عرس

1 عَرِسَ بِهِ, (S, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. عَرَسٌ, (TA,) He kept, or clave, to him or it; (S, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَعْرَسَهُ. (O, K.) From this, and from another signification of the same verb, which see below, عَرُوسٌ is said [by some] to be derived. (Msb.) You say, عَرِسَ الرَّجُلُ بِقِرْنِهِ The man kept, or clave, to his opponent or adversary, in fight. (Mgh.) And عَرِسَ الصَّبِىُّ بِأُمِّهِ, (TA,) or أُمَّهُ, (Mgh,) The child kept to his mother. (Mgh, TA.) And عَرِسَ الشَّرُّ بِهِمْ Evil clung, or stuck fast, to them, and continued. (TA.) b2: [Hence, perhaps,] عَرِسَ الشَّىْءُ, [or, perhaps, الشَّرُّ,] inf. n. as above, The thing [or evil or mischief] became vehement, or severe, or distressful. (TA.) A2: عَرِسَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. عَرَسٌ, He (a man) was, or became, fatigued: (TA:) or عَرِسَ, (IKtt,) or عَرِسَ عَنِ الجِمَاعِ, (Msb,) he (a man) was, or became, fatigued, or weak, and so disabled, or incapacitated, from copulation; syn. كَلَّ, (Msb,) and أَعْيَا, (IKtt, Msb,) عن الجماع. (IKtt.) From this, and from another signification of the same verb, mentioned above, عَرُوسٌ is said [by some] to be derived. (Msb.) b2: Also He was, or became, confounded or perplexed, and unable to see his right course; syn. دَهِشَ: (S, O, K:) and so عَرِشَ. (TA.) b3: and عَرِسَ عَنْهُ He held back, or refrained, from him, or it, through cowardice. (TA.) b4: And عَرِسَ عَلَىَّ مَا عِنْدَهُ i. q. اِمْتَنَعَ [i. e. What he had was unattainable, or difficult of attainment, to me]. (IAar, O, K. [In the CK, علَى is put for عَلَىَّ.]) A3: عَرَسَ البَعِيرَ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ (S, O, TA) and عَرِسَ, (TA,) inf. n. عَرْسٌ, (S, O,) He bound the camel's fore shank to his neck, (S, O, K,) while he was lying down, (S, O,) with the rope called ↓ عِرَاسٌ: (S, O, K:) or, as some say, he bound the neck of the camel to both of his fore legs. (TA.) 2 عرّسوا, (Msb, K,) inf. n. تَعْرِيسٌ; (S, Mgh, O, Msb;) and ↓ اعرسوا; (S, O, K;) but the former is the more common; (K;) the latter, rare; (S, O;) They alighted (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) during a journey, (S, Mgh, O, Msb,) in the last part of the night, (S, Mgh, O, K,) for a rest, (S, O, Msb, K,) and made their camels lie down, and took a nap, or slight sleep, (TA,) and then departed, (S, Msb,) and continued their journey, at daybreak: (TA:) [see also 2 in art. عوه:] or they journeyed all the day, and alighted in the first part of the night: (TA:) or they alighted (Az, Msb, TA) in a usual place of resort (TA) at any time of the night or day. (Az, Msb, TA.) [Hence,] لَيْلَةُ التَّعْرِيسِ The night in which the Apostle of God slept: (O, K:) the story of which is well known, in the biographies of him and in the traditions. (TA.) [It was when he was returning from the siege and capture of Kheyber: he halted in the latter part of the night, and unintentionally slept until the time of the prayer of daybreak had passed. See “ Mishcàt ul-Masábìh,” vol. i., p. 146.]

A2: See also 4.

A3: عُرِّسَ, inf. n. as above, It (a chamber) had an عَرْس [q. v.] made to it. (TA.) 4 اعرس He made, or prepared, a marriagefeast. (S, O, Msb, K, TA.) b2: [He became a bridegroom.] And اعرس بِأَهْلِهِ, (S, O, K,) or بِامْرَأَتِهِ, (Mgh, * Msb,) He had his wife conducted to him on the occasion of the marriage; syn. بَنَى

