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بَاسِطٌ باسط act. part. n. of بَسَطَ. ― -b2- It is said in the Kur [vi. 93], وَالمَلَائِكَةُ بَاسِطُوا أَيْدِيهِمْ, meaning (tropical:) The angels being made to have dominion over them by absolute force and power (K, * TA.) And again, in the Kur [xiii. 15], كَبَاسِطِ كَفَّيْهِ إِِلَى المَآءِ لِيَبْلُغَ (tropical:) Like the supplicator of water, making a sign to it [with his two hands], in order that it may [reach his mouth, and so] answer his prayer; (K, * TA;) or, but it will not answer his prayer. (O, TA.) ― -b3- البَاسِطُ (assumed tropical:) God, who amplifies, or enlarges, or makes ample or plentiful, the means of subsistence, to whomsoever He will, (K, TA,) by his liberality and his mercy: (TA:) or who diffuses (يَبْسُطُ) the souls in the bodies at the time of [their] being animated. (TA.) ― -b4- مَآءٌ بَاسِطٌ (tropical:) Water that is distant from the herbage, or pasturage, (M, K, TA,) but less so than what is termed مُطْلِبٌ. (M, TA.) And خَمْسٌ بَاسِطٌ (assumed tropical:) A difficult [journey of the kind termed] خِمْسَ [i. e. of five days, whereof the second and third and fourth are without water]; syn. بَائِصٌ. (Sgh, K.) And عُقْبَةٌ بَاسِطَةٌ (ISK, S, M, K [in the CK, erroneously, عَقَبَةٌ]) (assumed tropical:) [A stage of a journey, or march or journey from one halting-place to another,] that is far, or distant, (ISk, S,) or long: (TA:) or in which are two nights to the water. (M, K.) You say, سِرْنَا عُقْبَةً بَاسِطَةً (assumed tropical:) [We journeyed a stage, &c.,] that was far, or distant, or long. (ISk, S, * TA.) ― -b5- رَكِيَّةٌ قَامَةٌ بَاسِطَةٌ, [in the CK,] and قامَةُ باسِطَةٌ, as a prefixed n. with its complement imperfectly decl., as though they made it determinate, i. q. ↓قَامَةٌ وَبَسْطَةٌ [A well measuring, or of the depth of, a man's stature and an arm's length]. (O, K.) AZ says, حَفَرَ الرَّجُلُ قَامَةً بَاسِطَةً The man dug to the depth of his stature and his arm's length (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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