ب ص ل

تبصّل تبصل It (a thing) was, or became, several fold, or many fold, like the coats of the بَصَل [or onion]. (Z, TA.) See also مُتَبّصِّلٌ . -A2- It is also trans.: see 2, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] تَبَصَّلُوهُ (assumed tropical:) They begged of him so much that all that he had became exhausted. (Sgh, K.)

بَصَلٌ بصل [The onion; allium cepa: or onions, collectively:] what it signifies is well known: n. un. with ة . (S, M, Msb, K.) Hence the prov., أَكْسَى مِنَ البَصَلِ [Having more coats, or coverings, than the onion]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Also Any kind of bulb, or bulbous plant.] بَصَلُ الزَّعْفَرَانِ [The bulb of the saffron], which is buried in the ground, is like the بَصَل [or onion] commonly known. (Mgh.) بَصَل الفَأْرِ is the same as الاـِسْقِيلُ and الاـِسْقَالُ and العُنْصَلُ , (K in art. سقل ,) also written العُنْصُلُ , (K in art. عصل ,) or بَصَلُ العنصل , (KL voce زيزٌ , [and so as written by Golius,]) [Scilla, or squill; particularly scilla maritima, or officinal squill; called by all these names, except, perhaps, السقال , in the present day;] also called زِيزٌ , and البَصَلُ البَرِّىُّ [the wild onion; but from what follows, it seems that there is a confusion here]. (KL ubi suprà.) بَصَلُ الذِّيءْبِ , and بصل الزير , (Golius on the authority of Zeyn El-Attár,) or بصل الرند , (so in the TA in art. بلبس ,) i. q. بلبوس Bulbus esculentus, (Golius, from Zeyn El-Attár,) or البَلْبُوس , with fet-h, [thus generally written, though it would seem to be correctly بُلْبُوس ,] the leaves of which resemble those of the سَذَاب [or rue]: (TA in art. بلبس :) the بَلْبُوس is the wild onion (in Pers. Pِيَازْ صَحْرَايءِى ). (KL voce بلبوس . [This last assertion suggests that الزير and الرند may be mistranscriptions for الزِّيز ; the زيز mentioned before.]) [ بَصَلُ القىْءَ Bulbus vomitorius; mentioned by Golius; and by Dioscorides, (l. ii. c. 201,) as being emetic and diuretic.] ― -b3- Also, (K,) or بَصَلَةٌ , (M,) (tropical:) A helmet (M, K) of iron, (K,) pointed in the middle; so called as being likened to what is first mentioned above. (M.) Lebeed likens helmets to بَصَل . (S.)

مُتَبَصِّلٌ متبصل (ISh, K) and ↓ ذُو تَبَصُّلٍ (ISh, TA) A covering of any kind ( قِشْرٌ ) consisting of many coats; thick; (ISh, K;) like the coats of the بَصَل [or onion]. (ISh, TA.)