بَلْقَعٌ
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بَلْقَعَةٌ
A land that is vacant, or void; destitute of herbage or pasturage, and of human beings, &c.; (S, K;) in which is nothing: (S:) or the former signifies a vacant, or void, place: (Mgh:) [or instead of using the former alone, you say أَرْضٌ بَلْقَعٌ; for] you say مَنْزِلٌ
بَلْقَعٌ [a vacant, or void, place of alighting or abiding], (S, TA,) and دَارٌ بَلْقَعٌ [a vacant, or void, house &c.], without ة, when it is an epithet, (S, TA,) applied to a mase. subst. and to a feminine; (TA;) but if it be a subst., you say, اِنْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى
مَلْسَاءَ
بَلْقَعَةٍ [we came at last to a smooth, vacant, or void, land]: (S, TA:) and
بَلْقَعَةٌ also signifies a land in which are no trees, either in sands or in plain or level tracts: (TA:) or a vacant land, in which is no one, whether there be in it herbage or not, and whether plain or not: (Ham p. 445:] plural بَلَاقِعُ. (S, Mgh, K.) It is said in a tradition, اليَمِينُ الفَاجِرَةُ تَذَرُ (S, Mgh, TA; but in the second and third of these, in the place of تَذَرُ, we find تَدَعُ;) The false oath causes the places of abode to become void, or vacant; i. e., by reason of its evil influence, the possessions and their possessors perish; (Mgh;) or the [false] swearer becomes poor, and the property that was in his house goes away; (Sh;) or God renders him in a state of disunion, and changes the blessings which He had conferred upon him: (TA:) according to another relation, the words of the tradition are اليَمِينُ الغَمُوسُ الخ. (Mgh.) You say also, دِيَارٌ بَلْقَعٌ [Vacant, or void, places of abode]; as though the places were one place: (TA:) and Ru-beh says,
[And their abode became vacant]: (TA:) and it is said in a tradition, أَصْبَحَتِ الأَرْضُ بَلَاقِعَ [as though meaning the land became altogether vacant]; the plural being used to render the meaning intensive, as in the phrases أَرْضٌ سَبَاسِبُ and ثَوْبٌ أَخْلَاقٌ; (IAth, TA;) or because every portion thereof is considered as being بلقع. (TA.)فَأَصْبَحَتْ دَارَهُمُ بَلَاقِعَا
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