بِهَا, (T, S,) or بَنَى عَلَيْهَا; (Mgh, O, K;) as also بها ↓ عرّس; (TA;) or this latter is only used by the vulgar; (S, O, TA;) or is a mistake: (Mgh, Msb:) and he abode with his wife during the days of and after that event: (TA:) [and] he went in to his wife (IAth, Msb) [a signification which may be meant to be included in the explanation بني بها or بنى عليها] on the occasion of that event; meaning, he compressed her; وَطْءٌ being thus called إِعْرَاسٌ because it is a consequence of إِعْرَاس [properly so termed]: (IAth:) the phrase also signifies [simply] he compressed his wife. (S, TA.) A2: See also 2: A3: and see عَرِسَ بِهِ.5 تعرّس لِامْرَأَتِهِ He manifested, or showed, love, or affection, to his wife, (A, Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) and kept to her. (TA.) [App. originally signifying He behaved like a bridegroom (عَرُوس) to his wife.]

عَرْسٌ A wall which is placed between the two [main lateral] walls of the winter-chamber, not reaching to the further end thereof, (S, O, K, TA,) then the beam is laid from the inner extremity of that wall to the further end of the chamber, (TA,) and it is roofed over, (S, O, K, TA,) i. e. the whole chamber is roofed over: what is between the two walls [above mentioned] is [called] a سَهْوَة [q. v.], and what is beneath the beam [app. with what is screened by the middle wall from the portion (of the chamber) in which is the entrance] is the مُِخْدَع: (TA:) this is done for the sake of more warmth, and only in cold countries: (S, O, K, TA:) and it is called in Pers\. بيجه [correctly پيچه]: (S, TA:) and عَرْصٌ is [said to be] a dial. var. thereof. (TA.) عُرْسٌ (Az, S, Msb, K) and ↓ عُرُسٌ (Az, S, K) substs. from أَعْرَسَ as signifying “ he had his wife conducted to him on the occasion of his marriage,” and “ he went in to her: ” (Az, TA:) The ceremony of conducting a bride to her husband: (Msb:) or the ministration, or performance, of a marriage, and of the ceremony of conducting the bride to her husband: (TA:) or [simply] marriage: or coitus: syn. نِكَاحٌ: (K, TA:) because this is the real thing intended by الإِعْرَاس: (TA:) in the first of these senses, it is masc. and fem.; or, accord. to some, fem. only: as masc., its pl. is أَعْرَاسٌ; and as fem., its pl. is عُرُسَاتٌ. (Msb.) Hence [the trad.], إِذَا دُعِىَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى وَلِيمَةِ عُرْسٍ فَلْيُجِبْ When any one of you is invited to a marriage-feast, or a feast given on the occasion of the conducting of a bride to her husband, let him consent. (Mgh.) b2: And hence, (Az, TA,) A marriage-feast: (A 'Obeyd, Az, S, O, K:) or a feast made on the occasion of conducting a bride to her husband: (Msb:) in this sense it is masc.: (Msb:) or mase, and fem.: (S, O:) or fem., and sometimes mase. (Az, TA.) A rájiz says, إِنَّا وَجَدْنَا عُرُسَ الحَنَّاطِ لَئِيمَةً مَذْمُومَةَ الحُوَّاطِ [Verily we found the marriage-feast of the wheatseller to be mean, discommended for the managers: see also حُوَاطَةٌ]. (Az, S, O, TA.) Pl. as above, i. e., أَعْرَاسٌ and عُرُسَاتٌ. (S, O, K.) [See an ex. voce خُرْسٌ.] b3: [And hence,] A state of rejoicing. (IB, voce مَأْتَمٌ, q. v.) b4: The dim. is [عُرَيْسٌ,] without ة; which is extr., [accord. to those who hold it to be fem. only,] for [accord, to them] it should have ة, being a fem. n. of three letters. (TA.) عِرْسٌ A man's wife: (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K:) and a woman's husband: (O, Msb, K:) pl. (in both senses, TA) أَعْرَاسٌ: (S, O, Msb, K, TA:) the dual, عِرْسَانِ, is sometimes applied to the male and female, (S, O,) or husband and wife: (TA:) and to a male and female ostrich: (IB:) and the sing., to the mate of the lion: (S, A, O, K:) and the pl. is applied, metaphorically, by Málik Ibn-Khuweylid El-Hudhalee, to lions. (TA.) A2: اِبْنُ عِرْسٍ [The weasel; and a weasel;] a certain small animal, (Lth, S, O, Msb, K,) well known, (TA,) resembling the rat (الفَأْرَة), (Msb,) smaller than the cat, (Lth, O, TA,) having the lower lip cleft (أَشْتَرُ), and very short ears, as though they were amputated, (Lth, O, K,) and having a canine tooth; (TA;) called in Persian رَاسُوْ: (S, Mgh:) the name is determinate and indeterminate: (TA:) pl. بَنَاتُ عِرْسٍ, (S, Msb, K,) applied to the males and the females; (O, K;) like as you say اِبْنُ آوَى and اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ and اِبْنُ لَبُونٍ and اِبْنُ مَآءٍ, and in the pl. بَنَاتُ آوَى and بَنَاتُ مَخَاضٍ and بَنَاتُ لَبُونٍ and بَنَاتُ مَآءٍ; or, accord. to Akh, you say بَنَاتُ عِرْسٍ and بَنُو عِرْسٍ, like بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ and بَنُو نَعْشٍ. (S, O.) عِرِسٌ One who quits not the place of conflict, by reason of courage. (TA.) b2: العَرِسُ The lion: (O, K:) because he keeps to the preying upon men; or because he keeps to his covert, or retreat. (O, * TA.) A2: Also Confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course; syn. دَهِشٌ. (S, O, K.) عُرُسٌ: see عُرْسٌ.

