بَاءٌ
1.
See بَاءَةٌ.
2.
A libidinous man. (TA in باب
الالف الليّنة.)
3.
The name of the letter
ب, q. v.; as also بَا: plural of the former بَاءَاتٌ; and of the latter أَبْوَاءٌ. (TA ubi suprà.) The diminutive is بُيَيَّةٌ, meaning A little
ب: and a
ب
faintly pronounced: [and apparently بُوَيَّةٌ also, as the medial radical is generally held to be و:] and in like manner is formed the diminutive of every similar name of a letter. (Lth, on the letter حَاء, in TA, باب الالف اللينّة.)