بأس

• IPA^(key): /baʔs/

بَأْس • (baʔs) m

1. verbal noun of بَؤُسَ (baʔusa) (form I)
2. courage, boldness
3. power, strength
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 57:25:

     وَأَنْزَلْنَا الْحَدِيدَ فِيهِ بَأْسٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِ

     waʔanzalnā l-ḥadīda fīhi baʔsun šadīdun wamanāfiʕu li-n-nāsi

     And We sent down iron with its great might and benefits for humanity

4. calamity, adversity, misfortune
5. damage
6. punishment

• لَا بَأْسَ (lā baʔsa)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بأس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen