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بَسَطَهُ , (M, Msb, K,) aor.
يَبْسُطُ , (M, TA,) inf. n.
بَسْطٌ, (S, M, Msb,) contr. of تَبْسيِطٌ; (M, TA;) as
also ↓بسّطهُ, (M,* TA,) inf. n. تَبْسيِطٌ. (TA.) [As
such,] He spread it; spread it out, or forth;
expanded it; extended it; (S, Msb, K, B;) as
also ↓بسّطهُ: (K:) and he made it wide, or
ample: these are the primary significations; and
sometimes both of them may be conceived; and
sometimes, one of them: and the verb is also
used, metaphorically, as relating to anything
which cannot be conceived as composed or constructed: (B:) and بَصْطٌ is the same as بَسْطٌ, (S,
and K in art. بصط,) in all its meanings. (K.)
You say, بَسَطَ الثَّوْبَ [He spread, spread out,
expanded, or unfolded, the garment, or piece of
cloth]. (Msb.) And بَسَطَ رِجْلَهُ (tropical:) [He stretched
forth, or extended, his leg]. (TA.) And بَسَطَ
ذِرَاعَيْهِ, and ↓بَسَّطَهُمَا, (assumed tropical:) He spread his fore arms
upon the ground; the doing of which [in prostrating oneself] in prayer is forbidden. (TA.)
And بَسَطَ يَدَهُ (M, Msb, K) (tropical:) He stretched forth,
or extended, his arm, or hand; (M, K;) as in
the saying بَسَطَ إِلِىَّ يَدَهُ بِمَا أُحِبُّ وَأَكْرَهُ (tropical:) [He
stretched forth, or extended, towards me his arm,
or hand, with, i. e. to do to me, what I liked and
disliked]: (M, TA: *) or he stretched forth his
hand opened. (Msb.) It is said in the Quran [v. 31],
لَئِنْ بَسَطْتَ إِلَىَّ يَدَكَ لِتَقْتُلَنِي (assumed tropical:) [Assuredly if thou
stretch forth towards me thy hand to slay me].
(M, TA.) بَسْطُ اليَدِ and الكَفِّ is sometimes used
to denote assaulting and smiting: [as in the last
of the exs. given above; and] as in the words of
the Quran [lx. 2], وَيَبُسُطُوا إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ وَأَلْسِنَتَهُمْ
بِالسُّوْءِ (tropical:) [And they will stretch forth towards you
their hands and their tongues with evil]; (TA;)
i. e., by slaying, (Bd, Jel,) and smiting, (Jel,)
and reviling. (Bd, Jel.) And sometimes to denote
giving liberally: (TA:) [as in] بَسَطَ يَدَهُ فِى الإَنْفَاقِ
(tropical:) He [stretched forth his hand, opened, or] was
liberal or bountiful or munificent [in expenditure]:
(Msb:) see بَسِيطٌ, below. (TA.) And sometimes
to denote taking, or taking possession, or seizing:
as in the saying, (TA,) بُسِطَتْ يَدُهُ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) [His
hand was stretched forth against him]; i. e. he
was made to have dominion over him by absolute
force and power. (K, TA.) And sometimes to
denote seeking, or demanding: [as in بَسَطَ كَفَّيْهِ
فِى الدُّعَآءِ (tropical:) He expanded his two hands in supplication; a common action, in which the two hands
are placed together like an open book upon a desk
before the face, in supplicating God:] see بَاسِطٌ,
below. (TA.) ―
2-b2- [And hence,] بَسَطْتُ لَهُ أَمْرِى
(tropical:) I displayed, or laid open, to him my state, or
case, or affair; syn. فَرَشْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ: (A in art. فرش:)
and أَمْرَهُ [his state, &c.]. (TA in that art.) ―
2-b3-
[Hence also,] اَللّٰهُ يَبْسُطُ الأَرْوَاحَ فِى الأَجْسَادِ عِنْدَ
الحَيَاةِ (assumed tropical:) [God diffuses the souls in the bodies at
