بَهْوٌ

Ampleness; or an ample state, or condition: so in the saying, هُوَ فِى بَهْوٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ [He is in an ample state, or condition, of life]: and this is [said to be] the primary signification. (As, TA.)

Anything ample, wide, or spacious. (K.) [Hence,] نَاقَةٌ بَهْوَةٌ الجَنَبَيْنِ A she-camel wide in the two sides. (TA.)

A wide, or spacious, tract of land, (K, TA,) in which are no mountains, between two elevated tracts. (TA.)

A wide covert, or hiding-place, of a [wild] bull, (JK, K, TA,) which he makes for himself at the foot of the kind of tree called أَرْطًى [q. v.]: (TA:) plural [of pauc.] أَبْهَاءٌ and [of mult.] بُهُوٌّ and [quasi-plural-n.] بَهِىٌّ. (K.)

Any vacant, or intervening, space. (TA.)

The interior of the chest, or breast, (K, TA,) of a man and of any beast: (TA:) or the space that intervenes between the two breasts and the uppermost part of the chest (K, TA) is called بَهْوُ الصَّدْرِ: (TA:) or the part between [or within] the extremities of the ribs that project over the belly: (TA:) and in her that is pregnant, (JK, K,) whatever she be, (JK,) the resting-place of the fœtus, between the two haunches: (JK, K:) plural [of pauc.] أَبْهَاءٌ and أَبْهٍ and [of mult.] بُهِىٌّ and [quasi-plural n.] بَهِىٌّ [in the TA بِهِىٌّ, which seems to be a mistake]. (K)

A tent that is placed in advance, before the other tents: (JK, S, TA:) plural أَبْهَاءٌ. (JK.) In a tradition, Arabs are spoken of as removing with their أَبْهَاء. (TA.)