bāḥiṯ باحِث , pl. ‑ūn , and buḥḥāṯ
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√BḤṮ
scholar, research worker; examiner, investigator – WehrCowan1979.
Originally a PA from the vb. I ↗baḥaṯa, the word has become lexicalized during C20 with the meaning of ‘researcher, investigator’. In ClassAr, a bāḥiṯ is still s.o. who is ‘scraping up (dust or earth)’
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