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بَسَاطٌ بساط Land (أَرْض) expanded and even; as also ↓ بَسِيطَةٌ : (M, K:) and wide, or spacious; (AO, S, K;) as also ↓ بِسَاطٌ , (Fr, K,) in his explanation of which Fr adds, in which nothing is obtained; (TA;) and ↓ بَسِيطٌ ; (K;) and ↓ بَسِيطَةٌ : (AO, K:) and in like manner, a place; (S, TA;) as also ↓ بِسِاطٌ ; (TA;) and ↓ بَسِيطٌ : (S, TA;) and land in which are sweet-smelling plants: (TA:) or ↓بَسِيطةٌ is a subst., (IDrd, M,) as some say, (M,) and signifies the earth. (IDrd, M, Msb, K.) You say, وَسَعَة ↓نَحْنُ فِى بِسَاطٍ (tropical:) [We are in an ample and a plentiful state]. (TA.) And بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ المَآءِ مِيلٌ بساطٌ [the last word thus, without any vowel-sign to the ب] (assumed tropical:) Between us and the water is a long mile. (TA.) [See also بَاسِطٌ.] And مِثْلُ فُلَانٍ ↓مَا عَلَى البَسِيطَةِ There is not upon the earth the like of such a one. (TA.) And ↓ذَهَبَ فِى بُسَيْطَةَ, a dim., imperfectly decl., He (a man, TA) went away in the earth, or land. (A, O, L, K.) ― -b2- Also A great cooking-pot. (Sgh, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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