عِرْسِىٌّ A certain dye; (K;) a certain colour of dye, likened to the colour of the اِبْنُ عِرْس [or weasel]. (S, O.) عِرَاسٌ: see 1, last sentence.

عَرُوسٌ A bridegroom: and a bride: i. e., a man, and a woman, during the period of their إِعْرَاس or أَعْرَاس [thus differently written in different MSS.]; (S, A, O, Msb, K;) or when the one goes in to the other: (IAth:) you say رَجُلٌ عَرُوسٌ [a bridegroom, vulgarly, in the present day, ↓ عَرِيس,] and اِمْرَأَةٌ عَرُوسٌ [a bride, vulgarly, in the present day, ↓ عَرُوسَة]: (S:) and عُرُوسٌ is a dial. var. of the same: (IAar, TA:) pl. mase.

عُرُسٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and أَعْرَاسٌ; (TA;) and pl. fem. عَرَائِسُ. (S, O, Msb, K.) [See عَرِسَ, in two places.] It is said in a prov., كَادَ العَرُوسُ يَكُونُ أَمِيرًا [The bridegroom was near to being a prince]. (S: in the O, مَلِكًا.) The dim. is عُرَيِّسٌ, without the addition of ة to distinguish the fem., because of the fourth letter. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] أَبْيَاتٌ عَرَائِسُ (tropical:) Verses of which the words are marked with diacritical points: for, as Esh-Shereeshee says, the Arabs used to adorn the bride by speckling her cheeks with saffron: opposed to أَبْيَاتٌ عَوَاطِلُ. (Har p. 610.) b3: [Hence also,] عَرَائِسُ الإِبِلِ (assumed tropical:) The high-bred of camels. (A.) عَرِيس: see the next preceding paragraph.

عَرُوسَة: see the next preceding paragraph.

عِرِّيسٌ and عِرِّيسَةٌ, [the latter the more common,] A thicket: (L:) the covert, or retreat, of the lion, (S, O, K, TA,) in a thicket. (TA.) [It is said in a prov.,] كَمُبْتَغِى الصَّيْدِ فِى عِرِّيسَةِ الأَسَدِ [Like the seeker of game in the covert of the lion]: from a verse of Et-Tirimmáh. (Z, O. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 360.] (TA.) b2: Also the former, The place of growth [or origin] of the stock of a man, among his people. (TA.) عِرِّيسَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مُعْرَسٌ: see what next follows.

مُعَرَّسٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ مُعْرَسٌ, (O, K,) [the former of which is the more common,] A place where people alight (S, O, K) during a journey, (S,) in the last part of the night, for a rest, (S, O, K,) and make their camels lie down, and take a nap, or slight sleep, (TA,) after which they depart, (S,) and continue their journey, at daybreak: (TA:) or a place where people alight in the first part of the night, after journeying all the day: or a usual place of resort where people alight at any time of the night or day. (TA.) b2: Also the former, A chamber (بَيْت) having an عَرْس [q. v.] made to it. (S, O, K.)

