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بَائِسٌ ذ Distressed; straitened in his means of subsistence, or in the conveniences of life; (Msb;) or poor: (A, Msb: *) or one who is in want, and an object of pity for what he suffers: (TA:) or in a state of pressing want: (S:) or in a state of trial, or affliction: (M, TA:) or one who is crippled, or deprived of the power of motion, by disease, or who suffers from a protracted disease, and is in need: (Mgh:) an epithet denoting pity, (Sb, M, TA,) or grief: (Mgh:) ↓ بُؤْسٌ occurs as its pl.; (M, TA;) or is for ذَوُوبُؤْسٍ. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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