَبَنْتُهُ

The same sense belongs to تَبَيَّنْتُهُ [and to بَيَّنْتُهُ, as appears from an example below, from a verse of En-Nábighah].

بِنْتُهُ, أَبَنْتُهُ, اِسْتَبَنْتُهُ and بَيَّنْتُهُ all mean the same as تَبَيَّنْتُهُ [apparently in all the senses of that verb]. Or, of all these verbs, بَانَ alone is intransitive.

I examined it repeatedly, so that it might become clear to meاِسْتَبَنْتُهُ
he examined the affair repeatedly, to know its real stateتبيّنهُ

Of the third line: said of a thing, considering or studying it repeatedly. Of the fourth: said of an affair, or a case, examining it repeatedly, or deliberately, so as to know its real state from its outward signs.

A poet says: [And I feared not until the drinking, or the time of drinking, and molestation, made plain, by a deep-red sun, that I was separated from the tribe: see قَانِئٌ.]

[and we have sent down to you the Scripture to make everything clear]وَأَنْزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الكِتَابَ تِبْيَانًا لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ

The fifth line is Qur'an 16:91, meaning: we make clear to you in the Scripture everything that you and your people need [to know] about matters of religion. See also بَيَانٌ in the latter half of that paragraph.

shāhid 1
وَمَا خِفْتُ حَتَّى بَيَّنَ الشِّرْبُ وَالأَذَىبقَانِئَةٍ أَنِّى مِنَ الحَىِّ أَبْيَنُ

En-Nábighah says: [Except the places where the beasts are confined: with difficulty did I make them out]; meaning أَتَبَيَّنُهَا.

he tried to see what would happen to him, of good and evilتَبَيَّنَ مَا يَأْتِيهِ

The last line is from the M, in the article on بصر. [See also form 5, below.]

shāhid 2
إِلَّا الأَوَارِىَّ مَّا أُبَيِّنُهَا
Qur’ānic occurrences Form 2 4 shown of 35
2:242
كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

Thus doth Allah Make clear His Signs to you: In order that ye may understand.

6:105
وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُصَرِّفُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ وَلِيَقُولُوا۟ دَرَسْتَ وَلِنُبَيِّنَهُۥ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ

Thus do we explain the signs by various (symbols): that they may say, "Thou hast taught (us) diligently," and that We may make the matter clear to those who know.

16:39
لِيُبَيِّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يَخْتَلِفُونَ فِيهِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ كَـٰذِبِينَ

(They must be raised up), in order that He may manifest to them the truth of that wherein they differ, and that the rejecters of Truth may realise that they had indeed (surrendered to) Falsehood.

24:18
وَيُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

And Allah makes the Signs plain to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.

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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, intrans., inf. n. تَبْيِينٌ : see 1, in two places. You say also, بيّن الشَّجَرُ The trees, (K,) or the leaves of the trees, (TA,) appeared, when beginning to grow forth. (K, TA.) And بيّن القَرْنُ The horn came forth. (K, TA.) بيّن بِنْتَهُ : see 4. بيّنهُ , (T, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَبْيِينٌ (T, S) and تِبْيَانٌ (T, S, * K *) and تَبْيَانٌ ; (K;) the second of which three is an anomalous inf. n., (T, S, K,) for by rule it should be of the measure تَفْعَالٌ ; (T, S;) but تَبْيَانٌ is not known except accord. to the opinion of those who allow the authority of analogy, which opinion is outweighed by the contrary; (TA;) and تِبْيَانٌ is the only inf. n. of its measure except تِلْقَآءٌ , (T, S,) accord. to the generality of the leading authorities; but some add تِمْثَالٌ , as inf. n. of مَثَّلَ ; and El-Hareeree adds to these two, in the Durrah, تِنْضَالٌ , as inf. n. of نَاضَلَهُ ; and Esh-Shiháb adds, in the Expos. of the Durrah, تِشْرَابٌ , as inf. n. of شَرِبَ الخَمْرَ ; asserting تَشْرَابٌ also to have been heard, agreeably with analogy; [and to these may be added تَبْكَآءٌ and تِمْشَآءٌ , and perhaps some other instances of the same kind;] but some disallow تِفْعَالٌ altogether as the measure of an inf. n., saying that the words transmitted as instances thereof are simple substs. used as inf. ns., like طَعَامٌ in the place of إِطْعَامٌ ; (MF, TA;) and Sb says that تِبْيَانٌ is not an inf. n.; for, where it so, it would be تَبْيَانٌ ; but it is, from بَيَّنْتُ , like غَارَةٌ from أَغَرْتُ ; (M, TA;) [He made it distinct, as though separate from others; and thus,] he made it (namely, a thing, T, S, Mgh, or an affair, or a case, Msb) apparent, manifest, evident, clear, plain, or perspicuous; (S, Msb, K;) as also ابانهُ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِبَانَةٌ ; (Msb;) and تبيّنهُ ; (S, * Msb, K;) and استبانهُ : (Mgh, Msb, K:) [ بيّنهُ is the most common in this sense: and often signifies he explained it: and he proved it:] and ↓ all these verbs signify also he made it known; he notified it: (K:) or اِسْتَبَنْتُهُ signifies, (S,) or signifies also, (Mgh,) I knew it, or became acquainted with it, [or distinguished it,] (S, Mgh,) clearly, or plainly; (Mgh;) and so تَبَيَّنْتُهُ ; (S, * Mgh;) [and بَيَّنْتُهُ , as appears from an ex. in what follows, from a verse of En-Nábighah:] بِنْتُهُ and أَبَنْتُهُ and اِسْتَبَنْتُهُ and بَيَّنْتُهُ all signify the same as تَبَيَّنْتُهُ [app. in all the senses of this verb]: (M:) or, of all these verbs, بَانَ is only intrans.: (Msb:) and اِسْتَبَنْتُهُ signifies I looked at it, or into it, (namely, a thing,) considered it, examined it, or studied it, repeatedly, in order that it might become apparent, manifest, evident, clear, or plain, to me: (T, TA:) and تبيّنهُ he looked at it, or into it, (namely, an affair, or a case,) considered it, examined it, or studied it, repeatedly, or deliberately, in order to know its real state by the external signs thereof. (T.) A poet says, 1 [And I feared not until the drinking, or the time of drinking, and molestation, made manifest, or plainly showed, by a deep-red (sun), that I was separated from the tribe: see قَانِئٌ ]. (M.) And it is said in the Kur [xvi. 91], وَأَنْزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الكِتَابَ تِبْيَانًا لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ [And we have sent down to thee the Scripture to make manifest everything]; meaning, we make manifest to thee in the Scripture everything that thou and thy people require [to know] respecting matters of religion. (T.) See also بَيَانٌ , in the latter half of the paragraph. En-Nábighah says, 2 [Except the places of the confinement of the beasts: with difficulty did I distinguish them]; meaning أَتَبَيَّنُهَا . (S.) You say also, تَبَيَّنَ مَا يَأْتِيهِ , meaning He sought, or endeavoured, to see, or discover, what would happen to him, of good and evil. (M in art. بصر .) [See also 5, below.] وَمَا خِفْتُ حَتَّى بَيَّنَ الشِّرْبُ وَالأَذَى | بقَانِئَةٍ أَنِّى مِنَ الحَىِّ أَبْيَنُ إِلَّا الأَوَارِىَّ مَّا أُبَيِّنُهَا
Form 3باينهُ1 sense
maṣdarمُبَايَنَةٌ

Core sense — he separated himself from him, he forsook himgenerated

3.1

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He separated himself from him; or he forsook him; or he forsook him and was forsaken by him; or he cut him off from friendly relations, being so cut off by him; or he ceased to speak to him, the other doing the same to him.

[And: it became separated from it.]

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, (K,) inf. n. مُبَايَنَةٌ , (S,) He separated himself from him; or left, forsook, or abandoned, him: (S, TA:) or he forsook, or abandoned, him, being forsaken, or abandoned, by him; or cut him off from friendly or loving communion or intercourse, being so cut off by him; or cut him, or ceased to speak to him, being in like manner cut by him. (K.) [And It became separated from it.]
Form 4ابان6 senses · 2 main
maṣdarإِبَانَةٌ

Core sense — he separated it, he cut it off; he spoke clearlygenerated

4.1

Intransitive: see form 1, in two places.