برش

1 بَرِشَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. بَرَشٌ, i. q. بَرِصَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. بَرَصٌ: (Msb:) [or rather, used allusively for the latter verb: see أَبْرَشُ. See also بَرَشٌ, below.]9 ابرشّ, inf. n. إِبْرشَاشٌ, He (a horse) was, or became, marked with small specks, called بَرَش, differing from the rest of his colour. (S.) بَرَشٌ, in the hair of a horse, Small specks, differing from the rest of the colour; (S, K;) as also ↓ بُرْشَةٌ: (K:) or both signify a colour in which one speck is red and another black or dustcoloured or the like. (TA.) b2: And hence, (T-A,) the former, (A, TA,) or ↓ both (K,) A whiteness that appears upon the nails. (Ibráheem El-Harbee, A, K.) b3: And the former, White specks in the skin. (A.) b4: [See also 1.]

بُرْشَةٌ: see بَرَشٌ, in two places.

بَرِيشٌ: see أَبْرَشُ.

أَبْرَشُ, applied to a horse, (S, K,) or to one of the sort termed بِرْذَون, (Lh,) Marked with the small speaks termed بَرَش; (Lh, S, K;) as also ↓ بَرِيشٌ. (K.) Also, شَاةٌ بَرْشَآءُ A ewe, or she-goat, marked with specks of various colours. (TA.) And حَيَّةٌ بَرْشَآءُ A serpent black speckled with white, or white speckled with black. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] i. q. أَبْرَصُ: fem. بَرْشَآءُ: pl. بُرْشٌ: (Msb:) [or rather, used allusively for أَبْرَصُ; for] Jedheemeh (S, A, K) Ibn-Málik (S, TA) Ibn-Fahm, (TA,) the king [of El-Heereh], (K,) was surnamed الأَبْرَشُ in allusion to his being أَبْرَص; (S, A, K;) the Arabs fearing to apply to him this latter epithet: (K:) or he was thus called because he was marked with black or red specks caused by a burn. (Kh.) b3: مَكَانٌ أَبْرَشُ A place of various colours, abounding in plants or herbage: (K:) and أَرْضٌ بَرْشَآءٌ, and سَنَةٌ بَرْشَآءُ, land, and a year, in which is abundance of herbage (Ks, K) of various colours; (Ks;) as also رَبْشَآءُ and رَمْشَآءُ. (TA.)

فص

1 فَصَّهُ, [aor., accord. to rule, فَصُّ, and inf. n., accord. to Golius, فَصٌّ,] (tropical:) He separated it from (مِنْ) another thing; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ افتصّهُ: (S, K:) and he pulled it out, or up, or off; or removed it; or displaced it; from another thing; (S, K;) as also ↓ the latter. (S.) A2: فَصَّ, inf. n. فَصَصٌ: see 7.

A3: فَصَّ الجُرْحُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. فَصِيصٌ, (S, M, O, K,) like فَزَّ; (S, O;) The wound became moist, and flowed: (S, O, K:) or flowed: or flowed with somewhat, not much. (M.) And فَصَّ العَرَقُ The sweat exuded; (M, TA;) and so فِزَّ. (TA.) b2: فَصَّ said of the [locust, or cricket, called]

جُنْدَب, (Sh, O, K,) inf. n. فَصِيصٌ (M, O) and فَصٌّ, (M,) It uttered a sound. (Sh, M, O, K.) And, said of a child, (AA, O, K,) inf. n. فَصِيصٌ, (AA, O,) He uttered a weak weeping, (AA, O, K, TA,) like whistling. (TA.) b3: And فَصِيصٌ signifies also The being in a state of commotion; and twisting, or winding. (M.) A4: And one says, مَا فَصَّ فِى يَدِ ى شَىْءٌ, (IAar, M, O, K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. فَصٌّ, (M,) Nothing remained, or became permanent, (IAar, O, K,) or accrued, (M,) [in my hand,] مِنْهُ, [thereof, or therefrom]. (M.) 2 فصّص الخَاتَمَ [He set a فَصّ (q. v.) in the ring, or signet]. (A.) A2: فصّص بِعَيْنِهِ, (A,) inf. n. تَفْصِيصٌ, (O, K,) (tropical:) He looked intently, or hardly: (A:) or he opened his eyes and looked intently, or hardly. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) 4 أَفْصَ3َافصّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَقِّهِ شَيْأً (assumed tropical:) He produced, or gave forth, (Fr, S, K,) or gave, (M,) to him somewhat of his right, or due. (Fr, S, M, K.) 7 انفصّ (tropical:) It became separated from (مِنْ) another thing: (S, M, K, TA:) it became parted asunder, severed, disjoined, or disunited: (TA:) and i. q. اِنْفَرَجَ [app. as meaning it opened, so as to form an interval, an interstice, or a gap]; (L;) [and so, app., ↓ فَصَّ, aor. ـَ inf. n. فَصَصٌ; for]

