عشب

1 عَشِبَ المَوْضِعُ and عَشِبَتِ الأَرْضُ: see 4. b2: عَشِبَ said of bread, (Yaakoob, TA,) It was, or became, dry, (Yaakoob, K, TA.) b3: And عشب, [so in the TA, app. عَشُبَ,] inf. n. عَشَابَةٌ and عُشُوبَةٌ, said of a man, He became dry, or tough, by reason of leanness. (Yaakoob, TA.) 2 عَشَّبَ see what next follows.4 اعشب المَوْضِعُ; and ↓ عَشِبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. عَشَبٌ; The place produced its [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب: (Msb:) and in like manner, (Msb,) اعشبت الأَرْضُ, (S, O, Msb, K,) and ↓ عَشِبَت, (Msb,) and thus in a copy of the K, [and in my MS. copy,] but in another copy, [and in the CK,] ↓ عشّبت, (TA,) The land produced عُشْب. (S, O, K.) [See also 12. After the mention of بَلَدٌ عَاشِبٌ in the S and O, it is said in the former that for the verb one does not say otherwise than اعشبت الأَرْضُ, and in the latter that one does not say عَشَبَ البَلَدُ.] b2: And اعشب القَوْمُ The people, or party, lighted on, or found, عُشْب; (S, O, K;) as also القوم ↓ اِعْشَوْشَبَ [but probably in an intensive sense]. (K.) One says to him who is sent to seek for herbage, أَعْشَبْتَ اِنْزِلْ [Thou hast found fresh herbage: alight]. (O.) b3: See also 5.

A2: سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْشَبَنِى [I asked him and] he gave me an old she-camel, (S, O, K, TA,) i. e. what is termed عَشَبَة. (TA.) 5 تعشّبت الإِبِلُ The camels fed upon [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب; and [accord. to the TA as a distinct meaning] became fat (K, TA) therefrom; (TA;) as also ↓ أَعْشَبَت accord. to the K, but this latter is wrong, being correctly ↓ اعتشبت, as in the parent-lexicons. (TA.) 8 إِعْتَشَبَ see what next precedes.12 اِعْشَوْشَبَتِ الأَرْضُ The land produced abundance, or much, of [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب; this verb having an intensive signification, like اخشوشن [q. v.]. (S, O, TA.) [It is erroneously mentioned in the K as syn. with

أَعْشَبَت.] b2: See also 4.

عُشْبٌ [a coll. gen. n.], n. un. with ة; (TA;) Fresh, green, juicy, soft, or tender, herbs or herbage, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) in the first part of the [season called] رَبِيع [i. e. رَبِيعُ الكَلَأَ, which begins in January and ends in March, O. S.]: (Msb:) not termed حَشِيشٌ until drying up: (S, O:) or, in the opinion of the generality of the lexicologists, عُشْبٌ is applied to such as is fresh and to such as is dry: (ISd, TA voce حَشِيشٌ:) or the first, or earliest, of herbage, (سَرَعَانُ الكَلَأِ,) in the رَبِيع, that [afterwards] dries up, and does not remain; the term كَلَأٌ being applied by the Arabs to عُشْب and to other kinds: and عُشْبٌ is applied to fresh, green, juicy, soft, or tender, herbs or leguminous plants, of the desert, that come forth in the رَبِيع: and under this term are included those that are hard and thick, which are termed the ذُكُور thereof; as well as to those that are slender and soft, which are termed the أَحْرَار thereof: or, accord. to AHn, whatever is destroyed by winter, and grows again from the stocks, or roots, thereof, or the seed: he says also that it is applied to such [herbage] as is uninterrupted; as opposed to تَعَاشِيبُ: or, accord. to Th, it is applied to the mature; as so opposed. (TA.) b2: عُشْبَةُ الدَّارِ [The green herb of the dwelling] means that which grows in the دِمْنَة [or patch of ground which people have blackened by their cooking and where their cattle have staled and dunged] of the dwelling, surrounded by fresh, or green, herbs, in a white [or clean] part of the ground, and good soil: and hence, (tropical:) The هَجِينَة [or woman whose father is a free man, or an Arab, and her mother a slave]; an appellation like خَضْرَآءُ الوَضَرِ [app. lit. meaning “ The green herb that grows in the place where the water with which skins have been washed, or the like, is poured out: ” but IbrD thinks that it may be a mistranscription for خَضْرَآءُ الدِّمَنِ]. (TA.) b3: [عُشْبُ الذِّئْبِ is Eyptian toad-flax; antirrhinum Aegyptiacum; the name of which is written by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lxviii. and 112,) عشب الديب and Asjib ed dîb and Aeschib ed dîb.]

عِيَالٌ عَشَبٌ A family, or household, among whom is none little, or young. (S, O, K.) b2: See also عَشَبَةٌ.

عَشِبٌ; fem. with ة: for the latter see عَاشِبٌ.

عَشَبَةٌ An old she-camel (نَابٌ كَبِيرَةٌ [mistranslated by Golius and Freytag “ dens exertus magnus ”]); (S, O, K; [see 4;]) as also عَشَمَةٌ. (S, O.) And An old ewe, advanced in age. (K.) Also An old man bent with age. (K.) A man, and an old woman, bent, and slender, and advanced in age: (Lh, L, TA:) or a decrepit old man and old woman. (S, O.) A short man; (O, K;) as also ↓ عَشِيبٌ (K.) And A woman short, and ugly, or despicable; (O, K, TA;) and so applied to a man; (TA;) or so ↓ عَشَبٌ applied to a man. (O.) And A man dry, or tough, by reason of leanness. (Yaakoob, TA.) عَشِيبٌ; and its fem., with ة: see عَاشِبٌ, in three places.

A2: And see also عَشَبَةٌ.

عَشَابَةٌ The state of having, or producing, [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب, (S, O,) or much thereof. (K.) بَلَدٌ عَاشِبٌ (S, A, O) and ↓ مُعْشِبٌ, (A,) and مَوْضِعٌ عَاشِبٌ (Msb) and ↓ مَكَانٌ عَشِيبٌ, (S, O,) and رَوْضٌ عَاشِبٌ and ↓ مُعْشِبٌ, (TA,) and أَرْضٌ عَاشِبَةٌ (Msb, K) and ↓ عَشِيبَةٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and ↓ عَشِبَةٌ (Msb, K) and ↓ مُعْشِبَةٌ, (S, Msb,) but some do not say ↓ عَشِيبٌ, (Msb,) [A country, and a place, and meadows, and land,] having, or producing, [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed]

عُشْب, (S, A, O, Msb,) or much thereof. (K. [See also مِعْشَابٌ.]) b2: And بَعِيرٌ عَاشِبٌ A camel feeding upon عُشْب. (S, O.) تَعَاشِيبُ Scanty, and scattered, or disunited, [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب: a word [of an extr. form (see تَبَاشِيرُ) and] having no sing.: (S, O:) or scattered, or disunited, portions thereof: (AHn, K, TA:) or different kinds of herbage: in the saying of a seeker of herbage, عُشْبٌ وَتَعَاشِيبْ وَكَمْأَةٌ شِيبْ تُثِيرُهَا بِأَخْفَافِهَا النِّيبْ, it means scattered, or disunited, عُشْب: (AHn, TA:) or عُشْبٌ not yet mature. (Th, TA.) [See عُشْبٌ as opposed thereto.]

مُعْشِبٌ and its fem.: see عَاشِبٌ, in three places.

أَرْضٌ مِعْشَابٌ, and أَرَضُونَ مَعَاشِيبُ, [Land, and lands,] having, or producing, much herbage [of the kind termed عُشْب]: (K, * TA:) معاشيب is pl. of معشاب, or it has no proper sing. (TA.) [See also عَاشِبٌ.]

خل

1 خَلَّ لَحْمُهُ, aor. ـُ (Ks, S, K, TA, in the CK خَلَّ,) [irreg. in the case of an intrans. v. of this class, unless the verb be of the measure فَعُلَ,] and خَلِّ, (K,) [agreeably with general rule,] inf. n. خَلٌّ and خُلُولٌ; (Ks, S, K;) and ↓ اختلّ; (Sgh, K;) His flesh became little, or scanty; (Ks, S;) or his flesh decreased, diminished, or wasted: (K:) he became lean, or spare. (Ks, S, K.) [But it seems, from what follows, that the verb may be of the measure فَعِلَ, aor. ـَ as well as of the measure فَعَلَ, aor. ـِ or خَلُّ; or perhaps of the measures فَعِلَ and فَعَلَ and فَعُلَ, so that the aor. may be regularly خَلَّ and خَلِّ and خَلُّ.] b2: You say also خَلِلْتُ مِنْ كَذَا I missed such a thing. (JK.) And خَلَّ البَعِيرُ مِنَ الرَّبِيعِ The camel missed the [herbage called] ربيع, and became lean in consequence thereof. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) b3: and خَلَّ, (JK, S, K,) inf. n. خَلٌّ; (TA;) and ↓ أَخَلَّ, (JK, Msb, TA,) or ↓ أُخِلَّ, (K,) and بِهِ ↓ أُخِلَّ; (S, TA;) and ↓ اختلّ; (MA, KL;) said of a man, (JK, S, Msb,) He was, or became, poor, or in want or need. (JK, S, MA, KL, Msb, K, AT.) A2: خَلَّ الشَّىْءَ, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He, or it, perforated the thing; transpierced it, or pierced it through; as also ↓ تخللّٰهُ: (K:) so in the M. (TA.) You say, خَلَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ بِالخِلَالِ, aor. ـُ I transfixed, or transpierced, the thing with the [pin called] خلال. (JK,) [And خَلَّ اللَّحْمَ He skewered the flesh-meat.] And خَلَلْتُهُ بِالرُّمْحِ I pierced him with the spear. (JK.) And بِالرُّمْحِ ↓ اختلّهُ He transpierced him, or transfixed him, with the spear; (T, M, K, TA;) and so بِالسَّهْمِ with the arrow: (S:) or the former signifies he pierced him with the spear and transfixed his heart: (TA:) accord. to Az, الاِخْتِلَالُ relates to the heart and the liver. (M in art. نظم.) And CCC الثَّوْرُ ↓ يَخْتَلًّ

الكَلْبَ بِقَرْنِهِ [The bull pierces the dog with his horn]. (JK. [It is there vaguely indicated that ↓ خِلَّةٌ signifies The act, or perhaps the effect, of a bull's piercing a dog with his horn.]) and بِالرُّمْحِ ↓ تخللّٰهُ He pierced him time after time with the spear. (M, K.) b2: And خَلَّ الفَصِيلَ, (K,) inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He slit the tongue of the young camel, and inserted into it a wooden pin called خِلَال, in order that he might not such: (K:) or [simply] he slit the tongue of the young camel, in order that he might not be able to such [any longer], so that he became lean; as also خَلَّ لِسَانَ الفَصِيلِ: (S:) or الخَلُّ signifies the fixing a خِلَال above the nose of the young camel, to prevent his sucking. (TA in art. لهج.) b3: and خَلَّةُ, (T, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) aor. ـُ inf. n. خَلٌّ, (S, Msb, TA,) namely, a thing, (TA,) a garment, (T, TA,) a [garment such as is called] كِسَآء (S, K, TA) or رَدَآء (Mgh, Msb) &c., (TA,) and a [tent such as is called] خِبَآء, (S, TA,) He pinned it with the [pin called] خِلَال; (T, TA;) he conjoined (Mgh, Msb, TA) its two edges, (Mgh, Msb,) or its edges, (TA,) or he fastened it, (K,) with a خِلَال: (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA:) and ↓ خللّٰهُ has a similar, but intensive, signification. (Msb) A poet says, سَمِعْنَ بِمَوْتِهِ فَظَهَرْنَ نَوْحًا قِيَامًا مَا يُخَلُّ لَهُنَّ عُودُ meaning, لَا يُخَلُّ لَهُنَّ ثَوْبٌ بِعُودٍ [i. e. They (the women) heard of his death, and appeared, wailing, standing; no garment of theirs having its edges fastened together with a pointed piece of wood]. (TA.) A3: خَلَّ الإِبِلَ, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He removed, transferred, or shifted, the camels to what is termed خُلَّة [after they had been pasturing upon حَمْض]; as also ↓ أَخَلَّهَا: (K:) or the latter signifies he pastured them upon خُلَّة. (S.) A4: خَلَّ, (Lh, S, K,) [aor. ـُ inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) is also syn. with خَصَّ [He particularized, or specified]; (Lh, S, K;) contr. of عَمَّ; (K;) and so ↓ خلّل: (JK, S, TA:) thus in the phrase, عَمَّ فِى دُعَائِهِ وَخَلَّ (S, TA) and وَخَلَّلَ (JK, S, TA) [He included, or comprehended, persons or things in common, or in general, in his prayer or supplication &c., and particularized, or specified, some person or thing, or some persons or things].2 خلّل أَسْنَانَهُ, inf. n. تَخْلِيلٌ, [He picked his teeth;] he extracted the remains of food between his teeth with a خِلَال [or toothpick]; (Msb, K, * in which latter the pass. form of the verb is mentioned;) and so ↓ تخلّل, alone; (T, S, * O, TA;) but accord. to the K, you say, تخللّٰهُ [he extracted it], meaning the remains of food between the teeth. (TA.) b2: خلّل الشَّعَرَ بِالمُشْطِ [He separated the hair with the comb; he combed the hair]. (Mgh voce تَشْرِيحٌ.) b3: خلّل لِحْيَتَهُ, (S, * Msb, K,) and أَصَابِعَهُ, (S, * K,) inf. n. as above, (S,) He made the water to flow into the interstices of his beard, (Msb, K,) and of his fingers or toes, (K,) in the ablution termed وُضُوْء; (S, TA;) and ↓ تخلّل, alone, signifies the same. (S.) It (the former) is as though it were taken from تَخَلَّلْتُ القَوْمَ meaning “I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people. ” (Msb.) Hence the trad., خَلِّلُوا أَصَابِعَكُمْ لَا تُخَلَّلَهَا نَارٌ قَلِيلٌ بُقْيَاهَا [Make ye the water to flow into the interstices of your fingers or toes, lest fire that shall spare little be made to flow into their interstices]. (TA.) b4: خللّٰهُ كِلْسًا He put صَارُوج [or كِلْس, i. e. quick lime, &c.,] into the interstices of its (a building's) stones. (TA in art. كلس.) b5: خلّل القِثَّآءَ, and البِطِّيخَ, inf. n. as above, He investigated the state of the cucumbers, and the melons, or water-melons, so as to see every one that had not grown, and put another in its place. (AA, TA.) b6: See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.

A2: And see 1 again, last sentence.

A3: خلّل, inf. n. تَخْلِيلٌ, said of wine and of other beverages, It became acid, or sour; and spoiled: (K:) or, said of شَرَاب [i. e. wine and the like], (Mgh,) or of نَبِيذ [i. e. must and the like], (Msb,) or of expressed juice, (K,) it became vinegar; (Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اختلّ; (Lth, K;) but this is disallowed by Az; (TA;) and ↓ تخلّل; but this is of the language of the lawyers; (Mgh;) or, said of نبيذ, this last signifies it was made into vinegar: (Msb:) or خلّل, said of شراب, signifies it spoiled, (JK, T,) and became vinegar. (T.) A4: تَخْلِيلٌ also signifies The making vinegar; (S;) and so ↓ اِخْتِلَالٌ; (K;) i. e. of the expressed juice of grapes and of dates. (TA.) You say, خلّل الخَمْرَ, (K,) or الشَّرَابَ, (Mgh,) or النَّبِيذ, inf. n. as above, (Msb,) the verb being trans. as well as intrans., (Mgh, Msb, K,) and النَّبِيذَ ↓ تخلّل, (TA,) He made the wine, or beverage, or must or the like, into vinegar. (Mgh, Msb, K, TA.) A5: And خلّل البُسْرَ He put the full-grown unripe dates in the sun, and then sprinkled them (نَضَحَهُ, in some copies of the K نضجه,) with vinegar, and placed them in a jar: (K:) so in the M: and in like manner, other things than بُسْر; as cucumbers, and cabbage, and بَاذَنْجَان [q. v.], and onions. (TA.) [Accord. to modern usage, the verb signifies He pickled.]3 خالّهُ, (JK, Mgh, K,) inf. n. مُخَالَّةٌ and خِلَالٌ (JK, S, K) and [quasi-inf. n.] ↓ خُلَّةٌ, (JK,) He acted, or associated, with him as a friend, or as a true, or sincere, friend. (JK, S, * Mgh, K.) لَا بَيْعٌ فِيهِ وَلَا خِلَالٌ, in the Kur [xiv. 36], is said to mean [Wherein shall be no buying or selling] nor mutual befriending: or [and no friends, or true friends, for], as some say, خِلَالٌ is here pl. of ↓ خُلَّةٌ, like as جِلَالٌ is pl. of جُلَّةٌ. (TA.) 4 أَخَلَّ and أُخِلَّ and أُخِلَّ بِهِ: see 1, near the beginning. b2: أخَلَّ بِهِ He (a man) fell, or stopped, short in it; fell short of accomplishing it; fell short of doing what was requisite, or due, or what he ought to have done, in it, or with respect to it; or flagged, or was remiss, in it; namely, a thing; syn. قَصَّرَ فِيهِ; (Msb;) as, for instance, in belief, and in confession thereof, and in works: (Ksh and Bd in ii. 2:) he left it, neglected it, omitted it; or left it undone: (Har p. 402:) or i. q. أَجْحَفَ بِهِ [app. as meaning he was near to falling short of accomplishing it, or of doing what was requisite in it; or was near to being remiss in it]; namely, a thing. (K.) b3: He failed of fulfilling his compact with him, or his promise to him. (K.) b4: He became absent, or he absented himself, from it; he left, abandoned, or quitted, it; namely, a place &c. (K.) You say, اخلّ بِمَرْكَزِهِ He (a man, S, or a horseman, Mgh) left, abandoned, or quitted, his station (S, Mgh) which the commander had appointed him. (Mgh.) And اخلّ بِهِمْ He became absent, or he absented himself, from them. (JK.) b5: اخلّ الوَالِى بِالثُّغُورِ The prefect made the frontiers to be kept by a small body of troops. (K.) A2: أَخَلَّ إِلَيْهِ: see 8.

A3: اخلّهُ He made him, or caused him, to want, or be in need. (JK, S, K.) Yousay, مَا أَخَلَّكَ إِلَى هٰذَا What has made thee, or caused thee, to want, or be in need of, this? (S.) And مَا أَخَلَّكَ اللّٰهُ إِلَيْهِ What has God made thee, or caused thee, to want, or be in need of? (Lh, K.) A4: اخلّ الأِبِلَ: see 1, near the end of the paragraph.

A5: اخلّوا, (K,) inf. n. إِخْلَالٌ, (TA,) Their camels pastured upon what is termed خُلَّة. (K.) b2: Hence, اخلّ said of a man signifies (assumed tropical:) أَخَذَ مِنْ قُبُلٍ [i. e. He took frontways]: opposed to أَحْمَضَ [and حَمَّضَ, q. v.], meaning أَخَذَ مِنْ دُبُرٍ. (TA.) A6: اخلّت النَّخْلَةُ The palmtree produced bad fruit. (A' Obeyd, JK, S, K.) b2: And The palm-tree produced dates such as are termed خَلَال: [like أَبْلَحَت from بَلَحٌ:] thus it bears two contr. significations. (K.) 5 تخلّل [primarily signifies It entered, or penetrated, or passed through, the خِلَال, i. e. interstices, &c., of a thing]. You say, تَخَلَّلْتُ القَوْمَ I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people. (S, M, Msb, K. *) And تَخَلَّلُوا الدِّيَارَ [They went through the midst of the houses]. (S in art. جوس.) And تخلّل الرَّمْلَ He passed through the sands. (Az, TA.) And تخلّل القَلْبَ (assumed tropical:) [It penetrated the heart]; said of admonition. (TA in art. بهم.) And تخلّل الاشَّىْءُ The thing [i. e. anything] went, or passed, through. (JK, * S, K.) b2: [Hence, It intervened; said of a time &c. And hence the phrase مِنْ غَيْرِ تَخَلُّلِ Without interruption.] b3: And تخلّل المَطَرُ The rain was confined to a particular place, or to particular places; was not general. (S, K.) b4: See also 1, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph. b5: تخلّل الرُّطَبَ He sought out the fresh ripe dates in the interstices of the roots of the branches (M, K) after the cutting off of the racemes of fruit. (M.) And تخلّل النَّخْلَةَ He picked the dates that were among the roots of the branches of the palm-tree; as also تَكَرَّبَهَا. (AHn, TA.) b6: For other significations, see 2, in four places.6 تَخَالٌّ [said of several persons] The being friendly, one with another. (KL.) [You say, تَخَالُّوا They acted together, or associated, as friends, or as true friends.]8 اختلّ [primarily signifies] It had interstices, breaks, chinks, or the like. (MA. [See خَلَلٌ.]) b2: [And hence,] It was, or became, shaky, loose, lax, uncompact, disordered, unsound, corrupt, (Msb,) faulty, or defective, (KL, Msb,) [and weak, or infirm, (see خَلَلٌ and مُخْتَلٌّ,)] said of a thing or an affair; (KL;) it became altered for the worse. (Msb.) [You say, اختلّ مِزَاجُهُ His constitution, or temperament, became in a corrupt or disordered state. And اختلّ alone He was, or became, disordered in temper; (see تَحَمَّضَ;) but this seems to be from the same verb said of a camel; (see اختلّت الأِبِلُ, below;) for the camel becomes disordered in his stomach by pasturing long upon خُلَّة, without shifting to حَمْض. And اختلّ عَقْلَهُ His mind, or intellect, was, or became, unsound, or disordered.] and اختلّ أَمْرُهُ [His affair, or state, was, or became, unsound, corrupt, or disordered]; (S, voce اِضْطَرَبَ;) i. e. وَقَعَ فِيهِ الخَلَلُ. (JM.) b3: He was, or became, lean, meagre, or emaciated; (KL;) and so اختلّ جِسْمُهُ. (S.) See 1, first sentence. b4: See also خَلَّ as syn. with أَخَلَّ or أُخِلَّ &c., near the beginning of the first paragraph. [Hence,] اختلّ إِلَيْهِ He wanted it, or needed it; (S, Msb, K;) namely, a thing; (S, Msb;) as also اليه ↓ أَخَلَّ: (TA:) whence the saying of Ibn-Mes'ood, عَلَيْكُمْ بِالعِلْمِ فَإِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَايَدْرِى مَتَى يُخْتَلُّ إِلَيْهِ [Keep ye to the pursuit of knowledge, or science; for any one of you knows not, or will not know, when it will be wanted, or needed]; i. e., when men will want, or need, that [knowledge] which he possesses. (S.) You say also, اُخْتُلَّ إِلَى فُلَانٍ Such a one was wanted, or needed. (JK.) A2: See also 2, in two places.