4.2he separated it, he cut it offابانهُ
he struck him and severed his head from his bodyضَرَبَهُ فَأَبَانَ رَأْسَهُ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ
he (the husband) separated the woman by divorceابان المَرْأَةَ
he gave his daughter in marriage, and she went to her husbandابان بِنْتَهُ

Maṣdar as above.

For the fourth line one says also بيّنها, maṣdar تَبْيِينٌ. From بَيْنٌ, meaning distance: as though he moved her far from her mother's house or tent.

he separated his son from himself by giving him property, to be his aloneابان ٱبْنَهُ بِمَالٍ

Or ابانهُ أَبَوَاهُ: his two parents separated him from themselves in this way. Mentioned on the authority of AZ.

he drew the bucket away from the casing of the wellابان الدَّلْوَ عَنْ طِىِّ البِئْرِ

Of the last line: lest the casing should tear the bucket.

4.2.1

See also form 2, in three places.

4.2.2[he spoke, or wrote, clearly and plainly as to meaning; or eloquently]ابان

[Hence; from بَيَانٌ.]

he spoke plainly and gave decisive evidence against him, or about itابان عَلَيْهِ

[The verb so used stands for ابان كَلَامَهُ and شَهَادَتَهُ.]

he does not speak plainlyمَا يُبِينُ كَلَامًا

The last is said of a drunken man; literally, he does not make speech plain.

4.2.3[how distinct, apparent, clear, or plain it is!]مَا أَبْيَنَهُ

[See an example under بَسُلَ.]

4.2.4

[And: how eloquent he is in speech, or in writing! how good his بَيَان is!]

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 4
43:52
أَمْ أَنَا۠ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ هَـٰذَا ٱلَّذِى هُوَ مَهِينٌ وَلَا يَكَادُ يُبِينُ

"Am I not better than this (Moses), who is a contemptible wretch and can scarcely express himself clearly?

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, intrans., inf. n. إِبَانَةٌ : see 1, in two places. ابانهُ , (inf. n. as above, TA,) He separated it, severed it, disunited it, or cut it off. (M, Msb, K, TA.) You say, ضَرَبَهُ فَأَبَانَ رَأْسَهُ (S, K) He smote him and severed his head, مِنْ جَسَدِهِ from his body. (S, TA.) And ابان المَرْأَةَ He (the husband) separated the woman, or wife, by divorce. (Msb.) And ابان بِنْتَهُ , and بيّنها , (T, K,) inf. n. of the former as above, and of the latter تَبْيِينٌ , (TA,) He married, or gave in marriage, his daughter, (T, K,) and she went to her husband: (T:) from بَيْنٌ signifying "distance:" as though he removed her to a distance from the house, or tent, of her mother. (TA.) And ابان ٱبْنَهُ بِمَالٍ , (M,) or ابانهُ أَبَوَاهُ , (T,) He separated from himself his son, (M,) or his two parents separated him from themselves, (T,) by [giving him] property, (T, M,) to be his alone: (T:) mentioned on the authority of AZ. (T, M.) And ابان الدَّلْوَ عَنْ طِىِّ البِئْرِ He drew away the bucket from the casing of the well, lest the latter should lacerate the former. (M.) See also 2, in three places. [Hence, ابان signifies also He spoke, or wrote, perspicuously, clearly, plainly, or distinctly, as to meaning; or, with eloquence: from بَيَانٌ , q. v.] And ابان عَلَيْهِ He spoke perspicuously, clearly, plainly, or distinctly, and gave his testimony, or evidence, or gave decisive information, against him, or respecting it. (TA.) [The verb thus used is for ابان كَلَامَهُ , and شَهَادَتَهُ .] One says of a drunken man, مَا يُبِينُ كَلَامًا He does not speak plainly, or distinctly; lit., does not make speech plain, or distinct. (Ks, T in art. بت .) [ مَا أَبْيَنَهُ How distinct, apparent, manifest, evident, clear, or plain, is it! See an ex. voce بَسُلَ . And How perspicuous, or chaste, or eloquent, is he in speech, or writing! how good is his بَيَان !]
Form 5تبيّن3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — it became clear; he scrutinized it until he knew itgenerated

5.1

Intransitive: see form 1, in two places.

5.2

As a transitive verb: see form 2, in seven places.

5.2.1he sought knowledge of the matter until he knew it; he examined and investigated itالأَمْرَ

[Hence, this object being understood.] He sought to make the affair, or case, clear and to settle it, and was not hasty in it; or he proceeded deliberately in it, not hastily; or the meaning is something like this.

In Qur'an 4:96 and 49:6 some read فَتَبَيَّنُوا and others فَتَثَبَّتُوا; the meanings are nearly the same.

Mohammad said that التَّبَيُّنُ is from God, and العَجَلَةٌ [that is, haste] from the devil.

Lane cites “Bd in xlix. 6” — a commentary, not the verse; no modern number is given
Qur’ānic occurrences Form 5 3 shown of 17
8:6
يُجَـٰدِلُونَكَ فِى ٱلْحَقِّ بَعْدَ مَا تَبَيَّنَ كَأَنَّمَا يُسَاقُونَ إِلَى ٱلْمَوْتِ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ

Disputing with thee concerning the truth after it was made manifest, as if they were being driven to death and they (actually) saw it.

9:43
عَفَا ٱللَّهُ عَنكَ لِمَ أَذِنتَ لَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكَ ٱلَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا۟ وَتَعْلَمَ ٱلْكَـٰذِبِينَ

Allah give thee grace! why didst thou grant them until those who told the truth were seen by thee in a clear light, and thou hadst proved the liars?

14:45
وَسَكَنتُمْ فِى مَسَـٰكِنِ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمْ كَيْفَ فَعَلْنَا بِهِمْ وَضَرَبْنَا لَكُمُ ٱلْأَمْثَالَ

"And ye dwelt in the dwellings of men who wronged their own souls; ye were clearly shown how We dealt with them; and We put forth (many) parables in your behoof!"

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, intrans.: see 1, in two places. As a trans. verb: see 2, in seven places. [Hence, الأَمْرَ being understood,] He sought, or sought leisurely or repeatedly, to obtain knowledge [of the thing], until he knew [it]; he examined, scrutinized, or investigated: (Bd in xlix. 6:) he sought, or endeavoured, to make the affair, or case, manifest, and to settle it, or establish it, and was not hasty therein: (Idem in iv. 96:) or he acted, or proceeded, deliberately, or leisurely, in the affair, or case; not hastily: (Ks, TA:) or it has a signification like this: in the Kur ch. iv. v. 96 and ch. xlix. v. 6, some read فَتَبَيَّنُوا , and others فَتَثَبَّتُوا ; and the meanings are nearly the same: التَّبَيُّنُ was said by Mohammad to be from God, and العَجَلَةٌ [i. e. "haste"] from the devil. (T.)
Form 6تباينا2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — they two became separated, each from the other; or were dissimilargenerated

6.1they, having been together, became separatedتباينوا

They two (two men, or two copartners) became separated, each from the other; or they forsook each other; or they cut each other off from friendly relations; or they ceased to speak to each other.

Of the line: or they forsook one another; or cut one another off from friendly relations; or ceased to speak to one another.

6.1.1

[Hence: they two were dissimilar; and they two (words) were disparate, whether contraries or not; and they two (numbers) were incommensurable.]

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They two (namely, two men, and two copartners,) became separated, each from the other: (M, TA:) or they forsook, or abandoned, each other; or cut each other off from friendly or loving communion or intercourse; or cut, or ceased to speak to, each other. (K.) And تباينوا They, having been together, became separated: (Msb:) or they forsook, or abandoned, one another; or cut one another off from friendly or loving communion or intercourse; or cut, or ceased to speak to, one another. (S.) [Hence, They two were dissimilar: and they two (namely, words,) were disparate; whether contraries or not: and they two (namely, numbers,) were incommensurable.]
Form 10استبان2 senses

Core sense — it became clear; he made it out clearlygenerated

10.1

Intransitive: see form 1.

10.2

As a transitive verb: see form 2, in six places.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 10
6:55
وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ وَلِتَسْتَبِينَ سَبِيلُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

Thus do We explain the signs in detail: that the way of the sinners may be shown up.

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, intrans.: see 1. As a trans. verb: see 2, in six places.

Derived nouns 17

Nounسَبِيلَ المُجْرِمِينَ1 sense

Core sense — so that the way of the sinners may become cleargenerated

1and so that you may examine the way of the sinners until it is clear to youوَلِتَسْتَبِينَ

Qur'an 6:55, addressed to Mohammad. Or: so that you may seek to see it plainly; synonymous with وَلِتَسْتَوْضِحَ سَبِيلَهُمْ.

