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بسمل

Q. 1 بَسْمَلَ بسمل سمل , (T, S, &c.,) inf. n. بَسْمَلَةٌ, (S, Msb,) He said, (S, Msb, K, KL,) or wrote, (T, Msb,) بِسْمِ ا@للّٰهِ [In, or with, the name of God I recite, or read, or I begin, &c.]: (T, S, Msb, K, KL:) or بِسْمِ ا@للّٰهِ الرَّحْمَانِ الرَّحِيمِ [In, or with, the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]: (KL:) a verb of the kind termed مَنْحُوت i. e. compounded of two [or more] words; like حَمْدَلَ and حَوْقَلَ and حَسْبَلَ &c.: (Msb, TA:) said by some to be post-classical, not heard from the chaste Arabs; but authorized by many of the leading lexicologists, as ISk and Mtr; and occurring in the poetry of 'Omar Ibn-Abee-Rabee'ah [who is said to have been born in the year of the Flight 23]. (TA.) مُبَسْمَلٌ مبسمل Discourse, (TA,) or amorous behaviour, and coquettish boldness, (Msb,) accompanied by the saying بِسْمِ ا@للّٰهِ: (Msb, TA:) occurring in a verse of 'Omar Ibn-Abee-Rabee'ah [referred to above]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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