bakhīl

miser, avaricious

بَخِيل

Word

Noun · pattern فَعِيل

Root

ب خ ل

Forms

Plural
بُخَلاء

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7/1403- وعن علِيٍّ رضي اللَّه عنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم: " الْبخِيلُ مَنْ ذُكِرْتُ عِنْدَهُ، فَلَم يُصَلِّ علَيَّ".

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • بَخِلَ Form I He was, or became, niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious
    , (JK, S, Msb, K,) aor. , inf. n. بَخَلٌ; (JK, Msb, K;) and بَخُلَ, aor. , inf. n. بُخْلٌ; (Msb, K;) He was, or became, niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious: see بُخْلٌ, below. (K, TA.) You say, بَخِلَ بِكَذَا, (S, TA,) and بَخُلَ بِهِ, He was, or became, niggardly, &c., of such a thing. (TA.) And بَخِلَ عَنْهُ [He withheld, with niggardliness, from him]: and بَخِلَ عَلَيْهِ [he was niggardly to him]. (Bd and Jel in xlvii. last verse.)
  • بخّلهُ Form II He attributed, or imputed, to him
    , (S, K,) inf. n. تَبْخِيلٌ, (K,) He attributed, or imputed, to him بُخْل [or niggardliness, &c.]: (S:) or he accused him thereof: (K:) or he called him بَخِيل [or niggardly, &c.]. (TA.)
  • ابخلهُ Form IV He found him to be بَخِيل
    He found him to be بَخِيل [or niggardly, &c.]. (S, Msb, K.)
  • بَخْلٌ Open entry
    : see what next follows.
  • بُخْلٌ Niggardliness, tenaciousness, stinginess, penuriousness, or avarice
    and ↓ بَخَلٌ, [both of which are properly inf. ns.,] (JK, S, K,) and ↓ بَخْلٌ, (Ks, S, Msb, K,) which is a simple subst., (Msb,) and ↓ بُخُلٌ (K) and ↓ بَخِلٌ and ↓ بِخْلٌ (TA) and ↓ بُخُولٌ, (K,) of all which, the first is that which commonly obtains, (TA,) are syn., (JK, S,) signifying Niggardliness, tenaciousness, stinginess, penuriousness, or avarice; contr. of كَرَمٌ (K, TA) and جُودٌ; and its definition is the withholding of acquired articles of property from that wherefrom it is not lawful to withhold them: (TA:) or the debarring the asker, or beggar, from what one has that is superabundant: (Msb:) and in the law, the refusal of what is incumbent, or obligatory. (Msb, TA.)
  • بِخْلٌ Open entry
    : see what next precedes.
  • بَخَلٌ Open entry
    : see بُخْلٌ: ― -b2- and see also بَخِيلٌ.
  • بَخِلٌ Open entry
    : see بُخْلٌ.
  • بُخُلٌ Open entry
    : see بُخْلٌ.
  • بَخْلَةٌ A single act, or instance, of بُخْل
    A single act, or instance, of بُخْل [or niggardliness &c.]. (JK, TA.)
  • بَخَالٌ Open entry
    : see what next follows.
  • بَخِيلٌ Niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious
    (JK, S, Msb, K) and ↓ بَاخِلٌ (S, Msb, K) Niggardly, tenacious, stingy, penurious, or avaricious; (K;) i. e. ذُو بُخْلٍ; (Msb;) epithets from 1: (S, Msb: *) or one from whom niggardliness is experienced much or often: (TA: [appin explanation of the former:]) and so ↓ بَخَلٌ, in inf. n. used as an epithet [and therefore implying more than the possession of the simple attribute of niggardliness &c., being a kind of personification]; (Abu-l-'Omeythil El-Aarábee, K;) and ↓ بَخَّالٌ (S, K) and ↓ بَخَالٌ (K) and ↓ مُبَخَّلٌ (JK, K) i. e. شَدِيدُ البُخْلِ [very, or vehemently, niggardly &c.]: (S, TA:) pl. of the first, بُخَلَآءُ; (Msb, K;) and of the second, بُخَّلٌ (K) and بُخَّالٌ. (TA.)

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