be rational, reflect

, [aor. ,] (Sb, M, K,) and بَصِرَ, [aor. ,] (Lh, K, ) inf. n. بَصَرٌ and بَصَارَةٌ and بِصَارَةٌ, (M, K,) [He saw; i. e.] he became seeing; syn.صَارَ مُبْصِرًا; (Sb, M, K;) with بِ prefixed to the noun following. (K.) But see 4, in four places. بَصُرَ is seldom used to signify the sense of sight unless to this meaning is conjoined that of mental perception. (B.) ― -b2- [Hence,] بَصُرَ, [and بَصِرَ.] inf. n. بَصَارَةٌ [and بَصَرٌ], He was, or became, endowed with mental perception; or belief, or firm belief; or knowledge, understanding, intelligence, or skill. (S, * M, TA.) And بَصُرَبِهِ, (S Msb, B,) and بَصِرَبِهِ, and sometimes بَصُرَهُ and بَصِرَهُ, but more chastely with بِ, inf. n. [بَصَارَةٌ and] بَصَرٌ; (Msb;) and * ابصرهُ; (B;) He perceived it mentally; (B;) he knew it [or understood it]. (S, Msb.) بَصُرْتُ بِمَا لَمْ يَبْصُرُوا بِهِ, in the Kur [xx. 96], means I knew that which they knew not. (S.) -A2- بَصَرَ الأَدِيمَيْنِ, aor. , (T, K,) inf. n. بَصْرٌ, (S, M, K,) He put the two hides together, and sewed them, like as the two edges of a garment, or piece of cloth, are sewed, one being put upon the other; which [mode of sewing] is contrary to, or different from, that in which a garment, or piece of cloth, is sewed before it is sewed the second time: (S:) or he put together the two edges of the two hides, when they were being sewed, (M, K,) like as a garment, or piece of cloth, is sewed. (M.)

He (a whelp) opened his eyes. (M, K.) -A2- بصّرهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَبْصِيرٌ; (TA;) or * ابصرهُ; (accord. to some copies of the K; [see مُبْصِرٌ, as confirmatory of the latter; but both seem to be correct;]) It [or he] made him [or caused him] to see, or to have sight: or to have mental perception, or knowledge, or skill: syn. جَعَلَهُ بَصِيرًا. (S, K.) ― -b2- And the former, (K,) inf. n. as above, (S, K,) He made him to know. (S, K) You say, بَصَّرْتُهُ بِهِ, (A, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (Msb,) I made him to know it; acquainted him with it. (A, Msb.) And بصّرهُ الأَمْرَ, inf. n. as above and تَبْصِرَةٌ, He made him to understand the affair, or case. (M.) ― -b3- Also He rendered it apparent, or plainly apparent, conspicuous, manifest, or evident. (S, K.) -A3- بُصِّرَتْ بِدِمَامٍ, said of the feathers of an arrow, They were besmeared بِالبَصِيرَةِ, i. e. with blood: (S:) or were strengthened and fastened with glue. (M.) -A4- Also بصّر, inf. n. تَبْصِيرٌ; (S, K) and ↓ ابصر; (K;) He went, (S,) or came, (M, K,) to the city of El-Basrah (البَصْرَة). (S, M, K.)

He looked with at a thing, trying which of them two would see it before the other. (M.) And بَاصَرَا They two looked, trying which of them would see first. (K.) ― -b2- He elevated himself, or rose up, or stood up, so as to be higher than the surrounding objects, (أَشْرَفَ,) looking at him, or towards him, from afar. (S.) ― -b3- See also 4.

