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بَوْنٌ بون ون Excellence: an excellent quality; (S in art. بين, Msb;) as also ↓ بَوْنَةٌ : (IAar; T:) or the distance, space, or interval, between tow things; as also darr; بُونٌ. (M, K.) You say, بَيْنَهُمَا بَوْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T, S, Msb*) and بَيْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T, S) [Between them two (meaning two men) is a wide distance]; i. e. between their tow degrees of rank or dignity, or between the estimations in which they are commonly held: (Msb:) the former phrase is the more chaste: (S:) when corporeal distance is meant, one says, بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ, with ى; (Msb;) or in the case of [literal] distance, one says, إِِنَّ بَيْنَهُمَا لَبَيْنًا; not otherwise. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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