بَهْرَجٌ
1.
an arabicized word, (T, S, Mgh, L, TA,) from نَبَهْرَهْ, (T, Mgh, L, TA,) which is Persian; (L, TA;) or, as some say, it is an Indian word, originally نَبَهْلَهْ, meaning Bad, whence the Persian نَبَهْرَهْ, and hence the arabicized بَهْرَجٌ; (TA;) applied to a dirhem, as meaning bad; (Kr, S;) false; (S, El-Marzookee;) adulterated; (Shifá el-Ghaleel, El-Marzookee;) of bad silver; (A, Mgh, L, Msb;) with which one cannot buy: (IAar, TA:) or, as some say, in which the silver is predominant: or, according to IAar, of which the die has been falsified: (Mgh:) or not coined in the government-mint: (Lb, TA:) and
مُبْهَرَجٌ signifies the same, applied to a dirhem; (Lh, A, Mgh;) and so
نَبَهْرَجٌ; (Lh, El-Marzookee;) but [Mtr says,] I have not found it with ن, except on the authority of Lh (Mgh;) and IKh says that it is a word of the vulgar: (TA:) the plural [of بهرج] is بَهَارِجُ, and [of نبهرج,] نَبَهْرَجَاتُ. (TA.)
2.
Hence, metaphorically, (Mgh,) (tropical:) Bad; (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K;) and false, or of no account; (S, A, Mgh, K;) applied to a thing (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb) of any kind: (A, Mgh, L:) anything rejected; not received or accepted; rejected as wrong or bad; as also
نَبَهْرَجٌ: (TA:) and a thing is termed
مُبَهْرَجٌ when it is as though it were cast away, and not an object of emulous desire or envy, or not in request. (El-Marzookee, TA.) You say, كَلَامٌ بَهْرَجٌ (tropical:) Bad language. (A, L.) And عَمَلٌ بَهْرَجٌ (tropical:) A bad action. (A, L.)
3.
(assumed tropical:) Allowed or allowable [to any person, to be taken or let alone, or to be possessed or made use of or done]; made allowable, free, or lawful. (K.) You say, دَمٌ بَهْرَجٌ (tropical:) Blood made to be of no account, to go for nothing, unretaliated, or uncompensated by a mulct;
allowed to be taken or shed; (A, L;) as also
مُبَهْرَجٌ. (K.) And مَكَانٌ بَهْرَجٌ (assumed tropical:) A place free to the people in general to pasture their beasts in it. (IAar, L.) And
مَاءٌ مُبَهْرَجٌ (assumed tropical:) A water left free to those who come to water at it. (A, K, * TA.)