هرس
1 هَرَسَهُ,
aor. ـُ (
IF,
A,
Msb,)
inf. n. هَرْسٌ, (
IF,
S,
A,
Msb,
K,) He bruised, brayed, or pounded, it; crushed it so as to break it; broke it, or broke it in pieces, by beating; (
S,
IF,
Msb,
TA;) namely, grain, (
Msb,) or some other thing: (
IF,
Msb:) or he did so vehemently, or violently: (
A,
K:) or with something broad: or with some preservative between it and the ground. (
TA.) هَرِيسٌ Grain, (
Msb,) or wheat, (
A,) bruised, brayed, or pounded, (
A,
Msb,) vehemently, or violently, (
A,) with the مَهْرَاس, before it is cooked; for when it is cooked, it is termed هَرِيسَةٌ: (
Msb:) [of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ:] from the verb above-mentioned. (
K.) You say, عِنْدِى هَرِيسٌ لِلْهَرِيسَةِ I have wheat bruised, &c., for the هَرِيسَة. (
A.) هَرِيسَةٌ Grain, (
Msb,) or wheat, (
TA,) bruised, brayed, or pounded, [vehemently, or violently, (see هَرِيسٌ,)] and then cooked: (
Msb,
TA:) [or a kind of thick pottage, prepared of cooked wheat and cooked flesh-meats much pounded together: (Golius;
app. on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof:) but this is probably one of the kinds of هريسة peculiar to
post-classical times; which kinds are many: see De Sacy's Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Allatif, pp. 307 and 312:] of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: (
Msb:) from the verb above-mentioned: (
S,
K:)
pl. هَرَائِسُ. (
A.) هَرَّاسٌ A maker, or preparer, of هَرِيسَة: (
Mgh,
Msb,
K:) and a seller thereof. (
Mgh.) مِهْرَاسٌ [in the
M,
voce جُرْنٌ,
q. v.,
accord. to the
TA, مهرس, i. e.,
app. مِهْرَسٌ,] A stone hollowed out, (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,) oblong, (
Mgh,
Msb,) and heavy, resembling a [vessel of the kind called] تَوْر,
q. v., (
Mgh,) in which one bruises, brays, or pounds, and from which one performs the ablution termed وُضُوْء; (
S,
Mgh,
Msb;) and it is also made of brass; and grain and other things are bruised in it: (
Msb:) and sometimes, by a
tropical application, (
tropical:) one of wood, (
Mgh,
Msb,) used for the same purpose: (
Msb:) or a mortar;
syn. هَاوُونٌ; (
K;) or thing in which grain is bruised: (
A,
TA,) and also, (
A,
K,) tropically, (
A,) (
tropical:) a hollowed stone, (
A,
K,) of oblong shape, (
A,) from which one performs the ablution above mentioned; (
A,
K;) consisting of a bulky stone, which several men cannot lift nor move because of its weight, capable of holding much water. (
TA.)