فَصَصٌ is syn, with اِنْفِرَاجٌ. (TA.) And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) He got out of or from (من) a thing, and severed himself therefrom. (Mtr, in De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, 2nd ed., tome iii., p. 232.) And انْفَصَصْتُ عَنِ الكَلَامِ means اِنْفَرَجْتُ [i. e., app., I broke off from, or intermitted, speaking]. (L.) 8 إِفْتَصَ3َ see 1, in two places.10 مَا استفصّ مِنْهُ شَيْأً (assumed tropical:) He did not extract, get out, or elicit, from him, or it, anything. (S, K.) R. Q. 1 فَصْفَصَ He told a narrative, or story, truly; (IAar, K, TA;) as though from its فَصّ, [q. v.,] and كُنْه. (TA.) b2: And [the inf. n.] signifies The being hasty in speech, (Ibn-'Abbád, 'O, K,) and quick therein. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) A2: Also He fed a beast, or horse or the like, with فِصْفِصَة [q. v.]. (M.) R. Q. 2 تَفَصْفَصُوا عَنْهُ, (K, TA,) مِنْ حَوَالَيْهِ, (O, TA,) They dispersed themselves, and took themselves away, from him, (K, TA,) from around him; and took fright, and ran away at random. (O, TA.) فَصٌّ, of a ring, or signet, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) signifies [The stone, or gem, or] what is set therein, (Lth, M, L, Msb,) of a different substance therefrom; (Msb;) and is also written ↓ فِصٌّ, (M, A, K,) thus pronounced by the vulgar, (Lth, S,) but J's saying this does not necessarily mean that it is incorrect, which, as in opposition to what is said by J, it is asserted not to be in the K [and A], (TA,) or the latter form is bad, accord. to ISk and El-Fárábee; (Msb;) and ↓ فُصٌّ; (A, K;) all of which three forms are mentioned by Ibn-Málik and others; but they assert that the first is the most correct and the most commonly known: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَفُصٌّ (Lth, M) and [of mult.] فُصُوصٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and فِصَاصٌ. (Lth, M.) b2: [Also, Any gem, or similar stone, rare or common, and natural or factitious: and any hard stone cut for inlaying or for construction. b3: A die, such as is used in the game of tables, or backgammon: and an ossicle that is used in like manner: see كَعْبٌ.] b4: (tropical:) A clove (سِنٌّ) of garlic; (Lth, A, O, K;) [and] so ↓ فَصَّةٌ. (S and L in art. سن.) b5: (assumed tropical:) The yolk of an egg. (M, voce مُحٌّ.) b6: (assumed tropical:) The bubbles of water. (M.) b7: (assumed tropical:) What leaps, or leap, up, [i. e., the particles that leap up, in effervescence,] of wine. (M.) b8: (tropical:) The black (حَدَقَة) of the eye: (M, K:) [or the pupil: for] you say, عَرَفْتُ البَغْضَآءَ فِى فَصِّ حَدَقَتِهِ (tropical:) [I knew vehement hatred in the pupil of the black of his eye]: and رَمَوْهُ بِفُصُوصِ أَعْيُنِهِمْ (tropical:) [they cast piercing glances at him with their eyeballs]. (A, TA.) b9: (tropical:) A joint, or place of separation between two parts of an animal: (M, A:) or any joint, (Az, M,) or any place of meeting of two bones, (ISk, S, Msb, K,) except (of) the fingers, (Az, M,) for the joints thereof are not so called: (M:) pl., in this and all the other senses which we have mentioned, [of pauc.] أَفُصٌّ (M) and [of mult.]

