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بَشِعٌ ذ A thing disagreeable in taste, and choking; or ↓ بَشِيعٌ has this signification : (so accord. to different copies of the S:) or both, applied to food, have the same signification: (TA:) or the former signifies also disagreeable, or unpleasant, food, having in it dryness and bitterness; (Lth, Z, K;) like the taste of the myrobalan: (TA:) or food rough, or coarse, and disagreeable in taste: or dry food, in which is no seasoning, or condiment: (TA:) or rough, or coarse; applied to food; (Nh;) and so (tropical:) applied to clothing; (IAar, Nh;) and (tropical:) to speech, or language; (Nh;) and ↓ بَشِيعٌ applied to speech, or language, signifies (tropical:) rough, or coarse, and disagreeable. (IAar.) ― -b2- Applied to a man, (S TA,) as is also ↓ بَشِيعٌ , in the same sense, (TA, [but in what sense is not there said,]) it signifies, Disagreeable in the odour of the mouth, (Msb,ast; K,) who does not remove the remains of food from between his teeth, nor clean them with the tooth-stick; (K;) fem. with ة: (TA:) and one who has eaten a thing such as is thus termed, (S K TA,) and not swallowed it easily, (TA,) and has become disagreeable in the odour of the mouth from it, or has experienced a straitened state, or choking, of the fauces from it. (S, TA: [the last words of the explanation being فَبَشِعَ مِنْهُ]) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) One whose soul is heavy, or heaving, or agitated by a tendency to vomit. (ISh, K, TA.)― -b4- And (tropical:) Evil in disposition, (K, TA,) and in social intercourse. (TA.) You say also, هُوَ بَشِعَ الخُلُقِ (tropical:) He is evil in disposition. (TA.) ― -b5- Also, (K, TA,) or بَشِعُ المَنْظَرِ, (Msb,) (tropical:) Foul, or ugly, in aspect; (Msb; K) not pleasing to the eyes. (TA.) ― -b6- Also, (K,) or بَشِعُ الوَجْهِ, (ISh, Msb,) (tropical:) Having a frowning, a contracted, a stern, an austere, or a morose, countenance. (ISh, Msb, K.) ― -b7- خَشَبَةٌ بَشِعَةٌ (tropical:) A piece of wood abounding in knots. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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