, (Lh S M, A, &c.,) inf. n. إِبْصَارٌ, (Msb,) He saw him, or it, (Lh, S, A, Mgh, Msb,) بِرُوأْيَةِ العَيْنِ by the sight of the eye; (Msb;) as also بِهِ ↓ بَصُرَ: (A:) or he looked (M, K) at, or towards, him, or it, (M,) trying whether he could see him, or it; (M, K;) as also بِهِ ↓ بَصُرَ, inf. n.بَصَرٌ and بَصَارَةٌ and بِصَارَةٌ; (M;) and به ↓بَصِرَ; (Lh, M;) and ↓ تبّصرهُ; (M, K;) and ↓ باصرهُ: (M:) or, accord. to Sb, ↓ بَصُرَ [is used when no object of sight is mentioned, and] signifies he [saw, or] became seeing: and ابصرهُ is said when one mentions that upon which his eye has fallen. (M.) You say also, أَبْصِرَ إِلَىَّ Look thou at me: or turn thy face towards me. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA.) ― -b2- See also 1. -A2- And see 2. -A3- أَبْصِرْ بِهِ وَ أَسْمِعْ, in the Kur [xviii. 25], means مَا أَبْصَرَهُ وَ مَا أَسْمَعَهُ (Jel) (tropical:) How clear is his sight! and how clear his hearing! the pronoun relating to God; (Bd, Jel;) and thus used, the phrase is tropical; i. e., nothing escapes his sight and hearing. (Jel.) And أَسْمِعْ بِهِمْ وَ أَبْصِرْ, in the same [xix. 39], means مَا أَسْمَعَهُمْ وَ مَا أَبْصَرَهُمْ (S in art. سمع, and Jel) How clearly shall they hear! and how clearly shall they see! (S, Bd, Jel:) or the meaning is, do thou make them to hear, and make them to see, the threats of that day which is afterwards mentioned, and what shall befall them therein. (Bd.) -A4- أَبْصَرَ also signifies He relinquished infidelity, and adopted the true belief. (IAar.) -A5- See also 10. -A6- He hung upon the door of his dwelling a بَصِيرَة, i. e. an oblong piece of cotton or other cloth. (TA.) -A7- See also 2, last sentence.

He looked at it; namely, a thing: or looked long at it: or glanced lightly at it: like رَمَقَهُ: (TA:) or he sought, or endeavoured, to see it: (Mgh:) or i. q. أَبْصَرَهُ, in a sense explained above; see 4. (M.) You say also, تَبَصَّرْ لِى فُلَانًا [Consider thou, or examine thou, for me, such a one, that thou mayest obtain a clear knowledge of him]. (TA.) And تبصّر فِى شَىْءٍ He considered a thing, endeavouring to obtain a clear knowledge of it; he looked into it, considered it, examined it, or studied it, repeatedly, until he knew it: he sought, or sought leisurely, or repeatedly, after the knowledge of it, until he knew it. (S, * K, * TA.) And تبصّر فِى رَأْيِهِ signifies the same as فِيهِ ↓ استبصر, i. e. He sought, or endeavoured, to see, or discover, what would happen to him, of good and evil. (M.)

They saw one another. (M, K.) ― -b2- [تباصر also signifies He feigned himself seeing, either ocularly or mentally; contr. of تَعَامَى.]

[He sought, or endeavoured, to see, or to perceive mentally]. You say, استبصر فِى رَأْيِهِ: see 5, last sentence. ― -b2- He had, or was endowed with, [mental perception, or] knowledge, (Msb,) [or understanding, intelligence, or skill: as in the phrase,] استبصر فِى شَىْءٍ [He had a mental perception, or knowledge, &c., of, or in relation to, a thing]. (S.) [See مُسْتَبْصِرٌ.] -A2- It (a road, TA) was, or became, plain, clear, manifest, or conspicuous; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ ابصر. (A.)

: see بَصْرَةٌ, in four places: and see بُصْرَةٌ.