فُصُوصٌ: (S, M, A, Msb:) or, as some say, contradicting Az, the فصوص are the بَرَاجِم and the سُلَامَيَات: [see these two words:] (Sh, TA:) and ISh says, in the “ Book of Horses,” that the فصوص of the horse are the joints of the knee and pasterns, in which latter are the سُلَامَيَات, these being the bones of the pasterns. (TA.) One says of a horse, إِنَّ فُصُوصَهُ لَظِمَآءٌ (tropical:) Verily his joints are hard; not flabby nor fleshy. (S, A.) [and hence, app., from the place in which it is mentioned by Z in this art., the saying,] فُلَانٌ حَزَّازُ الفُصُوصِ [in a copy of the A, حَزَّارُ; and in the TA, ضرار; but I have no doubt that the right reading is that which I have given; lit., Such a one is the great cutter of joints;] meaning, (tropical:) Such a one is often right in his judgment, or opinion, and in his answer. (A, TA.) b10: Hence, [immediately,] accord. to Abu-l-'Abbás; or [originally] from فَصٌّ in the first of the senses expl. above, accord. to IDrd; (Mtr, cited in De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, see. ed. iii. 232;) فَصُّ أَمْرٍ (tropical:) The point upon which a thing, or an affair, turns, or hinges; or the point in which it is distinguished, or discriminated, from other things; syn. مَفْصِلُهُ; (Abu-l- 'Abbás ubi suprà, S, Msb, K;) or مَحَزُّهٌ: (Mtr ubi suprá:) [or its utmost point, or particular; syn. مُنْتَهَاهُ: (Msb in art. فصل, in explanation of مَفْصِلُ أمْرٍ:)] or its origin, or source; syn. أَصْلُه; (M; and Mtr ubi suprà, and L;) and مَخْرَجُهُ الَّذى قَدْ خَرَجَ مِنْهُ: (L, TA:) and its essence, or very essence; its substance; its most essential, or elementary, part; its pith; the ultimate element to which it can be reduced or resolved; syn. حَقِيقَتُهُ, (M, L, TA,) and كُنْهُهُ, i. e. جَوْهَرُهُ, and نِهَايَتُهُ: (L, TA:) or its real, as opposed to its apparent, state; syn. مَخْبَرُهُ. (A, TA.) Hence the saying, (S, Msb, TA,) of a poet, (S, TA,) or of Ez-Zubeyr Ibn-El-'Owwám, (TA,) or of 'AbdAllah Ibn-Jaafar Ibn-Abee-Tálib, (Mtr ubi suprà, and TA,) وَيَأْتِيكَ بِالأَمْرِ مِنْ فَصِّهِ (tropical:) [And he will tell thee the thing, or affair, tracing it from the point on which it turns, or hinges; &c.: but it appears to be originally without وَ; forming an incomplete hemistich: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 918]: (S, M, * A, * Mtr, TA:) or he will tell thee the thing, or affair, distinctly. (Msb, TA. *) You say also, قَرَأْتُ فِى فَصِّ الكِتَابِ كَذَا (tropical:) [I read, in the most essential part of the book or writing, such a thing]. (A, TA.) And hence, فُصُوصُ الأَخْبَارِ (tropical:) [The most essential parts or particulars of narrations]. (A.) فُصٌّ: see فَصٌّ, first signification.

فِصٌّ: see فَصٌّ, first signification.

فَصَّةٌ: see فَصٌّ, former half.

فَصِيصٌ [as an inf. n.: see 1.

A2: Also] Datestones (نَوًى) clean, as though oiled. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) فَصَّاصٌ [A cutter, or an engraver, or a seller, of فُصُوص, or stones, or gems, for rings or signets]. (TA.) فَصْفِصٌ: see what next follows.

فصْفِصَةٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ فِصْفِصٌ (M) A certain plant; (K;) i. q. رَطْبَةٌ [a species of trefoil, or clover], (S, M, Msb,) a food for beasts, or horses and the like, (TA,) before it dries up; after which it is called قَتّ: (Msb:) or i. q. قَتٌّ: or قَتّ in its fresh state: (M:) also written with س: (TA:) originally, (S, M,) in Pers\., (S, M, K,) إِسْفِسْتْ, (so in copies of the S,) or إِسْبِسْتْ, (so in a copy of the S and one of the M) or إِسْبِسْتْ, (K, and so, accord. to the TA, in the hand writing of Az,) or إِسْپِسْتْ: (CK:) pl. فَصَافِصُ. (S, M, Msb.) فُصَافِصٌ Hardy; strong; (O, K, TA;) applied to a man. (TA.) الفُصَافصَةُ The lion. (O, K.) خَاتَمٌ مُفَصَّصٌ [A ring, or signet, having a فَصّ set in it]. (A.)