the time of their being animated]. (TA.) ―
2-b4-
[Hence also,] بَسَطَ ٱللّٰهُ الرِّزْقَ (assumed tropical:) God multiplied, or
made abundant, and amplified, enlarged, or made
ample or plentiful, the means of subsistence. (Msb,
K. *) It is said in the Quran [ii. 246], وَٱللّٰهُ يَبِضُ
وَيَبْسُطُ (Msb and TA in art. قبض, q. v.) And
you say, بَسَطَ عَلَيْهِمُ العَدْلَ (tropical:) [He largely extended
to them equity, or justice]; as also ↓بسّطهُ. (TA.) ―
2-b5-
[Hence also,] فُلَانٌ يَبْسُطُ عَبِيدَهُ ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُهُمْ (tropical:) [Such
a one enlarges the liberty of his slaves; then
abridges their liberty]. (A in art. قبض.) ―
2-b6-
[Hence also, بَسَطَ وَجْهَهُ (assumed tropical:) It unwrinkled, as
though it dilated, his countenance: see 7. And
بَسَطَ قَلْبَهُ (assumed tropical:) It dilated his heart: see remarks on
قَبْضٌ and بَسْطٌ, as used by certain of the Soofees,
near the end of 1 in art. قبض. And] بَسَطَهُ, alone,
[signifies the same; or] (tropical:) it rejoiced him; rendered him joyous, or cheerful: (M, K, TA:)
because, when a man is rejoiced, his countenance
becomes unwrinkled (يَنْبَسِطُ), and he becomes
changed [and cheerful] in [its] complexion: it is
wrongly said, by MF, to be not tropical: that it
is tropical is asserted by Z, in the A: MF also
says that it is not post-classical; and in this he is
right; for it occurs in a saying of Mohammad:
thus in a trad. respecting Fátimeh, يَبْسُطُنِى مَا
يَبْسُطُهَا What rejoices her rejoices me: (TA:)
[see also قَبَضَهُ, where this saying is cited according
to another relation:] ↓أَبْسَطَنِى [as signifying (tropical:) it
rejoiced me] is a mistake of the vulgar [obtaining
in the present day]. (TA.) ―
2-b7- [Hence also,] الخَيْرُ
يَقْبِضُهُ وَالشَّرُّ يَبْسُطُهُ (tropical:) [Wealth makes him closefisted, tenacious, or niggardly; and poverty
makes him open-handed, liberal, or generous].
(A in art. قبض.) ―
2-b8- [Hence also,] بُسَطَ مِنْ فُلَانٍ
(tropical:) He rendered such a one free from shyness, or
aversion: (S, O, K, TA:) he emboldened him;
incited him to [that kind of presumptuous boldness which is termed] دَالَّة. (Har p. 155.) [In the
CK, بَسَطَ فُلاناً من فُلانٍ is erroneously put for
بَسَطَ فُلَانٌ مِنْ فُلَانص] ―
2-b9- [Hence also,] بَسَطَ ٱللّٰهُ
فُلَانًا عَلَىَّ (tropical:) God made, or judged, such a one to
excel me. (Z, Sgh, K, TA.) ―
2-b10- [Hence also,]
بَسَطَ المَكَانُ القَوْمَ (tropical:) The place was sufficiently
wide, or ample, for the people, or company of
men. (K, TA.) And هٰذَا فِرَاشٌ يَبْسُطُكَ (tropical:) This is a
bed ample, (S, K,) or sufficiently wide for thee.
(A.) And فَرَشَ لِى فِرَاشاً لَا يَبْسُطُنِى He spread
for me a bed [not wide enough for me, or] that
was [too] narrow [for me], (ISk, S.) ―
2-b11- [Hence
also,] بَسَطَ العُدْرَ, (K,) aor. as above, (TA,) and
so the inf. n., (S, TA,) (tropical:) He accepted, or admitted,
the excuse. (S, K, TA.) ―
2-b12- All these significations
of the verb are ramifications of that first mentioned
above. (TA.) ＝
1-A2- بَسَطَ, aor.
يَبْسُطُ , (M, K,) inf. n. بَسَاطَةٌ,
(M,) (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, free, or unconstrained,
(مُنْبَسِطٌ,) with his tongue. (M, K.)