A3: اختلّهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, and بِالسَّهْمِ: and يَخْتَلُّ الثَّوْرُ الكَلْبَ بِقَرْنِهِ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph. b2: اختلّ also signifies He served together. (KL.) b3: اُخْتُلَّ said of herbage: see خُلَّةٌ, near the end of the paragraph.

A4: اختلّ المَكَانُ The place had in it خُلَّة [q. v.]. (MA.) b2: And اختلّت الإِبِلُ The camels were confined in [pasturage such as is termed] خُلَّة. (K.) R. Q. 1 خَلْخَلَهَا He attired her with the خِلْخَال [or anklet, or pair of anklets]. (TA.) A2: خلخل العَظْمَ He took the flesh that was upon the bone. (K.) R. Q. 2 تَخَلْخَلَتْ She attired herself with the خَلْخَال [or anklet, or pair of anklets]. (K.) A2: تخلخل It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) was, or became, old, and worn out. (JK.) خَلٌّ a word of well-known meaning, (S, Msb.) Vinegar; i. e. expressed juice of grapes (JK, Mgh, K) and of dates (JK) &c. (K) that has become acid, or sour: (JK, * Mgh, K:) so called because its sweet flavour has become altered for the worse (اِخْتَلَّ): (Msb:) a genuine Arabic word: (IDrd, K:) the best is that of wine: it is composed of two constituents (K) of subtile natures, (TA,) hot and cold, (K,) the cold being predominant: (TA:) and is good for the stomach; and for the gums, (K,) which it strengthens, when one rinses the mouth with it; (TA;) and for foul ulcers or sores; and for the itch; and for the bite, or sting, of venomous reptiles; and as an antidote for the eating of opium; and for burns; and for toothache; and its hot vapour is good for the dropsy, and for difficulty of hearing, and for ringing in the ears: (K: [various other properties &c. are assigned to it in the TA:]) ↓ خَلَّةٌ signifies somewhat (lit. a portion) thereof; [being the n. un.:] (Aboo-Ziyád, K;) or it may be a dial. var. thereof, like as خَمْرَةٌ is [said by some to be] of خَمْرٌ: (Aboo-Ziyád, TA:) see also خَلَّةٌ: the pl. is خُلُولٌ [meaning sorts, or kinds, of vinegar]. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., نِعْمَ الإِدَامُ الخَلُّ [Excellent, or most excellent, is the seasoning, vinegar!]. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] أُمُّ الخَلِّ [The mother of vinegar; meaning] wine. (JK, TA.) b3: [Hence also the saying,] مَا فُلَانٌ بِخَلٍّ وَلَا خَمْرٍ, (A'Obeyd, JK, S,) or مَا لَهُ خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, (K,) or مَا عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, (S, in art. خمر,) Such a one, or he, possesses neither good nor evil: (A'Obeyd, JK, S, K:) [or neither evil nor good: for] AA says that some of the Arabs make الخَمْرُ to be good, and الخَلُّ to be evil; [and thus the latter is explained in one place, in this art., in the K;] and some of them make الخمر to be evil, and الخلّ to be good. (Har p. 153.) A2: I. q. حَمْضٌ [i. e. A kind of plants in which is saltness: or salt and bitter plants: or salt, or sour, plants or trees: &c.: opposed to خُلَّةٌ]. (K.) A poet says, لَيْسَتْ مِنَ الخَلِّ وَلَا الخِمَاطِ [She is not, or they are not, of the plants or trees called خلّ, nor of the kind called خماط (pl. of خَمْطٌ)]. (TA.) A3: A road in sands: (S:) or a road passing through sands: or a road between two tracts of sand: (K:) or a road passing through heaped-up sands: (JK, K:) masc. and fem. [like طَرِيقٌ]: (S, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْلٌّ and [of mult.] خِلَالٌ. (K.) One says حَيَّةُ خَلٍّ

[A serpent of a road in sands, &c.]; like as one says أَفْعَى صَرِيمَةٍ. (S.) b2: An oblong tract of sand. (Ham p. 709.) b3: b4: A vein in the neck (JK, K) and in the back, (K,) communicating with the head. (JK, TA.) b5: A slit, or rent, in a garment, or piece of cloth. (K.) A4: An old and worn-out garment, or piece of cloth, (JK, S, K, TA,) in which are streaks: (TA:) [or so ثَوْبٌ خَلٌّ:] and ↓ خَلْخَلٌ and ↓ خَلْخَلٌ, applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, (JK, K,) signify old and worn out, (JK,) or thin, (K,) like هَلْهَلٌ and هَلْهَالٌ. (TA.) b2: A bird having no feathers: (JK:) or having few feathers. (K.) b3: A man (JK, S) lean, meagre, or emaciated; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ خَلِيلٌ (K) [a meaning said in the TA to be tropical] and ↓ مَخْلُولٌ and ↓ مُخْتَلٌّ: (TA:) or light in body: (IDrd, TA:) and [the fem.] خَلَّةٌ, applied to a woman, light (K, TA) in body, lean, or spare: (TA:) the pl. of خَلٌّ is خُلُولٌ. (JK.) Also Fat: thus bearing two contr. significations: (K:) and so ↓ مَخْلُولٌ. (TA.) It is applied to a man and a camel. (TA.) Accord. to the K, it also signifies A [young camel such as is termed]

فَصِيل: (TA:) but it means such as is lean, or emaciated: (TA:) and so ↓ مَخْلُولٌ, applied to a فصيل as an epithet, for a reason mentioned above, in an explanation of the phrase خَلَّ الفَصِيلَ. (S, TA.) b4: Also i. q. اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ [i. e. A male camel in his second year]; (JK, K;) and so ↓ خَلَّةٌ; which is also applied to the female: (As, S, K:) and i. q. اِبْنُ لَبُونٍ [i. e. a male camel in, or entering upon, his third year]; and in like manner ↓ خَلَّةٌ is applied to the female; (JK;) or, as in the M, to a she-camel; (TA;) and, as some say, (JK,) a large she-camel: (JK, TA:) and اِبْنُ

↓ الخَلَّةِ signifies the same as اِبْنُ اللَّبُونِ (T in art. بنى) or اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ [or ابن المَخَاضِ]. (TA in that art.) You say, أَتَاهُمْ بِقُرْصٍ كَأَنَّهُ فِرْسِنُ

↓ خَلَّةٍ, (S, TA,) or كَأَنَّهُ خُفُّ خَلَّةٍ, (JK,) [They brought them a round cake of bread as though it were the foot of a camel in its second, or third, year,] meaning small. (JK. [In the TA, meaning سَمِينَة (i. e. fat); but this seems to be a mistranscription.]) A5: A cautery. (TA.) خُلٌّ: see خَلِيلٌ, in two places.

خِلٌّ: see خُلَّةٌ, in two places: b2: and see خَلِيلٌ, in four places.

خَلَّةٌ A road between two roads. (TA.) b2: A hole, perforation, or bore, that penetrates, or passes through, a thing, and is small: or, in a general sense: (K:) or a gap, or breach, in a booth of reeds or canes. (T, TA.) [See also خَلَلٌ.]

b3: [And hence,] The gap that is left by a person who has died: (As, T, S, TA:) or the place, of a man, that is left vacant after his death. (K.) One says, of him who has lost a person by death, اَللّٰهُمَّ اخْلُفْ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ بِخَيْرٍ وَاسْدُدْ خَلَّتَهُ, i. e. [O God, supply to his family, with that which is good, the place of him whom they have lost,] and fill up the gap which he has left by his death. (As, T, S, * TA.) b4: And The interval, or inter-vening space, between the piercer, or thruster, and the pierced, or thrust: whence the saying, رَقَعَ خَلَّةَ الفَارِسِ, explained in art. رقع. (O and K and TA in that art.) b5: [Hence also,] Want, or a want: poverty; (S, Msb, K;) need, straitness, or difficulty. (Lh, K.) One says, بِهِ خَلَّةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ He has pressing, or severe, need or straitness or difficulty. (Lh, TA.) And سَدَّ اللّٰهُ خَلَّتَهُ May God supply his want. (TA.) And it is said in a prov., الخَلَّةُ تَدْعُو إِلَى السَّلَّةِ Want invites to theft. (K, * TA.) A2: I. q. خَصْلَةٌ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) both signify A property, quality, nature, or disposition: and a habit, or custom: (KL, PS, TK:) [and app. also a practice, or an action:] in a man: (TA: [see the latter word:]) pl. خِلَالٌ. (JK, Mgh, Msb, K.) One says, فُلَانٌ خَلَّتُهُ حَسَنَةٌ [Such a one, his nature, or disposition, is good]. (IDrd, TA.) And hence, خَيْرُ خِلَالِ الصَّائِمِ السِّوَاكُ [The best of the habits, or customs, of the faster is the use of the tooth-stick]. (Mgh.) b2: See also خُلَّةٌ.

A3: An isolated tract of sand, (Fr, K,) separate from other sands. (Fr, TA.) b2: And i. q. هَضْبَةٌ [which signifies An elevated tract of sand: but more commonly a hill; or a spreading mountain; &c.]. (JK, TA.) A4: Wine, (K,) in a general sense: (TA:) or acid, or sour, wine: (S, K:) or wine altered for the worse, (K, TA,) in flavour, (TA,) without acidity, or sourness: (K, TA:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ خَلٌّ. (K.) b2: See also خَلٌّ, first sentence.

A5: And see this last word near the end of the paragraph, in four places.

خُلَّةٌ an inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] of خَالَّهُ, q. v.: (JK:) True, or sincere, friendship, love, or affection; as also ↓ خُلُولَةٌ and ↓ خُلَالَةٌ and ↓ خَلَالَةٌ and ↓ خِلَالَةٌ: (S:) or all these signify a particular true or sincere friendship, or love, or affection, in which is no unsoundness, or defect, and which may be chaste and may be vitious: (K: [in which all are said to be substs., except خُلَّةٌ, as though this were properly speaking an inf. n., though having a pl., as shown below:]) [and sometimes simply friendship: see an ex. in a verse cited voce مَرْحَبٌ, in art. رحب:] or خُلَّةٌ and ↓ خَلَّةٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ خِلٌّ and ↓ خِلَّةٌ, each with kesr, (K,) signify true, or sincere, friendship, or love, or affection, (Msb, K,) and brotherly conduct: the last two as used in the phrases, إِنَهُ

↓ لَكَرِيمُ الخِلِّ and ↓ الخِلَّةِ [Verily he is generous in respect of true, or sincere, friendship, &c.]: (K:) the pl. of خُلَّةٌ in the sense explained above is خِلَالٌ. (S, K.) b2: See also خَلِيلٌ, in three places.

A2: A kind of plants or herbage [or trees]; (JK, S, Msb, K;) namely, the sweet kind thereof; (S, K;) not حَمْض: (JK:) or any pasture, or herbage, that is not حَمْض; all pasture, or herbage, consisting of حَمْض and خُلَّة, and حَمْض being such as has in it saltness [or sourness]: (TA:) the [kind of plant, or tree, called] عَرْفَج; and every tree that remains in winter: (JK:) accord. to Lh, it is [applied to certain kinds] of trees &c.: accord. to IAar, peculiarly of trees: but accord. to A'Obeyd, [shrubs, i. e.] not including any great trees: (TA:) and a certain thorny tree: also a place of growth, and a place in which is a collection, of [the plants, or trees, called] عَرْفَج: (K:) and any land not containing [the kind of plants, or herbage, or trees, called] حَمْض; (AHn, K;) even though containing no plants, or herbage: (AHn, TA:) the pl. is خُلَلٌ: (K:) one says أَرْضٌ خُلَّةٌ and أَرَضُونَ خُلَلٌ: ISh says that أَرْضٌ خَلَّةٌ and خُلَلُ الأَرْضِ mean land, and lands, in which is no حَمْض, sometimes containing [thorny trees such as are called] عِضَاه, and sometimes not containing such; and that خُلَّةٌ is also applied to land in which are no trees nor any herbage: (TA:) some say that خُلَّةٌ, as meaning the pasture, or herbage, which is the contrary of حَمْض, has for a pl. خِلَالٌ, and then, from خِلَال is formed the pl. أَخِلَّةٌ: and some say that this last means herbage that is cut (وَاجْتُزّ ↓ اُخْتُلّ [in which the latter verb seems to be an explicative adjunct to the former]) while green. (Ham p. 662, q. v.) They say that the خُلَّة is the bread of camels, and the حَمْض is their fruit, (JK, T, Sudot;, TA,) or their flesh-meat, (S, TA,) or their خَبِيص. (TA.) b2: Hence, by way of comparison, it is applied to (tropical:) Ease, or repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; or tranquillity; and ampleness of circumstances: and حَمْض, to evil, and war: (T, TA:) and the former, to life: and the latter, to death. (Ham p. 315.) b3: Also Acid, or sour, leaven or ferment. (IAar, TA.) خِلَّةٌ: see 1, near the middle of the paragraph: A2: and see also خُلَالةٌ, in four places: A3: and خُلَّةٌ, first sentence, in two places: A4: and خَلِيلٌ, in two places.

A5: Also The جَفْن [i. e. the scabbard, or the case,] of a sword, covered with leather: (K:) or a lining with which the جَفْن of a sword is covered, (S, K, and Ham pp. 330 et seq.,) variegated, or embellished, with gold &c.; (S;) but the pl. is also used as meaning scabbards: (Ham p. 331:) and a thong that is fixed upon the outer side of the curved extremity of a bow: (S, K:) in the T it is explained as meaning the inner side of the thong of the جَفْن, which is seen from without, and is an ornament, or a decoration: (TA:) and any piece of skin that is variegated, or embellished: (M, K:) the pl. is خِلَلٌ (S, K, and Ham p. 330) and خِلَالٌ, and pl. pl. أَخِلَّةٌ, (K,) i. e. pl. of خِلَالٌ. (TA.) خَلَلٌ An interstice, an interspace or intervening space, a break, a breach, a chink, or a gap, between two things; (JK, S, Msb, K;) pl. خِلَالٌ: (JK, S, Msb:) and particularly the places, (K,) or interstices, (S,) of the clouds, from which the rain issues; as also ↓ خِلَالٌ; (S, K;) both occurring in this sense, accord. to different readings, in the Kur xxiv. 43 and xxx. 47: (S, TA:) the latter may be [grammatically] a sing. [syn. with the former], or it may be pl. of the former: (MF, TA:) and الدَّارِ ↓ خِلَالُ signifies what is around the limits of the house; (JK, K;) or around the walls thereof; thus in the M; (TA;) and what is between the chambers thereof. (K.) You say, دَخَلْتُ بَيْنَ خَلَلِ القَوْمِ and ↓ خِلَالِهِمْ [I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people]. (S, Msb.) And هُوَ خَلَلَهُمْ and ↓ خِلَالَهُمْ (M, K) and ↓ خَلَالَهُمْ (K [but in the CK these words are with damm to the second ل]) He is amid them. (M, K.) And بُيُوتِ الحّى ↓ جُسْنَا خِلَالَ, and دُورِ القَوْمِ ↓ خِلَالَ, i. e. [We went, or went to and fro, or went round about, &c.,] amid the tents of the tribe, and in the midst of the houses of the people; like a phrase in the Kur xvii. 5. (TA.) b2: And [hence] Shakiness, looseness, laxness, or want of compactness, and disorder, or want of order, of a thing; (Msb;) unsoundness, or corruptness, (S, Msb, *) in an affair or a thing, (S,) or of a thing; (Msb;) [a flaw in a thing;] defect, imperfection, or deficiency; (Ham p. 300;) weakness, or infirmity, in an affair, (JK, K, TA,) as though some place thereof were left uncompact, or unsound, (TA,) and in war, (JK,) and in men: (JK, K: *) and (tropical:) unsettledness in an opinion. (K, * TA.) b3: الخَلَلُ The night. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád.) خُلَلٌ: see خُلَالَةٌ, in two places.

خِلَلٌ: see خُلَالَةٌ, in three places.

خِلَلَةٌ: see خُلَالَةٌ, in two places.

خَلَالٌ [Dates in the state in which they are termed] بَلَحٌ, (JK, T, S, K,) in the dial. of the people of El-Basrah; (T, TA;) i. e. green dates: (JK:) [but see بَلَحٌ and بُسْرٌ:] n. un. with ة. (JK, TA.) A2: هُوَ خَلَالَهُمْ: see خَلَلٌ.

خُلَالٌ: see خُلَالَةٌ.

A2: Also An accident that happens in anything sweet so as to change its flavour to acidity, or sourness. (K.) خِلَالٌ A thing with which one perforates, or transpierces, a thing, (JK, K,) either of iron or of wood: (JK:) pl. أَخِلَّةٌ. (K.) b2: A wooden thing [or pin] (S, Msb,) with which one pins a garment, (T, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) conjoining its two edges: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. as above: (S, Msb:) which also signifies the small pieces of wood with which one pins together the edges of the oblong pieces of cloth of a tent. (TA.) b3: [A skewer for flesh-meat.] b4: A wooden pin which is inserted into the tongue of a young camel, in order that he may not such: (K:) or which is fixed above the nose of a young camel, for that purpose. (TA in art. لهج.) b5: [A toothpick;] a thing (of wood, S, Msb) with which one extracts the remains of food between his teeth; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خِلَالَةٌ. (Har p. 101.) b6: [A long thorn or prickle: such being often used as a pin and as a toothpick.]

A2: See also خُلَالَةٌ.

A3: And see خَلَلٌ, in six places.

خَلِيلٌ Perforated, or transpierced; like

↓ مَخْلُولٌ. (K.) b2: See also خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph. b3: Poor; needy; in want; (JK, S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مُخِلٌّ, (so in some copies of the K and in the M,) or ↓ مُخَلٌّ, (so in other copies of the K,) and ↓ مُخْتَلٌّ and ↓ أَخَلُّ (K:) and أَخِلَّةٌ may be a pl. of خَلِيلٌ in this sense. (Ham p. 662.) b4: A friend; or a true, or sincere, friend; (S, Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ خِلٌّ, and ↓ خُلَّةٌ, which is used alike as masc. and fem., because originally an inf. n., [or a quasi-inf. n., i. e. of 3, q. v.,] (S,) or ↓ خِلَّةٌ, [thus in the copies of the K, but what precedes it, though not immediately, seems to show that the author perhaps meant خُلَّةٌ,] used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and pl.: (K:) or a special, or particular, friend or true or sincere friend; as also ↓ خِلٌّ and ↓ خُلٌّ; or this latter is only used in conjunction with وُدٌّ, as when you say, كَانَ لِى وُدًّا وَخُلًّا [He was to me an an object of love and a friend &c.]; (K;) or, as ISd says, ↓ خِلٌّ is the more common, and is applied also to a female; (TA;) as is also ↓ خُلَّةٌ, (K,) and ↓ خِلَّةٌ: (TA:) خَلِيلٌ also signifies veracious; (K;) thus accord. to IAar: (TA:) or a friend in whose friendship is no خَلَل [i. e. unsoundness, or defect, or imperfection]: (Zj, TA:) or one who is pure and sound in friendship, or love: (IDrd, K:) the pl. is أَخِلَّآءُ (Msb, K) and خُلَّانٌ (JK, K) and أَخِلَّةٌ: (Ham p. 662, and MA:) the fem. is خَلِيلَةٌ; (S, M, K;) of which the pl. is خَلِيلَاتٌ and خَلَائِلُ: (M, K:) the pl. of ↓ خِلٌّ or ↓ خُلٌّ is أَخْلَالٌ: (K:) and the pl. of ↓ خُلَّةٌ is خِلَالٌ, (S,) mentioned before, see 3, second sentence. It is applied in the Kur iv. 124 to Abraham; who is called خَلِيلُ اللّٰه, (TA,) and الخَلِيلُ. (K.) and it is said that the pl. أَخِلَّةٌ means also Pastors; because they act to their beasts like أَخِلَّآء [or friends, &c.], in labouring to do good to them. (Ham p. 662.) b5: Also One who advises, or counsels, or acts, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully. (IAar, TA.) b6: And الخَلِيلُ also signifies The heart. (IAar, JK, K.) b7: And The liver. (JK, TA.) b8: And The nose. (JK, K.) b9: And The sword. (IAar, TA.) [And] A sword of Sa'eed Ibn-Zeyd Ibn-' Amr Ibn-Nufeyl. (K.) b10: and The spear. (IAar, TA.) خَلَالَةٌ: see خُلَّةٌ, first sentence.

خُلَالَةٌ i. q. كُرَابَةٌ; (AHn, JK;) i. e. The scattered dates that remain at the roots of the branches [after the racemes of fruit have been cut off]; (AHn, TA;) the fresh ripe dates that are sought out in the interstices of the roots of the branches; as also ↓ خُلَالٌ. (K.) b2: Also What comes forth from the teeth when they are picked; (JK, S, * Msb;) as also ↓ خِلَلٌ (JK, S) and ↓ خُلَلٌ (S) and ↓ خِلَّةٌ: (JK:) or ↓ خِلَلٌ and ↓ خِلَالٌ and خُلَالَةٌ (K) and ↓ خِلَّةٌ (S) and ↓ خَالٌّ (TA) signify the remains of food between the teeth; (S, K;) and the sing. [of خِلَلٌ] is ↓ خِلَّةٌ and [the n. un. of the same] ↓ خِلَلَةٌ. (K, TA. [In the CK, for خِلَلَةٌ is erroneously put خَلَّلَهُ.]) You say, فُلَانٌ يَأْكُلُ خُلَالَتَهُ and ↓ خَلَلَهُ (JK, S) and ↓ خُلَلَهُ (S) and ↓ خِلَّتَهُ (JK) and ↓ خِلَلَتَهُ (TA) Such a one eats what comes forth from his teeth when they are picked. (JK, S, * TA.) A2: See also خُلَّةٌ, first sentence.

خِلَالَةٌ: see خُلَّةٌ, first sentence: A2: and see also خِلَالٌ.

خُلُولَةٌ: see خُلَّةٌ, first sentence.

خَلَّالٌ A seller of vinegar. (K, * TA.) خُلِّىٌّ a rel. n. from خُلَّةٌ as meaning the “ sweet kind of plants or herbage.” (S.) You say بَعِيرٌ خُلِّىٌّ, (Yaakoob, S,) and إِبِلٌ خُلِّيَّةٌ (Yaakoob, S, K) and ↓ مُخْلَّةٌ and ↓ مُخْتَلَّةٌ, (K,) meaning [A camel, and camels,] pasturing upon خُلَّة. (K.) And hence the prov., فَتَحَمَّضْ ↓ إِنَّكَ مُخْتَلٌّ (assumed tropical:) [meaning Verily thou art disordered in temper, therefore sooth thyself; or] shift from one state, or condition, to another: accord. to IDrd, said to him who is threatening: (TA. [See also 5 in art. حمض:]) [or it may mean verily thou art weary of life, therefore submit to death: see Ham p. 315.] And the saying of El- 'Ajjáj, فَلَاقَوْا حَمْضَا ↓ كَانُو مُخَلِّينَ [lit. They were pasturing upon خُلَّة, and they found حَمْض; meaning (assumed tropical:) they were seeking to do mischief, and found him who did them worse mischief]: applied to him who threatens, and finds one stronger than he. (TA. [See also حَمْضٌ.]) خَلْخَلٌ: see خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph: A2: and see also خَلْخَالٌ.

خُلْخُلٌ: see the next paragraph.

خَلْخَالٌ: see خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph. b2: رَمْلٌ خَلْخَالٌ Rough sand. (TA.) A2: Also, and ↓ حَلْخَلٌ, (JK, S, K,) which is a dial. var. of the former, or a contraction thereof, (S,) and ↓ خُلْخُلٌ, (JK, K,) A well-known ornament (K) of women; (S, K; *) i. e. an anklet: (KL:) [or a pair of anklets; for you say,] فِى سَاقَيْهَا خَلْخَالٌ [Upon her legs is a pair of anklets]: (TA in art. حجل:) pl. (of the first, S) خَلَاخِيلُ (S, TA) and [of the second and third] خَلَاخِلُ. (TA.) خَالٌّ (K) and ↓ مُتَخَلْخِلٌ (Mgh, K) [and ↓ مُخْتَلٌّ all signify Having interstices, breaks, chinks, or the like:] uncompact, or incoherent: (Mgh, K:) the first and second applied in this sense to an army. (K.) b2: For the first, see also خَالٌ, in art. خيل.

A2: And see خُلَالَةٌ.

أَخَلُّ More, and most, poor, or needy: (K, TA:) from أَخَلَّ إِلَيْهِ signifying “ he wanted it,” or “ needed it. ” (TA.) Hence the phrase أَخَلُّ إِلَيْهِ [meaning More, or most, in need of him, or it]. (TA.) b2: See also خَلِيلٌ.

مُخَلٌّ: see خَلِيلٌ.

مُخِلٌّ: see خَلِيلٌ: A2: and see also خُلِّىٌّ, in two places: b2: and what here follows.

أَرْضٌ مَخَلَّةٌ, or ↓ مُخِلَّةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the S,) A land abounding with خُلَّة, not containing any حَمْض. (S.) مَخْلُولٌ: see خَلِيلٌ, first sentence: A2: and see also خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph, in three places.

مُخَلْخَلٌ The part, of the leg, which is the place of the خَلْخَال [or anklet]; (JK, K;) i. e., of the leg of a woman. (TA.) مُخْتَلٌّ: see خَالٌّ: b2: and see خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph: b3: and خَلِيلٌ. b4: Also Vehemently thirsty. (ISd, K.) b5: أَمْرٌ مُخْتَلٌّ An affair in a weak, or an unsound, state. (K.) A2: See also خُلِّىٌّ, in two places.

مُتَخَلْخِلٌ: see خَالٌّ.

هد

1 هَدَّ, aor. ـُ (S, L, Msb,) inf. n. هَدٌّ (S, L, Msb, K) and هُدُودٌ, (L, K,) He demolished a a building; (As, S, A, L, K: *) threw it down; (TA;) pulled it down to the ground: (As, S, A, L:) demolished it with violence: (L, K: *) demolished it at once, with a vehement noise. (Msb.) A2: [Hence you say,] مَا هَذُهُ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) Such a thing did not break him, or it. (S, L.) b2: هَدَّنِى الأَمْرُ, and هَدَّ رُكْنى, (assumed tropical:) The thing distressed, and broke, or crashed, me. And [in like manner] مَا هَدَّنِى مَوْتُ أَحَدٍ (assumed tropical:) [The death of any one has not distressed, nor broken, or crushed, me]. (L.) And هَدَّتْهُ المُصِيبَةُ The (tropical:) calamity debilitated, or enervated, him. (S, A, L.) b3: هَدَّ, aor. ـَ and هَدِّ, inf. n. هَدٌّ, He (a man) was, or became, weak, (L, K,) in body; (L:) became extremely aged, or decrepit. (TK.) b4: See 7. b5: هَدَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. هَدِيدٌ, It (a wall or the like, S, L, or a part of a mountain, L, by its falling, S, L) made a noise; (S;) or, a violent noise. (L.) b6: هَدَّتْ It (the sky) sent forth a noise, or sound, occasioned by the falling of rain. (L.) b7: هَدَّ, aor. ـَ (L,) inf. n. هَدِيدٌ, (S, L,) It (the sound called هَادّ, from the sea,) made a murmuring. (S, * L.) b8: هَدَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. هَدٌّ, He (a camel) brayed. (TK.) See also R. Q. 1.

A3: مَرَرْتُ بِرَجُلٍ هَدَّكَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ I passed by a man who is sufficient for they as a man; (L, K:) as also هَدِّكَ: (K.) an expression of praise (L:) or it means, the description of whose good qualities would be burdensome to thee: there are two dial. forms used in this case: some use هدّ as an inf. n., [in the sense of an epithet, (marginal note in a copy of the S,) saying, in such a phrase as the above, هَدِّكَ,] in which case, it has no fem. nor dual. nor pl. form; (S, L:) the sing and dual and pl. are the same: (K:) and some make it a verb, and give it [a (??) and] a dual and a pl, and say, مررت برجل هَدَّكَ من رجل, as above, (S, L,) and بامْرَأَةٍ هَدَّنْكَ منِ امْرَأَةٍ, (S, L, K,) like as you say كَفّاكَ and كَفَيْكَ, (L.,) and بِرَجُلَيْنِ هَدَّاكَ, and بِرِجَالٍ هَدُّوكَ, and بِامْرَأَتَيْنِ هَدَّتَاكَ, and بِنِسْوَةِ هَدَدْتَكَ. (S, L, K.) b2: IAar also cites the following ex. [by El-Kattál El-Kilábee, (marginal note in a copy of the S)] وَلِى صَاحِبٌ فِى الغَارِ هَدَّكَ صَاحِبًا as meaning. [And I have a companion in the race;] of how great estimation, and how ingenious, and how knowing, is he [as a companion] describing a wolf: (L:) in which he who reads هَدَّكَ makes هَدَّ a verb; and as such it has a dual and pl. and fem. but some read هَدُّكَ. making it an inf. n. used as an epithet; and as such it has no dual nor pl. nor fem. (Marginal note in a copy of the S.) b3: هَدَّ الرَّجُلُ also signifies Excellent is the man; (ISd, L:) and إِنّهُ لَهَدَّ الرَّجُلُ Verily, excellent is the man (L, K) in hardiness and strength: (L:) and لَهَدَّ الرَّجُلُ How hardy is the man! (L.) b4: In a trad., Aboo Lahab is related to have said, لَهَدَّ مَا سَخَرَكُمْ صَاحِبُكُمْ, [meaning How greatly hath your companion enchanted you!): لَهَدَّ is an expression of wonder. (L.) b5: فُلَانٌ يُهَدُّ Such a one is praiseworthy for hardiness (S, L, K) and strength. (S, L.) 2 هدّدهُ, (Msb, K,) inf. n. تَهْدِيدٌ (S, L) and تَهْدَادٌ; (L:) and ↓ تهدّدهُ: (S, L, Msb;) He threatened him; (L;) threatened him with punishment; (Msb;) frightened, or terrified, him. (S, L, K.) 5 تَهَدَّّ see 2.7 انهدّ It (a building) [fell down: or] became demolished at once, with a vehement noise: (Msb:) and ↓ هَدَّ, aor. ـِ it (a wall) fell down; mentioned by AHei; and also by Es-Semeen, who concedes it; (MF;) but this form of the verb is commonly known only as transitive. (TA.) b2: It (a mountain) broke down. (S, L.) 10 استهدّهُ He regarded him as weak. (L.) R. Q. 1 هَدْهَدَ, (S, L, K,) inf. n. هدْهَدَةٌ, (S, L,) He (a bird) cooed; syn. قَرْقَرَ: (L, K, TA [in the CK, فَرْفَرَ]:) he (a pigeon) cooed syn. هَدَرَ, and هَدَلَ: (TA:) or made a murmuring or confused noise in cooing: (S, L, accord to the explanation of هَدْهَدَةٌ:) and he (a camel, S, L) brayed: syn. هَدَرَ: (K:) or made a murmuring or confused noise in braying (S, L,) See also 1. b2: هَدْهَدَتْ, (inf. n. هَدْهَدةٌ, L.) She (a woman, S, L) shook, or rocked, a child (S, L, K) in its cradle, (L,) in order that it might sleep. (S, L, K.) A2: هَدْهَدَ He sent, or threw, a thing down, from a high place to a low one, (L, K.) هَدٌّ A weak man; (As, S, L, K;) i. e., weak in body; (L;) as also ↓ هِدٌّ: (K:) or, accord. to IAar, the latter only, meaning cowardly and weak: (S, L:) or هَدٌّ (Sh, L) and ↓ أَهدُّ (L, K) and ↓ هَدَادَةٌ (Sh, L, K) signify a cowardly (and weak, TA) man: (Sh, L, K:) and ↓ قَوْمٌ هَدَادٌ a cowardly people: (Sh, L:) pl. of هَدٌّ, ??: (L, K:) it has no broken pl. (L:) and of هِدٌّ, هِدّٰونَ. (K.) A man says to another, in threatening him, إِنِّى لَعَيْرُ هَدٍّ Verily I am not weak. (S, L.) b2: هَدٌّ Extreme odd age; decrepitude. (K, TA.) See 1.

A2: هَدٌّ A cough, or harsh, sound; as also ↓ هَدَدٌ. (L, K.) b2: هَدٌّ The braying of a camel. (Lh, L, K.) See 1.

A3: هَدٌّ A generous, liberal. beautiful man. (IAar. S, L, K. *) b2: A strong man. (IAar. L.) b3: لِى صَاحِبٌ هَدُّكَ صَاحِبًا, and مَرَرْتُ بِرَجُلٍ هَدِّكَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ: see 1.

هِدٌّ and هَدَرٌ: see هَدٌّ.

هَدَّةٌ The sound of the fall of a wall or the like: (S:) or a violent sound occasional thereby, or by the fall of a part of a mountain. (L.) b2: The sound of rain falling from the sky. (L.) b3: A sinking, and falling in, of the ground. (L.) هَدْهَدٌ The voices, or cries, of jinn, or genii: without a singular. (L, K) هُدْهُدٌ A certain bird, (S, L, Msb, K,) well known; (L, Msb, K;) [namely, the hoopee, or upupa of Linnæus; so this bird is called in the present day; and this, accord. to a common tradition, is the bird mentioned in the Kur, xxvii. 20;] as also هُدَهِدٌ (K) and ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (S, L, K:) or the last, a certain bird resembling the pigeon: (Lth, Az, L:) or (in the K, and) هُدْهُدٌ signifies a pigeon that cooes much; (IDrd in explanation of v. 20 of ch. xxvii. of the Kur., and AHn, L K;) as also ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (IDrd, AHn, L:) and any bird that cooes; that utters the cry called قَرْقَرَة; (L, K, TA [in the CK, يُفَرْفِرُ is put for يُقَرْقِرُ]) as also ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (As, L:) pl. (of all, K) هَدَاهِدُ (S, L, K) and هَدَاهِيدُ: (Kr, L, K:) but ISd says of the latter, I know not how this is, unless the sing. be هَدْهَادٌ. (L.) Er-Rá'ee says, كَهُدَاهِدٍ كَسَرَ الرُّمَاةُ جَنَاحَهُ [Like a هداهد whose wing the shooters have broken]: (S, L:) As says, he means the فَاخِتَة, or the دُبْسِىّ, or the وَرَشَان, or the هُدْهُد, or a man, or camels: and Lh says, that Ks asserts him to mean, by هداهد, the dim. of هُدْهُدٌ: but As disapproves of this; and so does ISd; but the latter adds, that it may perhaps be for هُدَيْهِدٌ; as some of the Arabs say دُوَابَّةٌ and شُوَابَّةٌ for دُويْبَّةٌ and شُوَيْبَّةٌ; though they are only known to change the ى into ا before a double consonant. (L.) هَدْهَدَةٌ [an inf. n. used as a simple subst.] The murmuring or confused sound of the cooing of pigeons, and of the braying of a camel [and of thunder (see زَمْزَمَةٌ)]: pl. هَدَاهِدُ. (S, L.) هَدَادٌ and هَدَادَةٌ: see هَدٌّ.

هُدَاهِدٌ A stallion-camel that brays much among the she-camels but does not cover them. (L.) b2: See هُدْهُدٌ.

هَدِيدٌ A voice, cry, sound, or noise. (L.) See also 1. b2: A threatening from behind one. (As, L.) هَادٌّ A certain murmuring sound from the sea; (K;) a sound which is heard by people inhabiting the sea-shore, coming to them from the direction of the sea, murmuring over the land, and sometimes followed by an earthquake. (S, L.) هَادَّةٌ Thunder. (L, K.) Ex. مَا سَمِعْنَا العَامَ هَادَّةً

We have not heard this year thunder. (L.) أَهَدُّ: see هَدٌّ.

ثنى: ثنى لفلان وسادةً: من مظاهر الأدب والاحترام للزائر. وتثنى له الوسادة ليرتاح في جلسته (ابن خلكان 10: 108، وانظر كوسج مختارات 133).
وثنى الثوب: عطفه ورد بعضه على بعض لتقصيره وخبنه - وثنى كعب الصرمة: طوى طرف الحذاء عند الكعب - وثنى حافية برنيطة: رفع حافتها وجدّدها (بوشر).
وثنى إليه: انعطف واتجه إليه (عباد 1: 57) وثنى بالشيء: فعله مرة ثانية، وأتبعه أمرا قبله (عباد 2: 103 وانظر 3: 206) غير أن لين لم يذكر إلا ثنىّ بتشديد النون في هذا المعنى. لكن ما جاء في بيت الشعر الذي ذكره ابن عباد هو ثنى الثلاثي كما يدل عليه الوزن.
ثَنَّى: حرث الأرض مرة ثانية (الكالا، انظره في ثلّث، ابن العوام 1: 66، 2: 128).
ثنّى به: سماه بعد الأول (المقري 2: 204) وهي ضد بدا التي وردت في السطر الذي قبله.
وثنّى بفلان: عامله كما عامل الأول قبله، ففي فريتاج مختارات (ص122): وكان السلطان قد قتل بالسيف أحد الأسيرين ولم يشك (الآخر) في إنه يثنّى به.
وثنّى له الوزارة: لقبه بذي الوزارتين ففي حيان - بسام (1: 192ق): كان له بسليمان اتصال فثنى له الوزارة مَثنْى.
وثنّى: قذف، قدح فيه، شنع عليه (الكالا)، وقد ذكرت في معجم فوك في مادة lascivire أي عبث، لها، نزق.
أثنى، يقال أثنى بفلان (؟) ففي ابن حيان (ص49 ق): فكان أول من أظهر الخلعان بها وأثنى بأهل المعصية وسعى في تفريق الكلمة كريب بن عثمان بن خلدون.
وأثنى: كان ذا سمعة حسنة.
تَثَنّى: ذكرت في معجم فوكفي مادة duale بمعنى انثنى.
انثنى: تغضن، وانعطف وارتد بعضه على بعض (بوشر) وذكرت في معجم فوك في مادة lascivire أي عبث، ولها ونزق.
ثنية: طية، - وثنية الركبة أو الذراع: الموضع الذي تثنى (تطوى) منه الركبة أو الذراع. - وطية مضاعفة. وكفة الثوب ونحوه وهو ما ثنى وكف من أطرافه لتقصيره أو خبنه. وهدب الثوب يضاف إليه (بوشر).
ثَنَاء: صيت، شهرة حسنة (فوك) ثَنِيّ: مُهر بلغ السنة الثانية من العمر (ونزشتاين في زيشر 22: 74) - ومن له ثنيّان أي سنّان (فوك).
ثَنِيَّة: ترجمنا هذه الكلمة بلفظة- col ولو إنها تعني عادة محل مرور الطريق في شعاف الجبل (دوماس قبيل 316).
وثنية= عقبة، يقول بلجراف (1: 341): إنها عقبة أو منعرج، فحين يرتفع الجبل لا بد أن يكون الطريق في منعرج للمرور فيه.
وثنية: البرُت أو البرُتات في جبال الييرنية، وهي المواضع المنخفضة التي تتخذ طريقا بين أسبانيا وفرنسا، ويبلغ متوسط ارتفاعها 2766 مترا فوق مستوى سطح البحر، وهي ثنايا هذه السلسلة من الجبال (المقدمة 1: 119)، وأبن خلدون طبعة تورمبرج وفيه (ص9: (غربا والمفضية) وفي ص6 (الثنايا البقايا).
والثنية: الطريق، الدرب (همبرت 41 الجزائر).
والثنايا: أسنان مقدم الفم وأسنان اللبن وأول ما في الفم (بوشر).
ثُنَائِيّ. حديث ثنائي الإسناد: حديث نقل عن الرسول بواسطة سلسلتين من رواة الحديث، ففي العبدري (ص28 ق): قرأت عليه بعض الأحاديث الثنائية الإسناد من حديث مالك.
ثانٍ: من قِبَله (معجم هابشت ألف ليلة 3: 32، وأقرأ فيه 386 بدل 336؟ وثانٍ: مقابل، مواجه، ففي ألف ليلة (3: 56) في الكلام عن شاطئ نهر وغيره: الساقية الثانية أي الساقية المقابلة للجدول. وفيها (1: 771، 795): البر الثاني وفي (4: 674) منها: حتى وصل إلى البر من الجهة الثانية.
ثاني حشيش: خلف، رجيع (كلأ من الحشة الثانية).
ثاني عمارة: عمارة أعيد بناؤها.
ثاني مرة: ثانية، مجددا.
ثاني نبيذ: نطل، نبيذ العنب يصب عليه الماء، نبيذ دون.
كل يوم وثانيه: يوميا (بوشر)؟ قرأ ثانيا: قرأ حتى النهاية (الكالا).
ثانية: جمعها ثوان وثواني: جزء من ستين من الدقيقة (بوشر، محيط المحيط).
وفي كتاب عن الإسطرلاب يعود تاريخه إلى ما قبل القرن السابع للهجرة (مخطوطة 591، فهرست 3: 98): وتنقسم دوائرها إلى دقائق وثواني (المقري 1: 765، راجع إضافات وتصحيحات).
إثْنَيْنِيَّة ثنوية (المقدمة 3: 75) تَثْنِيَة (من مصطلح الجراحة) ويراد به إنه حين يوقف سحب الدم من فتحة الوريد، يعاد بعد ذلك إلى سحبه ثانية دون أن يبضع الوريد. ففي معجم المنصوري: تثنية: (كذا) هو المعاودة، والمراد بها في العضد وهو أن يقطع استخراج الدم قبل استيفاء الغرض ثم يترك ساعة أو يوما ثم يحل الموضع من غير تكرار بضع ثم يرسل الدم.
مثنى، يوم مثنى (تاريخ البربر 2: 395؟ ولا بد أن المراد به اليوم الثلاثين من شهر ذي الحجة، الذي تزيد أيامه في السنة الكبيسة يوما عنه في السنين الأخرى (تعليق الترجمة 4: 245 رقم 1).
المثاني: عند الكلام عن المثاني في القرآن قارن ما ذكره لين مع ما جاء في المقدمة (3: 323).
مَثْنِىّ: في حيان - بسام (1: 114ق) فتسمى بالوزارة في أيامه منفردة ومَثْنِيَّة ارذل الدائرة (الحرس) وأخابث النظار وهذا يعني تلقبوا بلقب الوزير وبلقب ذي الوزارتين. (أنظر ثنّى).
مثنية: نصف قطعة من البز (هوست 269).
استثناء: تقادم، حق اكتساب الملكية بمرور الزمن أو عدم النظر في الطلب وإقصاؤه في القضاء. وسقوط الدين لعدم المطالبة بدفعه في موعده المحدد (بوشر).

