1 بَهُجَ, aor. بَهُجَ, (AZ, S, Msb, &c.,) inf. n. بَهَاجَةٌ (AZ, S, L, K) and بَهْجَةٌ (AZ, L, [but some seem to regard this as a simple subst.,]) and بَهَجَانٌ, (L,) He, or it, was, or became, beautiful, or goodly: (AZ, S, L, Msb, K:) or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid: or it (a plant) was, or became, beautiful and bright; and he (a man) was, or became, characterized by a laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or by the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; or by a joyful, glad, or happy, aspect, or appearance. (L.) You say also, بَهِجَ النَّبَاتُ, with kesr, meaning (assumed tropical:) The plant, or herbage, was, or became, beautiful [&c.]. (TA, [but this is probably a tropical signification, from بَهِجَ in the sense here following.])
بَهِجَ, (S, A, L, K,) with kesr, (S,) aor. بَهَجَ, (K,) inf. n. بَهَجٌ; (L;) and ↓ ابتهج; (S, A, L, Msb, K;) He was, or became, joyful, glad, or happy. (S, A, L, Msb, K.) Yousay, بَهِجَ بِهِ, (S, A,) and لَهُ; (TA;) and ↓ ابتهج بِهِ; (A, Msb;) He rejoiced in it, or at it; or became rejoiced by it, or at it. (S, A, Msb, TA.) [See also 10.]
بَهَجَ, (S, K,) aor. بَهَجَ; (K;) and ↓ ابهج; (S, A, K;) the latter of which is the more approved; (TA;) It (a thing, TA, or an affair or event, S, A) rejoiced; or made joyful, glad, or happy; (S, A, K;) a person. (S, A.) 2 بهّج, (ISd, L,) inf. n. تَبْهِيجٌ, (K,) He beautified; rendered beautiful, or goodly. (ISd, L, K.) ISd says, I have not heard this, except in the saying of El-'Ajjáj, دَعْ ذَا وَبَهِّجْ حَسَبًا مُبَهَّجَا as though meaning [Leave thou this subject, and] beautify, or adorn, the more this nobility [already beautified, or adorned,] by thy describing it. (L.) 3 بَاهجهُ, (A, K,) inf. n. مُبَاهَجَةٌ, (A,) He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in beauty, or goodliness; [as expl. in the TK; or in glory, or excellence;] syn. بَاهَاهُ (A, K) and بَارَاهُ, (K,) both of these meaning the same. (TA.) 4 أَبْهَجَ see 1, last sentence.
أَبْهَجَتِ الأَرْضُ The land, or earth, became beautiful, or goodly, (S, L, K,) or beautiful and bright or splendid, (L,) in its plants, or herbage. (S, L, K.) 6 تباهج الرَّوْضُ (assumed tropical:) The meadows, or gardens, became abundant in blossoms or flowers [as though vying, one with another, in beauty, or goodliness: see 3]. (K, TA.) 8 إِبْتَهَجَ see 1, in two places.
10 استبهج i. q. اِسْتَبْشَرَ [i. e. He rejoiced, or became rejoiced; بِهِ at it, or by it; or at, or by, the annunciation of it]. (K.) [See also بَهِجَ.] بَهْجٌ, fem. with ة: see بَهِيجٌ, in two places. بَهِجٌ Joyful, glad, or happy; (S, K;) as also ↓ بَهِيجٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ مُبْتَهِجٌ. (A, TA.)
See also بَهِيجٌ. بَهْجَةٌ Beauty, or goodliness: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) or beauty of colour of a thing: or its beauty and brightness or splendour: or in plants or herbage, beauty and brightness or splendour; and in a man, the laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; or joyfulness, gladness, or happiness, of aspect or appearance. (L.) Yousay رَوْضَةٌ ذَاتُ بَهْجَةٍ غَالِبَةٍ [A meadow, or garden, of surpassing beauty, &c.]. (A.) And رَجُلٌ ذُو بَهْجَةٍ A man possessed of beauty, or goodliness: (S:) or of beauty and brightness, &c. (L.)
Also Happiness, joy, or gladness. (Ham p. 403.) بَهِيجٌ Beautiful, or goodly; (S, A, L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ بَهِجٌ (Ham p. 403) and ↓ بَهْجٌ: (AZ, TA:) or beautiful in colour: or beautiful and bright or splendid: or, applied to a plant, it has this last meaning; and, applied to a man, characterized by a laughing, or happy, appearance of the beautiful parts of the face, as the cheeks, and the lines of the forehead: or characterized by the appearance of joy, gladness, or happiness; having a joyful, glad, or happy, aspect or appearance: (L:) the fem. epithet is ↓ مِبْهَاجٌ. (A, K, TA: [in the CK مَبْهاجٌ.]) It is applied to a plant, or herbage, (S, A,) in the Kur xxii. 5 and l. 7. (S.) And ↓ مِبْهَاجٌ is applied to a woman, as meaning One in whom beauty, or goodliness, &c., predominates; (L, TA;) as also ↓ بَهْجَةٌ; (TA;) pl. of the former, مَبَاهِيجُ: (A, TA:) and to a camel's hump, meaning (tropical:) fat; (A, K;) because beauty, or goodliness, is combined [in this case] with fatness; pl. as above. (A, TA.)
See also بَهِجٌ. مِبْهَاجٌ: see بَهِيجٌ, in two places. مُبْتَهِجٌ: see بَهِجٌ.
