بيض

بَاضَهُ

To surpass someone in whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37544

بَاضَ

Of a bird, to lay an egg or eggs.

Used of an ostrich, hen, bird, or similar egg-laying creature.

• Lane · entry 37544

بَاضَ السَّحَابُ

Of clouds, to rain.

A figurative use.

• Lane · entry 37544

بَاضَ بِالمَكَانِ

To remain, stay, or become established in a place.

The expression evokes a bird remaining where it lays its eggs.

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بَاضَتِ الأَرْضُ

Of the earth, to produce truffles or vegetation; or to turn yellow, shed its produce, and dry up.

Figurative applications of the egg-producing image; the alternatives are lexically reported variants.

• Lane · entry 37544

بَاضَ الحَرُّ

For heat to become vehement or intense.

A figurative use.

• Lane · entry 37544

بَيَّضَ

To whiten something, make it white, bleach it, whitewash it, or tin it.

The causative Form II use is the counterpart of making something black.

• Lane · entry 37545

بَيَّضَ وَجْهَهُ

To make someone joyful or cheerful; figuratively, to clear or vindicate the person’s character.

An idiomatic causative use of whitening the face.

• Lane · entry 37545

بَيَّضَ

To produce a fair copy or clean transcript from a rough draft.

Reported as probably post-classical.

• Lane · entry 37545

بَيَّضَ

To fill a vessel or skin with water or milk.

A figurative Form II use.

• Lane · entry 37545

بَيَّضَ

To empty a vessel.

A reported contrary meaning of the same Form II verb.

• Lane · entry 37545

بَايَضَهُ

To contend with someone for superiority in whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37546

بَايَضَنِي

To act openly or frankly with someone.

A figurative association with the whiteness or daylight of day.

• Lane · entry 37546

أَبْيَضَ

Of a man or woman, to beget or bear white children.

A specialized reproductive use, distinct from becoming white.

• Lane · entry 37547

ابْتَاضَ

To put an iron helmet upon oneself.

The helmet is called بَيْضَةٌ because of its egg-like shape.

• Lane · entry 37548

ابْتَاضَهُمْ

To enter into a people’s territory, stronghold, or principal quarter.

The object is بَيْضَةٌ in its territorial or collective sense.

• Lane · entry 37548

ابْتَاضَ القَوْمَ

To exterminate or extirpate a people; to smite their collective body and seize what belongs to them by force.

The associated territory or central body may thereby be given up to plunder.

• Lane · entry 37548

ابْيَضَّ

Of herbage or pasture, to become pale or white and dry up.

A specialized use of Form IX, distinct from the Quranic color-change and face expressions.

• Lane · entry 37549

بَيْضَةٌ

An egg, especially that of an ostrich or other bird.

The word is also used for the egg of anything described as having an egg-like form.

• Lane · entry 37552

أَفْرَخَتِ البَيْضَةُ

For what was hidden in a people’s affair or case to become apparent.

A figurative expression based on a young bird emerging from an egg.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةُ البَلَدِ

An ostrich egg abandoned in the open; figuratively, an isolated, abject, obscure, or unsupported person, or conversely a protected, pre-eminent, unrivalled chief.

The idiom has opposed blame and praise uses, depending on whether the abandoned egg or the protected egg is intended.

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بَيْضَةٌ

An iron helmet.

A noun of resemblance to an ostrich egg.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

A testicle.

A figurative anatomical use based on form and whiteness; plural بِيضَانٌ.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

The bulb of the saffron plant.

Named for its egg-like shape.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

A tuber.

A reported figurative use based on shape.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

A large white grape of al-Ṭāʾif.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

The core of a boil.

Named for its egg-like appearance.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

The fat of a camel’s hump.

A figurative use based on resemblance to an egg.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةُ البَلَدِ

A white truffle, or truffles.

An additional regional or figurative use of the expression.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

A container, encompassing territory, or central collective body; hence the territory, governing center, or assembled community of Islam or of a people.

In expressions such as بَيْضَةُ الإِسْلَامِ and بَيْضَةُ القَوْمِ, the word can denote the protected domain, central quarter, governing seat, or collective body.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةُ الخِدْرِ

A secluded damsel or woman protected within a curtained chamber.

The woman is likened to an egg concealed and protected beneath a wing or covering.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةٌ

White, smooth, barren, or uncultivated land.

The land is characterized by the absence of vegetation; this is a figurative land term, not the ordinary color adjective.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةُ النَّهَارِ

The whiteness or light of day; daylight.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيْضَةُ القَيْظِ

The most vehement heat of summer or the hottest period of summer.

Also used of the main or intensely hot part of summer.

• Lane · entry 37552

بَيَاضٌ

Whiteness, the opposite of blackness, in an animal, plant, water, or other thing.

The related form بَيَاضَةٌ is used especially for whiteness of the eye.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضٌ

White clothing or garments.

An elliptical use for something possessing whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضٌ

Milk.

A figurative use based on its whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضٌ

The white of an egg.

A specialized partitive use.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضُ الأَرْضِ

Land without cultivation, population, or similar habitation.