ثن

ى1 ثَنَاهُ, (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) said in the K to be like سَعَى, implying that the aor. is ثَنَىَ, but this is a mistake, (MF, TA,) [for it is well known that] the aor. is ثَنِىَ, (Msb,) inf. n. ثَنْىٌ, (S, M, Msb, &c.,) He doubled it, or folded it; (T;) he turned one part of it upon another; (M, K;) he bent it; (T, S, Mgh, Msb, TA;) he drew, or contracted, one of its two extremities to [or towards] the other; or joined, or adjoined, one of them to the other; thus bending it; (Mgh;) namely, a stick, or branch, or twig, (Mgh,) or a thing, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) of any kind. (T.) One says of a man with the mention of whom one begins, in relation to an honourable or a praiseworthy quality, or in relation to science or knowledge, بِهِ تُثْنَى الخَنَاصِرُ, (T,) meaning With [the mention of] him, (T, and Msb in art. خصر,) among others of his class, (Msb ib.,) the little fingers are bent. (T, and Msb ubi suprá. [For the Arabs, in counting with the fingers, first bend the tip of the little finger down to the palm of the hand; then, the tip of the next; and so on; bending the thumb down upon the other fingers for five; and then continue by extending the fingers, one after another, again commencing with the little finger.]) And a poet says, فَإِنْ عُدَّ مَجْدٌ أَوْ قَدِيمٌ لِمَعْشَرٍ

فَقَوْمِى بِهِمْ تُثْنَى هُنَاكَ لأَصَابِعُ [And if glory, or any old ground of pretension to honour, be reckoned as belonging to a body of men, it is my people, with the mention of them, in that case, the fingers are bent]; meaning that they are reckoned as the best; (IAar, M;) for the best are not many. (M.) One says also, ثَنَى وَرِكَهُ فَنَزَلَ [lit. He bent his hip, and alighted], meaning he alighted from his beast. (T.) and ثَنَى رِجْلَهُ عَنْ دَابَّتِهِ, meaning He drew up his leg to his thigh, and alighted. (M.) But قَبْلَ أَنْ يَثْنِىَ رِجْلَهُ, occurring in a trad., means Before he turned his leg from the position in which it was in the pronouncing of the testimony of the faith. (IAth.) ثَنَى صَدْرَهُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, [lit. He folded his breast, or bosom,] means (assumed tropical:) he concealed enmity in his breast, or bosom: or he folded up what was in it, in concealment. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [xi. 5], أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ يَثْنَونَ صُدُورَهُمْ, meaning [Now surely] they infold and conceal [in their bosoms] enmity and hatred: (Fr, T:) or they bend their breasts, or bosoms, and fold up, and conceal, what is therein: (Zj, T:) I'Ab read, صُدُورُهُمْ ↓ تَثْنَوْنِى: you say, اِثْنَوْنَى صَدْرُهُ عَلَى البَغْضَآءِ, meaning his breast, or bosom, infolded, or concealed, vehement hatred: (T:) or the phrase in the Kur, accord. to the former reading, means they bend, or turn, their breasts, or bosoms, from the truth; they turn themselves away therefrom: or they incline their breasts, or bosoms, to unbelief, and enmity to the Prophet: or they turn their backs: (Bd:) [for] b2: ثَنَاهُ, (T, S, Msb, TA,) aor. as above, (Msb,) and so the inf. n., (T, Msb, TA,) also signifies He turned him, or it, away or back. (T, S, Msb, TA.) Also He turned him, or turned him away or back, (Lth, T, S,) from the course that he desired to pursue, (Lth, T,) or from the object of his want: (S:) or you say, ثَنَاهُ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, (Mgh,) and عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ, (TA,) and عَنْ مُرَادِهِ, (Msb,) he turned him, or turned him away or back, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) from his course, (Mgh,) and from the object of his want, (TA,) and from the object of his desire. (Msb.) One says also, فُلَانٌ لَا يُثْنَى عَنْ قِرْنِهِ وَلَا عَنْ وَجْهِهِ [Such a one will not be turned, or turned away or back, from his antagonist, nor from his course]. (T.) b3: Also He tied it; or tied it in a knot or knots; or tied it firmly, fast, or strongly. (TA.) You say, ثَنَيْتُ البَعِيرَ بِثِنَايَيْنِ, meaning, accord. to As, as related by A'Obeyd, I bound both the fore legs of the camel with two bonds: but correctly, I bound the two fore legs of the camel with the two ends of a rope; the last word meaning a single rope: (T:) عَقَلْتُهُ بِثَنْيَيْنِ means I bound one of his fore shanks to the arm with two ties, or tyings. (T, M.) b4: ثَنْىٌ [as inf. n. of ثَنَى] also signifies The act of drawing, or joining, or adjoining, one [thing] to another; (Lth, T, Mgh;) and so ↓ تَثْنِيَةٌ [inf. n. of ثنّى]. (Mgh.) b5: [As ثَلَثَهُمْ signifies “ he took the third of their property,” and “ he made them, with himself, three,” and other verbs of number are used in similar senses, so] ثَنَاهُ signifies He took the half of their property: or he drew, or adjoined, to him what became with him two: (TA:) or ثَنَيْتُهُ, (S, Msb,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (Msb,) signifies I became (S, Msb) to him, (S,) or with him, (Msb,) a second; (S, Msb;) or I was a second to him, or it: (Er-Rághib:) or one should not say thus, but that Az says, (M,) هُوَ وَاحِدٌ فَاثْنِهِ (M, K [but in the latter, هٰذَا in the place of هُوَ, and in the CK, ↓ فأَثْنِه,]) he is one, and be thou a second to him. (M, K.) b6: ثَنَى, aor. as above, also signifies He made eleven to be twelve. (T in art. ثلث.) b7: ثَنَى الأَرْضَ, inf. n. as above, He turned over the land, or ground, twice for sowing, or cultivating: (Mgh, and A * and TA * in art. ثلث:) and ↓ تَثْنِيَةٌ [inf. n. of ثنّى] and ثُنُيَانٌ [app. another inf. n. of ثَنَى, and app. correctly written ثُنْيَانٌ] are often used by [the Imám] Mohammad in the sense of ثَنْىٌ: he who explains تَثْنِيَةٌ as signifying the turning over [the land, or ground,] for sowing, or cultivating, after the harvest, or as signifying the restoring land to its owner turned over for sowing, or cultivating, commits an inadvertence. (Mgh.) b8: فَاثْنِنِى, occurring in a poem of Kutheiyir 'Azzeh, is explained as meaning Then give thou to me a second time: (M, TA:) but this is strange: (TA:) [ISd says,] I have not seen it in any other instance. (M.) b9: لَا يَثْنِى وَلَا يَثْلِثُ, (a phrase mentioned by IAar, M,) or وَلَا يُثَلِّثُ ↓ لَا يُثَنِّى, or وَلَا يُثْلِثُ ↓ لَا يُثْنِى: see 1 in art. ثلث.2 ثنّاهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَثْنِيَةٌ, (S, K,) He made it two; or called it two. (S, M, MS b, K.) [Hence,] ثَنَّى means also He counted two; whence the saying, فُلَانٌ يُثَنِّى وَلَا يُثَلِّثُ; see art. ثلث: (A and TA in art. ثلث:) [and so, app., ↓ اِثَّنَى; for] a poet says, بَدَا بِأَبِى ثُمَّ اثَّنَى بِأَبِى أَبِى

[which seems plainly to mean He began with my father; then counted two with the father of my father]. (M.) b2: [He dualized it, namely, a word; made it to have a dual. b3: He marked it with two points, namely, a ت or a ى.] b4: He repeated it; iterated it. (Mgh.) See 1, in three places. b5: ثنّى لِامْرَأَتِهِ, or عِنْدَهَا, He remained two nights with his wife: and in like manner the verb is used in relation to any saying or action. (TA voce سَبَّعَ.) b6: ثنّى بِالأَمْرِ He did the thing immediately after another thing. (T.) b7: تَثْنِيَةٌ also signifies A man's requesting others [who are playing with him at the game called المَيْسِر] to return, for [a chance of] the stakes, his arrow, when it has been successful, and he has been secure, and has won. (Lh, M.) A2: See also 4.4 أَثْنَتْ, or ↓ اِثْتَنَتْ, She brought forth her second offspring. (TA in art. بكر.) b2: See also 1, in two places. b3: اثنى, (inf. n. إِثْنَآءٌ, TA,) He shed his tooth called the ثَنِيَّة; (S, Mgh, Msb;) he became what is termed ثُنِىّ; said of a camel [&c.]: (M, K:) he shed his رَوَاضِع [pl. of رَاضِعَة which is the same, in this case, as ثَنِيَّة]; said of a horse [&c.]. (IAar, T.) A2: اثنى عَلَيْهِ, (T, S, M, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِثْنَآءٌ; (T;) and ↓ ثنّى, inf. n. تَثْنِيَةٌ, accord. to the K, but this is a mistake for ↓ ثبّى, inf. n. تَثْبِيَةٌ; (TA;) He praised, eulogized, commended, or spoke well of, him: and he dispraised, censured, discommended, or spoke ill of, him: (T, * M, Msb, K:) the object is either God or a man: (T:) or it has the former meaning only: (M, K;) or the former meaning is the more common: (Msb:) accord. to IAar, اثنى signifies he spoke, or said, well, or good; and ill, or evil; and انثى, “he defamed,” or “did so in the absence of the object;” and “he disdained, scorned, shunned, disliked, or hated,” a thing: (T:) and you say, اثنى عَلَيْهِ خَيْرًا [He spoke, or said, well, or good, of him]; (S, and TA from a trad.;) and شَرًّا [ill, or evil], also. (TA from the same trad.) One says also, أَثْنَيْتُ فِعْلَهُ [I praised his deed]; meaning عَلَى فِعْلِهِ; or because أَثْنَى means مَدَحَ. (Ham p. 696.) 5 تثنّى: see 7. b2: Also He affected an inclining of his body, or a bending, or he inclined his body, or bent, from side to side; syn. تَمَايَلَ: (Har pp. 269 and 271:) and he walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side; or with a twisting of the back, and with extended steps; syn. تَبَخْتَرَ. (Idem p. 271.) Yousay, تثنّى فِى مِشْيَتِهِ (S, and Har p. 269) He affected an inclining of his body, or a bending, or he inclined his body, or bent, from side to side, in his gait. (Har ib.) [And in like manner, and more commonly, one says of a woman.]7 انثنى, (T, S, M, K,) and ↓ تثنّى, and ↓ اِثَّنَى, of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ, (M, K,) originally اِثْتَنَى, (M,) and ↓ اِثْنَوْنَى, (T, S, K,) of the measure اِفْعَوْعَلَ, (T, S,) It was, or became, doubled, or folded; (T;) it had one part turned upon another; (M, K;) it was, or became, bent. (T, S.) b2: [Hence,] انثنى signifies also He turned, or turned away or back, (Har pp. 44 and 120,) عَنْ أَمْرٍ from an affair, after having determined to do it. (Lth in TA art. زمع.) 8 إِثْتَنَىَ see 7, and 4: b2: and see also 2.10 استثناهُ He set it aside as excluded; or he excluded it, or excepted it; مِنْ شَىْءٍ from a thing; syn. حَاشَاهُ: (M:) or he set it aside, or apart, for himself: and in the conventional language of the grammarians, [he excepted it; i. e.] he excluded it from the predicament in which another thing was included, or in which other things were included: (Mgh:) الاِسْتِثْنَآءُ [in grammar] is the turning away the agent from reaching the object of the اِسْتِثْنَآء: (Msb:) in the case of an oath [and the like], it means the saying إِنْ شَآءَ اللّٰهُ [If God will]. (Mgh.) [See ثُنْيَا.]12 اثنونى: see 7; and see also 1.

ثِنْىٌ A duplication, or doubling, of a thing: (T, * S, Msb:) pl. أَثْنَآءٌ; (S, Msb;) or the sing. may be ↓ ثَنًى. (Msb.) b2: A folding: so in the saying, أَنْفَذْتُ كَذَا ثِنْىَ كِتَابِى, (S, TA,) or فِى ثِنْىِ كِتَابِىِ (so in a copy of the S,) i. e., فِى طَيِّهِ [lit. I sent, or transmitted, such a thing within the folding of my writing, or letter; meaning infolded, or enclosed, in it; and included in it]. (S, TA.) b3: A duplicature, or fold, of a garment, or piece of cloth: (TA:) or what is turned back of the extremities thereof: (T:) pl. as above: whence, in a trad. of Aboo-Hureyreh, كَانَ يَثْنِيهِ عَلَيْهِ أَثْنَآءً مِنْ سَعَتِهِ [He used to fold it upon him in folds by reason of its width]; meaning the garment. (TA.) [Hence the saying,] وَكَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى أَثْنَآءِ كَذَا, i. e., فى غُضُونِهِ [lit and that was in the folds, meaning, in the midst, of such a thing, or such an affair, or event]. (TA.) And جَاؤُوا فِى أَثْنَآءِ الأَمْرِ They came in the midst of the affair, or event. (Msb.) [And hence, app.,] مَضَى ثِنْىٌ مِنَ اللَّيْل An hour, or a period, or a short portion, of the night passed; (M, K; *) syn. سَاعَةٌ, (Th, M, K,) or وَقْتٌ. (Lh, M, K.) [See also what is said below respecting its pl. in relation to a night.] b4: Also sing. of أَثْنَآءٌ meaning The parts of a thing that are laid together like the strands of a rope, or that are laid one upon another as layers or strata, or side by side as the things that compose a bundle; (قُوَاهُ, and طَاقَاتُهُ; [rendered by Freytag “ virtutes, facultates rei; ”]) and ↓ مَثَانٍ, of which the sing. is ↓ مَثْنَاةٌ and ↓ مِثْنَاةٌ, signifies the same. (M, K.) b5: Also A bending of the neck of a sheep, or goat, not in consequence of disease: (K: but in the M, ثَنْىٌ [inf. n. of 1]:) and a serpent's bending, or folding, of itself: (M, K:) and also (thus in the M, but in the K “or”) a curved part of a serpent that has folded itself; (M, K;) pl. أَثْنَآءٌ, (M,) i. e. the folds of a coiled serpent. (T.) The pl. is used metaphorically [as though meaning (tropical:) The turns] of a night. (M. [But see explanations of the sing. as used in relation to a night in what precedes.] b6: A part that is bent, or folded, or doubled, of a وِشَاح [q. v.]; (TA;) pl. as above: (T, TA:) and so of a rope: (S:) or a portion of the extremity of a rope folded, or doubled, [so as to form a loop,] for binding therewith the pastern of the fore leg of a beast, to serve as a tether. (T.) Tarafeh says, لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّ المَوْتَ مَا أَخْطَأَ الفَتَى

لَكَالطِّوَلِ المُرْخَى وَثِنْيَاهُ بِالْيَدِ [By thy life, death, while missing the strong young man, is like the tether that is slackened while the two folded extremities thereof are upon the fore leg, or in the hand: see طِوَلٌ]: (T, S:) he means that the young man must inevitably die, though his term of life be protracted; like as the beast, though his tether be lengthened and slackened, cannot escape, being withheld by its two extremities: (so in a copy of the T:) or by ثنياه he means its extremity; using the dual form because it is folded, or doubled, upon the pastern, and tied with a double tie: (so in another copy of the T:) or he means, while its two extremities are in the hand of its owner: (EM p. 91:) by ما اخطأ, he means فِى إِخْطَائِهِ, (S in art. طول,) or مُدَّةَ إِخْطَائِهِ: and the ل [prefixed to the ك of comparison] is for corroboration. (EM ubi suprá.) You say also, رَبَّقَ أَثْنَآءَ الحَبْلِ, meaning He made loops in the middle of the rope to put upon the necks of the young lambs or kids. (T.) b7: Also A bend, or place of bending, of a valley, (S, M, * K,) and of a mountain: (S:) pl. as above: (M, K:) and ↓ مَثَانٍ [likewise] signifies the bends of a valley. (T, K.) A2: A she-camel that has brought forth twice, (S,) or two, (M,) or a second time: (K:) or, as some say, that has brought forth once: but the former is more analogical: (M:) one does not say ثِلْثٌ [as meaning “ that has brought forth thrice ”], nor use any similar epithet above this: (S, TA:) pl. ثُنَآءٌ, like ظُؤَارٌ pl. of ظِئْرٌ, accord. to Sb, (M, TA,) and أَثْنَآءٌ accord. to others: (TA:) in like manner it is applied to a woman, (S, M,) metaphorically: (M:) and to the she-camel's second young one: (S, M:) accord. to As, as related by A'Obeyd, a she-camel that has brought forth once: also that has brought forth twice: [so says Az, but he adds,] but what I have heard from the Arabs is this; that they term a she-camel that has brought forth her first young one بِكْر; and her first young one, her بِكْر; and when she brought forth a second, she is termed ثِنْىٌ; and her young one, her ثِنْى: and this is what is correct. (T.) [Hence the saying,] مَا هٰذَا الأَمْرُ مِنْكَ بِكْرًا وَلَا ثِنْيًا (tropical:) This thing, or affair, is not thy first nor thy second. (A and TA in art. بكر.) b2: See also ثُنْيَانٌ.

ثَنًى: see ثِنْىٌ, first sentence.

ثُنًى: see ثِنًى: b2: and see also ثُنْيَانٌ: b3: and اِثْنَانِ.

ثِنًى The repetition of a thing; doing it one time after another: (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA:) or a thing, or an affair, done twice: (S, Msb, TA:) this is the primary signification: (TA:) and ↓ ثُنًى signifies the same. (IB, TA.) It is said in a trad., لَا ثِنَى فِى الصَّدَقَةِ There shall be no repetition in the taking of the poor-rate; (IAth, TA;) [i. e.] the poor-rate shall not be taken twice in one year: (As, Ks, T, S, M, Mgh, K:) or two she-camels shall not be taken in the place of one for the poor-rate: (M, IAth, K: *) or there shall be no retracting of an alms; or no revoking it: (Mgh, K, * TA:) this last is the meaning accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed, (Mgh, TA,) i. e. Ed-Dareeree, (Mgh,) who, in explaining this trad., as relating to the giving an alms to a man and then desiring to take it back, says he does not deny that ثِنًى

has the meaning first assigned to it above in this paragraph. (TA.) b2: See also ثُنْيانٌ: b3: and اِثْنَانِ.

ثَنْوَى and ثُنْوَى: see ثُنْيَا, in four places.

ثُنْيَةٌ: see ثُنْيَا, in three places.

ثِنْيَةٌ The lowest, most ignoble, or meanest, of the people of his house; applied to a man. (S, TA.) b2: Also pl. of ثُنْيَانٌ, q. v. (S, K.) ثُنْيَا a subst. from اِسْتِثْنَآءٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ ثَنْوَى; the former with damm, and the latter with fet-h: (S, Msb:) both are syn. with اِسْتِثْنَآءٌ [used as a subst., meaning An exception]; (T;) as also ↓ ثَنِيَّةٌ, (T, K,) or ↓ ثُنْيَةٌ, (accord. to one copy of the T,) and ↓ مَثْنَوِيَّةٌ: (T:) so in the saying, حَلَفَ يَمِينًا لَيْسَ فِيهَا ثُنْيَا and ↓ ثُنْوَى and ↓ ثَنِيَّةٌ or ↓ ثُنْيَةٌ and ↓ مَثْنَوِيَّةٌ [he swore an oath in which there was not an exception]; for when the swearer says, “By God I will not do such and such things unless God will otherwise,” he reverses what he [first] says by God's willing otherwise: (T: [see 10:]) [and so in the saying,] ↓ حَلْفَةٌ غَيْرُ ذَاتِ مَثْنَوِيَّةٍ a swearing not made lawful [by an exception]: (M:) [so too in the saying,] ↓ بَيْعٌ مَا فِيهِ مَثْنَوِيَّةٌ [and ثُنْيَا &c.] (K in art. لحج) a sale in which there is not an exception: (TA in that art.:) or ثُنْيَا signifies a thing excepted, (M, Mgh, K,) whatever it be; (K) as also ↓ ثَنْوَى, (M, K,) with و substituted for ى, (M,) or ↓ ثُنْوَى, (so in the TA, [but probably through inadvertence,]) and ↓ ثَنِيَّةٌ, (M, K,) or ↓ ثُنْيَةٌ. (TA.) In a sale, it is unlawful when it is the exception of a thing unknown; and when one sells a slaughtered camel for a certain price and excepts the head and extremities: (T, TA:) or when an exception is made from things sold without measuring or weighting or numbering: and in a contract with another for labour upon land on the condition of sharing the produce, it is when one excepts a certain measure after the half or the third. (IAth, TA.) The saying of Mo-hammad, مَنِ اسْتَثْنَى فَلَهُ ثُنْيَاهُ means Whoso maketh an exception, his shall be what he excepteth: (M, TA: *) as, for instance, when one says, “I divorce her thrice, save once: ” or “ I emancipate them, except such a one. ” (TA.) b2: It also means particularly The head and legs of a slaughtered camel; (T, M, * K;) because the seller of the camel used, in the Time of Ignorance, to except them; (T;) and IF adds, but incorrectly, the back-bone: (Sgh, TA:) whence, applied to a she-camel, مُذَكَّرَةُ الثُّنْيَا, (T, M,) meaning Resembling the make of the male in [the largeness of] her head and legs; (Th, M;) or جُمَالِيَّةُ الثُّنْيَا, having thick legs, like those of the male camel in thickness. (T.) [Also, app., The exception, or omission, of a day, in irrigation: see 3 in art. ثلث, and ثِلْثٌ in the same art.] and ↓ ثَنِيَّةٌ signifies also A palm-tree that is excepted from a bargain. (M, K.) And The martyrs whom God has excepted from those who shall fall down dead or swooning: (M, K:) these, accord. to Kaab, are اللّٰهِ فِى الأَرْضِ ↓ ثَنِيّةُ [those whom God has excepted on the earth]; (T, M;) alluded to in the Kur [xxxix. 68], where it is said, “and the horn shall be blown, and those who are in the heavens and those on the earth shall fall down dead, or swooning, except those whom God shall please [to except]. ” (T.) ثُنْيَانٌ The second chief; the person who comes second as a chief; (A'Obeyd, T;) the person who is [next] below the سَيِّد, (S, M, K, [in some copies of the K, erroneously, سيل,]) in rank; (S;) as also ↓ ثِنًى (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K) and ↓ ثُنًى (A'Obeyd, T, S, K) and ↓ ثِنْىٌ: (K:) pl. (of the first, S) ثِنْيَةٌ [which is also a sing., mentioned above]. (S, K.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce بَدْءٌ.] b2: A man having no judgment nor intelligence, or understanding. (M, K.) b3: Applied to judgment, or an opinion, (M, K,) (tropical:) Wrong, or having a wrong tendency; (M;) bad, corrupt, unsound, or wrong. (K, TA.) A2: Also a pl. of ثَنِىٌّ [q. v.]. (S, M, &c.) ثَنَوِىٌّ rel. n. of اِثْنَانِ, and of اِثْنَا عَشَرَ, when either or these is used as the proper name of a man; as also ↓ اِثْنِىٌّ [with ا when connected with a preceding word]; like بِنَوِىٌّ and اِبْنِىٌّ as rel. ns. of اِبْنٌ. (S.) b2: And الثَّنَوِيَّةُ [The Dualists;] the sect who assert the doctrine of Dualism [الاِثْنَيْنِيَّة]. (TA.) ثَنَآءٌ, [and accord. to the CK, ثَنِيَّةٌ, but this is a mistranscription for تَثْنِيَة, inf. n. of ثَنَّى, and تَثْنِيَة is a mistake for تَثْبِيَة, inf. n. of ثَبَّى, (see 4,)] Praise, eulogy, or commendation, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) of a man, (T, M,) and of God: (T:) and dispraise, censure, or discommendation, (T, M, Msb, K,) of a man: (T, M:) or the former only: (M, K:) or more frequently the former: (Msb:) so termed because it is repeated: (Ham p. 696:) that it relates to good speech and evil is asserted by many. (TA.) ثُنَآءُ and ثُنَآءَ: see مَثْنَى.