But most read وَلِيَسْتَبِينَ سيبلُ المجرمين, the verb in this case being intransitive.

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وَلِتَسْتَبِينَ , in the Kur [vi. 55], means And that thou mayest the more consider, or examine, repeatedly, in order that it may become manifest to thee, the way of the sinners, O Mohammad: (T:) or that thou mayest seek, or endeavour, to see plainly, or clearly, &c.; syn. وَلِتَسْتَوْضِحَ سَبِيلَهُمْ : (Bd:) but most read, وَلِيَسْتَبِينَ سيبلُ المجرمين ; the verb in this case being intrans. (T.)
Nounبَانٌ1 sense

Core sense — a certain kind of tree; a collective generic noungenerated

1

A collective generic noun; the ism waḥda is formed with ة. See the article on بون.

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a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة : see art. بون .
Nounبَيْنٌ8 senses · 3 main

Core sense — separation; distance; union; and between, amidst, amonggenerated

1enmity, and violent hatredذَاتُ البَيْنِ
for the mending of the bad state subsisting between peopleلِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ
in the mending of the circumstances between the persons concernedفِى إِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ
the raven of separationغُرَابُ البَيْنِ

The word has two opposite meanings. One is separation, or disunion [of companions, or friends, or lovers]; the phrases below follow from it.

The second line means: for the settling of discord, enmity, or violent hatred. [But it also has the opposite meaning, as will be seen below; and it is said to have a vague import.]

The third line means this by frequent attention to those circumstances.

Of the fourth line: [the raven whose appearance, or croak, is an omen of separation]. Some say it is the غراب termed أَبْقَعُ [in which is blackness and whiteness, or which has whiteness in the breast], as the poet 'Antarah describes it; or the one that is red in beak and legs. But the black one is called الحَاتِمُ, because, as the Arabs assert, its croak makes separation absolutely unavoidable. [Or it is any species of the corvus.]

Hamzeh says, in his Proverbs, that the name attaches to the غراب because, when the people of a dwelling go away to look for herbage, it alights where their tents stood, searching the sweepings.

But according to the Kádee of Granada, Aboo-'Abd-Allah Esh-Shereef, this name, which occurs so often in poetry, properly means the camels that carry people from one district, or country, to another. He cites these verses: [Those have erred whom I have seen, in ignorance, all of them blaming a croaking raven: the fault is not to be laid on anything but the camels, for they are among the things that scatter and disperse a gathering: truly the place a journey is aimed at is brought near by the raven's lucky omen, but the she-camels break up a united company.] And Ibn-'Abd-Rabbih says: [The raven cried, and I said, A most lying bird, if the grumbling cry of a camel as he is laden does not prove it true.]

shāhid 1
غَلِطَ الَّذِينَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ بِجَهَالَةٍيَلْحَوْنَ كُلُّهُمُ غُرَابًا يَنْعَقُمَا الذَّنْبُ إِلَّا لِلْأَبَاعِرِ إِنَّهَامِمَّا يُشَتِّتُ جَمْعَهُمْ وَيُقَرِّقُإِنَّ الغُرَابَ بِيُمْنِهِ تُدْنُو النَّوَىوَتُشَتِّتُ الشَّمْلَ الجَمِيعَ الأَيْنُقُ
shāhid 2
زَعَقَ الغُرَابُ فَقُلْتُ أَكْذَبُ طَائِرٍإِن لَّمْ يُصَدِّقْهُ رُغَآءُ بَعِيرِ
1.1between the two countries, or towns, is a distanceبَيْنَ البَلَدَيْنِ بَيْنٌ
between the two of them is a distanceبَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ

Also: distance, by the space or interval between two things.

The second line is used with ى when bodily distance is meant. Or only the third form is used in the case of [literal] distance.

[truly between the two of them is a distance]إِنَّ بَيْنَهُمَا لَبَيْنٌ
between the two men is a [wide] distanceبَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ بَعِيدٌ

For the fourth line one says also بَوْنٌ بَعِيدٌ, which in this case is the more chaste. The meaning is: between their two degrees of rank or dignity, or between the estimations in which they are commonly held.

[I met him after, or a little after, an interval]لَقِيتُهُ بُعَيْدَاتِ بَيْنٍ

[In the last line بين denotes an interval of time.] It is said when you have met him after a while, then kept away from him, then come to him again. [See also بَعْدُ.]

2the state of union, or concord, or love, between a people, or between two partiesذَاتُ البَيْنِ
the marring, or disturbing, of that state of unionإِفْسَادُ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ

Also: union [of companions, or friends, or lovers] — the opposite of the first meaning given in this paragraph.

[The first line is likewise the opposite of a meaning assigned to the same phrase above.] The second occurs in the S and K in the article on ابر, and often elsewhere.

such a one worked to improve the state of union among his kinsfolkسَعَى فُلَانٌ لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ مِنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ

[In the last instance the meaning given in the second paragraph of this entry seems more fitting.]

2.1the empty space between their houses, or tentsذَاتُ بَيْنِهِمْ

The word for that space is سَاحَة.

3[between the two men]بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ

بَيْن is also an adverbial noun [and as such is written بَيْنَ], and can be used as a noun on its own.

It relates only to what has space, such as a country, or to what has some number, either two or more, such as two men, or a company of men; and it denotes [intervention in] the interval between two things, or the middle of two things, (Er-Rāghib) or the middle of a collective number. [So it means between, and amidst, and among.]

Its meaning is vague, and is not apparent unless it is prefixed to two or more words, or to a word standing for two or more, or to what takes the place of such a complement. It must be prefixed, and may not be used otherwise than in the ways just explained.

[That is,] it may not be prefixed to any noun except one denoting more than one, or to a noun that has another joined to it by و and by no other conjunction, according to the usage commonly followed.

[the property is between the company of men]المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
[the property is between Zeyd and 'Amr]المَالُ بَيْنَ زَيْدٍ وَعَمْرٍو
[he, or it, is between me and him]هُوَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ
I sat in the middle of the company of menجَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
[see, between the two of you, the camel; so take him]بَيْنَكُمَا البَعِيرَ فَخُذَاهُ

In the sixth line البعير is in the accusative; a saying heard by Ks.

[the state subsisting among them became bad, or disturbed]فَسَدَ مَا بَيْنَهُمْ

The seventh line is from the S and K, in the article on ميط.

[in, or during, the space of several days]بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ

The eighth is from the M and K, in the article on ندر; one says also فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ.

[of middle age, between what has been mentioned]عَوَانٌ بَيْنَ ذٰلِكَ

The ninth is Qur'an 2:63, an example of the word being prefixed to a single word standing for more than one; namely, the فَارِض and the بِكْر.

Some allow that two words, to the first of which بَيْنَ is prefixed, may be joined by فَ, citing as evidence the phrase used by Imra-el-Keys, بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ [as though meaning Between Ed-Dakhool and Howmal]. To this it has been replied that الدخول is a name applying to several places, so that the phrase means amidst Ed-Dakhool and the rest, and is like the saying المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [mentioned above, or جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, also mentioned above].

[in the midst of them]بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ

With the tenth line compare بَيْنَ ظَهْرَيْهِمْ, of the same meaning.

[before him, literally between his hands]بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

And بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِمْ: before them.

بَيْن is also often used absolutely as a noun; the next two lines are Qur'an 86:7 and 36:8.

coming forth from between the spine and the breast-bonesيَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ
and we have placed before them a barrierوَجَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمْ سَدًّا
[truly your union has been severed]لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنُكُمْ
[truly what was between you has been severed]بَيْنَكُمْ

The last two are two readings of Qur'an 6:94. The second means: that which was between you; that is, مَا بَيْنَكُمْ, or ٱلَّذِى كَانَ بَيْنَكُمْ; or the state you were in as partners; or the state of circumstances, or the bond, or the love, or affection, [formerly subsisting] among you, or between you.

According to Akh, بَيْنَكُمْ, though in the accusative in form, stands in the place of a nominative because of the verb, and keeps its adverbial ending only because the word is commonly used as an adverbial noun. AHát disapproved of this second reading, but wrongly, because what is suppressed on this reading is implied by what comes before it in the same verse.

