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بَاغٍ باغ باغي Seeking; seeking for, or after; seeking, desiring, or endeavouring, to find, and take, or get: pl. بُغَاةٌ and بُغْيَانٌ (K) and بُغَّآءٌ. (TA: [there mentioned as a pl., but not said to be of بَاغٍ, nor explained.]) بَاغٍ وَهَادٍ, lit. A seeker of [stray] camels and a guide of the way, mentioned in a trad. respecting the Hijreh (as said by A booBekr to a man who asked him “ Who are ye? ”), alludes to the seeking of religion and the guiding from error. (TA.) One says, فَرِّقُوا لِهٰذِهِ الإِِبِلِ بُغْيَانًا يُضِبُّونَ لَهَا, i. e. [Disperse ye, for these camels, seekers] to scatter themselves in search thereof. (S.) ― -b2- Acting wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, [&c.,] towards others: pl. بُغَاةٌ. (Msb. [See 1.]) غَيْرَ بَاغٍ, in the Kur ii. 168, [&c.,] means Not being a revolter from the Muslims, (Jel,) or, against the Imám: (TA:) or it means not desiring to eat for the sake of enjoyment: or not seeking to exceed the limit of his want: (Az, TA:) or not seeking what he should not seek. (Er-Rághib, TA.) فِئَةٌ بَاغِيَهٌ A company of men revolting from the just Imám. (K.) فِرْقَةٌ بَاغِيَةٌ A party occupying itself with corrupt, wrong, or unjust, conduct. (Msb.) ― -b3- A camel that does not impregnate, or get with young. (Kr, K.) ― -b4- A horse that is proud, or self-conceited, with exceeding briskness or liveliness or sprightliness: (JK, Ham p. 210:) [but] Kh disallows its being thus used. (S.) -A2- [The pl.] بُغْيَانٌ also signifies What the sportsman, or hunter, seeks, of game, or objects of the chase. (JK.) مَبْغًى [A place where a thing is sought: and hence, a way, or manner, in which a thing is, or should be, sought]: this is meant in the saying, ↓ بَغَيْتُ المَالَ مِنْ مَبْغَاتِهِ [I sought wealth by the way, or manner, whereby it should be sought]; like as مَأْتًى is meant in the saying, أَتَيْتُ الأَمْرَ مِنْ مَأْتَاتِهِ. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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