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 feminine epithet is مِبْهَاجٌ. (A, K, TA: [in the CK مَبْهاجٌ.]) It is applied to a plant, or herbage, (S, A,) in the Qur'an, 22:5 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;) plural 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; plural as above. (A, TA.)