Qur’ān 86:7 matched to Lane’s own quotation of it Lane cites “Kur lxxxvi. 7”
Qur’ān 86:7 Lane quotes this verse
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ

Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

3.1[they are partly beating with sticks and partly pelting with stones]هُمْ بَيْنَ حَاذِفٍ وَقَاذِفٍ

[It is often used as a partitive, or distributive, as is also مَا بَيْنَ.]

The line is from the S and TA, in the article on قذف; or it is given as هُمْ مَا بَيْنَ حَاذفٍ وقاذفٍ.

That is, some of them beating with a staff or stick and the others pelting with stones.

[See also an example in a verse cited under خَيْطَةٌ.]

3.2this is between good and badهٰذَا بَيْنَ بَيْنَ

'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras says: [You defend what we ought to defend, or our banner, while some of the people, or company of men,] fall one after another in a state of weakness, counted as nothing. Or it is as though he said, between these and these — like a man who comes in between two parties in some affair, and slips, or makes a mistake, and is not honourably mentioned for it: so says Seer. Or: between entering the fight and holding back from it, as when one says, Such a one puts one foot forward and the other back.

shāhid
تَحْمِى حَقِيقَتَنَا وَبَعْ ضُ القَوْمِ يَسْقُطُ بَيْنَ بَيْنَا

The first is said of a thing, or of a commodity; or it means of a middling sort. The two words are made into one and are indeclinable, ending in fet-h, like خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ.

the hemzeh uttered lightlyالهَمْزَةُ المُخَفَّفَةُ

It never comes at the beginning of a word, because its feebleness brings it close to a sākin letter, though for all that it is really movent. It is so named because it is weak, having neither the full sound of the hemzeh nor the clearness of the letter from which its vowel comes.

The second is called هَمْزَةٌ بَيْنَ بَيْنَ, a hemzeh that is between the hemzeh and the soft letter from which its vowel comes; or هَمْزَةُ بَيْنِ بَيْنٍ, the first بين with kesreh but without tenween and the second with tenween.

If it has fet-h, it is between the hemzeh and the alif, as in سَاَلَ for سَأَلَ; if kesr, between the hemzeh and the yé, as in سَيِمَ for سَئِمَ; if damm, between the hemzeh and the wáw, as in لَوُمَ for لَؤُمَ.

3.3[while we were in such a state, suddenly such a thing happened]بَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذٰلِكَ إِذْ حَدَثَ كَذَا

بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا are among the inceptive حُرُوف; this is clear if by حروف is meant words. That they have become particles, no one says: they are still adverbial nouns.

The first is بَيْنَ with its final fet-hah made full in sound, which is where the ا comes from; that is, it is of the measure فَعْلَى [or فَعْلَا] from البَيْن, the final fet-hah being made full in sound and so becoming ا. The second is بَيْنَ with مَا [restrictive of its government] added to it. Both have the same meaning [while, or whilst]. (Mughnee, in the section next after that of وا, and K.)

Or the ا in the first is the restrictive ا; or, as some say, it is part of the restrictive ما [of the second].

These do not take بَيْنَ out of the class of nouns; they only cut it off from being prefixed to another noun. They are substitutes for that to which بَيْنَ would otherwise be prefixed.

[while we were thus]بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَا

Some say the two words are adverbial nouns of time denoting that a thing happened suddenly, or unexpectedly. They are prefixed to a clause consisting of a verb and its agent, or of a mubtadaʾ and a khabar, and so require a complement to complete the meaning.

And: [while we were looking, or waiting, for him, he came to us]; a line of a poet cited by Sb. The phrase is elliptical, meaning بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ, that is, بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ رِقْبَتِنَا إِيَّاهُ [between the times of our looking, or waiting, for him].

shāhid 1
بَيْنَا نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ أَتَانَا

As used to put a noun following بَيْنَا in the genitive where بَيْنَ might properly take its place, as in the line of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, which he recited with kesr: [Amid his embracing the courageous armed men, and his guileful eluding, one day a bold, daring man was appointed for him, to slay him.]

shāhid 2
بَيْنَا تَعَنُّقِهِ الكُمَاةَ وَرَوْغِهِيَوْمًا أُتِيحَ لَهُ جَرِىْءٌ سَلْفَعُ

In [some copies of] the K the word is تَعَنُّفِهِ, but in the Deewán [of the Hudhalees] تعنّقه, [and in the Mughnee تَعَانُقِهِ]. The meaning is بَيْنَ تَعَانُقِهِ, the ا being added to fill out the sound of the final vowel. As used to say that the ا here is redundant. (Skr.)

Others put the nouns following both بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا in the nominative, as mubtadaʾ and khabar. (Skr.)

Mbr says that when the noun following بينا is a real substantive, it is put in the nominative as a mubtadaʾ; but when it is a maṣdar, or a noun of that kind, it is put in the genitive, and بينا then has the meaning of بَيْنَ. Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says much the same, though some speakers of chaste Arabic treat the second kind of noun like the first. After بينما, however, each kind of noun must be in the nominative.

[See an example in a verse cited towards the end of the article on اذ.]

Qur’ānic occurrences بَيْن 5 shown of 217
20:62
فَتَنَـٰزَعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ

So they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk secret.

20:103
يَتَخَـٰفَتُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا عَشْرًا

In whispers will they consult each other: "Yet tarried not longer than ten (Days);

55:20
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ

Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress:

55:44
يَطُوفُونَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ حَمِيمٍ ءَانٍ

In its midst and in the midst of boiling hot water will they wander round!

86:7
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ

Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:

