Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

بَأْبَأَهُ, (Lth, T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) and بأبأ بِهِ, (Fr, M, Ḳ,) inf. n. بَأْبَآَةُ (Lth, T, M) and بَئْبَآءٌ; (Fr, M;) [as also بأَبِى; see art. بِأَبِى أَنْتَ;] He said to him, بِأَبِى, (Fr, M,) or بأَبَا, (M,) or بِأَبِى أَنْتَ, (Lth, T, Ḳ,) [all meaning With my father mayest thou be ransomed! or] meaning أَفْدِيكَ بِأَبِى [I will ransom thee with my father]; (Lth, T;) or he said to him, بِأَبِى أَنْتَ وَأُمِّى [With my father mayest thou be ransomed, and with my mother! or I will ransom thee, &c.; see art. ابو]; (Ṣ;) the current phrase of the Arabs being that which includes both parents: (TA:) i. e., a man said so to another man, (Lth, T, M,) or to a child; (Fr, Ṣ, M;) and in like manner to his horse, for having saved him from some accident: (IAạr, T:) the verb is derived from بِأَبِى. (Lth, T, M.) Hence البِأَبْ, in an ex. cited voce أَبٌ, in art. ابو, q. v.; (M;) or البِئَبْ; (TA in art. ابو;) or البِيَبْ. (Ṣ in that art.)

And [hence,] بَأبَؤُوهُ They made a show of treating him with graciousness, courtesy, or blandishment; as alsoتَبَأْبَؤُوا↓ عَلَيْهِ. (M.)

[Hence also,] بَأْبَآءٌ↓, with medd, [used as an inf. n.,] A woman's dandling, or dancing, of her child. (AA, T.)

بَأْبَأَ also signifies He (a child) said بَأْبَأْ↓ (M, Ḳ) [in some copies of the Ḳ written بَابَا, both meaning Papa, or Father,] to his father. (M.) [Accord. to the TA, the verb is trans. in this sense, as in the senses before explained; but I think that بَأْبَأَهُ has been there erroneously put for بَأْبَأَ.]

And He (a stallion [meaning a stallion-camel]) reiterated the sound of the letter ب [or b] in his braying. (M.)

[And hence, perhaps,] بَأْبَأٌ↓ [or, more probably, بَأْبَآءٌ↓, with medd, agreeably with analogy, used as an inf. n.,] The chiding of the cat, or act of chiding the cat; (AA, T, Ṣgh;) also termed غَسٌّ. (AA, T.)

Also He hastened, made haste, or sped: andتَبَأْبَأْنَا↓ we hastened,, &c.: (marginal note in a copy of the Ṣ:) orتَبَأْبَأَ↓ signifies he ran. (El-Umawee, T, Ḳ.)

بُؤْبُؤٌ The source, origin, race, root, or stock, syn. أَصْلٌ, (AA, Sh, T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) of a man, (Sh, T,) whether noble or base. (AA, T.) You say, هُوَ كَرِيمُ البُؤْبُؤِ He is of generous, or noble, origin; lit., generous, or noble, of origin. (TḲ.) And فُلَانٌ فِىبُؤْبُؤِ الكَرَمِ Such a one is of [a race] the source (أَصْل) of generosity, or nobleness. (Ṣ. [In the PṢ, من is here put in the place of فى: but فى is often used in phrases of the same kind and meaning as that above, in the sense of مِنْ.]) IKh cites from Jereer,

* فِى يُؤْبُؤِ المَجْدِ وَبُحْبُوحِ الكَرَمْ *

[Of a race the source of glory, and the very heart of generosity, or nobleness]: but Aboo-ʼAlee El-Ḳálee quotes the words thus;

* فِى ضِئْضِئِ المَجْدِ وَبُؤْبُوْءِ الكَرَمْ *

[which may be rendered, of a race the source of glory, and the very root of generosity]; whence it appears that بُؤْبُوءٌ is a dial. var. of بُؤْبُؤٌ in the sense here given. (TA.)

The middle of a thing; (Ḳ;) [and app. the heart, or very heart, thereof; the middle as being the best part of a thing;] like بُحْبُوحٌ. (TA.)

[Hence, perhaps,]The pupil, or apple, or the image that is seen reflected in the black, (عَيْر AA, T, or إِنْسَان Ḳ,) of the eye. (AA, T, Ḳ.) Whence the saying, هُوَ أَعَزُّ عَلَىِّ مِنْ بُؤْبُؤِ عَيْنِى [He is dearer to me than the apple of my eye; a saying common in the present day, with the substitution of إِنْسَان for بُؤْبُؤ]. (TA.)

A generous, or noble, (ISk, T,) or a clever, an ingenious, or an accomplished, or a well-bred, or an elegant, (M, Ḳ,) and a light, an active, or a sprightly, (M,) lord, master, chief, or personage: (ISk, T, M, Ḳ:) fem. with ة {بُؤْبُؤَةٌ}. (IKh, TA.)

Also, (AA, T, Ṣ,* [but I find it only in one of three copies of the Ṣ,]) orبُؤْبُؤْءٌ↓, andبَأْبَآءٌ↓, (Ḳ,) the last from the M, (TA, [but it is not in the M as transcribed in the TT,]) A learned man (AA, T, Ṣ, Ḳ) who teaches; (AA, T;) but the teaching of others is not a condition required in the application of the epithet; (TA;) like سَرْسُورٌ. (Ṣ [in which this last word is evidently given as a syn.: but in the Ḳ it is given to show the form, only, of بُؤْبُوْءٌ].)

Also The body of a locust, (Ḳ,) without the head and legs. (TA.)

And, accord. to the Ḳ, The head, or uppermost part, of a vessel in which [the collyrium called] كُحْل is kept: but it will appear, in art. يأ, that this is [perhaps] a mistranscription for يُؤْيُؤٌ. (TA.)