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1 بَحَّ بح , (L,) first pers. بَحِحْتُ, aor. يَبَحُّ, (ISk, S, L, K,) and ISd says, I see, or think, that Lh has mentioned يَبْحَحُ, which is extr. with respect to rule, (TA,) inf. n. بَحَحٌ; (ISk, S, L, K;) and first pers. بَحَحْتُ, (AO, T, S, K,) but the former is the more chaste, (T, TA,) aor. يَبَعُّ (AO, S, K) and يَبِعُّ and يَبُعُّ, [which last is contr. to analogy,] (L,) inf. n. بَعُّ (AO, S, K) and بَحَحٌ and بَحَاحٌ and بُحُوحٌ and بَحَاحَةٌ and بُحُوحَةٌ; (K;) He had a hoarse, rough, harsh, or gruff, voice; (L;) he was taken with a hoarseness, harshness, roughness, or gruffness, of the voice. (K.) ― -b2- It is tropically used in speaking of inanimate things; as in بَعَّ العُودُ, meaning (tropical:) [The lute] was rough [in sound: see أَبَعُّ]. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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