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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has two contr. significations; (T, S, Msb;) one of which is Separation, or disunion [of companions or friends or lovers]. (T, S, M, Msb, K.) Hence, ذَاتُ البَيْنِ as meaning Enmity, and vehement hatred: and the saying لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ , i. e. For the reforming, or amending, of the bad, or corrupt, state subsisting between the people, or company of men; meaning for the allaying of the discord, enmity, rancour, or vehement hatred: (Msb:) [but this has also the contr. meaning, as will be seen below: and it is explained as having a vague import; for it is said that] فِى إِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ means In the reforming, or amending, of the circumstances subsisting between the persons to whom it relates, by frequent attention thereto. (Mgh.) [Hence also,] غُرَابُ البَيْنِ [The raven of separation or disunion; i. e., whose appearance, or croak, is ominous of separation: said by some to be] the غراب termed أَبْقَعُ [i. e. in which is blackness and whiteness; or having whiteness in the breast]; (S, K;) so described by the poet 'Antarah: (S:) or that which is red in the beak and legs; but the black is called الحَاتِمُ , because it makes [or shows] separation to be absolutely unavoidable, (Abu-1-Ghowth, S, K,) according to the assertion of the Arabs, i. e., by its croak: (Msb in art. حتم :) [or it is any species of the corvus:] Hamzeh says, in his Proverbs, that this name attaches to the غراب because, when the people of an abode go away to seek after herbage, it alights in the place of their tents, searching the sweepings: (Har p. 308:) but accord. to the Kádee of Granada, Aboo-'Abd-Allah Esh-Shereef, this appellation, so often occurring in poetry, properly signifies camels that transport people from one district, or country, to another; and he cites the following verses: 1 [Those have erred whom I have seen, with ignorance, all of them blaming a raven croaking: the fault is not imputable save to the camels; for they are of the things that scatter and disperse their congregation: verily the place that is the object of a journey is brought near by the raven's lucky omen; but the she-camels discompose the united state]: and Ibn-'Abd-Rabbih says, 2 [The raven cried; and I said, A most lying bird, if the grumbling cry of a camel on the occasion of his being laden do not verify it]. (TA in art. غرب .) غَلِطَ الَّذِينَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ بِجَهَالَةٍ | يَلْحَوْنَ كُلُّهُمُ غُرَابًا يَنْعَقُ | مَا الذَّنْبُ إِلَّا لِلْأَبَاعِرِ إِنَّهَا | مِمَّا يُشَتِّتُ جَمْعَهُمْ وَيُقَرِّقُ | إِنَّ الغُرَابَ بِيُمْنِهِ تُدْنُو النَّوَى | وَتُشَتِّتُ الشَّمْلَ الجَمِيعَ الأَيْنُقُ زَعَقَ الغُرَابُ فَقُلْتُ أَكْذَبُ طَائِرٍ | إِن لَّمْ يُصَدِّقْهُ رُغَآءُ بَعِيرِ Also Distance, (S, M, Msb, K,) by the space, or interval, between two things. (Msb.) You say, بَيْنَ البَلَدَيْنِ بَيْنٌ Between the two countries, or towns, &c., is a distance, of space, or interval: (Msb:) and بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ Between them two is a distance, with ى when corporeal distance is meant: (Idem in art. بون :) or إِنَّ بَيْنَهُمَا لَبَيْنٌ [Verily between them two is a distance], not otherwise, in the case of [literal] distance. (S.) And you say also, بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T in art. بون , S, M *) and بَوْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T in art. بون , S, M, * Msb * in art. بون ) Between them two [meaning two men] is a [wide] distance; (M;) i. e. between their two degrees of rank or dignity, or between the estimations in which they are commonly held: (Msb in art. بون :) in this case, the latter is the more chaste. (S.) You also say, [using بين to denote An interval of time,] لَقِيتُهُ بُعَيْدَاتِ بَيْنٍ [I met him after, or a little after, an interval, or intervals,] when you have met him after a while, and then withheld yourself from him, and then come to him. (S, M, K. See also بَعْدُ .]) Also Union [of companions or friends or lovers]; (T, S, M, Msb, K;) the contr. of the first of the significations mentioned above in this paragraph. (T, S, Msb.) [Hence ذَاتُ البَيْنِ as meaning The state of union or concord or friendship or love subsisting between a people or between two parties; this being likewise the contr. of a signification assigned to the same expression above: whence the phrase, إِفْسَادُ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ (occurring in the S and K in art. ابر , and often elsewhere,) The marring, or disturbance, of the state of union or concord &c.: and] hence the saying, سَعَى فُلَانٌ لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ مِنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ [Such a one laboured for the improving of the state of union or concord &c. of his kinsfolk; but in this instance, the meaning given in the second sentence of this paragraph seems to be more appropriate]. (Ham p. 569.) ذَاتُ بَيْنِهِمْ may also be used as meaning The vacant space ( سَاحَة ) that is between their houses, or tents. (Ham p. 195.) بَيْن is also an adverbial noun, [as such written بَيْنَ ,] (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) capable of being used as a noun absolutely: (M, K:) it relates only to that which has space, as a country; or to that which has some number, either two or more, as two men, and a company of men; and denotes [intervention in] the interval between two things, or the middle, or midst, of two things, (Er-Rághib, TA,) or the middle of a collective number: (S:) [thus it signifies Between, and amidst, and among:] its meaning is [therefore] vague, not apparent unless it is prefixed to two or more [words, or to a word signifying two or more], or to what supplies the place of such a complement: (Msb:) it must necessarily be prefixed, and may not be otherwise than in the manners just explained: (Mgh:) [i. e.] it may not be prefixed to any noun but such as denotes more than one, or to a noun that has another conjoined to it by و , (M,) not by any other conjunction, (M, Msb,) acc0ord. to the usage commonly obtaining. (Msb.) You say بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ [Between the two men]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [The property is between the company of men]: (M, Msb, Er-Rághib: *) and المَالُ بَيْنَ زَيْدٍ وَعَمْرٍو [The property is between Zeyd and 'Amr]: and هُوَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ [He, or it, is between me and him]: (M:) and جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ I sat in the middle of [or amidst or among] the company of men: (S, K:) and بَيْنَكُمَا البَعِيرَ فَخُذَاهُ , with البعير in the accus. case, [See between you two the camel, therefore take him], a saying heard by Ks: (Lin art. عند :) and فَسَدَ مَا بَيْنَهُمْ [The state subsisting among them became bad, or marred, or disturbed]: (S and K in art. ميط :) and بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ (M and K in art. ندر ) and فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ (S and Msb in that art.) [In, or during, the space of (several) days]: and عَوَانٌ بَيْنَ ذٰلِكَ , in the Kur [ii. 63], is an ex. of its being prefixed to a single word supplying the place of more than one; (Mgh, Msb;) the meaning being, Of middle age, between that which has been mentioned; namely, the فَارِض and the بِكْر . (Bd.) Some allow that two words to the former of which بَيْنَ is prefixed may be connected by فَ , citing as an evidence the phrase used by Imra-el-Keys, بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ [as though meaning Between Ed-Dakhool and Howmal]: but to this it has been replied that الدخول is a name applying to several places; so that the phrase [means amidst Ed-Dakhool &c., and] is similar to the saying, المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [mentioned above, or جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ , also mentioned above]. (Msb.) [You say also, بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ , and بَيْنَ ظَهْرَيْهِمْ &c., meaning In the midst of them. (See art. ظهر .) And بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ , and بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِمْ , meaning Before him, and before them. بَيْن is also often used absolutely as a noun: thus it is in the Kur lxxxvi. 7, يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ Coming forth from between, or amidst, the spine and the breast-bones: and in xxxvi. 8 of the same, وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمْ سَدًّا And we have placed before them (lit. between their hands) a barrier.] It is said in the Kur [vi. 94], لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنُكُمْ , as some read; or بَيْنَكُمْ , as others: (T, S, M:) the former means Verily your union hath become dissevered: (AA, T, S, M:) the latter, that which was between you; ( مَا بَيْنَكُمْ , Ibn-Mes'ood, T, S, or ٱلَّذِى كَانَ بَيْنَكُمْ , IAar, T;) or the state wherein ye were, in respect of partnership among you: (Zj, T:) or the state of circumstances, or the bond, or the love, or affection, [formerly subsisting] among you, or between you; or, accord. to Akh, بَيْنَكُمْ , though in the accus. case as to the letter, is in the nom. case as to the place, by reason of the verb, and the adverbial termination is retained only because the word is commonly used as an adv. n.: (M:) AHát disapproved of the latter reading; but wrongly, because what is suppressed accord. to this reading is implied by what precedes in the same verse. (T.) [It is often used as a partitive, or distributive; as also مَا بَيْنَ : for ex.,] you say, هُمْ بَيْنَ حَاذِفٍ وَقَاذِفٍ , (S and TA in art. قذف ,) or هُمْ مَا بَيْنَ حَاذفٍ وقاذفٍ , (TA in art. حذف ,) i. e. [They are partly, or in part,] beating with the staff, or stick, and [partly, or in part,] pelting with stones; [or some beating &c., and the others pelting &c.] (S and TA, both in art. قذف , and the latter in art. حذف .) [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce خَيْطَةٌ .] هٰذَا بَيْنَ بَيْنَ means This (namely, a thing, S, or a commodity, Msb) is between good and bad: (S, Msb, K:) or of a middling, or middle, sort: (M:) these two words being two nouns made one, and indecl., with fet-h for their terminations, (S, Msb, K,) like خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ . (Msb.) الهَمْزَةُ المُخَفَّفَةُ [i. e. the hemzeh uttered lightly] is called هَمْزَةٌ بَيْنَ بَيْنَ , (S, M, K, *) i. e. A hemzeh that is between the hemzeh and the soft letter whence is its vowel; (S, M;) or هَمْزَةُ بَيْنِ بَيْنٍ , the first بين with kesreh but without tenween, and the second with tenween, (Sharh Shudhoor edh-Dhahab,) [i. e. the hemzeh &c.:] if it is with fet-h, it is between the hemzeh and the alif, as in سَاَلَ , (S, M,) for سَأَلَ ; (M;) if with kesr, it is between the hemzeh and the yé, as in سَيِمَ , (S, M,) for سَئِمَ ; (M;) and if with damm, it is between the hemzeh and the wáw, as in لَوُمَ , (S, M,) for لَؤُمَ : (M:) it is never at the beginning of a word, because of its nearness, by reason of feebleness, to the letter that is quiescent, (S, M,) though, notwithstanding this, it is really movent: (S:) it is thus called because it is weak, (Sb, S, M,) not having the power of the hemzeh uttered with its proper sound, nor the clearness of the letter whence is its vowel. (M.) 'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras says, 1 i. e. [Thou defendest what we ought to defend, or our banner, or standard, while some of the people, or company of men,] fall, one after another, in a state of weakness, not regarded as of any account: (S:) or it is as though he said, between these and these; like a man who enters between two parties in some affair, and falls, or slips, or commits a mistake, and is not honourably mentioned in relation to it: so says Seer: (IB, TA:) or between entering into fight and holding back from it; as when one says, Such a one puts forward a foot, and puts back another. (TA.) تَحْمِى حَقِيقَتَنَا وَبَعْ ضُ القَوْمِ يَسْقُطُ بَيْنَ بَيْنَا بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا are of the number of inceptive حُرُوف : (M, K:) this is clear if by حروف is meant "words:" that they have become particles, no one says: they are still adv. ns.: (MF, TA:) the former is بَيْنَ with its [final] fet-hah rendered full in sound; and hence the ا ; (Mughnee in the section next after that of وا , and K;) [i. e.,] it is of the measure فَعْلَى [or فَعْلَا ] from البَيْن , the [final] fet-hah being rendered full in sound, and so becoming ا ; and the latter is بَيْنَ with مَا [restrictive of its government] added to it; and both have the same meaning [of While, or whilst]: (S:) or the ا in the former is the restrictive ا ; or, as some say, it is a portion of the restrictive ما [in the latter]: (Mughnee ubi suprà:) and these do not exclude بَيْنَ from the category of nouns, but only cut it off from being prefixed to another noun: (MF, TA:) they are substitutes for that to which بَيْنَ would otherwise be prefixed: (Mgh:) some say that these two words are adv. ns. of time, denoting a thing's happening suddenly, or unexpectedly; and they are prefixed to a proposition consisting of a verb and an agent, or an inchoative and enunciative; so that they require a complement to complete the meaning. (TA.) One says, بَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذٰلِكَ إِذْ حَدَثَ كَذَا [While we were in such a state as that, lo, or there, or then, such a thing happened, or came to pass]: (M, Mgh, * K: *) and بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَا [While we were thus]: (Mgh:) and 1 [While we were looking, or waiting, for him, he came to us]; (S, M;) a saying of a poet, cited by Sb; (M;) the phrase being elliptical; (S, M;) meaning بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ , (M,) i. e., بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ رِقْبَتِنَا إِيَّاهُ [between the times of our looking, or waiting, for him]. (S, M.) As used to put nouns following بَيْنَا in the gen. case when بَيْنَ might properly supply its place; as in the saying (of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, which he thus recited, with kesr, S), 2 [Amid his embracing the courageous armed men, and his guileful eluding, one day a bold, daring man was appointed for him, to slay him]: (S, K:) in [some copies of] the K, تَعَنُّفِهِ ; but in the Deewán [of the Hudhalees], تعنّقه : [in the Mughnee, ubi suprà, تَعَانُقِهِ :] the meaning is بَيْنَ تَعَانُقِهِ ; the ا being added to give fulness to the sound of the [final] vowel: (TA:) As used to say that the ا is here redundant: (Skr, TA:) others put the nouns following both بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا in the nom. case, as the inchoative and enunciative. (Skr, S, K.) Mbr says that when the noun following بينا is a real subst., it is put in the nom. case as an inchoative; but when it is an inf. n., or a noun of the inf. kind, it is put in the gen., and بينا in this instance has the meaning of بَيْنَ : and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says the like, but some persons of chaste speech treat the latter kind of noun like the former: after بينما , however, each kind of noun must be in the nom. case. (AA, T.) [See an ex. in a verse cited towards the end of art. اذ .] بَيْنَا نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ أَتَانَا بَيْنَا تَعَنُّقِهِ الكُمَاةَ وَرَوْغِهِ | يَوْمًا أُتِيحَ لَهُ جَرِىْءٌ سَلْفَعُ
Nounبَيْنَا1 sense

