بَهُوتٌ

[A great, or frequent, calumniator, slanderer, or false-accuser; as also ↓ بَهَّاتٌ, mentioned in the S only as an epithet applied to him who calumniates, slanders, or accusely falsely;] an intensive epithet from البَهْتُ; (IAth;) [i. e.] an intensive form of the act. particle n. from البُهْتَان [verbal noun of بَهَتَهُ]: (Mgh:) or i. q. ↓ مُبَاهِتٌ; (K;) i. e., one who confounds, or perplexes, or amazes, the hearer, by what he forges against him: (TA:) and one who falsely accuses a woman of adultery, and forges a lie against her: (Msb:) plural بُهُتٌ (IAth, Mgh, Msb, K) and بُهْتٌ, and, according to the K, also بُهُوتٌ; but ISd and MF hold it to be plural of بَاهِتٌ, not of بَهُوتٌ; the former observing, that a word of the measure فَاعِلٌ is one of those which have a plural of the measure فُعُولٌ, but not so one of the measure فَعُولٌ; and that, as to the saying of A'Obeyd, that عُذُوبٌ is plural of عَذُوبٌ, it is a mistake; for it is only plural of عَاذِبٌ, and the plural of عَذُوبٌ is عُذُبٌ. (TA. [But see article عذب.])