بَسِيطَ
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, and بَسِيطَةٌ: see بَسَاطٌ, in six places.
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وَقَعَ الغَيْثُ بَسِيطًا مُتَدَارِكًا
The rain fell spreading widely upon the earth, continuously, or consecutively. (TA.)
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بَسِيطُ الوَجْهِ (tropical:) A man (M) having the countenance [unwrinkled, or] bright with joy: (M, K, TA:) plural بُسُطٌ (M, K. *)
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بَسِيطُ اليَدَيْنِ (tropical:) A man large, or extensive, in beneficence; (M, TA;) liberal, bountiful: (K, TA:) plural بُسُطٌ: (M, K:) [and so] بَسِيطُ البَاعِ (S,) [and] البَاعِ
مُنْبَسِطُ. (TA.) And
يَدُهُ بِسْطٌ (S, K,) like طِحْنٌ in the sense of مَطْحُونٌ, and قِطْفٌ in the sense of مَقْطُوفٌ, (TA,) and
بُسُطٌ (Z, K,) like أُنُفٌ and سُجُحٌ, (Z,) and (Z, K) by contraction, (Z,) ↓بُسْطٌ, (Z, K,) and ↓مَبْسُوطَةٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) His hand is liberal; synonym مُطْلَقَةٌ, (S, K, TA,) and طَلْقٌ; (TA;) or he is large in expenditure. (TA.) It is said in the Qur'an, 5:69, بَلْ ↓يَدَاهُ مَبْسُوطَتَانِ; (TA;) and according to one reading, ↓بِسْطَانِ; (S, K;) and according to another, with damm, [as though it were
بُسْطَانِ,] (Z, K, TA,) [but it is said that] in this case it is used as a verbal noun, [and therefore ↓بُسْطَانٌ, for a verbal noun is applied as an epithet to a dual and a plural subst. without alteration,] like غُفْرانٌ and رُضْوَانٌ; or, according to some, it is most probably [↓بَسْطَانُ,] like رَحْمَانُ; and Talhah Ibn-Musarrif read ↓بِسَطَانِ: (TA:) the meaning is, (tropical:) Nay, his hands are liberal, or bountiful; the phrase being a simile; for in this case there is no hand, nor any stretching forth. (TA.) And it is said in a tradition, لِمُسِىْءِ النَّهَارِ حَتَّى يَتُوبَ ↓يَدَا اللّٰهِ بُسْطَانِ
بِاللَّيْلِ وَلِمُسِىْءِ اللَّيْلِ حَتَّى يَتُوبَ بِالنَّهَارِ, (K, * TA,) or, according to one relation,
بِسْطَانِ, (TA,) meaning (tropical:) God is liberal in forgiveness to the evil-doer of the day-time until he repent [in the night, and to the evil-doer of the night-time until he repent in the day]: for a king is said to be اليَدِ↓مَبْسُوطُ when he is (tropical:) liberal in his gifts by command and by sign, although he gives nothing thereof with his hand, nor stretches it forth with them at all. (Sgh. TA.)
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البَسِيطُ is also the name of A certain kind of metre of verse; (S, M, * K;) namely, the third; the measure of which consists of مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ فَاعِلُنْ eight [a mistake for four] times: (K:) so called because of the extension of its أَسْبَاب, commencing with a سَبَب immediately followed by another سَبَب, as is said by Aboo-Is-hák. (M.)
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[بَسِيطٌ is also used in philosophy as signifying (assumed tropical:) Simple; uncompounded.]