Core sense — while, whilst — an adverbial noungenerated

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Nounبَيْنَمَا1 sense

Core sense — while, whilst — an adverbial noungenerated

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See بَيْنٌ.

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Nounبِينٌ1 sense

Core sense — a separation between two tracts of land; a regiongenerated

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A separation, or division, between two things, or between two lands; as when there is a rugged place with sands near it, and between the two a tract that is neither rugged nor plain.

An elevation in rugged ground.

The extent to which the eye reaches, of a road, or of land; a piece of land extending as far as the eye reaches.

And: a region, tract, or quarter. Plural بُيُونٌ.

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A separation, or division, (T, M, K,) between two things, (T,) or between two lands; (M, K;) as when there is a rugged place, with sands near it, and between the two is a tract neither rugged nor plain: (T:) an elevation in rugged ground: (M, K:) the extent to which the eye reaches, (T, M, K,) of a road, (T,) or of land: (M:) a piece of land extending as far as the eye reaches: (T, S:) and a region, tract, or quarter: (AA, T, M, K:) pl. بُيُونٌ . (S, TA.)
Nounبَيَانٌ4 senses · 1 main

Core sense — clearness of speech; the means of making a thing cleargenerated

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Originally the maṣdar of بَانَ as synonymous with تَبَيَّنَ, and so meaning the being [distinct or] apparent; or it is a noun in this sense.

Or it is a noun from بَيَّنَ [and so means the making a thing distinct or apparent], like سَلَامٌ and كَلَامٌ from سَلَّمَ and كَلَّمَ.

1.1

Hence, by convention: the means by which one makes a thing [distinct,] apparent, evident, clear, or plain.

This is of two kinds. One is [a circumstantial indication or evidence, that is,] a thing that indicates, or gives evidence of, a state that is the result of a quality or an attribute. The other is a verbal indication, either spoken or written. [See also بَيِّنَةٌ.]

It is also applied to language that uncovers and shows the meaning intended, and to the explanation of confused and vague language. (Er-Rāghib)

Or: the bringing of a thing out of doubtfulness into clearness; or the making the meaning apparent to the mind, so that it stands apart from other meanings and from what might be confused with it.

1.2[some eloquence is enchantment]إِنَّ مِنَ البَيَانِ سِحْرًا

Also: clearness, distinctness, or eloquence of speech or language; or simply its clearness; or clearness of speech together with quickness, or sharpness, of intellect; or clear, eloquent speech, telling plainly what is in the mind.

Or: the showing of what is intended in the most eloquent expression. It is an effect of understanding, and of quickness of mind, together with clearness or eloquence of speech.

Or: a faculty, or a set of principles, [or a science,] by which one knows how to express one meaning [with clear diction] in various forms. [Some of the Arabs restrict the science of البيان to what concerns comparisons, tropes and metonymies — the last of which the Arabian rhetoricians distinguish from tropes; and some make it include rhetoric altogether.]

Esh-Shereeshee says, in his commentary on the Maká-mát [of El-Hareeree], that the difference between بَيَانٌ and تِبْيَانٌ is this: the first denotes clearness of meaning, the second the making the meaning understood; the first is to another person, the second to oneself. But sometimes the second is used in the sense of the first. Or the first is an act of the tongue, the second an act of the mind. Or the first concerns the wording, the second the meaning.

The first line is from a tradition; it is also given as لَسِحْرًا. [See this explained in the article on سحر.]

he created man; he taught him clear speechخَلَقَ ٱلْإِنْسَانَ عَلَّمَهُ ٱلْبَيَانَ

The second is Qur'an 55:2 and 3. It means: he created the Prophet, and taught him the Qur'an, in which everything [needful to be known] is made plain. Or: he created Adam, or man in the sense of all mankind, and [taught him speech, and so] made him able to discriminate, and thus distinct from all other animals. Or: he taught him what distinguishes him from other animals, namely, the declaring of what is in the mind and the making others understand what he has perceived, so that he may receive inspiration, become acquainted with the truth, and learn the law.

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It is also applied to verbosity: going too deep, or being extravagant, in speech, affecting clearness or eloquence in it, and pretending to excel others in it; or some بيان is so called. It is blamed in a tradition as a kind of hypocrisy, as though it were a sort of self-conceit and pride.

