Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

بَهُجَ, aor. ـُ {يَبْهُجُ}, (AZ, Ṣ, Mṣb, &c.,) inf. n. بَهَاجَةٌ (AZ, Ṣ, L, Ḳ) 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, Ṣ, L, Mṣb, Ḳ:) 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, (Ṣ, A, L, Ḳ,) with kesr, (Ṣ,) aor. ـَ {يَبْهَجُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. بَهَجٌ; (L;) andابتهج↓; (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb, Ḳ;) He was, or became, joyful, glad, or happy. (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb, Ḳ.) You say, بَهِجَ بِهِ, (Ṣ, A,) and لَهُ; (TA;) andابتهج↓ بِهِ; (A, Mṣb;) He rejoiced in it, or at it; or became rejoiced by it, or at it. (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, TA.) [See also 10.]

بَهَجَ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَبْهَجُ}; (Ḳ;) andابهج↓; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) the latter of which is the more approved; (TA;) It (a thing, TA, or an affair or event, Ṣ, A) rejoiced; or made joyful, glad, or happy; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ;) a person. (Ṣ, A.)

بهّج, (ISd, L,) inf. n. تَبْهِيجٌ, (Ḳ,) He beautified; rendered beautiful, or goodly. (ISd, L, Ḳ.) ISd says, I have not heard this, except in the saying of El-ʼAjjáj,

* دَعْ ذَا وَبَهِّجْ حَسَبًا مُبَهَّجَا *

as though meaning [Leave thou this subject, and] beautify, or adorn, the more this nobility [already beautified, or adorned,] by thy describing it. (L.)

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

see 1, last sentence.

أَبْهَجَتِ الأَرْضُ The land, or earth, became beautiful, or goodly, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) or beautiful and bright or splendid, (L,) in its plants, or herbage. (Ṣ, L, Ḳ.)

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

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

بَهِجٌ Joyful, glad, or happy; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoبَهِيجٌ↓ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) andمُبْتَهِجٌ↓. (A, TA.)

See also بَهِيجٌ.

بَهْجَةٌ Beauty, or goodliness: (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb, Ḳ:) 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: (Ṣ:) or of beauty and brightness,, &c. (L.)

Also Happiness, joy, or gladness. (Ḥam p. 403.)

بَهِيجٌ Beautiful, or goodly; (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoبَهِجٌ↓ (Ḥam p. 403) andبَهْجٌ↓: (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, Ḳ, TA: [in the CK مَبْهاجٌ.]) It is applied to a plant, or herbage, (Ṣ, A,) in the Ḳur xxii. 5 and l. 7. (Ṣ.) Andمِبْهَاجٌ↓ is applied to a woman, as meaning One in whom beauty, or goodliness,, &c., predominates; (L, TA;) as alsoبَهْجَةٌ↓; (TA;) pl. of the former, مَبَاهِيجُ: (A, TA:) and to a camel's hump, meaning ‡ fat; (A, Ḳ;) because beauty, or goodliness, is combined [in this case] with fatness; pl. as above. (A, TA.)

See also بَهِجٌ.