ثِنَآءٌ The cord, or rope, with which a camel's fore shank and his arm are bound together; (S, K;) and the like; consisting of a folded, or doubled, cord, or rope: each of the folds, or duplicatures, thereof would be thus termed if the word were used in the sing. form: (S:) Ibn-EsSeed [in the CK, erroneously, Ibn-Es-Seedeh] allows it; and therefore it is given as on his authority in the K: (TA:) and Lth allows it; but in this instance he allows what the Arabs do not allow: (T:) you say, عَقَلْتُ البَعِيرَ بِثِنَايَيْنِ, meaning I bound together the fore shanks and the arms of the camel with a rope, (S,) or with two ropes, (M, [but this is probably a mistake of a copyist,]) or with the two ends of a rope; (Az, T, S, M;) without ء because the word has no sing.: (Kh, Sb, T, S:) Lth allows one's saying بِثِنَآءَيْنِ also; but the Basrees and Koofees [in general] agree that it is without ء: (T:) IB says that it has no sing. because it is a single rope, with one end of which one fore leg is bound, and with the other end the other leg; and IAth says the like: (TA:) this rope is also called ↓ ثِنَايَةٌ; but a single rope for binding one fore shank and arm is not thus called. (T.) See also ثِنَايَةٌ. b2: And see ثَانٍ.

A2: The فِنَآء [or court, or open or wide space, in front, or extending from the sides,] (M, K,) of a house: (M:) [in the CK, الغِناءُ is erroneously put for الفِناءُ:] accord. to IJ, from ثَنَى, aor. ـْ because there one is turned back, by its limits, from expatiating; but A'Obeyd holds the ث to be a substitute for ف. (M.) ثَنِىٌّ Shedding his tooth called the ثَنِيَّة [q. v.]: (S, M, Msb:) or that has shed the tooth so called: (T, Mgh:) applied to a camel &c., as follows: (T, S, M, &c.:) or, as some say, to any animal that has shed that tooth, except man: (M:) fem. with ة: (T, S, M, Msb, K:) a camel in the sixth year; (T, S, M, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K;) the least age at which he may be sacrificed: (T:) and a horse in the fourth year; (IAar, T, Mgh, K;) or in the third year: (S, Msb:) and a cloven-hoofed animal, (S, Mgh, Msb,) or a sheep or goat and an animal of the bovine kind, [respecting which last see عَضْبٌ,] (T, IAth, K,) in the third year: (T, S, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K:) or a sheep and a goat, (M,) the latter accord. to the persuasion of Ahmad [Ibn-Hambal], (TA,) in the second year: (M:) and a gazelle after the age at which he is termed جَذَعٌ: (M: [see شَصَرٌ:]) in all cases, after what is termed جَذَعٌ and before what is termed رَبَاعٍ: (Mgh:) pl. (masc., S, TA) ثُنْيَانٌ and ثِنَآءٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb) and ثُنَآءٌ, and, accord. to Sb, ثُنٍ; (M;) and pl. fem. ثَنِيَّاتٌ. (S.) الثُّنَىُّ, or الثُّنِىُّ: see اِثْنَانِ.

ثَنِيَّةٌ I. q. عَقَبَةٌ: (AA, M, Mgh, K:) or the latter means a long mountain that lies across the road, and which the road traverses; and the former, any such mountain that is traversed: (T:) so called because it lies before the road, and crosses it; or because it turns away him who traverses it: (Mgh:) or the road of what is termed عَقَبَة: (S; and so in copies of the K:) or a high road of what is thus termed: (K accord. to the TA:) or a road in, or upon, a mountain, (M, K,) like that which is termed نَقْبٌ [q. v.]: (M:) or a road to a mountain: (M, K:) or a mountain (M, K) itself: (M:) or a part of a mountain that requires one, in traversing it, to ascend and descend; as though it turned the course of journeying: (Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. ثَنَايَا: (T, S:) which signifies also [such roads as are termed] مَدَارِج. (T.) Hence the phrase, فُلَانٌ طَلَّاعُ الثَّنَايَا Such a one rises to eminences, or to lofty things or circumstances, or to the means of attaining such things; like the phrase طَلَّاعُ أَنْجُدٍ

[q. v.]: (S:) or, like the latter phrase, is accustomed to embark in, or undertake, or to surmount, or master, lofty and difficult things: (Mgh:) or is hardy, strong, or sturdy; one who embarks in, or undertakes, great affairs. (TA. [See an ex. under the heading of اِبْنُ جَلَا, in art. جلو: and see also art. طلع.]) b2: Also, (T, S, M, &c.,) pl. ثَنَايَا (T, S, Mgh, Msb) and ثَنِيَّاتٌ, (Msb,) One of certain teeth, (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) the foremost in the mouth, (M,) [namely, the central incisors,] four in number, (T, M, Mgh, Msb,) to man, and to the camel, (T, M, &c.,) and to the wild beast, (M,) in the fore part of the mouth, (T, Mgh, K,) two above and two below: (T, M, Mgh, K:) so called as being likened to the ثَنِيَّة of a mountain, in form and hardness; (TA;) or because each of them is placed next to its fellow. (Mgh.) A2: Also fem. of ثَنِىٌّ [q. v.]. (T, S, M, &c.) A3: See also ثُنْيَا, in five places.

ثِنَايَةٌ A cord, or rope, of goats' hair (شَعَر), or of wool, (S, K,) or of other material; (K;) as also ↓ ثِنَآءٌ (K) and ↓ مِثْنَاةٌ and ↓ مَثْنَاةٌ; (M, K;) which last is explained by IAar as signifying [simply] a cord, or rope: (M:) [or] the first has the meaning assigned to it above, voce ثِنَآءٌ; syn. with ثِنَايَانِ: and signifies also a long rope; whence the saying of Zuheyr, describing the [she-camel termed] سَانِيَة, تَمْطُو الرِّشَآءَ وَتُجْرِى فِى ثِنَايَتِهَا مِنَ المَحَالَةِ قَبًّا رَائِدًا قَلِقَا (T,) meaning [She draws the well-rope, and causes to run,] with her ثناية upon her, (ISk, T,) [a wabbling, unsteady, sheave (?) of the large pulley;] the ثناية here being a rope of which the two ends are tied to the saddle (قَتَب) of the سانية; the [upper] end of the well-rope being tied to its ↓ مِثْنَاة [which here means the folded middle part]: (T:) but Aboo-Sa'eed says that it [here] means a piece of wood by which are connected the two extremities of the cheeks, or side-pieces, (طرفا الميلين, [the latter of which words I here render conjecturally, supposing it to be similar in meaning to القَعْوِ or القَعْوَيْنِ,]) above the محالة, and a similar piece below; the محالة and [qu. or] the sheave turning between the tow pieces thus called. (T, in a later portion of the art.) ثُنَائِىٌّ [a rel. n. from اِثْنَانِ, anomalously formed, but analogous with other rel. ns. from ns. of number, as رُبَاعِىٌّ ثُلَاثِىٌّ, &c., Of, or relating to, two things]. b2: كَلِمَةٌ ثُنَائِيَّةٌ A word comprising, or composed of, two letters; as يَدٌ, and دُمْ [or دَمٌ?]. (TA.) ثِنْتَانِ a fem of اِثْنَانِ, q. v.

ثَانٍ [act. part. n. of 1; Doubling, or folding; &c.]. Hence, هُوَ ثَانٍ رِجْلَهُ While he was bending his leg before rising, or standing up. (TA from a trad.) [And جَآءَ ثَانِىَ عِطْفِهِ: see art. عطف.] One says of a horseman who has bent the neck of his beast on the occasion of his vehement running, جَآءَ ثَانِىَ العِنَانِ [He came bending the rein by pulling it with both hands a little apart]: (T:) or جَآءَ ثَانِيًا مِنْ عِنَانِهِ [he came bending a part of his rein]. (S.) And of the horse himself, one says, جَآءَ سَابِقًا ثَانِيًا, i. e. He came outstripping, with bent neck, by reason of briskness; because when he is fatigued, he stretches out his neck; and when he is not fatigued nor jaded by running, but comes in his first run, he bends his neck: and hence the saying of the poet, وَمَنْ يَفْخَرْ بِمِثْلِ أَبِى وَجَدِّى

يَجِئْ قَبْلَ السَّوَابِقِ وَهُوَ ثَانِى

i. e. [And he who glories in the like of my father and my grandfather, let him come before the mares that outstrip,] he being like the horse that outstrips [all others], with bent neck; or it may mean, he bending the neck of his horse which has outstripped the others. (T.) [Hence also,] شَاةٌ ثَانِيَةٌ A sheep, or goat, bending the neck, not in consequence of disease. (M, K.) b2: [Also Second; the ordinal of two: fem. with ة.] You say, هٰذَا ثَانِى هٰذَا [This is the second of this]; i. e. this is what has made this a pair, or couple: (M:) and فُلَانٌ (T) or هٰذَا (S) ثَانِى اثْنَيْنِ, (T, S,) i. e. Such a one, or this, is [the second of two, or] one of the two; (T, S;) like as you say ثَالِتُ ثَلَاثَةٍ; and so on to عَشَرَة: but not with tenween: (S:) [i. e.,] you may not say ثانٍ اثْنَيْنِ: (T: [see ثَالِثٌ:]) but if the two [terms] disagree, you may use either mode; (S;) you may say, هٰذَا (S) or هُوَ (Mgh) ثَانِى وَاحِدٍ and ثَانٍ وَاحِدًا, (S, Mgh,) i. e. This has become a second to one, (S,) [or rather, becomes &c. (i. e. يَثْنِى rather than ثَنَى),] or he, or it, makes one, with himself, or itself, to be two. (Mgh.) ↓ ثِنَآء also signifies the same in a trad. respecting the office of commander, or governor, or prince; where it is said, أَوَّلُهَا مَلَامَةٌ وَثِنَاؤُهَا نَدَامَةٌ وَثِلَاثُهَا عَذابُ يَوْمِ القِيَامَةِ إِلَّا مَنْ عَدَلَ, i. e. [The first result thereof is blame, and] the second [is regret, and] the third [is the punishment of the day of resurrection, except in the case of him who acts equitably]: so says Sh. (T.) b3: And الثَّوَانِى [pl. of الثَّانِيَةُ] signifies [The second horns;] the horns that are [next] after the أَوَائِل. (M.) b4: [ثَانِىَ عَشَرَ and ثَانِيَةَ عَشْرَةَ, the former masc. and the latter fem., meaning Twelfth, are subject to the same rules as ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ and its fem., explained in art. ثلث.]

أَثْنَآءٌ pl. of ثِنْىٌ and of اِثْنَانِ: and also syn. with this latter, q. v.

اِثْنِىٌّ: see ثَنَوِىٌّ.

اِثْنَانِ a noun of number; (S, Msb;) applied to the dual number; (Msb;) meaning [Two;] the double of وَاحِدٌ; (M, K;) with a conjunctive ا [when not immediately preceded by a quiescence, written اثْنَانِ]; (T, S, Msb;) but this is sometimes made disjunctive when connected with a preceding word by poetic license: (T, S:) of the masc. gender: (S:) fem. اِثْنَتَانِ, (T, S, Msb,) in which, also, the ا is conjunctive; (T, Msb;) and ↓ ثِنْتَانِ; (T S, M, Msb, K;) the latter sometimes used, (T,) [much less frequently than the former, though the only fem. form mentioned in the M and K,] and of the dial. of Temeem; (Msb;) like as one says, هِىَ ابْنَةُ فُلَانٍ and هِىَ بِنْتُهُ: (T:) the ت in the dual is a substitute for the final radical, ى, (M, TA,) as it is in أَسْنَتُوا, the only other instance of this substitution except in words of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ: (Sb, M, TA:) in اِثْنَانِ, the final radical, ى is suppressed: (Msb:) it has no sing.: (Lth, T:) if it were allowable to assign to it a sing., it would be اِثْنٌ [for the masc.] and اِثْنَةٌ [for the fem.], like اِبْنٌ and اِبْنَةٌ: (S:) accord. to some, (Msb,) it is originally ثِنْىٌ; (T, Msb, CK;) and hence the dual ثِنْتَانِ: (Msb:) or it is originally ثَنَىٌ, (M, Msb, and so in a copy of the K,) the conjunctive ا being then substituted for the ى whence the dual اثْنَانِ, like ابْنَانِ: (Msb:) this is shown by the form of its pl., which is أَثْنَآءٌ, (M, K,) like أَبْنَآءٌ [pl. of ابْنٌ, which is originally بَنَىٌ or بَنَوٌ,] and آخَآءٌ [pl. of أَخٌ, which is originally أَخَوٌ]. (M.) In the saying in the Kur [xvi. 53], لَا تَتَّخِذُوا إِٰلهَيْنِ اثْنَيْنِ [Take not to yourselves two gods], the last word is added as a corroborative. (M.) The phrase ثِنْتَا حَنْظَلٍ occurs, by poetic license, for اِثْنَتَانِ مِنْ حَنْظَلٍ, meaning حَنْظَلَتَانِ [Two colo-cynths]. (S.) You say also, القَدَحِ ↓ شَرِبْتُ أَثْنَآءَ, and شَرِبْتُ اثْنَىْ هٰذَا القَدَحِ, meaning [I drank] twice as much as the bowl, and as this bowl: and in like manner, شَرِبْتُ اثْنَىْ مُدِّ البَصْرَةِ and اثْنَيْنِ بِمُدِّ البَصْرَةِ [I drank twice the quantity of the مُدّ of El-Basrah]. (M.) And a poet says, ↓ فَمَا حُلِبَتْ إِلَّا الثَّلَاثَةَ وَالثُّنَى

وَلَا قُيِّلَتْ إِلَّا قَرِيبًا مَقَالُهَا meaning [And she was not milked save] three vessels and two, [nor was she given her middaydrink save when her midday-resting was near.] (IAar, M.) b2: Hence, (Msb,) يَوْمُ الاِثْنَيْنِ, (S, Msb,) or الاِثْنَانِ alone, (M, K,) One of the days of the week; [the second; namely, Monday;] because the first, with the Arabs, is الأَحَدُ; (M;) as also ↓ الثِّنَى, like إِلَى; (K;) so in the copies of the K; [or,] accord. to some, ↓ الثُّنِىُّ, [originally الثُّنُوىُ,] of the measure فُعُول, like ثُدِىٌّ [pl. of ثَدْىٌ], is used in this sense; (TA;) or ↓ اليَوْمُ الثُّنَىُّ, [so in the M, accord. to the TT,] mentioned by Sb, on the authority of certain of the Arabs: (M:) the pl. is أَثْنَآءٌ and أَثَانِينُ, (M, K,) the latter mentioned on the authority of Th: but it has no dual: and those who say أَثْنَآءٌ form this pl. from الاِثْنُ, although this has not been in use: (M:) or it has neither dual nor pl., (S, Msb,) being itself a dual; (S;) but if you would form a pl. from it, you would regard it as itself a sing., and make its pl. أَثَانِينُ: (S, Msb:) IB says that أَثَانِينُ has not been heard [from the Arabs], and is only mentioned by Fr, on the ground of analogy; that it is far-fetched in respect of analogy; and that the pl. heard is أَثْنَآءٌ: Seer and others mention, as heard from the Arabs, إِنَّهُ لَيَصُومُ الأَثْنَآءَ [Verily he fasts on the Mondays]. (TA.) الثنين in يوم الثنين has no dim. (Sb, S in art. امس.) IJ says that the article ال in الثنين is not redundant, though the word is not an epithet: Abu-l-'Abbás says that the prefixing of the article in this case is allowable because the virtual meaning is اليَوْمُ الثَّانِى [the second day]. (M.) The saying اليَوْمُ الاِثْنَانِ means The name of to-day [is الاثنان]; and is like the saying اليَوْمُ يَوْمَانِ [to-day is two days] and اليَوْمُ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ [to-day is fifteen of the month]. (Sb, M.) Sometimes, يَوْمُ اثْنَيْنِ, without the article ال, occurs in poetry. (M, K.) When a pronoun refers to الاثنان [as meaning Monday], this word may be treated in two ways, [as a sing. and as a dual,] but the more chaste way is to treat it as a sing., as meaning the day: (Msb:) [thus,] Aboo-Ziyád used to say, مَضَى الاِثْنَانِ بِمَا فِيهِ [Monday passed with what occurred in it]; making it sing. and masc.; and thus he did in the case of every day of the week, except that he made الجُمْعَة fem.: Abu-I-Jarráh used to say, مَضَى الاِثْنَانِ بِمَا فِيهِمَا, treating the word as a numeral; and thus he treated the third and fourth and fifth days, saying in each of these cases بِمَا فِيهِنَّ. (M.) b3: [اِثْنَا عَشَرَ, fem. اِثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ; respectively, in a case of nasb and khafd, اِثْنَىْ عَشَرَ and اِثْنَتَىْ عَشْرَةَ; and with ا when not immediately preceded by a quiescence; mean Twelve: see عَشَرَةٌ.]

