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بَانٌ بأن بان باني بآن آن [a coll. gen. n., The ben-tree; a species of moringa; so in the present day;] a kind of tree, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) well known: (Msb:) n. un. with ة: (S, Mgh, Msb:) its seed, or grain, [called حَبُّ البَانِ and جَوْزُ البَانِ and فُسْتُقُ البَانِ, the glans unguentaria, or nux unguentaria, or ben-nut,] has a good, or pleasant, [fragrant] oil, (K,) called دُهْنُ البَانِ [oil of ben], (S, Mgh, Msb,) and simply بَانٌ, the prefixed noun being suppressed: (Mgh:) [Az says,] it is the pl. of بَانَةٌ. which is a certain tree having a fruit, or produce, which is perfumed with aromatics, after which its oil is expressed, of a good [or fragrant] quality: (T in art. بنى: its seed, or grain, is good for [removing] the [affections of the skin termed] بَرَش and نَمَش and كَلَف and حَصَف and بَهَق and سَعَفَة and the mange, or scab, and for the peeling of the skin, applied in the form of a liniment with vinegar; and for hardness of the liver and the spleen, made into a beverage with vinegar; and a مِثْقَال thereof, drunk, is an emetic, which loosens crude phlegm: (K:) AHn says, (TA,) it is a kind of tree that grows tall, in a straight, or an erect, manner, like as grows the [species of tamarisk called] أَثْل, and its leaves are [of the kind termed] هَدَب, like those of the اثل, but its wood has no hardness: the n. un. is with پ: Aboo-Ziyád says, it is of the [trees called] عِضَاه, and has long هدب, intensely green; it grows upon [hills, or what are termed] هَضْب; and its fruit resembles the pods of the [species of kidney-bean called] لُوبِيَآء, except that its greenness is intense; and in it is a seed, or grain, from which is extracted the oil of the بان: on account of the straightness of its growth and of the growth of its braches, and their length and tenderness, the poets liken thereto the tender girl of tall and beautiful, or just, stature; saying كَأَنَّهَا بَانَةٌ [As though she were a ben-tree], and كَأَنَّهَا غُصْنُ بَانٍ [As though she were a branch of the ben-tree], &c.: thus does Keys Ibn-El-Kha- teem: (M in art. بين:) and so does Imra-el- Keys. (TA.) [See an ex. voce بَرَهْرَهَةٌ.] ― -b2- [It is also applied in the present day to A species of willow, the salix Aegyptia of Linnæus, properly called in Arabic خِلَاف: and this is said to be meant by modern Arab poets when they liken an elegant girl to a twig of the بان; but probably from their erroneously supposing this tree to be meant in the same case by the older poets.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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