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is originally the inf. n. of بَانَ as syn. with تَبَيَّنَ , and so signifies The being [distinct or] apparent &c.; (Kull;) or it is a subst. in this sense: (Msb:) or a subst. from بَيَّنَ , [and so signifies the making distinct or apparent &c.,] being like سَلَامٌ and كَلَامٌ from سَلَّمَ and كَلَّمَ . (Kull.) Hence, conventionally, (Kull,) The means by which one makes a thing [distinct,] apparent, manifest, evident, clear, plain, or perspicuous: (S, Er-Rághib, TA, Kull:) this is of two kinds: one is [a circumstantial indication or evidence; or] a thing indicating, or giving evidence of, a circumstance, or state, that is a result, or an effect, of a quality or an attribute: the other is a verbal indication or evidence, either spoken or written: [see also بَيِّنَةٌ :] it is also applied to language that discovers and shows the meaning that is intended: and an explanation of confused and vague language: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or the eduction of a thing from a state of dubiousness to a state of clearness: or making the meaning apparent to the mind so that it becomes distinct from other meanings and from what might be confounded with it. (TA.) Also Perspicuity, clearness, distinctness, chasteness, or eloquence, of speech or language: (T, S:) or simply perspicuity thereof: (Har p. 2:) or perspicuity of speech with quickness, or sharpness, of intellect: (M, K:) or perspicuous, or chaste, or eloquent, speech, declaring, or telling plainly, what is in the mind: (Ksh, TA:) or the showing of the intent, or meaning, with the most eloquent expression: it is an effect of understanding, and of sharpness, or quickness, of mind, with perspicuity, or chasteness, or eloquence, of speech: (Nh, TA:) or a faculty, or principles, [or a science,] whereby one knows how to express [with perspicuity of diction] one meaning in various forms: (Kull:) [some of the Arabs restrict the science of البيان to what concerns comparisons and tropes and metonymies; which last the Arabian rhetoricians distinguish from tropes: and some make it to include rhetoric altogether:] Esh-Shereeshee says, in his Expos. of the Maká- mát [of El-Hareeree] that the difference between بَيَانٌ and تِبْيَانٌ is this: that the former denotes perspicuity of meaning; and the latter, the making the meaning to be understood; and the former is to another person, and the latter to oneself; but sometimes the latter is used in the sense of the former: (TA:) or the former is the act of the tongue, and the latter is the act of the mind: (Har p. 2:) or the former concerns the verbal expression, and the latter concerns the meaning. (Kull.) It is said in a trad., إِنَّ مِنَ البَيَانِ سِحْرًا (S) or لَسِحْرًا (TA) [Verily there is a kind of eloquence that is enchantment: see this explained in art. سحر ]. The saying in the Kur [lv. 2 and 3], خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنْسَانَ عَلَّمَهُ ٱلْبَيَانَ means He hath created the Prophet: He hath taught him the Kur-án wherein is the manifestation of everything [needful to be known]: or He hath created Adam, or man as meaning all mankind: He hath [taught him speech, and so] made him to discriminate, and thus to be distinguished from all [other] animals:(Zj, T:) or He hath taught him that whereby he is distinguished from other animals, namely, the declaration of what is in the mind, and the making others to understand what he has perceived, for the reception of inspiration, and the becoming acquainted with the truth, and the learning of the law. (Bd.) It is also applied to Verbosity, and the going deep, or being extravagant, in speech, and affecting to be perspicuous, or chaste, therein, or eloquent, and pretending to excel others therein; or some بيان is thus termed; and is blamed in a trad., as a kind of hypocrisy; as though it were a sort of self-conceit and pride. (TA.)
Nounبِئْرٌ بَيُونٌ1 sense

Core sense — a well whose rope does not strike against its sidesgenerated

1

A well whose rope does not strike against the sides, because its inside is straight; or one that is wide in the upper part and narrow in the lower; or one in which the drawer of water keeps the rope away from the sides, because of its crookedness; or one that is deep and wide, the ropes being far from its sides — for which one says also بَائِنَةٌ; or one that is wide between its two opposite sides.

Plural [regularly of the second adjective] بَوَائِنُ.

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A well of which the rope does not strike against the sides, because its interior is straight: or that is wide in the upper part, and narrow in the lower: or in which the drawer of water makes the rope to be aloof from its sides, because of its crookedness: (T:) or deep and wide; (S, K;) because the ropes are wide apart from its sides; (S;) as also بَائِنَةٌ : (S, TA:) or that is wide between the two [opposite] sides: (M:) pl. [regularly of the latter epithet] بَوَائِنُ . (T, S.)
Nounبَيِّنٌ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — clear, plain, evident; clear-spoken, eloquentgenerated

1the clear, plain book, or scriptureالمُبِينٌ الكِتَابُ

[Distinct, as though separate from others; and so,] apparent, manifest, evident, clear, or plain; also بَائِنٌ and مُبِينٌ. Plural [of multitude] أَبْيِنَآءُ, and [of paucity] بَيِنَةٌ.

The first line is [applied to the Qur'an; see 12:1 and elsewhere]. Or, as some say, it means the book that makes plain all that is required [to be known]; or whose goodness and blessing are made plain; or that makes plain the truth as distinct from falsehood, and what is lawful as distinct from what is unlawful, and that the prophetic office of Mohammad is true, and so are the narratives about the prophets; or that makes plain the right paths as distinct from the wrong.

clear, distinct, eloquent languageكَلَامٌ بَيِّنٌ
digitisation corrected الكِتَابُ المُبِينُ for المُبِينٌ الكِتَابُCaught by the user by eye, 22 Aug 2026. Two faults in one phrase, both digitisation rather than Lane. (1) WORD ORDER: the source stores al-mubin before al-kitab, but the adjective follows its noun -- the phrase is al-kitab al-mubin, as at Qur'an 12:1, 26:2, 28:2, 43:2 and 44:2. The gloss beside it, 'the clear, plain book, or scripture', already reads noun-then-adjective. (2) TANWIN: al-mubin carried dammatan on a word with the definite article, which is impossible; it takes a plain damma.
1.1

A man, or a thing, bearing evidence of a quality that he, or it, possesses.

1.2

A man clear and distinct in speech or language; or chaste in it; or eloquent — fluent, elegant and elevated in speech, with little hesitation in it.

Plural أَبْيِنَآءُ and بُيَنَآءُ, and [of paucity] أَبْيَانٌ. The second of these plurals is irregular; the last is formed by likening فَعِيلٌ to فَاعِلٌ [since بَيِّنٌ is a contraction of بَيِينٌ]. But the plural most agreeable with analogy is بَيِّنُونَ, so says Sb.

Qur’ānic occurrences بَيِّن
18:15
هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ قَوْمُنَا ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةً ۖ لَّوْلَا يَأْتُونَ عَلَيْهِم بِسُلْطَـٰنٍۭ بَيِّنٍ ۖ فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا

"These our people have taken for worship gods other than Him: why do they not bring forward an authority clear (and convincing) for what they do? Who doth more wrong than such as invent a falsehood against Allah?

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[Distinct, as though separate from others; and thus,] apparent, manifest, evident, clear, plain, or perspicuous; (T, S, Msb, K;) as also بَائِنٌ (T) and مُبِينٌ : (T, S:) pl. [of mult.] أَبْيِنَآءُ (S, K) and [of pauc.] بَيِنَةٌ . (K.) Hence, المُبِينٌ الكِتَابُ [as applied to the Kur, q. v. in xii. 1, &c.,] The clear, plain, or perspicuous, book or writing or scripture: or, as some say, this means the book &c. that makes manifest all that is required [to be known]: (T:) or, of which the goodness and the blessing are made manifest: or, that makes manifest the truth as distinguished from falsity, and what is lawful as distinguished from what is unlawful, and that the prophetic office of Mohammad is true, and so are the narratives relating to the prophets: (Zj, T:) or, that makes manifest the right paths as distinguished from the wrong. (M, TA.) And كَلَامٌ بَيِّنٌ Perspicuous, clear, distinct, chaste, or eloquent, language. (T.) A man, or thing, bearing evidence of a quality &c. that he, or it, possesses. (S and K and other Lexicons passim.) A man (M) perspicuous, or clear, or distinct, in speech or language; or chaste therein; or eloquent; (ISh, T, M, K;) fluent, elegant, and elevated, in speech, and having little hesitation therein: (ISh, T:) pl. أَبْيِنَآءُ (T, M, K) and بُيَنَآءُ and [of pauc.] أَبْيَانٌ : (Lh, M, K:) the second of these pls. is anomalous: the last is formed by likening فَعِيلٌ to فَاعِلٌ : [for بَيِّنٌ is a contraction of بَيِينٌ :] but the pl. most agreeable with analogy is بَيِّنُونَ : so says Sb. (M.)
Nounبَيِّنَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a clear proof, an evidence; the testimony of a witnessgenerated

1

An evidence, an indication, a demonstration, a proof, or an argument, of a kind that is manifest and clear, whether grasped by the intellect or perceived by the senses. [Originally بَيِينَةٌ,] of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ, from بَيْنُونَةٌ [see form 1, first sentence] and بَيَانٌ.

And: the testimony of a witness. Plural بَيِّنَاتٌ.

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29:35
وَلَقَد تَّرَكْنَا مِنْهَآ ءَايَةًۢ بَيِّنَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

And We have left thereof an evident Sign, for any people who (care to) understand.