اِثْنَوِىٌّ, [with ا when not immediately preceded by a quiescence, in the CK erroneously written اَثْنَوِىّ,] One who fasts alone on the second day of the week. (IAar, Th, M, K.) الاِثْنَيْنِيَّةُ [The doctrine of dualism: see ثَنَوِىٌّ]. (TA.) مَثْنَى (S, Mgh) and ↓ ثُنَآءُ (T, S) [Two and two; two and two together; or two at a time and two at a time]: they are imperfectly decl., in like manner as [مَثْلَثُ and] ثُلَاثُ, as explained in art. ثلث; (S, TA;) [because] changed from the original form of اِثْنَانِ اثْنَانِ; (T, Mgh, TA;) or because of their having the quality of epithets and deviating from the original form of اِثْنَانِ; (Sb, S in art. ثلث, q. v.;) or because they deviate from their original as to the letter and the meaning; the original word being changed as above stated, and the meaning being changed to اِثْنَانِ اثْنَانِ. (S ibid.) You say, جَاؤُوا مَثْنَى and ↓ ثُنَآءَ (M, K) or مَثْنَى مَثْنَى, (S,) but this is a repetition of the word only, not of the meaning, (Mgh,) and in like manner one says of women, (M, K, *) i. e. They came two [and] two. (S, M, K.) And it is said in a trad., صَلَاةُ اللَّيْلِ مَثْنَى مَثْنَى, i. e. The prayer of night is two rek'ahs [and] two rek'ahs (رَكْعَتَانِ رَكْعَتَانِ). (TA.) [See also other exs. voce ثُلَاثُ.] b2: مَثْنَى الأَيَادِى The repeating a benefit, or benefaction; or reiterating it; conferring it twice, or thrice; (As, T, K;) or twice, or more than twice: (K:) or the shares remaining of the slaughtered camel (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K) in the game called المَيْسِر, (A'Obeyd, T, S, K,) which shares a bountiful man used to purchase, and give for food to the أَبْرَام, (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K,) i. e., those who took no part in the game, not contributing: (M:) or the taking a portion time after time. (AA, T, S, M.) b3: مَثَانٍ [is pl. of مَثْنًى as signifying A place of doubling, or folding &c.: and hence means b4: ] The knees and elbows of a horse or similar beast. (T, K.) b5: And The bends of a valley. (T, K. See ثِنْىٌ.) b6: And, as pl. of مَثْنًى, The chords of the lute that are after the first: (M, K:) or مثنى signifies a chord [of a lute] composed of two twists: or, as some say, the second chord. (Har p. 244. See مَثْلَثٌ.) b7: مَثْنًى also signifies The زِمَام [or noserein] of a she-camel: and Er-Rághib says that the مثناة [i. e. ↓ مَثْنَاة or ↓ مِثْنَاة] is the doubled, or folded, part of the extremity of the زِمَام. (TA.) b8: المَثَانِى as relating to the Kur-án is pl. of مَثْنًى, (Mgh,) or of ↓ مَثْنَاةٌ: (AHeyth, T, Mgh:) it has three applications, accord. to A'Obeyd: (T, Mgh:) it signifies The Kur-án altogether; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Mgh, K;) so in the Kur xxxix 24; (A'Obeyd, T, Mgh;) meaning that the mention of reward and punishment is repeated, or reiterated, in it; (Fr, T;) or so called because the verse of mercy is conjoined with that of punishment; (S;) or because narratives and promises and threats are repeated in it; or because one peruses it repeatedly without being wearied: (Mgh:) or it signifies, (M, K,) or signifies also, (A'Obeyd, T, S, Mgh,) [the first chapter, called] the فَاتِحَة, (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, Mgh,) or الحَمْدُ, (K,) which means the same; (TA;) so in the Kur xv. 87; (A'Obeyd, T, Mgh;) because it is repeated, or recited twice, in every [act of prayer termed a] رَكْعَة, (Fr, Zj, AHeyth, T, S,) or with every chapter, (Th, M,) or in every prayer; (Mgh;) or because containing praise of God: (Zj, T, Mgh:) [but see السَّبْعُ المَثَانِى voce سَبْعَةٌ:] or it signifies, (M, K,) or signifies also, (A'Obeyd, T, S, Mgh,) the chapters that are less than those containing a hundred verses, (S, M, Mgh,) or that are less than the long ones (الطُّوَل, q. v.), and less than those containing a hundred verses, (A'Obeyd, T, K, but in [most of] the copies of the K دُونَ المِأَتَيْنِ is put in the place of دُونَ المِئِينَ, which is the right reading, TA,) and more than [those of the portion called] the مُفَصَّل, (A'Obeyd, T, Mgh, K,) as is related on the authority of the Prophet by Ibn-Mes'ood and 'Othmán and Ibn-'Abbás; (AHeyth, T;) because, (Mgh,) or as though, (T,) occupying the second place after those containing a hundred verses: (T, Mgh:) or the chapters, (T, K,) six and twenty in number, (T,) entitled الحَجّ and القَصَص and النَّمْل and النُّور and الأَنْفَال and مَرْيَم and العَنْكَبُوت and الرُّوم and يَاسِين and الفُرْقَان and الحِجْر and الرَّعْد and سَبَا and المَلَائِكَة and إِبْرَاهِيم and صَاد and مُحَمَّد and لُقْمٰن and الغُرَف and المُؤْمِن and الزُّخْرُف and السَّجْدَة and الأَحْقَاف and الجَاثِيَة and الدُّخَان (T, K) and الأَحْزَاب, (K,) which last has been omitted by the copyists of the T: (TA:) or the chapters of which the first is the بَقَرَة, and the last is بَرَآءَة: or what is repeated, of the Kur-án, time after time. (M, K.) مَثْنَاةٌ; pl. مَثَانٍ: see ثِنْىٌ: and ثِنَايَةٌ: and مَثْنًى; the last in two places. b2: It is said in a trad. that one of the signs of the resurrection will be the public reading, or reciting, of the مَثْنَاة, (T, S,) which means That which has been desired to be transcribed from a source other than the Book of God: (T:) or a certain book, (T, K,) [the Mishna,] which the learned men, and the recluses, of the Children of Israel, after Moses, composed after their own desire, from a source other than the Book of God, as A'Obeyd says on the authority of a man learned in the books of the earlier times, (T,) containing the histories of the Children of Israel after Moses, in which they allowed and disallowed what they pleased: (K:) or what is sung: (K:) or what is called in Persian دُو بَيْتِى, (S, K,) which means two verses, each composed of a pair of hemistichs; (TA;) i. e. what is sung; but A'Obeyd explains it otherwise than thus: (S:) it is what is known among the 'Ajam by the term ↓ مَثْنَوِىٌّ, as though this were a rel. n. from مَثْنَاةٌ: the vulgar say [erroneously] ذُو بَيْت, with the pointed ذ. (TA.) مِثْنَاةٌ; pl. مَثَانٍ: see ثِنْىٌ: and ثِنَايَةٌ; the latter in two places: and see also مَثْنًى.

مُثَنًّى [pass. part. n. of 2. b2: Dualized: a dual. b3: مُثَنَّاةٌ فَوْقِيَّةٌ Marked with two points above: an epithet added to تآء to prevent its being mistaken for بآء or ثآء or يآء. And مُثَنَّاةٌ تَحْتِيَّةٌ Marked with two points below: an epithet added to يآء to prevent its being mistaken for بآء or تآء or ثآء.]

b4: الطَّويلُ المُثَنَّى (assumed tropical:) That which passes away [out of sight, or disappears,] by length; mostly used of a thing that is long without breadth. (TA.) مَثْنِىٌّ [pass. part. n. of 1; Doubled or folded &c.] b2: أَرْضٌ مَثْنِيَّةٌ Land, or ground, turned over twice for sowing, or cultivating. (Mgh, and A and TA in art. ثلث.) مَثْنَوِىٌّ: see مَثْنَاةٌ.

مَثْنَوِيَّةٌ: see ثُنْيَا, in four places.

فرض

1 فَرَضَهُ, (S, A, O, Msb, &c.,) aor. ـِ (Msb, TA, &c.,) inf. n. فَرْضٌ, (S, O, Msb, K, &c.,) He made a mark in it, or upon it, by notching, or otherwise: (O:) he notched it: made a notch, or an incision, in it; (S, O, Msb, K;) namely, a piece of wood, (Msb,) a زَنْد, [or rather فَرَضَهَا said of a زَنْدَة, from which fire is produced,] and a سِوَاك [or toothstick], (S, O,) and in like manner a bow; (A;) as also [↓ افترضهُ; (see this verb below;) and] ↓ فرّضهُ, inf. n. تَفْرِيضٌ: (K:) or this last signifies he notched it much; or made notches in it; (S, O, TA;) or you say, فَرَضَ قَوْسَهُ and فَرَّضَ قِسِيَّهُ: (A:) and فَرَضَهُ signifies he notched it with his teeth; namely, a tooth-stick: (As:) and he cut it; namely, a thing; or a hard thing; which is said by some to be the primary signification: (TA:) and he (a tailor) cut it out; namely a garment: (Kull p. 275:) and he cut it out and made it round; namely a shield: (TA:) and فَرْضٌ also signifies the cutting, or dividing, lengthwise; cleaving; or the like; applied in a general manner; or the making a trench, or an oblong excavation, in the middle of a grave; فَرَضْتُ لِلْمَيِّتِ signifying I made a trench, or an oblong excavation, in the middle of a grave, for the corpse. (TA.) A2: فَرَضَ لَهُ, [aor. and] inf. n. as above, (K, &c.,) He apportioned to him [a thing]: he appointed to him [a thing]: (Bd in xxxiii. 38, and TA: *) because that which is apportioned, or appointed, [to a person] is cut off from the thing from which it is apportioned, or appointed: (TA:) he made [a thing] lawful, or allowable, to him; (Jel in xxxiii. 38, and Kull in p. 275, and TA; *) relating to a case into which a man has brought himself: (Kull:) this is said to be the meaning when the phrase فَرَضَ اللّٰهُ لَهُ occurs in the Kur: (TA:) he appointed, or assigned, to him a definite portion; (K;) as also له ↓ افرض. (O, L, K.) You say فَرَضَ لَهُ فِى

العَطَآءِ [He appointed, or assigned, to him a definite portion in the gift]. (As, S.) And فَرَضَ لَهُ فِى الدِّيوَانِ (As, S, A) [He appointed, or assigned, to him a definite portion in the register of soldiers or pensioners; or] he registered his stipend therein. (As, A, TA.) And فَرَضَهُ, (S,) and ↓ افرضهُ, (S, K,) He gave to him. (S, O, K.) b2: فَرَضَ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb,) aor. as above, (TA,) and so the inf. n., (Msb, TA,) also signifies He (God, S, A, Mgh, Msb) made a thing, (S, TA,) or prayer, (A, Mgh,) or statutes or ordinances, (Msb,) obligatory, or binding, syn. أَوْجَبَ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, TA,) by a known decree, (TA,) [or He imposed a thing &c.,] عَلَى إِنْسَانٍ on a man, (TA,) or عَلَيْنَا on us; (S;) and so ↓ اِفْتَرَضَ: (S, A, Mgh, O, K:) or فَرْضٌ is like إِيجَابٌ; but the latter is so termed in consideration of its befalling; and the former is so called in consideration of the sentence, or decree, respecting it: (B:) [this is said in books on the law, in explanation of the opinion of Aboo-Haneefeh, as opposed to that of Esh-Sháfi'ee: for] accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee, these two terms are alike; (L, TA;) but accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh, the difference between الوَاجِبُ and الفَرْضُ is like the difference between heaven and earth: (TA:) this distinction, however, is founded upon contested derivations of the two terms: (Kull p. 276:) and it is said that wherever the phrase فَرَضَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ occurs, it means إِيجَابٌ. (TA.) Also He (the apostle of God) instituted, or prescribed, [a thing as a statute, or an ordinance, or a command or prohibition;] syn. سَنَّ; (O, K;) on the authority of IAar alone: (O, TA:) but accord. to others, he made necessarily obligatory or binding; and this, says Az, is the obvious meaning. (TA.) Also He (a judge) decreed, or adjudged, [TA.) Also He (a judge) decreed, or adjudged, [a thing, as, for instance,] expenses [&c.]. (Msb.) Also He assigned, or appointed, a particular time for doing a thing; or he determined, defined, or limited, a thing as to time, or otherwise; the inf. n., فَرْضٌ, being syn. with تَوْقِيتٌ: (Ibn-'Arafeh, A, O, K:) as in the phrase فَمَنْ فَرَضَ فِيهِنَّ الحَجَّ [And whoso determineth the performance of the pilgrimage therein]; (Ibn-'Arafeh, O, K;) occurring in the Kur [ii. 193]; and in like manner it is expl. by Ibn-'Arafeh as occurring in xxxiii. 38 of the Kur (O, TA:) but the phrase quoted above is also expl. as meaning and whoso maketh it obligatory, or binding, on himself to perform the pilgrimage therein, by his entering upon the state of إِحْرَام. (TA.) b3: سُورَةٌ أَنْزَلْنَاهَا وَفَرَضْنَاهَا, (K,) in the Kur, [commencing chap. xxiv.,] (TA,) means [This is a chapter which we have revealed and] in which we have set down the obligatory statutes: (O, K:) or in which we have bound you to do according to what is made obligatory therein: (Az, O:) or, as some read, ↓ وَفَرَّضْنَاهَا, (S, O, K, *) meaning and in which we have set down obligatory statutes, (O, L, K,) one after another: (O, K:) or which we have distinctly explained: (Az, S, O, K:) or we have distinctly explained what is in it, of lawful and unlawful [things]. (T, TA.) b4: فَرْضٌ also signifies The act of reading, or reciting. (IAar, O, K.) You say, فَرَضْتُ جُزْئِى I read, or recited, my portion. (O, TA.) A3: فَرُضَ, inf. n. فَرَاضَةٌ, He was, or became, skilled in the فَرَائِض; (A, O, K, TA;) i. e. in the science of the division of inheritances. (TA.) MF says that, accord. to IKtt, the verb is also written فَرَضَ, like كَتَبَ: but [says SM] what I find in his “ Kitáb el-Abniyeh ” is the mention of the two modes of writing in the instance of فرضت said of a cow; and the verb applied to a man he has not mentioned. (TA.) A4: فَرَضَتْ, aor. ـِ inf. n. فُرُوضٌ; and فَرُضَتْ, inf. n. فَرَاضَةٌ; She (a cow) became old, aged, far advanced in age, (S, O, K,) or extremely old. (TA.) b2: And فَرَضَ, inf. n. فُرُوضٌ, signifies It (a thing) became wide; it widened, or dilated. (TA.) 2 فَرَّضَ see 1, first sentence: and again, in the last quarter of the paragraph.

A2: فرّض, inf. n. تَفْرِيضٌ, said of a man, He had a فَرِيضَة [to give from] among his camels. (O, K.) 4 افرض لَهُ: and افرضهُ: see 1, latter part of the first half of the paragraph.

A2: أَفْرَضَتِ المَاشِيَةُ The beasts amounted to the number which rendered it obligatory on the owner to give from among them a فَرِيضَة. (S, O, K. *) 8 افترضهُ: see 1, first sentence. b2: لَمْ يَفْتَرِضْهَا وَلَدٌ, occurring in a trad., means [A child had not been brought forth by her; lit.] لَمْ يَحُزَّهَا, and لَمْ يُوءَتِّرْهَا [a mistake for لم يُوءَشِّرْهَا]. (TA.) A2: See also 1, latter part of the first half of the paragraph.

A3: افترض الجُنْدٌ The soldiers received their stipends. (A, K.) A4: افترض القَوْمُ The people, or company of men, perished, none of them remaining; syn. انقرض. (K.) فَرْضٌ A mark [made by notching, or otherwise; as is shown by the first explanation of 1]: (TA:) a notch, or an incision, in a thing: (O, TA:) of a bow, (S, A, K,) the place of the string; (K;) the notch (S, A, O) in the curved extremity thereof, (A,) into which the string falls; (S, O;) as also ↓ فُرْضَةٌ; (A, TA;) or this is the place of the notch for the string thereof: (Msb:) pl. of the former فِرَاضٌ (S, O, K) and فُرُوضٌ; (TA;) and of the latter فُرَضٌ (Msb, TA) and فِرَاضٌ: (Msb:) also, of a زَنْد, (S, K,) or [rather] of a زَنْدَة, (A,) the notch; (K;) or the place, or part, whence the fire is produced; (S, K;) the hole, or perforation, that is made in the head thereof, into which the زَنْد is put, and then twisted round, in producing fire; also called وَكْرٌ; (A;) and ↓ فُرْضَةٌ signifies the same: (TA:) and فُرَضٌ also signifies notches in an unfeathered and headless arrow [such as is used in the game called المَيْسِر]. (TA.) A2: I. q. ↓ مَفْرُوضٌ (A, Msb, K) [Apportioned: appointed; made lawful, or allowable: and] a thing made obligatory, or binding, by God; (S, A, O, K;) for neglecting which one will be punished; like وَاجِبٌ; accord. to EshSháfi'ee; (TA in art. وجب;) because it has marks and limits; (S, O, TA;) said to be from the same word signifying “ a mark,” because it inseparably pertains to a man, like a mark; (TA;) or, as some say, because it necessarily pertains to a man like as does the فَرْض, i. e. notch, to the arrow; (O, TA;) as also ↓ مُفْتَرَضٌ: (TA:) pl. فُرُوضٌ. (Msb.) As a law-term, it is of two sorts, فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ and فَرْضُ كِفَايَةٍ: the former is That whereof the observance is obligatory on every one, and does not become of no force in respect of some in consequence of the observance [thereof] by some [others]; as religious belief, and the like: the latter is That whereof the observance is obligatory on the collective body of the Muslims, and, in consequence of the observance [thereof] by some, becomes of no force in respect of the rest; as warring against unbelievers, and the prayer over the dead in the bier. (KT.) Yousay, هٰذَا أَمْرٌ فَرْضٌ عَلَيْهِمْ, and ↓ مَفْرُوضٌ, and ↓ مُفْتَرَضٌ, This is [a thing] made obligatory, or binding, on them by God. (TA.) And حَقُّكَ فَرْضٌ, and ↓ مَفْرُوضٌ, and ↓ مُفْتَرَضٌ, Thy right, or due, is [a thing] made obligatory, or binding, by God. (A.) ↓ نَصِيبًا مَفْرُوضًا, in the Kur [iv. 8 and 118], means A share, or portion, determined, defined, or limited, as to time, or otherwise: (Zj, Ibn-'Arafeh:) or, in iv. 118, a share, or portion, cut off and limited. (S, O.) [See also فَرِيضَةٌ.]

b2: A statute, an ordinance, a command or prohibition, of the Apostle of God; syn. سُنَّةٌ. (IAar, O, K.) [But فَرْضٌ is generally distinguished from سُنَّةٌ: the former, for instance, being applied to prayer appointed in the Kur-án; and the latter, to prayer appointed by Mohammad without allegation of a divine order.] b3: A gift, or a soldier's stipend or pay, syn. عَطَآءٌ, (A,) or عَطِيَّةٌ, (S, O, K,) assigned, or appointed. (S, O, K. *) In the copies of the K, مَوْسُومَة is put by mistake for مَرْسُومَة. (TA.) You say, مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ فَرْضًا وَلَا قَرْضًا I did not obtain from him an assigned, or appointed, gift, or soldier's stipend, (S, O, TA,) nor a gift to be requited, or a loan. (O, TA.) And فَرْضٌ also signifies A thing which one makes obligatory, or binding, on himself, and freely gives: or a thing which one gives liberally, not for a recompense. (IDrd, O, K.) A3: Also Soldiers who receive stipends; (K:) so accord. to Lth, as related by Az; but [Sgh says] I have not found it in the book of Lth: (O:) or soldiers having definite portions assigned to them: (A:) pl. فُرُوضٌ. (A, TA.) Yousay, عِنْدَهُ مِائَةٌ مِنَ الفَرْضِ He has with him a hundred soldiers &c. (A.) A4: A shield. (S, O, K.) Sakhr-el-Gheí says, describing lightning, (O, TA,) likening it to a light shield which an announcer of tidings was turning over and over with his hands that a party might see it and be gladdened [by the signal], (TA,) أَرِقْتُ لَهُ مِثْلَ لَمْعِ البَشِيرِ يُقَلِّبُ بِالكَفِّ فَرْضًا خَفِيفًا [I was sleepless by reason of it, it being (in its flickering) like the signalling of the announcer of tidings turning over and over with the hand a light shield]: one should not say قُرْصًا خفيفا. (S, O, TA: but my copies of the S have قَلَّبَ instead of يُقَلِّبُ.) [See also what follows.] b2: And A stick, or piece of wood; syn. عُودٌ; thus [it means] in the verse (فِى البَيْتِ) accord. to El-Jumahee, (O, TA,) i. e. in the verse above-cited: (TA:) he says, الفَرْضُ فِى البَيْتِ عُودٌ: (O, TA:) whence the author of the K has been misled to explain الفَرْضُ as meaning عُودٌ مِنْ أَعْوَادِ البَيْتِ. (TA.) b3: And An arrow before it has been furnished with feathers and a head: (Akh, S, O, TA:) a meaning also heard by El-Jumahee: (O, TA:) and to this, in the hand of the player, 'Abeed ElAbras has likened lightning, accord. to the S; but Sgh says, in the TS, that he did not find the verse cited by J in the poetry of 'Abeed. (TA.) b4: And A piece of rag: another explanation heard by El-Jumahee. (O.) b5: And A garment, or piece of cloth: (O, K:) a meaning mentioned by As on the authority of some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, of Hudheyl. (O.) [See also فِرَاضٌ.] b6: And it is said that in the verse cited above it means the notch in the زَنْد [or rather زَنْدَة, mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph]. (O, TA.) A5: A sort of dates (S, O, Msb, K) of 'Omán: (Msb:) As says that the best dates of 'Omán are these and the بَلْعَق: (S, O:) and AHn says, Certain of the desertArabs of 'Omán informed me that when the tree thereof has its fruit ripened, and the gathering is delayed, the fruit falls from its stones, and the raceme remains with nothing upon it but stones hanging to the ثَفَارِيق [by which they are attached to the ends of the stalks]. (TA.) فِرْضٌ The fruit of the دَوْم [or Theban palm] while continuing red. (AA, O, * K.) فُرْضَةٌ: see فَرْضٌ, first sentence, in two places, b2: A gap, or an opening, in a wall and the like: pl. فُرَضٌ. (Msb.) b3: A gap, or breach, in the bank of a river, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) whence one draws water, (S, O, K,) or by which one descends to the water, (Mgh, Msb,) and by which the ships, or boats, ascend; (Msb;) i. e. (Mgh) its مَشْرَعَة: (As, A, Mgh:) pl., in this and the following senses, فُرَضٌ (TA) and فِرَاضٌ. (A, TA.) Hence the saying, in a trad., فَاجْعَلُوا السُّيُوفَ لِلْمَنَايَا فُرَضًا (assumed tropical:) Therefore make ye the swords to be مَشَارِع [here used in the sense of means of access] to death; (O, TA;) and offer, or expose, yourselves to martyrdom. (TA.) Hence also, فِرَاضٌ is used in the sense of ثُغُورٌ [pl. of ثَغْرٌ, q. v.]. (TA.) b4: Of a sea, or great river, The place where ships unload; syn. مَحَطُّ السُّفُنِ: (S, O, K:) or where they are stationed, near the bank of a river, or near the land. (Mgh.) b5: Of a receptacle for ink, The place of the ink. (S, O, K.) b6: Of a door, The نَجْرَان [or piece of wood in which is the foot; i. e. upon which turns the foot]. (S, O, K.) b7: Of a mountain, A part sloping down from the middle and side. (TA.) A2: فُرْضَتَانِ i. q. فَرِيضَتَانِ, q. v., accord. to ISk. (IB.) فَرَضِىٌّ and ↓ فَارِضٌ (S, A, Mgh, O, K) and ↓ فَرَّاضٌ (A, Mgh, B) and ↓ فَرِيضٌ (A, O, L, K) A man skilled in the science of the فَرَائِض; (S, * A, Mgh, O, K, * B;) i. e. in the science of questions relating to inheritance; (Mgh;) or in the science of the division of inheritances. (TA.) فِرَاضٌ The mouth of a river or rivulet. (S, O, K. *) b2: And Roads, or ways. (Lth, O, K.) [In this latter sense, app., (as well as in others shown above,) pl. of فُرْضَةٌ, q. v.]