A figurative use of whiteness for bare or unproductive land.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضُ الجِلْدِ

The part of the skin on which there is no hair.

A specialized anatomical use.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيَاضٌ

A person or individual.

A figurative use parallel to سَوَادٌ for a person or personal presence.

• Lane · entry 37554

بَيُوضٌ

A hen that lays many eggs; by extension, an oviparous creature.

The form may also be used more generally for an egg-laying animal.

• Lane · entry 37555

بَائِضٌ

A bird or similar creature that lays an egg or eggs; by extension, one credited with begetting eggs.

The term may be applied figuratively to a cock or crow as well as to a hen or bird.

• Lane · entry 37557

بَيَّاضٌ

A bleacher of clothes.

A professional noun, not the ordinary active participle of بَيَّضَ.

• Lane · entry 37558

بَيَّاضٌ

An egg seller.

• Lane · entry 37558

أَبْيَضُ

Of a person, white or fair in complexion; of the face, clear of freckles or unsightly blackness.

A Classical personal description; the source also records differing preferences for other color terms in descriptions of complexion.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَبْيَضُ

Of a person, pure, faultless, unsullied in honor, noble, or generous.

A figurative moral and social use, distinct from the Quranic color adjective.

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كَتِيبَةٌ بَيْضَاءُ

An army or military detachment whose iron arms or armor show white.

• Lane · entry 37559

بَيْضَاءُ

A blank sheet or piece of paper.

A substantivized use of the feminine adjective.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

A sword.

Named for the whiteness or brightness of its blade.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

Silver.

Named for its whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَبْيَضُ

The saliva of the mouth.

A reported substantival use.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَبْيَضُ

A certain star at the margin of the Milky Way.

• Lane · entry 37559

البَيْضَاءُ

The sun.

A figurative name based on whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

Waste, uncultivated, or uninhabited land.

A figurative land term, opposed to the dark or cultivated land.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

Wheat.

A substantival use based on its pale color.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

Fresh grain of the kind called سُلْت.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

A kind of white wood, identified with الحَوَرُ.

Named for its whiteness.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

The cooking pot.

A substantival lexical use; أُمُّ بَيْضَاءُ is also reported.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضُ

A snare for catching game.

• Lane · entry 37559

الأَبْيَضَانِ

The ‘two whites’: a conventional pair such as milk and water, bread and water, wheat and water, or fat and milk.

The exact pair varies among reported usages.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَبْيَضَاهُ

A man’s fat and youthfulness.

In ذَهَبَ أَبْيَضَاهُ, these qualities are said to have departed.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَبْيَضَانِ

Two days, or according to another report, two months.

Used in the temporal expression مَا رَأَيْتُهُ مُذْ أَبْيَضَانِ; the sources disagree over the interval.

• Lane · entry 37559

أَيَّامُ البِيضِ

The days of the bright full-moon nights, conventionally the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days of the lunar month.

A variant count is reported, but the three-day period is identified as the stronger explanation.

• Lane · entry 37559

سَنَةٌ بَيْضَاءُ

A year of scarcity of herbage, intermediate between the kinds called شَهْبَاء and حَمْرَاء.

A specialized pastoral expression.

• Lane · entry 37559

كَلَامٌ أَبْيَضُ

Clear, explained, or fully expounded speech.

A figurative use of whiteness for clarity.

• Lane · entry 37559

سَوْدَاءُ وَلَا بَيْضَاءُ

Neither a bad word nor a good word; neither a negative nor an affirmative reply.

A fixed contrastive expression.

• Lane · entry 37559

يَدٌ بَيْضَاءُ

A manifesting or demonstrated argument, plea, allegation, or proof.

A figurative expression of evident force or clarity.

• Lane · entry 37559

يَدٌ بَيْضَاءُ

An unsolicited favor or benefit for which its recipient is not reproached.

A distinct figurative use of the same expression.

• Lane · entry 37559

المَوْتُ الأَبْيَضُ

Sudden death, especially death not preceded by an illness that alters the complexion.

It may also be explained as death without the usual opportunity for repentance, prayer for forgiveness, and completion of duties; it is opposed to red death, slaughter.

• Lane · entry 37559

بَيْضَاءُ

A calamity or misfortune.

Reported as a euphemistic or auspiciously worded term.

• Lane · entry 37559

مَبِيضٌ

A place where eggs are laid.

• Lane · entry 37560

مُبِيضَةٌ

A woman who bears white children.

A specialized feminine noun; مُوضِحَةٌ is reported as more common for this meaning.

• Lane · entry 37561

مُبْيَضَّةٌ

A fair copy or clean transcript made from a rough draft.

Reported as probably post-classical.

• Lane · entry 37562

مُبَيِّضٌ

A man wearing white clothing.

• Lane · entry 37563

المُبَيِّضَةُ

A sect known as the ‘White-clad’ sect.

The name refers to its white clothing, in contrast to the black-clad opposing faction.

• Lane · entry 37563

بَاضَتْ يَدُ المَرْأَةِ

For a woman’s hand to swell in a shape resembling an egg.

A figurative anatomical use reported in Quran-focused lexical discussion.

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