[1]
بُهِتَ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) the most chaste form
of the verb in the sense here following, (S, TA,)
and that which most commonly obtains, and the
only form allowed by Th and IKt; (TA;) and
بَهِتَ, (S, L, Msb, K,) aor.
يَبْهَتُ ; (Msb, K;) and
بَهُتَ, (S, L, Msb, K,) in which the dammeh is
said to give intensiveness to the signification, as
in
قَضُوَ الرَّجُلُ, (TA,) aor.
يَبْهُتُ ; (Msb, K;) and
بَهَتَ, aor.
يَبْهُتُ (K) and
بَهَتَ ; (TA;) inf. n.
بَهْتٌ;
(JK, K;)
He was, or
became, confounded, perplexed, or
amazed, and unable to see his right
course; (JK, S, Msb, K;)
not knowing what to
prefer nor what to postpone: (TA in art.
اشر:)
he looked at a thing that he saw
with a look of
wonder: (A, TA:)
he was, or
became, affected
with wonder: (JK:)
he was, or
became, cut
short, (
انْقَطَعَ, K, TA,)
and was silent, being confounded, or
perplexed, and unable to see his
right course: (TA:)
he (an adversary in a dispute or litigation)
was overcome by an argument,
an allegation, or
a plea. (L.) All these forms
occur in different readings of the saying in the
Quran [ii. 260],
فَبُهِتَ ٱلَّذِى كَفَرَ and
فَبَهِتَ &c.,
(IJ, TA,) explained in the Wá'ee as meaning,
And he who disbelieved remained in confusion, or
perplexity, not seeing his right course, looking as
one in wonder: (Lb, TA:) but accord. to him
who reads
فَبَهَتَ, the word
الذى may hold the
place of a noun in the accus. case [as will
be seen from what follows]. (IJ, TA.) ＝
1-A2-
بَهَتَهُ,
aor.
يَبْهَتُ , (S, Msb,) inf. n.
بَهْتٌ, (S, K,)
He, or
it,
caused him to become confounded, perplexed, or
amazed, not seeing his right course: (Zj, Msb:
[Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof, assigns
this meaning to ↓
بهّتهُ:]) or
took him unawares,
or
by surprise, or
unexpectedly, or
suddenly. (S,
K.) Zj cites as an ex. of the former meaning the
saying in the Quran [xxi. 41],
تَأْتِيهِمْ بَغْتَةً فَتَبْهَتُهُمْ,
i. e.,
It shall come upon them suddenly, or
unawares, and cause them to become confounded,
&c.: (TA: and so Bd and Jel explain it:) or,
and shall overcome them: (Bd:) J cites the same
as an ex. of the latter of the two meanings in the
preceding sentence; but his doing so requires
consideration; for the meaning which he gives
is taken from the word
بغتة; not from
البَهْتُ.
(MF, TA.) [But it is said also that]
مُبَاهَتَةٌ [inf. n.
of ↓
باهتهُ] signifies The
taking, or
coming upon,
[one]
unawares, by surprise, or
unexpectedly.
(JK.) ―
2-b2-
بَهَتَهُ, aor.
يَبْهَتُ , (S, A, K, &c.,) inf. n.
بَهْتٌ
and
بَهَتٌ and
بُهْتَانٌ, (S, K,) or the last is a simple
subst., (Msb,)
He calumniated him; slandered
him; accused him falsely; said against him that
which he had not done: (S, A, K:) [or
he did
so in such a manner as to make one to be confounded, or
perplexed, or
amazed, at the falsity
of the charge, and not to see his right course:
(see
بُهْتَانٌ, below:)]
he lied against him; forged
a lie, or
lies, against him; and
i. q. قَابَلَهُ بِالكَذِبِ
[
he accused him to his face falsely, or
with falsehood]; (TA;)
البَهْتُ signifies
اِسْتِقْبَالُكَ أَخَاكَ بِمَا
لَيْسَ فِيهِ [
thy accusing thy brother, or
fellow, to
his face, of that which is not in him]: (JK:)
and
بَهَتَهَا, aor.
يَبْهَتُ , inf. n.
بَهْتٌ,
he accused her
falsely of adultery; and forged a lie against her.
(Msb.) [See also
اِغْتَابَهُ.]
In the saying of Abu-n-Nejm,
سُبِّى الحَمَاةَ وَٱبْهَتِى عَلَيْهَا
[
Revile thou the mother-in-law, and calumniate
her, or
forge lies against her],
على is [said by
J to be] redundant, or pleonastic; for one does
not say,
بَعَتَ عَلَيْهِ, but only
بَهَتَهُ. (S.) Upon
this, F says, in the K, that
فَٱبْهَتِى عليها [thus in
the K] is a mistake; that J is in error, and that
the right reading is
فَٱنْهَتِى عليها, with
ن: but
this assertion made by F depends upon the authority of relaters of the verse in which the word in
question occurs. (MF.) IB says that
ابهتى may
be here rendered trans. by means of
على because
it is syn. with
اِفْتَرِى, which is so rendered trans.,
in like manner as is done in other instances, of
which he gives an ex. from the Quran [xxiv. 63],
يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ, meaning
يَخْرُجُونَ عن امره: he
adds that, accord. to J,
عن in this ex. should
be considered redundant; but that
عن and
على
are not used redundantly like
ب. (TA.) ―
2-b3-
بَهَتَ الفَحْلَ عَنِ النَّاقَةِ He removed the stallion
from the she-camel in order that a stallion of
more generous race might cover her. (TA.)