A2: Also The fire that is elicited from the زَنْدَة. (AHn, TA.) [See also فَرْضٌ (of which it is a pl.), first sentence.]

A3: and Clothing: (S, O, K:) one says, مَا عَلَيْهِ فِرَاضٌ There is not upon him any clothing; (S, O;) or, accord. to AHeyth, covering. (TA.) [See also فَرْضٌ, near the end.]

فَرِيضٌ An arrow having its notch cut; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ مَفْرُوضٌ. (TA.) b2: See also فَرَضِىٌّ: A2: and see فَارِضٌ.

A3: Also The cud of the camel; accord. to Kr: but accord. to others this is called, قَرِيض [q. v.], with ق. (TA.) فَرِيضَةٌ, of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ: pl. فَرَائِضُ: said by some to be derived from فَرْضٌ signifying the act of “ apportioning,” or “ appointing; ” because فرائض are apportioned, or appointed: by others said to be from فَرْضٌ in relation to a bow. (Msb.) [These remarks apply to the word in all the senses here following.] b2: A subst. signifying A thing made obligatory, or binding, on a person or persons, (S, Mgh, TA) by God; (S, TA;) an obligatory statute or ordinance of God, in a general sense: pl. as above. (TA.) b3: A portion, or share, made obligatory, or binding, (K, * TA,) on a man: (TA:) or anything apportioned, or appointed: [and particularly a primarily-apportioned inheritance: (see an ex. in the first paragraph of art. عول:)] and hence, فَرَائِضُ is applied to the portions, or shares, of inheritances; [i. e. the fixed primary portions of inheritances assigned by the Kur-án; which are a half, third, fourth, sixth, and eighth;] because they are apportioned, or appointed, to their several owners. (Mgh.) and hence, (Mgh,) عِلْمُ الفَرَائِضِ, and elliptically الفَرَائِضُ, (S, * Mgh, O, * Msb,) The science of the division of inheritances; (S, O, TA;) or the science of questions relating to inheritance. (Mgh.) It is said in a trad., (Mgh,) تَعَلَّمُوا الفَرَائِضَ وَعَلِّمُوهَا النَّاسَ فَإِنَّهَا نِصْفُ العِلْمِ, accord. to the relation commonly followed, with the pron. fem., referring to الفرائض; and وَعَلِّمُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ, with the pron. masc., referring to عِلْم understood as prefixed to الفرائض; [i. e. Learn ye the science of the division of inheritances, &c., and teach ye it to (other) men, for it is the half of science:] it is said to be called the half of science in consideration of the division of statutes into those which pertain to the living and those which pertain to the dead; or by way of amplification. (Mgh, * Msb.) The phrase الفَرِيضَةُ العَادِلَةُ [The equitable portion of inheritance], in a trad. of Ibn-'Omár, is that respecting which the Muslims have agreed: or that for which the authority is elicited from the Kur-án and the Sunneh without there being in these any express statute respecting it: or that is equitably divided, agreeably with the portions and shares mentioned in the Kur-án and the Sunneh. (TA.) b4: What is made obligatory, or binding, [on the owner, to give,] of pasturing beasts, [i. e. camels,] in payment of the poor-rate; (S, O, K;) the camel that is taken in payment of the poor-rate: so termed because it is made obligatory to be given, of a certain number of camels: the ة is added because the word is made a subst., not an epithet: pl. فَرَائِضُ: (TA:) فَرَائِضُ الإِبِلِ signifying the dues of the poor-rate, of camels: (A, Mgh: *) the فريضة of twenty-five camels is a بِنْت مَخَاض, (Mgh,) or she-camel one year old; (AHeyth;) that of thirty-six, a بِنْت لَبُون, (AHeyth, Mgh,) or she-camel two years old; (AHeyth;) that of forty-six, a حِقَّة, or she-camel three years old; and that of sixty-one, a جَذَعَة, or she-camel four years old. (AHeyth.) الفَرِيضَتَانِ signifies The جَذَعَة of sheep, or goats, with the حِقَّة of camels; (ISk, S, O, K;) and ↓ الفُرْضَتَانِ signifies the same, accord. to ISk. (IB.) And فَرِيضَةٌ, by an extension of its meaning, is applied to A camel, in other cases than those of the poor-rate. (TA.) b5: See also فَارِضٌ.

فِرْيَاضٌ Wide, or broad. (O, K.) فَرَّاضٌ: see فَرَضِىٌّ.

فَارِضٌ: see فَرَضِىٌّ.

A2: Old, aged, or advanced in age; applied to a cow; (S, A, O;) in the Kur ii. 63; (S, O;) and to a ram: (TA:) or extremely aged; or old and weak; applied to a cow; (Fr, Katádeh;) as also فَارِضَةٌ and ↓ فَرِيضٌ (TA) and ↓ فَرِيضَةٌ: (K, TA: [but to what these are applied is not shown further than by their being mentioned as fem. epithets:]) or large and fat; applied to a cow: pl. فَوَارِضُ: (Az:) and the pl. also signifies sound, or healthy, and large; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, TS, K;) not small, nor diseased: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, TS:) and, contr., diseased. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, TS, K.) b2: (tropical:) Old, aged, or advanced in age, and large, big, or bulky; applied to a man: (TA:) or large, big, or bulky; applied to a man; (S, A, O, K;) and to a full-grown unripe date (بُسْرَة); (A, TA;) and to the bursa faucium of a camel (شِقْشِقَة); and to a uvula (لَهَاة); (O, K;) and to a skin for water or milk (سِقَآء); (IB;) and to a beard (لِحْيَة); (A, O, K;) or, applied to this last, it is with ة; (Akh, S;) or with and without ة: (L:) and without ة, applied in the same sense to anything; (S, O, K;) being masc. and fem.: (As, O:) pl. فُرَّضٌ, (IAar, S, A, O, K,) applied to men; (IAar, S, A, O;) or this, so applied, signifies goodly, or handsome: (TA:) and فَوَارِضُ is applied to dates [&c.]. (A, TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) Old, or ancient; (K;) applied to a thing. (TA.) You say ضِغْنٌ فَارِضٌ (tropical:) Great rancour, or malevolence, or malice; (L;) as also ضَغِينَةٌ فَارِضٌ: (A, L:) or old rancour, &c. (O.) And ضَبٌّ فَارِضٌ (tropical:) Great enmity. (IAar.) أَفْرَضُ The most [and more] skilled, of men, in the science of the فَرَائِض; (S, Mgh, O, K; *) i. e. in the science of the division of inheritances; (S, O, TA;) or in the science of questions relating to inheritance. (Mgh.) It is said in a trad., أَفْرَضُكُمْ زَيْدٌ The most skilled, of you, &c., is Zeyd. (S, Mgh.) مِفْرَضٌ An iron instrument with which notches, or incisions, are made. (S, O, K.) مُفَرَّضٌ Notched much, or in many places; serrated; or jagged. (El-Báhilee.) b2: And hence, The [kind of beetle called] جُعَل: (El-Báhilee:) or the male of the [beetles called] خَنَافِس. (IAar.) مَفْرُوضٌ: see فَرِيضٌ: A2: and see also فَرْضٌ, as syn. with مَفْرُوضٌ, in four places.

مُفْتَرَضٌ: see فَرْضٌ, as syn. with مَفْرُوضٌ, in three places.

