برح

بَرِحَ

To become manifest or revealed after being concealed; for a hidden matter or secret, to come into the open.

Often used in the expression بَرِحَ الْخَفَاءُ, literally indicating that concealment has departed.

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بَرِحَ

Of the wind: to carry up, raise, or sweep up and scatter dust.

A lexical extension in which the wind is understood to go away with the dust.

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بَرَحَ

Of a hunted gazelle, bird, or other wild animal: to pass across the observer’s field of view with its side turned toward him.

The reported direction varies by regional usage; the term is contrasted with سَنَحَ.

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بَرَحَ

To become angry or be intensely angered with someone.

Used in expressions describing the intensity of a person’s anger toward another.

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بَرَّحَ

To affect severely; to afflict, distress, hurt, harass by importunity, or torment.

Used of fever, anxiety, trouble, a painful beating, or a person who presses another with annoying insistence; it may also denote severe punishment or torture.

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بَرَّحَ

To remove difficulty, distress, or affliction from someone.

Occurs in the supplicatory expression بَرَّحَ اللَّهُ عَنْكَ.

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أَبْرَحَ

To cause someone to go away from, depart from, or quit a place.

Causative Form IV use.

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أَبْرَحَ

To please, delight, or excite admiration; to honor, magnify, or judge someone or something excellent.

Used of an affair that greatly pleases or astonishes, and of a person or thing regarded as exceptionally noble or excellent.

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أَبْرَحَ

To exceed customary bounds, degree, or manner; to be extravagant or excessive.

Used with qualities such as generosity or meanness to indicate an extreme or overstepping degree.

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بَرْحٌ

Difficulty, distress, affliction, adversity, severe annoyance, or a calamity; also an exceptionally grave or remarkable event.

Used in phrases for experiencing hardship or calamity, including بِنْتُ بَرْحٍ and related expressions, and in imprecations.

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بُرْحَةٌ

The best or finest of something, especially one of the finest camels.

May be used of a male or female camel and is also extended to the best specimens of a class.

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بَرْحَى

An exclamation uttered when a shooter or caster misses the mark.

A conventional expression contrasted with مَرْحَى, said when the mark is hit.

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بُرَحَاءُ

A severe paroxysm, violent attack, or intense distress, especially of fever; also vehement mental distress associated with oppressive inspiration or revelation.

The term is used for the severe phase of an illness and in a specialized account of overwhelming mental or spiritual distress.

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بَرَاحٌ

An open, spacious tract of land without buildings, trees, vegetation, or habitation.

By extension, any exposed, uncovered, conspicuous place free of things that conceal it.

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حَبِيلُ بَرَاحٍ

A lion; figuratively, a courageous man.

An idiomatic appellation portraying the subject as fixed in place and not departing.

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بَرَاحٌ

Plainly, openly, or manifestly; an affair or matter that is public and evident.

Used adverbially with expressions such as جَاءَ بِالأَمْرِ بَرَاحًا, “he made the matter plain.”

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بَرَاحٌ

Counsel or an opinion regarded as disapproved or evil.

A specialized evaluative use of the noun.

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بَرَاحِ

A name for the sun, especially in the expression دَلَكَتْ بَرَاحِ, referring to its setting or decline from the meridian.

The form is determinate and may be indeclinable in this usage; variant readings of the expression are reported.

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بَرِيحٌ

The croaking or cry of a crow.

A lexical use associated with the crow’s characteristic cry.

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ابْنُ بَرِيحٍ

The crow, including the raven and related kinds.

A determinate appellation; the plural expression is بَنَاتُ بَرِيحٍ.

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قَوْلٌ بَرِيحٌ

A saying that confirms that a person has spoken or acted rightly.

A conventional phrase used to endorse the correctness of someone’s statement or action.

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بَارِحٌ

Of a hunted animal or bird: passing with its side turned across the observer’s line of sight; by extension, an inauspicious or ill-omened sign.

The precise direction differs between regional traditions, and the omen may consequently be regarded as unfavorable or, by some groups, differently interpreted.

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فِتْلَةٌ بَارِحَةٌ

A manner of twisting that is contrary to the usual or proper manner.

A figurative construction derived from the directional sense of بَارِحٌ.

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فَعْلَةٌ بَارِحَةٌ

An action that has not been performed rightly or correctly.

A figurative description of an improperly executed act.

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بَارِحٌ

A hot or violent wind, especially one that raises and scatters dust.

The plural بَوَارِحُ may refer to seasonal hot or forceful winds and their dust-bearing effects.

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البَوَارِحُ

A disputed usage for the anواʾ, the star-settings associated with seasonal weather.

This attribution is reported as a minority or contested interpretation rather than an undisputed lexical meaning.

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البَارِحَةُ

The preceding or most recently past night; yesternight.

The word is understood as referring to the night that has gone away; in later usage it may also mean yesterday.

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اللَّيْلَةُ كَالْبَارِحَةِ

A conventional comparison expressing resemblance between two things, literally likening the present night to the previous one.

Used of any two things that resemble each other, not only of nights.

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أَبْرَحُ

More difficult, distressing, or afflicting; most severe or intense.

Used comparatively or intensively of an affair, and in expressions such as “a most severe slaughter.”

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تَبَارِيحٌ

Difficulties, distresses, afflictions, or adversities; burdensome hardships incurred through troublesome means of subsistence.

A plural noun derived from the Form II branch.

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تَبَارِيحُ الشَّوْقِ

The burning or fierce pangs of yearning and longing desire.

A conventional expression for the intense affliction of longing.

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مُبَرَّحٌ

Importuned or pressed with annoying insistence.

Used predicatively of a person subjected to persistent molestation or pressure.

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مُبَرِّحٌ

Severe, afflicting, distressing, or harassing; of a beating, causing intense pain; of a person, annoying through importunity.

An active participial adjective covering severe effects on affairs, events, blows, or people.

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يَبْرُوحٌ

The root of the wild mandrake or related plant, traditionally described as human-shaped and medicinal.

A specialized plant name, distinct from the core verbal and abstract branches of the root.

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