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An evidence, an indication, a demonstration, a proof, a voucher, or an argument, (Mgh, TA,) such as is manifest, or. clear, whether intellectual or perceived by sense; (TA;) [originally بَيِينَةٌ ,] of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ , from بَيْنُونَةٌ , [see 1, first sentence,] and بَيَانٌ [q. v.]: (Mgh:) and the testimony of a witness: pl. بَيِّنَاتٌ . (TA.)
Nounبَائِنٌ8 senses · 2 main

Core sense — separated, severed, cut off, as by divorcegenerated

1a woman separated from her husband by divorceاِمْرَأَةٌ بَائِنٌ

In a state of separation, or disunion; separated, or cut off; also أَبْيَنُ, which occurs in a verse cited above, under بَيِّنَ.

[Hence the first line.] One says also مُبَانَةٌ. The first is without ة, like طَالِقٌ and حَائِضٌ.

[you are separated from me by divorce]أَنْتِ بَائِنٌ

The second line is said to a wife.

1.1figurative · مجازa divorce that is [as it were] cut offطَلَاقٌ بَائِنٌ

A figurative phrase; and so is طَلْقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ, [signifying the same as] تَطْلِيقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ.

Equivalent to مُبَانَةٌ [in the second and third of these phrases, and مُبَانٌ in the first]; بائنة being used here in the sense of an ism mafʿūl. Or it [is a possessive adjective, and so] means having separation.

In this kind of divorce the man cannot take the woman back except by a new contract, and not without her consent.

1.2a bow that stands widely apart from its stringقَوْسٌ بَائِنَةٌ

One says also بَائِنٌ. The opposite is بَانِيَةٌ, a bow so near its string that it almost sticks to it. Each of these denotes a fault.

1.3

بِئْرٌ بَائِنَةٌ: see بَيُونٌ.

1.4a palm-tree whose racemes have come out of the spathesنَخْلَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ

And whose fruit-stalks have grown long.

1.5figurative · مجاز — inferredhe who comes to the she-camel from her left sideالبَائِنُ

Said of coming to the milch beast [that is, the she-camel, when she is to be milked]; and المُعَلِّى is he who comes to her from her right side.

Or the first is he who stands on the right of the she-camel when she is milked, and holds the milking-vessel, and raises it to the milker, who stands on her left and is called المُسْتَعْلِى.

Two people are engaged in milking the she-camel: one holds the milking-vessel on the right side, the other milks on the left side. The milker is called المُسْتَعْلِى and المُعَلِّى, and the holder البائن. Plural بُيَّنٌ.

he who has managed an affair himself knows it betterاِسْتُ البَائِنِ أَعْرَفُ

The second line is a proverb; some give it as أَعْلَمُ. It means that he who has superintended an affair, and worked diligently at managing it, is better acquainted with it than he who has not.

1.6excessively tall, far above the stature of tall menطَوِيلٌ بَائِنٌ
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See also بَيِّنٌ.

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In a state of separation or disunion; or separated, severed, disunited, or cut off; (M, * Msb;) as also أَبْيَنُ , occurring in a verse cited above, voce بَيِّنَ . [Hence,] اِمْرَأَةٌ بَائِنٌ A woman separated from her husband by divorce; (M, Msb, K;) as also مُبَانَةٌ : the former without ة : (Msb:) like طَالِقٌ and حَائِضٌ : you say [to a wife] أَنْتِ بَائِنٌ [Thou art separated from me by divorce.] (Mgh.) طَلَاقٌ بَائِنٌ is a tropical phrase; and so is طَلْقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ ; (Mgh;) [signifying the same as] تَطْلِيقَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ (S, M, Msb, K) A divorce that is [as it were] cut off; i. q. مُبَانَةٌ [in the second and third of these phrases, and مُبَانٌ in the first]: (ISk, Msb:) بائنة being here used in the sense of a pass. part. n.: (S, Sgh, Msb:) or it [is a possessive epithet, and thus] means having separation: this kind of divorce is one in the case of which the man cannot take back the woman unless by a new contract; (TA;) nor without her consent. (MF in art. بت .) قَوْسٌ بَائِنَةٌ , (S, M, K,) and بَائِنٌ , (M, K,) A bow that is widely separate from its string: (S, M, K:) contr. of بَانِيَةٌ ; (S, M;) this signifying one that is so near to its string as almost to stick to it: (S:) each of these denotes what is a fault. (S, M.) بِئْرٌ بَائِنَةٌ : see بَيُونٌ . نَخْلَةٌ بَائِنَةٌ A palm-tree of which the racemes have come forth from the spathes, and of which the fruit-stalks have grown long. (AHn, M.) البَائِنُ also signifies He who comes to the milch beast [meaning the she-camel, when she is to be milked,] from her left side; (S, K;) and المُعَلِّى , he who comes to her from her right side: (S:) or the former, he who stands on the right of the she-camel when she is milked, and holds the milking-vessel, and raises it to the milker, who stands on her left, and is called المُسْتَعْلِى : (T:) two persons are engaged in milking the she-camel; one of them holds the milking-vessel on the right side, and the other milks on the left side; and the milker is called المُسْتَعْلِى and المُعَلِّى ; and the holder, البائن : (M:) pl. بُيَّنٌ . (T.) It is said in a prov., اِسْتُ البَائِنِ أَعْرَفُ , or, as some say, أَعْلَمُ ; meaning He who has superintended an affair, and exercised himself diligently in the management thereof, is better acquainted with it than he who has not done this. (T. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 606.]) طَوِيلٌ بَائِنٌ Excessively tall, far above the stature of tall men. (TA.) See also بَيِّنٌ .
Nounطَلَبَ إِلَى أَبَوَيْهِ البَائِنَةَ1 sense

Core sense — he asked his parents to give him property of his owngenerated

1

He asked his two parents to separate him from themselves by [their giving him] property, to be his alone.

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He asked, or begged, of his two parents, the separation of himself from them, by [their giving him] property, (AZ, T, M,) to be his alone. (T.)
Nounأَبْيَنُ2 senses

Core sense — clearer, more eloquent in speechgenerated

1

See بَائِنٌ.

2such a one is clearer, or more eloquent, in speech than such a oneفُلَانٌ أَبْيَنُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ
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: see بَائِنٌ . فُلَانٌ أَبْيَنُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ Such a one is more perspicuous, clear, distinct, chaste, or eloquent, in speech or language, than such a one. (S, TA.)
Nounتِبْيَانٌ1 sense

Core sense — the making a thing clear; explanationgenerated

1

An irregular maṣdar of form 2; or a noun used as a maṣdar, that is, a noun from form 2. See بَيَانٌ.

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an anomalous inf. n. (T, S, K) of 2, q. v.: (T:) or a subst. used as an inf. n.; (MF, TA;) i. e., a subst. from 2. (Sb, M, TA.) See بَيَانٌ .
Nounمُبَانٌ1 sense

Core sense — separated, set apartgenerated

1

This, and its feminine formed with ة: see بَائِنٌ, in three places.

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; and its fem., with ة : see بَائِنٌ , in three places.
Nounمُبِينٌ2 senses

Core sense — separating, cutting off; making cleargenerated

1

Separating, severing, or cutting off; also مُبْيِنٌ, like مُحْسِنٌ. But [the right reading in the K may be وَمُبِينٌ كَمُحْسِنٍ, meaning that مُبِينٌ is like مُحْسِنٌ; if not,] مُبْيِنٌ is a mistake.

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See also بَيِّنٌ, in two places.

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Separating, severing, disuniting, or cutting off; (S, K;) as also مُبْيِنٌ , like مُحْسِنٌ : (K:) but [the right reading in the K may be وَمُبِينٌ كَمُحْسِنٍ , meaning "and مُبِينٌ is like مُحْسِنٌ :" if not,] مُبْيِنٌ is a mistake. (TA.) See also بَيِّنٌ , in two places.
Nounمَبَايِنُ الحَقِّ1 sense

Core sense — the things that make the truth clear and plaingenerated

1

[In which the first word is apparently the plural of مُبِينَةٌ.] The things that make the truth apparent, evident, clear, or plain; or the means of making it so; synonymous with مَوَاضِحُهُ.

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[in which the former word is app. pl. of مُبِينَةٌ ] signifies The things that make the truth to be apparent, manifest, evident, clear, or plain; or the means of making it so; syn. مَوَاضِحُهُ . (TA.)