الصِّينُ:
بالكسر، وآخره نون: بلاد في بحر المشرق مائلة إلى الجنوب وشماليها الترك، قال ابن الكلبي عن الشرقي: سميت الصين بصين، وصين وبغرابنا بغبر بن كماد بن يافث، ومنه المثل: ما يدري شغر من بغر، وهما بالمشرق وأهلهما بين الترك والهند، قال أبو القاسم الزّجاجي: سميت بذلك لأن صين بن بغبر بن كماد أوّل من حلّها وسكنها، وسنذكر خبرهم ههنا، والصين في الإقليم الأوّل، طولها من المغرب مائة وأربع وستون درجة وثلاثون دقيقة، قال الحازمي:
كان سعد الخير الأندلسي يكتب لنفسه الصيني لأنّه سافر إلى الصين، وقال العمراني: الصين موضع بالكوفة وموضع أيضا قريب من الإسكندرية، قال المفجّع في كتاب المنقذ، وهو كتاب وضعه على مثال الملاحن لابن دريد: الصين بالكسر موضعان الصين الأعلى والصين الأسفل، وتحت واسط بليدة مشهورة يقال لها الصينية ويقال لها أيضا صينية الحوانيت، ينسب إليها صينيّ، منها الحسن بن أحمد ابن ماهان أبو عليّ الصيني، حدث عن أحمد بن عبيد الواسطي، يروي عنه أبو بكر الخطيب وقال: كان قاضي بلدته وخطيبها، وأمّا إبراهيم بن إسحاق الصيني فهو كوفيّ كان يتّجر إلى الصين فنسب إليها، وقال أبو سعد: وممن نسب إلى الصين أبو الحسن سعد الخير ابن محمد بن سهل بن سعد الأنصاري الأندلسي، كان يكتب لنفسه الصيني لأنّه كان قد سافر من المغرب إلى الصين، وكان فقيها صالحا كثير المال، سمع الحديث من أبي الخطّاب بن بطر القاري وأبي عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن طلحة النّعّال وغيرهما، وذكره أبو سعد في شيوخه، ومات سنة 541، ولهم صينيّ آخر لا يدرى إلى أيّ شيء هو منسوب، وهو حميد ابن محمد بن علي أبو عمرو الشيباني يعرف بحميد الصيني، سمع السريّ بن خزيمة وأقرانه، روى عنه أبو سعيد بن أبي بكر بن أبي عثمان وغيره، وهذا شيء من أخبار الصين الأقصى ذكرته كما وجدته لا أضمن صحته فإن كان صحيحا فقد ظفرت بالغرض وإن كان كذبا فتعرف ما تقوّله الناس، فإن هذه بلاد شاسعة ما رأينا من مضى إليها فأوغل فيها وإنما يقصد التجار أطرافها، وهي بلاد تعرف بالجاوة على سواحل البحر شبيهة ببلاد الهند يجلب منها العود والكافور والسنبل والقرنفل والبسباسة والعقاقير والغضائر الصينيّة، فأمّا بلاد الملك فلم نر أحدا رآها، وقرأت في كتاب عتيق ما صورته: كتب إلينا أبو دلف مسعر بن مهلهل في ذكر ما شاهده
ورآه في بلاد الترك والصين والهند قال: إنّي لما رأيتكما يا سيّديّ، أطال الله بقاءكما، لهجين بالتصنيف مولعين بالتأليف أحببت أن لا أخلي دستوركما وقانون حكمتكما من فائدة وقعت إليّ مشاهدتها وأعجوبة رمت بي الأيّام إليها ليروق معنى ما تتعلّمانه السمع ويصبو إلى استيفاء قراءته القلب، وبدأت بعد حمد الله والثناء على أنبيائه بذكر المسالك المشرقية واختلاف السياسة فيها وتباين ملكها وافتراق أحوالها وبيوت عبادتها وكبرياء ملوكها وحكوم قوّامها ومراتب أولي الأمر والنهي لديها لأن معرفة ذلك زيادة في البصيرة واجبة في السيرة قد حضّ الله تعالى عليها أولي التيقظ والاعتبار وكلّفه أهل العقول والأبصار فقال، جلّ اسمه: أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا في الْأَرْضِ 12: 109، فرأيت معاونتكما لما وشج بيننا من الإخاء وتوكّد من المودّة والصفاء، ولما نبا بي وطني ووصل بي السير إلى خراسان ضاربا في الأرض أبصرت ملكها والموسوم بإمارتها نصر بن أحمد الساماني، عظيم الشأن كبير السلطان يستصغر في جنبه أهل الطّول وتخفّ عنده موازين ذوي القدرة والحول، ووجدت عنده رسل قالين بن الشخير ملك الصين راغبين في مصاهرته طامعين في مخالطته يخطبون إليه ابنته فأبى ذلك واستنكره لحظر الشريعة له، فلمّا أبى ذلك راضوه على أن يزوّج بعض ولده ابنة ملك الصين فأجاب إلى ذلك فاغتنمت قصد الصين معهم فسلكنا بلد الأتراك فأوّل قبيلة وصلنا إليها بعد أن جاوزنا خراسان وما وراء النهر من مدن الإسلام قبيلة في بلد يعرف بالخركاه فقطعناها في شهر نتغذّى بالبرّ والشعير، ثمّ خرجنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالطخطاخ تغذّينا فيها بالشعير والدخن وأصناف من اللحوم والبقول الصحراويّة فسبرنا فيها عشرين يوما في أمن ودعة يسمع أهلها لملك الصين ويطيعونه ويؤدّون الإتاوة إلى الخركاه لقربهم إلى الإسلام ودخولهم فيه وهم يتّفقون معهم في أكثر الأوقات على غزو من بعد عنهم من المشركين، ثمّ وصلنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالبجا فتغذّينا فيهم بالدخن والحمص والعدس وسرنا بينهم شهرا في أمن ودعة، وهم مشركون ويؤدّون الإتاوة إلى الطخطاخ ويسجدون لملكهم ويعظمون البقر ولا تكون عندهم ولا يملكونها تعظيما لها، وهو بلد كثير التين والعنب والزعرور الأسود وفيه ضرب من الشجر لا تأكله النار، ولهم أصنام من ذلك الخشب، ثمّ خرجنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالبجناك طوال اللحى أولو أسبلة همج يغير بعضهم على بعض ويفترش الواحد المرأة على ظهر الطريق، يأكلون الدخن فقط، فسرنا فيهم اثني عشر يوما وأخبرنا أن بلدهم عظيم مما يلي الشمال وبلد الصقالبة ولا يؤدّون الخراج إلى أحد، ثم سرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالجكل يأكلون الشعير والجلبان ولحوم الغنم فقط ولا يذبحون الإبل ولا يقتنون البقر ولا تكون في بلدهم، ولباسهم الصوف والفراء لا يلبسون غيرهما، وفيهم نصارى قليل، وهم صباح الوجوه يتزوّج الرجل منهم بابنته وأخته وسائر محارمه، وليسوا مجوسا ولكن هذا مذهبهم في النكاح، يعبدون سهيلا وزحل والجوزاء وبنات نعش والجدي ويسمون الشعرى اليمانية ربّ الأرباب، وفيهم دعة ولا يرون الشّرّ، وجميع من حولهم من قبائل الترك يتخطفهم ويطمع فيهم، وعندهم نبات يعرف بالكلكان طيب الطعام يطبخ مع اللحم، وعندهم معادن البازهر وحياة الحبق، وهي بقر هناك، ويعملون من الدم والذاذي البرّي نبيذا يسكر سكرا شديدا، وبيوتهم من الخشب والعظام، ولا ملك لهم، فقطعنا بلدهم في أربعين يوما في أمن وخفض ودعة، ثم خرجنا إلى قبيلة
تعرف بالبغراج لهم أسبلة بغير لحى يعملون بالسلاح عملا حسنا فرسانا ورجّالة، ولهم ملك عظيم الشأن يذكر أنّه علويّ وأنّه من ولد يحيى بن زيد وعنده مصحف مذهّب على ظهره أبيات شعر رثي بها زيد، وهم يعبدون ذلك المصحف، وزيد عندهم ملك العرب وعلي بن أبي طالب، رضي الله عنه، عندهم إله العرب لا يملّكون عليهم أحدا إلّا من ولد ذلك العلوي، وإذا استقبلوا السماء فتحوا أفواههم وشخصوا أبصارهم إليها، يقولون: إن إله العرب ينزل منها ويصعد إليها، ومعجزة هؤلاء الذين يملّكونهم عليهم من ولد زيد أنّهم ذوو لحى وأنهم قيام الأنوف عيونهم واسعة وغذاؤهم الدخن ولحوم الذكران من الضأن، وليس في بلدهم بقر ولا معز، ولباسهم اللبود لا يلبسون غيرها، فسرنا بينهم شهرا على خوف ووجل، أدّينا إليهم العشر من كل شيء كان معنا، ثمّ سرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بتبّت فسرنا فيهم أربعين يوما في أمن وسعة، يتغذّون بالبرّ والشعير والباقلّى وسائر اللحوم والسموك والبقول والأعناب والفواكه ويلبسون جميع اللباس، ولهم مدينة من القصب كبيرة فيها بيت عبادة من جلود البقر المدهونة، فيه أصنام من قرون غزلان المسك، وبها قوم من المسلمين واليهود والنصارى والمجوس والهند ويؤدون الإتاوة إلى العلوي البغراجي ولا يملكهم أحد إلّا بالقرعة، ولهم محبس جرائم وجنايات، وصلاتهم إلى قبلتنا، ثمّ سرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالكيماك، بيوتهم من جلود، يأكلون الحمص والباقلّى ولحوم ذكران الضأن والمعز ولا يرون ذبح الإناث منها، وعندهم عنب نصف الحبة أبيض ونصفها أسود، وعندهم حجارة هي مغناطيس المطر يستمطرون بها متى شاءوا، ولهم معادن ذهب في سهل من الأرض يجدونه قطعا، وعندهم ماس يكشف عنه السيل ونبات حلو الطعم ينوّم ويخدّر، ولهم قلم يكتبون به، وليس لهم ملك ولا بيت عبادة، ومن تجاوز منهم ثمانين سنة عبدوه إلّا أن يكون به عاهة أو عيب ظاهر، فكان مسيرنا فيهم خمسة وثلاثين يوما ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الغزّ، لهم مدينة من الحجارة والخشب والقصب ولهم بيت عبادة وليس فيه أصنام، ولهم ملك عظيم الشأن يستأدي منهم الخراج، ولهم تجارات إلى الهند وإلى الصين ويأكلون البرّ فقط وليس لهم بقول، ويأكلون لحوم الضأن والمعز الذكران والإناث ويلبسون الكتّان والفراء ولا يلبسون الصوف، وعندهم حجارة بيض تنفع من القولنج وحجارة خضر إذا مرّت على السيف لم يقطع شيئا، وكان مسيرنا بينهم شهرا في أمن وسلامة ودعة، ثمّ انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم التغزغز، يأكلون المذكّى وغير المذكّى ويلبسون القطن واللبود، وليس لهم بيت عبادة، وهم يعظمون الخيل ويحسنون القيام عليها، وعندهم حجارة تقطع الدم إذا علّقت على صاحب الرعاف أو النزف، ولهم عند ظهور قوس قزح عيد، وصلاتهم إلى مغرب الشمس، وأعلامهم سود، فسرنا فيهم عشرين يوما في خوف شديد ثمّ انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الخرخيز، يأكلون الدخن والأرز ولحوم البقر والضأن والمعز وسائر اللحوم إلّا الجمال، ولهم بيت عبادة وقلم يكتبون به، ولهم رأي ونظر، ولا يطفئون سرجهم حتى تطفأ موادّها، ولهم كلام موزون يتكلمون به في أوقات صلاتهم، وعندهم مسك، ولهم أعياد في السنة، وأعلامهم خضر، يصلّون إلى الجنوب ويعظمون زحل والزهرة ويتطيرون من المريخ، والسباع في بلدهم كثيرة، ولهم حجارة تسرج بالليل يستغنون بها عن المصباح ولا تعمل في غير بلادهم، ولهم ملك مطاع
لا يجلس بين يديه أحد منهم الّا إذا جاوز أربعين سنة، فسرنا فيهم شهرا في أمن ودعة ثمّ انتهينا الى قبيلة يقال لها الخرلخ، يأكلون الحمص والعدس ويعملون الشراب من الدخن ولا يأكلون اللحم إلّا مغموسا بالملح، ويلبسون الصوف، ولهم بيت عبادة في حيطانه صورة متقدّمي ملوكهم، والبيت من خشب لا تأكله النار، وهذا الخشب كثير في بلادهم، والبغي والجور بينهم ظاهر ويغير بعضهم على بعض، والزنا بينهم كثير غير محظور، وهم أصحاب قمار، يقامر أحدهم غيره بزوجته وابنه وابنته وأمه فما دام في مجلس القمار فللمقمور أن يفادى ويفكّ فإذا انصرف القامر فقد حصل له ما قمر به يبيعه من التجار كما يريد، والجمال والفساد في نسائهم ظاهر، وهم قليلو الغيرة، فتجيء ابنة الرئيس فمن دونه أو امرأته أو أخته الى القوافل إذا وافت البلد فتعرض للوجوه فإن أعجبها إنسان أخذته إلى منزلها وأنزلته عندها وأحسنت إليه وتصرّف زوجها وأخاها وولدها في حوائجه ولم يقربها زوجها ما دام من تريده عندها إلا لحاجة يقضيها ثم تتصرّف هي ومن تختاره في أكل وشرب وغير ذلك بعين زوجها لا يغيره ولا ينكره، ولهم عيد يلبسون الديباج ومن لا يمكنه رقّع ثوبه برقعة منه، ولهم معدن فضّة تستخرج بالزيبق، وعندهم شجر يقوم مقام الإهليلج قائم الساق وإذا طلي عصارته على الأورام الحارّة أبرأها لوقتها، ولهم حجر عظيم يعظمونه ويحتكمون عنده ويذبحون له الذبائح، والحجر أخضر سلقيّ، فسرنا بينهم خمسة وعشرين يوما في أمن ودعة ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الخطلخ، فسرنا بين أهلها عشرة أيّام، وهم يأكلون البرّ وحده ويأكلون سائر اللحوم غير مذكاة، ولم أر في جميع قبائل الترك أشدّ شوكة منهم، يتخطّفون من حولهم ويتزوّجون الأخوات، ولا تتزوّج المرأة أكثر من زوج واحد، فإذا مات لم تتزوّج بعده، ولهم رأي وتدبير، ومن زنى في بلدهم أحرق هو والتي يزني بها، وليس لهم طلاق، والمهر جميع ما ملك الرجل، وخدمة الولي سنة، وللقتل بينهم قصاص وللجراح غرم، فإن تلف المجروح بعد أن يأخذ الغرم بطل دمه، وملكهم ينكر الشرّ ولا يتزوّج فإن تزوّج قتل، ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لها الختيان، يأكلون الشعير والجلبان ولا يأكلون اللحم إلا مذكى، ويزوّجون تزويجا صحيحا وأحكامهم أحكام عقلية تقوم بها السياسة، وليس لهم ملك، وكلّ عشرة يرجعون إلى شيخ له عقل ورأي فيتحاكمون إليه، وليس لهم جور على من يجتاز بهم، ولا اغتيال، ولهم بيت عبادة يعتكفون فيه الشهر والأقلّ والأكثر، ولا يلبسون شيئا مصبوغا، وعندهم مسك جيّد ما دام في بلدهم فإذا حمل منه تغير واستحال، ولهم بقول كثيرة في أكثرها منافع، وعندهم حيّات تقتل من ينظر إليها إلّا أنّها في جبل لا تخرج عنه بوجه ولا سبب، ولهم حجارة تسكّن الحمّى ولا تعمل في غير بلدهم، وعندهم بازهر جيّد شمعيّ فيه عروق خضر، وكان مسيرنا فيهم عشرين يوما، ثمّ انتهينا إلى بلد بهيّ فيه نخل كثير وبقول كثيرة وأعناب ولهم مدينة وقرى وملك له سياسة يلقّب بهي، وفي مدينتهم قوم مسلمون ويهود ونصارى ومجوس وعبدة أصنام، ولهم أعياد، وعندهم حجارة خضر تنفع من الرمد وحجارة حمر تنفع من الطحال، وعندهم النيل الجيّد القانئ المرتفع الطافي الذي إذا طرح في الماء لم يرسب، فسرنا فيهم أربعين يوما في أمن وخوف ثمّ انتهينا إلى موضع يقال له القليب فيه بوادي عرب ممّن تخلف عن تبّع لما غزا بلاد الصين، لهم مصايف ومشات في مياه ورمال،
يتكلمون بالعربيّة القديمة لا يعرفون غيرها ويكتبون بالحميرية ولا يعرفون قلمنا، يعبدون الأصنام، وملكهم من أهل بيت منهم لا يخرجون الملك من أهل ذلك البيت، ولهم أحكام، وحظر الزنا والفسق، ولهم شراب جيّد من التمر، وملكهم يهادي ملك الصين، فسرنا فيهم شهرا في خوف وتغرير، ثم انتهينا إلى مقام الباب، وهو بلد في الرمل تكون فيه حجبة الملك، وهو ملك الصين، ومنه يستأذن لمن يريد دخول بلد الصين من قبائل الترك وغيرهم، فسرنا فيه ثلاثة أيام في ضيافة الملك يغيّر لنا عند رأس كل فرسخ مركوب، ثم انتهينا إلى وادي المقام فاستؤذن لنا منه وتقدّمنا الرّسل فأذن لنا بعد أن أقمنا بهذا الوادي، وهو أنزه بلاد الله وأحسنها، ثلاثة أيام في ضيافة الملك، ثمّ عبرنا الوادي وسرنا يوما تامّا فأشرفنا على مدينة سندابل، وهي قصبة الصين وبها دار المملكة، فبتنا على مرحلة منها، ثم سرنا من الغد طول نهارنا حتى وصلنا إليها عند المغرب، وهي مدينة عظيمة تكون مسيرة يوم ولها ستون شارعا ينفذ كل شارع منها إلى دار الملك، ثم سرنا إلى باب من أبوابها فوجدنا ارتفاع سورها تسعين ذراعا وعرضه تسعين ذراعا وعلى رأس السور نهر عظيم يتفرّق على ستّين جزءا كلّ جزء منها ينزل على باب من الأبواب تتلقاه رحى تصبّه إلى ما دونها ثم إلى غيرها حتى يصبّ في الأرض ثمّ يخرج نصفه تحت السور فيسقي البساتين ويرجع نصفه إلى المدينة فيسقي أهل ذلك الشارع إلى دار الملك ثمّ يخرج في الشارع الآخر إلى خارج البلد فكل شارع فيه نهران وكلّ خلاء فيه مجريان كل واحد يخالف صاحبه، فالداخل يسقيهم والخارج يخرج بفضلاتهم، ولهم بيت عبادة عظيم، ولهم سياسة عظيمة وأحكام متقنة، وبيت عبادتهم يقال إنّه أعظم من مسجد بيت المقدس وفيه تماثيل وتصاوير وأصنام وبدّ عظيم، وأهل البلد لا يذبحون ولا يأكلون اللحوم أصلا، ومن قتل منهم شيئا من الحيوان قتل، وهي دار مملكة الهند والترك معا، ودخلت على ملكهم فوجدته فائقا في فنه كاملا في رأيه فخاطبه الرسل بما جاءوا به من تزويجه ابنته من نوح بن نصر فأجابهم إلى ذلك وأحسن إليّ وإلى الرسل وأقمنا في ضيافته حتى نجزت أمور المرأة وتمّ ما جهّزها به ثمّ سلمها إلى مائتي خادم وثلاثمائة جارية من خواص خدمه وجواريه وحملت إلى خراسان إلى نوح بن نصر فتزوّج بها، قال: وبلغنا أن نصرا عمل قبره قبل وفاته بعشرين سنة، وذلك أنّه حدّ له في مولده مبلغ عمره ومدة انقضاء أجله وأن موته يكون بالسّلّ وعرّف اليوم الذي يموت فيه، فخرج يوم موته إلى خارج بخارى وقد أعلم الناس أنّه ميّت في يومه ذلك وأمرهم أن يتجهزوا له بجهاز التعزية والمصيبة ليتصوّرهم بعد موته بالحال التي يراهم بها، فسار بين يديه ألوف من الغلمان الأتراك المرد وقد ظاهروا اللباس بالسواد وشقوا عن صدورهم وجعلوا التراب على رؤوسهم ثمّ تبعهم نحو ألفي جارية من أصناف الرقيق مختلفي الأجناس واللغات على تلك الهيئة ثمّ جاء على آثارهم عامة الجيش والأولياء يجنبون دوابّهم ويقودون قودهم وقد خالفوا في نصب سروجها عليها وسوّدوا نواصيها وجباهها حاثين التراب على رؤوسهم واتصلت بهم الرعية والتجار في غمّ وحزن وبكاء شديد وضجيج يقدمهم أولادهم ونساؤهم ثم اتصلت بهم الشاكرية والمكارون والحمالون على فرق منهم قد غيّروا زيّهم، وشهر نفسه بضرب من اللباس، ثم جاء أولاده يمشون بين يديه حفاة حاسرين والتراب على رؤوسهم وبين أيديهم وجوه كتّابه وجلّة خدمه ورؤساؤه وقواده، ثمّ أقبل القضاة والمعدلون والعلماء
يسايرونه في غمّ وكآبة وحزن، وأحضر سجلّا كبيرا ملفوفا فأمر القضاة والفقهاء والكتّاب بختمه فأمر نوحا ابنه أن يعمل بما فيه واستدعى شيئا من حسا في زبدية من الصيني الأصفر فتناول منه شيئا يسيرا ثمّ تغرغرت عيناه بالدموع وحمد الله تعالى وتشهّد وقال:
هذا آخر زاد نصر من دنياكم، وسار إلى قبره ودخله وقرأ عشرا فيه واستقرّ به مجلسه ومات، رحمه الله، وتولى الأمر نوح ابنه، قلت: ونحن نشك في صحة هذا الخبر لأن محدثنا به ربما كان ذكر شيئا فسأل الله أن لا يؤاخذه بما قال، ونرجع إلى كلام رسول نصر، قال: وأقمت بسندابل مدينة الصين مدة ألقى ملكها في الأحايين فيفاوضني في أشياء ويسألني عن أمور من أمور بلاد الإسلام، ثم استأذنته في الانصراف فأذن لي بعد أن أحسن إليّ ولم يبق غاية في أمري، فخرجت إلى الساحل أريد كله، وهي أوّل الهند وآخر منتهى مسير المراكب لا يتهيأ لها أن تتجاوزها وإلّا غرقت، قال: فلمّا وصلت إلى كله رأيتها وهي عظيمة عالية السور كثيرة البساتين غزيرة الماء ووجدت بها معدنا للرصاص القلعي لا يكون إلّا في قلعتها في سائر الدنيا، وفي هذه القلعة تضرب السيوف القلعية وهي الهندية العتيقة، وأهل هذه القلعة يمتنعون على ملكهم إذا أرادوا ويطيعونه إن أحبوا، ورسمهم رسم الصين في ترك الذباحة، وليس في جميع الدنيا معدن للرصاص القلعي إلّا في هذه القلعة، وبينها وبين مدينة الصين ثلاثمائة فرسخ، وحولها مدن ورساتيق وقرى، ولهم أحكام حبوس جنايات، وأكلهم البرّ والتمور، وبقولهم كلّها تباع وزنا وأرغفة خبزهم تباع عددا، وليس عندهم حمامات بل عندهم عين جارية يغتسلون بها، ودرهمهم يزن ثلثي درهم ويعرف بالقاهري، ولهم فلوس يتعاملون بها، ويلبسون كأهل الصين الإفرند الصيني المثمن، وملكهم دون ملك الصين ويخطب لملك الصين، وقبلته إليه، وبيت عبادته له، وخرجت منها إلى بلد الفلفل فشاهدت نباته، وهو شجر عاديّ لا يزول الماء من تحته فإذا هبت الريح تساقط حمله فمن ذلك تشنجه وإنما يجتمع من فوق الماء، وعليه ضريبة للملك، وهو شجر حرّ لا مالك له وحمله أبدا فيه لا يزول شتاء ولا صيفا، وهو عناقيد فإذا حميت الشمس عليه انطبق على العنقود عدة من ورقه لئلّا يحترق بالشمس، فإذا زالت الشمس زالت تلك الأوراق، وانتهيت منه إلى لحف الكافور، وهو جبل عظيم فيه مدن تشرف على البحر منها قامرون التي ينسب إليها العود الرطب المعروف بالمندل القامروني، ومنها مدينة يقال لها قماريان، وإليها ينسب العود القماري، وفيه مدينة يقال لها الصنف، ينسب إليها العود الصنفي، وفي اللحف الآخر من ذلك الجبل مما يلي الشمال مدينة يقال لها الصّيمور، لأهلها حظّ من الجمال وذلك لأن أهلها متولدون من الترك والصين فجمالهم لذلك، وإليها تخرج تجارات الترك، وإليها ينسب العود الصيموري وليس هو منها إنّما هو يحمل إليها، ولهم بيت عبادة على رأس عقبة عظيمة وله سدنة وفيه أصنام من الفيروزج والبيجاذق، ولهم ملوك صغار، ولباسهم لباس أهل الصين، ولهم بيع وكنائس ومساجد وبيوت نار، لا يذبحون ولا يأكلون ما مات حتف أنفه، وخرجت إلى مدينة يقال لها جاجلّى على رأس جبل مشرف نصفها على البحر ونصفها على البرّ ولها ملك مثل ملك كله يأكلون البرّ والبيض ولا يأكلون السمك ولا يذبحون، ولهم بيت عبادة كبير معظّم، لم يمتنع على الإسكندر في بلدان الهند غيرها، وإليها يحمل الدارصيني ومنها يحمل إلى سائر الآفاق، وشجر
الدارصيني حرّ لا مالك له، ولباسهم لباس كله إلّا أنهم يتزيّنون في أعيادهم بالحبر اليمانية، ويعظمون من النجوم قلب الأسد، ولهم بيت رصد وحساب محكم ومعرفة بالنجوم كاملة، وتعمل الأوهام في طباعهم، ومنها خرجت إلى مدينة يقال لها قشمير وهي كبيرة عظيمة لها سور وخندق محكمان تكون مثل نصف سندابل مدينة الصين وملكها أكبر من ملك مدينة كله وأتم طاعة، ولهم أعياد في رؤوس الأهلّة وفي نزول النيرين شرفهما، ولهم رصد كبير في بيت معمول من الحديد الصيني لا يعمل فيه الزمان، ويعظمون الثّريّا، وأكلهم البرّ ويأكلون المليح من السمك ولا يأكلون البيض ولا يذبحون، وسرت منها إلى كابل فسرت شهرا حتى وصلت إلى قصبتها المعروفة بطابان، وهي مدينة في جوف جبل قد استدار عليها كالحلقة دوره ثلاثون فرسخا لا يقدر أحد على دخوله إلّا بجواز لأن له مضيقا قد غلّق عليه باب ووكل به قوم يحفظونه فما يدخله أحد إلّا بإذن، والإهليلج بها كثير جدّا، وجميع مياه الرساتيق والقرى التي داخل المدينة تخرج من المدينة، وهم يخالفون ملّة الصين في الذباحة ويأكلون السمك والبيض ويقتل بعضهم بعضا، ولهم بيت عبادة، وخرجت من كابل إلى سواحل البحر الهندي متياسرا فسرت إلى بلد يعرف بمندورقين منابت غياض القنا وشجر الصندل ومنه يحمل الطباشير، وذلك أن القنا إذا جفّ وهبّت عليه الريح احتك بعضه ببعض واشتدت فيه الحرارة للحركة فانقدحت منه نار فربما أحرقت منها مسافة خمسين فرسخا أو أكثر من ذلك فالطباشير الذي يحمل إلى سائر الدنيا من ذلك القنا، فأما الطباشير الجيد الذي يساوي مثقاله مائة مثقال أو أكثر فهو شيء يخرج من جوف القنا إذا هزّ، وهو عزيز جدّا، وما يفجر من منابت الطباشير حمل إلى سائر البلاد وبيع على أنّه توتيا الهند، وليس كذلك لان التوتيا الهندي هو دخان الرصاص القلعي، ومقدار ما يرتفع منه كلّ سنة ثلاثة أمنان أو أربعة أمنان ولا يتجاوز الخمسة، ويباع المنّ منه بخمسة آلاف درهم إلى ألف دينار، وخرجت منها إلى مدينة يقال لها كولم لأهلها بيت عبادة وليس فيه صنم وفيها منابت الساج والبقّم، وهو صنفان وهذا دون والآمرون هو الغاية، وشجر الساج مفرط العظم والطول ربّما جاوز مائة ذراع وأكثر، والخيزران والقنا بها كثير جدّا، وبها شيء من السّندروس قليل غير جيّد والجيّد منه ما بالصين، وهو من عرعر ينبت على باب مدينتها الشرقي، والسندروس شبه الكهربائيّة وأحلّها وفيها مغناطيس يجذب كل شيء إذا أحمي بالدّلك، وعندهم الحجارة التي تعرف بالسندانية يعمل بها السقوف، وأساطين بيوتهم من خرز أصلاب السمك الميت ولا يأكلونه، ولا يذبحون، وأكثرهم يأكل الميتة، وأهلها يختارون للصين ملكا إذا مات ملكهم، وليس في الهند طبّ إلّا في هذه المدينة، وبها تعمل غضائر تباع في بلداننا على أنّه صينيّ وليس هو صينيّ لأن طين الصين أصلب منه وأصبر على النار وطين هذه المدينة الذي يعمل منه الغضائر المشبه بالصيني يخمر ثلاثة أيام لا يحتمل أكثر منها وطين الصين يخمر عشرة أيام ويحتمل أكثر منها، وخزف غضائرها أدكن اللون وما كان من الصين أبيض وغيره من الألوان شفّافا وغير شفاف فهو معمول في بلاد فارس من الحصى والكلس القلعيّ والزجاج يعجن على البوائن وينفخ ويعمل بالماسك كما ينفخ الزجاج مثل الجامات وغيرها من الأواني، ومن هذه المدينة يركب إلى عمان، وبها راوند ضعيف العمل والصيني أجود منه، والراوند
قرع يكون هناك وورقه السادج الهندي، وإليها تنسب أصناف العود والكافور واللبان والقتار، وأصل العود نبت في جزائر وراء خطّ الاستواء، وما وصل إلى منابته أحد ولم يعلم أحد كيف نباته وكيف شجره ولا يصف إنسان شكل ورق العود وإنما يأتي به الماء إلى جانب الشمال، فما انقلع وجاء إلى الساحل فأخذ رطبا بكله وبقامرون أو في بلد الفلفل أو بالصنف أو بقماريان أو بغيرها من السواحل بقي إذا أصابته الريح الشمال رطبا أبدا لا يتحرّك عن رطبه، وهو المعروف بالقامروني المندلي، وما جف في البحر ورمي يابسا فهو الهندي المصمت الثقيل ومحنته أن ينال منه بالمبرد ويلقى على الماء فإن لم ترسب برادته فليس بمختار وإن رسبت فهو الخالص الذي ما بعده غاية، وما جفّ منه في مواضعه ونخر في البحر فهو القماري، وما نخر في مواضعه وحمله البحر نخرا فهو الصنفي، وملوك هذه المرافئ يأخذون ممن يجمع العود من السواحل ومن البحر العشر، وأمّا الكافور فهو في لحف جبل بين هذه المدينة وبين مندورقين مطلّ على البحر وهو لبّ شجر يشقّ فيوجد الكافور كامنا فيه فربما وجد مائعا وربما كان جامدا لأنّه صمغ يكون في لبّ هذا الشجر، وبها شيء من الإهليلج قليل والكابلي أجود منه لأن كابل بعيدة من البحر، وجميع أصناف الإهليلج بها وكل شجر مما نثرته الريح فجّا غير نضيج فهو الأصفر، وهو حامض بارد، وما بلغ وقطف في أوان إدراكه فهو الكابلي، وهو حلو حارّ، وما ترك في شجره في أيام الشتاء حتى يسود فهو الأسود مرّ حارّ، وبها معدن كبريت أصفر ومعدن نحاس يخرج من دخانه توتيا جيد، وجميع أصناف التوتيا كلها من دخان النحاس إلّا الهندي فإنّه كما ذكرنا يخرج من دخان الرصاص القلعي، وماء هذه المدينة وماء مندورقين من الصهاريج المختزن فيها من مياه الأمطار، ولا زرع فيها إلّا القرع الذي فيه الراوند فإنّه يزرع بين الشوك، وكذلك أيضا بطيخهم عزيز جدّا، وبها قنبيل يقع من السماء ويجمع بأخثاء البقر، والعربي أجود منه، وسرت من مدن السواحل إلى الملتان، وهي آخر مدن الهند ممّا يلي الصين وأوّلها ممّا يلينا وتلي أرض السند، وهي مدينة عظيمة جليلة القدر عند أهل الهند والصين لأنّها بيت حجهم ودار عبادتهم مثل مكّة عند المسلمين وبيت المقدس عند اليهود والنصارى، وبها القبة العظمى والبدّ الأكبر، وهذه القبة سمكها في السماء ثلاثمائة ذراع وطول الصنم في جوفها مائة ذراع، وبين رأسه وبين القبة مائة ذراع، وبين رجليه وبين الأرض مائة ذراع، وهو معلّق من جوفها لا بقائمة من أسفله يدعم عليها ولا بعلاقة من أعلاه تمسكه، قلت:
هذا هو الكذب الصراح لأن هذا الصنم ذكره المدائني في فتوح الهند والسند وذكر أن طوله عشرون ذراعا، قال أبو دلف: البلد في يد يحيى بن محمد الأموي هو صاحب المنصورة أيضا والسند كلّه في يده، والدولة بالملتان للمسلمين وملّاك عقرها ولد عمر بن علي بن أبي طالب، والمسجد الجامع مصاقب لهذه القبة، والإسلام بها ظاهر والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر بها شامل، وخرجت منها إلى المنصورة، وهي قصبة السند، والخليفة الأموي مقيم بها يخطب لنفسه ويقيم الحدود ويملك السند كلّه بره وبحره، ومنها إلى البحر خمسون فرسخا، وبساحلها مدينة الدّيبل، وخرجت من المنصورة إلى بغانين، وهو بلد واسع يؤدي أهله الخراج إلى الأموي وإلى صاحب بيت الذهب، وهو بيت من ذهب في صحراء تكون أربعة فراسخ ولا يقع عليها الثلج ويثلج ما حولها،
وفي هذا البيت رصد الكواكب، وهو بيت تعظمه الهند والمجوس، وهذه الصحراء تعرف بصحراء زردشت صاحب المجوس، ويقول أهل هذه البلدان:
إن هذه الصحراء متى خرج منها إنسان يطلب دولة لم يغلب ولم يهزم له عسكر حيثما توجه، ومنها إلى شهر داور ومنها إلى بغنين ومنها إلى غزنين وبها تتفرّق الطرق فطريق يأخذ يمنة إلى باميان وختلان وخراسان، وطريق يأخذ تلقاء القبلة إلى بست ثمّ إلى سجستان، وكان صاحب سجستان في وقت موافاتي إياها أبا جعفر محمد بن أحمد بن الليث وأمه بانويه أخت يعقوب بن الليث، وهو رجل فيلسوف سمح كريم فاضل، له في بلده طراز تعمل فيه ثياب، ويخلع في كل يوم خلعة على واحد من زوّاره ويقوّم عليه من طرازها بخمسة آلاف درهم ومعها دابّة النوبة ووليّ الحمام والمسند والمطرح ومسورتان ومخدّتان، وبذلك يعمل ثبت ويسلّم إلى الزائر فيستوفيه من الخازن، هذا آخر الرسالة.