ب ح ح

, (L,) first pers. بَحِحْتُ, aor. يَبَحُّ, (ISk, S, L, K,) and ISd says, I see, or think, that Lh has mentioned يَبْحَحُ, which is extr. with respect to rule, (TA,) inf. n. بَحَحٌ; (ISk, S, L, K;) and first pers. بَحَحْتُ, (AO, T, S, K,) but the former is the more chaste, (T, TA,) aor. يَبَعُّ (AO, S, K) and يَبِعُّ and يَبُعُّ, [which last is contr. to analogy,] (L,) inf. n. بَعُّ (AO, S, K) and بَحَحٌ and بَحَاحٌ and بُحُوحٌ and بَحَاحَةٌ and بُحُوحَةٌ; (K;) He had a hoarse, rough, harsh, or gruff, voice; (L;) he was taken with a hoarseness, harshness, roughness, or gruffness, of the voice. (K.) ― -b2- It is tropically used in speaking of inanimate things; as in بَعَّ العُودُ, meaning (tropical:) [The lute] was rough [in sound: see أَبَعُّ]. (A.)

It (crying out, or vociferating,) rendered him hoarse, rough, harsh, or gruff, in voice. (S, * K.)

They are in a state of amplitude, and of plenty, or of abundance of herbage or of the goods or conveniences or comforts of life. (K.)

: see R. Q. 2, in two places.

, (K,) and ↓ بَحْبَعَهَا, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, [established] in the middle, or midst, [which is the best part,] of the دار [i. e. abode, or district, or country, &c.], (K, TA,) and became possessed of mastery, dominion, or authority, and power, over it. (TA.) Fr, however, makes تَبَحْبُحٌ to be from ٰالبَاحَةُ [q. v.], not from a reduplicative root. (TA.) ― -b2- تبحبح also signifies (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, settled, or established, in authority and power, (syn. تَمَكَّنَ,) in alighting, and taking up his abode, or sojourning; (S, K, TA;) and was, or became, [established] in the middle, or midst, [or best part,] of the place of abode; (TA;) and so ↓ بحبح. (K, TA.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) He took a wide, an ample, or a large, range. (A.) ― -b4- [Hence,] تبحبح الحَيَا (assumed tropical:) The rain became of wide extent, and had influence upon the land. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b5- And تَبَحْبَحَتِ العَرَبُ فِى لُغَاتِهَا (tropical:) The Arabs were copious, or took a wide range, in their dialects. (A.) ― -b6- And تبحبح فِى المَجْدِ (assumed tropical:) He became in an ample state of glory, honour, or dignity. (TA.) ― -b7- An Arab of the desert said, of a woman in labour, تَرَكْتُهَا تَبَحْبَحُ عَلَى أَيْدِى القَوَابِلِ [app. (assumed tropical:) I left her obtaining delivery by the hands of the midwives]. (AZ, TA.)

: see أَبَحُّ.

(S, A, L, K) and ↓ بُحَاحٌ (L) Hoarseness, roughness, harshness, or gruffness, of the voice; (E, K;) which is sometimes natural: or the former is applied absolutely, and the latter to that which arises from disease. (L.) You say, فِى صَوْتِهِ بُحَّةٌ [In his voice is hoarseness, &c.]. (S, A.)

: see بُحَّةٌ.

(assumed tropical:) Ample in expenditure: and having an ample place of abode. (Fr, K.)

: see what next follows.

(assumed tropical:) The middle, or midst, [or best part,] syn. وَسَطٌ, (A'Obeyd, S, A, K,) of an abode, or a district, or country, (S, A,) or a place, (K,) and of a place where one alights and abides, (TA,) and of Paradise, and of anything, and the best part thereof; (A'Obeyd, TA;) [like وَسَطٌ, by which it is explained; because what is between the two extremes is generally the best: it may be well rendered the heart, or very heart, of a thing;] and ↓ بُحْبُوحٌ, also, has the former of these significations [and by implication the other likewise]. (TA, voce بُوأْبُوأٌ, where see an ex.) Jereer says, " قَوْمِى تَمِيمٌ هُمُ القَوْمُ الذَّينَ هُمُ يَنْفُونَ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ بُحْبُوحَةِ الدَّارِ " [My people are Temeem: they are the people who drive away Teghlib from the middle, or best part, of the country]. (S.) [It is said in the A, that this word, as syn. with وَسَطٌ, in relation to an abode or the like (دار), is tropical; but I see no reason for this, unless by وسط be meant the “best part.”]

, applied to a man, (S, L, K,) or أَبَحٌّ الصَّوْتِ, (A,) Having a hoarse, rough, harsh, or gruff, voice: (L, K:) fem. بَحَّآءُ; with which ↓ بَحَّةٌ is syn.: (S, K:) pl. بُحٌّ. (S.) بَاحٌّ is not allowable. (S.) ― -b2- And أَبَحُّ applied to a lute (عُودٌ), (tropical:) Rough (K, TA) in sound. (TA.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The base, or thick, chord of a lute; syn. بَمُّ; because of its rough sound. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A [gold coin of the kind called] دِينَار; (K, TA;) because of its harsh sound [when one rings it]. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) A قِدْح [or gaming-arrow] (S, K, TA) by means of which lots, or portions, are divided: (S, TA:) pl. بُحٌّ: (S, K:) or such an arrow that has no sound. (TA.) Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh says, " قَرَوْا أَضْيَافَهُمْ رَبَحًا بِبُحٍّ يَعِيشُ بِفَضْلِهِنَّ الحَىُّ سُمْرِ " [They entertained their guests with young weaned she-camels, on the superabundant remains of which the tribe lived, by means of tawny-coloured gaming-arrows whereby the lots that determined who should afford the entertainment were divided: or, accord. to the TA, ربحا here signifies fat, as a subst.; but this is inconsistent with the affixed pronoun relating to it]. (S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Fat, as an epithet, not a subst. (K.) ― -b3- كِسْرٌ أَبَحُّ (assumed tropical:) [A portion of a limb, &c.,] having much fat. (TA.)