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بَاهٌ باه باة a dial. var. of بَآءَةٌ (IAar, S) and of بَآءٌ, (IAar, TA,) signifying Coitus: (S K:*) and marriage: (K, * TA:) as also ↓ بَاهَةٌ : (TA:) or a share of coitus; (JK, TA;) occurring in this sense in a trad., in which a woman is mentioned as having adorned herself for it: (TA:) also venereal passion: (TA in art. خفش:) [or the venereal faculty; as when one says of a drug or some other thing, يَزِيدُ فِى البَاهِ It increases the venereal faculty:] IKt says, of this word, بَاهٌ, [though it is of very frequent occurrence,] that it is a mistranscription [app. meaning for بَآءٌ]. (Msb and TA in art. بوأ.) [See also بَآءَةٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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