The thickness of anything; (M;) as of the heaven, (TA,) or of each heaven [of the seven heavens], (S, A, TA,) and of the earth, [or of each of the seven earths,] and of the skin of a man, (TA,) and of a garment, or piece of cloth. (A.) You say ثَوْبٌ جَيِّدُ البُصْرِ A thick garment or piece of cloth. (M.) صُبْرٌ, formed by transposition, signifies the same. (S in art. صبر.) ― -b2- A side: (S, M, K:) the edge of anything: (S, K:) formed by transposition from صُبْرٌ. (M.) -A2- Cotton: (K:) whence بَصِيرَةٌ signifying “an oblong piece of cotton cloth.” (TA.) -A3- See also بَصْرَةٌ.

: see بَصْرَةٌ, in five places.

The sense of sight, (Lth, S,) or of the eye: (M, K:) or the light whereby the organ [of sight] (الجَارِحَة) perceives the things seen (المُبْصَرَات): (Msb:) pl. أَبْصَارٌ. (M, Msb, K.) [Hence,] صَلَاةُ البَصَرِ The prayer of sunset: or, as some say, of daybreak: because performed when the darkness becomes mixed with the light: (TA:) or because performed when the stars are seen: also called صَلَاةُ الشَّاهِدِ: (TA in art. شهد:) or because performed at a time when the eyes see corporeal forms, after the intervention of darkness, or before it. (JM.) And لَقِيَهُ بَصَرًا He met him when eyes saw one another: or at the beginning of darkness, when there remained enough light for objects to be distinguished thereby: [accord. to some,] the noun is used [in the sense which it here bears] only as an adv. n. [of time]. (M.) And رَأَيْتُهُ بَيْنَ سَمْعِ الأَرْضِ وَبَصَرِهَا (tropical:) I saw him in a vacant tract of land, or of the earth, where nothing but it heard or saw me. (A.) [See also سَمْعٌ, in two places.] ― -b2- See also بَصِيرَةٌ, first sentence, in four places. ― -b3- Also The eye; [and so ↓ بَاصِرَةٌ;] syn. عَيْنٌ; but of the masc. gender: (TA:) pl. as above: (Kur ii. 6, &c.:) but the sing. is also used in a pl. sense [like سَمْعٌ]. (TA in art. سمع.) See two exs. voce بَصِيرةٌ.

Soft stones; (AA, M, Msb;) i. q. كَذَّانُ; (AA, M;) as also ↓ بِصْرٌ (M, Msb) and ↓ بَصْرٌ; or, accord. to Zj, this last is not allowable: (Msb:) or soft stones in which is whiteness: (K:) or in which is some whiteness: (TA:) or soft stones inclining to white; as also ↓ بِصْرٌ, with kesr if without ة: (S:) [i. e. whitish soft stones:] or soft white stone; as also ↓ بِصْرٌ (M) and ↓ بَصْرٌ: (TA:) or glistening stones; as also ↓ بِصْرٌ: (Fr:) pl. بِصَارٌ: (M:) and rugged ground: (K:) or stones of rugged ground; (TA;) as also ↓ بِصْرٌ and ↓ بَصْرٌ and ↓ بُصْرٌ: (Kz, TA:) or these three words, without ة, signify thick, or rough, or rugged, stone: (K:) or the same three, hard, or strong, and thick, or rough, or rugged, stone: (Lh, M:) and بَصْرَةٌ signifies, also, land that is as though it were a mountain of gypsum: (ISh, L:) or land of which the stones are gypsum; (M, TA;) as also ↓ بَصَرَةٌ and ↓ بَصِرَةٌ; (so in a copy of the M, but accord. to the TA ↓ بُصْرَةٌ and ↓ بِصْرَةٌ;) but the last is app. an epithet: (M: [see بَصِرَةٌ, below; and بُصْرَةٌ:]) also tough clay in which is gypsum; (TA;) and ↓ بَصِرَةٌ signifies tough clay: (M, TA:) or بَصْرَةٌ, (M,) or ↓ بَصْرٌ, (TA,) tough and good clay, containing pebbles. (Lh, M, TA.)