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1 سَرَّهُ, accord. to the TA, has two contr. significations: for it is there stated that “ one says سَرَرْتُهُ meaning كَتَمْتُهُ and سَرَرْتُهُ meaning أَعْلَنْتُهُ: ” and it is added that “ it will occur again soon: ” but it does not again occur in that work, nor have I found it in any other lexicon: I therefore think that it is a mistranscription, for أَسْرَرْتُهُ, first Pers\. of أَسَرَّهُ, q. v.]

A2: سَرَّهُ, (S, O, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. ـُ (MS,) inf. n. مَسَرَّةٌ (S, O, K) and سُرُورٌ [which latter, from the explanations of it which will be found below, seems to be generally, if not only, as an inf. n., that of سُرَّ,] and سُرٌّ [which is also syn. with سُرُورٌ in the senses assigned to the latter below] and سُرَّى and تَسِرَّةٌ [which last may be also an inf. n. of ↓ سرّرهُ expl. by Freytag as syn. with سَرَّهُ in the sense here following, but without an indication of any authority], (O, K,) He, or it, rejoiced him; gladdened him; or made him happy; syn. أَفْرَحَهُ: (Msb, K:) [or made him to experience a pleasure, or delight, and dilatation of the heart, of which there was no external sign: see سُرُورٌ, below.] And سُرَّ, [inf. n. سُرُورٌ, (see above,)] He rejoiced; was joyful, or glad; or was happy: (S, * A, * K:) [or he experienced a pleasure, or delight, and dilatation of the heart, of which there was no external sign; accord. to an explanation of سُرُورٌ:] you say, سُرَّ بِهِ and ↓ اِسْتَسَرَّ [He rejoiced, was joyful or glad, or was happy, by reason of him, or it]. (A.) b2: سَرَّهُ, (K,) aor. as above, (TA,) also signifies He saluted him with [the offering of what are termed] المَسَرَّة, i. e. the extremities of sweet-smelling plants. (K.) A3: Also سَرَّهُ, (S, M,) aor. as above, inf. n. سَرٌّ, (S,) or سِرٌّ, (so in a copy of the M,) He cut his (a child's) سِرَر, or سُرّ, i. e. navel-string. (S, M.) and سُرَّ He (a child) had his navel-string cut. (K.) b2: And سَرَّهُ, aor. as above, He pierced him, or thrust him, [with a spear or the like,] in his سُرَّة [or navel]: a poet says, وَإِنْ أَدْبَرُوا فَهُمُ مَنْ يُسَبْ نَسُرُّهُمُ إِنْ هُمُ أَقْبَلُوا [We pierce them in the navel if they advance; and if they retreat, they are those who are pierced in the podex; يُسَبْ being for يُسَبُّ]. (S.) A4: سَرَّ الزَّنْدَ, aor. as above, inf. n. سَرٌّ, He put a piece of wood, (M, K,) or a little piece of wood, (S,) in the interior of the زند [or piece of stick, or wood, for producing fire], (M,) or in its extremity, (S, K,) inserting it in its interior, (S,) in order that he might produce fire with it. (S, M, K.) One says, سُرَّ زَنْدَكَ فَإِنَّهُ أَسَرُّ Fill up the interior of thy زند, that it may produce fire, (AHn, M,) for it is [worn] hollow. (S, K.) A5: سَرَّ, [sec. Pers\. سَرِرْتَ,] aor. ـَ (IAar, Sgh, L, K,) inf. n. سَرَرٌ, remarked upon by MF as extr., [though it is agreeable with a general rule,] said of a man, (TA,) He had a complaint of the سُرَّة [or navel]. (IAar, Sgh, L, K.) b2: Also, aor. and inf. n. as in the next preceding case, said of a camel, He had the pain, or disorder, termed سَرَرٌ [q. v.]. (IAar, M.) 2 سَرَّّ see 1, second sentence.

A2: سَرَّرْتُهُ in the phrase سَرَّرْتُهُ سُرِّيَّةً I gave him, or caused him to take, a concubine slave, doubly trans., is [said to be] changed to سَرَّيْتُهُ for alleviation of the pronunciation. (Msb.) A3: سرّرهُ, inf. n. تَسْرِيرٌ, said of water, It reached his سُرَّة [or navel]. (K.) 3 سارّهُ, inf. n. مُسَارَّةٌ and سِرَارٌ, (S, M,) [He spoke, or discoursed, secretly to him or with him;] he acquainted him with a secret. (M.) You say, سارّهُ فِى أُذُنِهِ He spoke secretly to him in his ear. (S, * K, * TK.) And كَانَ يُحَدِّثُهُ كَأَخِى السِّرَارِ occurs in a trad., meaning He (Mohammad) used to talk to him ('Omar) in a low voice, like him who is telling a secret. (TA.) b2: بَيْعُ السِّرَارِ is The selling in which one says, “I will put forth my hand and thou shalt put forth thy hand, and if I produce my signet-ring before thee, it is a sale for such a price; and if thou produce thy signet-ring before me, for such a price: ” if they produce together, or do not both produce, they do thus again. (Mgh.) 4 اسرّهُ, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِسْرَارٌ; (Msb;) [and accord. to the TA سَرَّهُ; but see the first sentence of this art.;] He concealed it; suppressed it; kept it secret; (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) namely, a story, or the like: (A, Mgh, Msb:) and, contr., he manifested it; revealed it; published it; made it known. (S, M, Msb, K.) Both of these significations have been assigned to the verb in the phrase وَأَسَرُّوا النَّدَامَةَ, in the Kur [x. 55 and xxxiv. 32]: (S:) some say, that the meaning is They will manifest repentance: Th says, they will conceal it from their chiefs: the former [says ISd] is the more correct: (M:) the former meaning is also given on the authority of AO; but Sh says, I have not heard it on the authority of any other; and Az says that the lexicologists most strongly disapprove of the saying of AO; and it is said that the meaning is, they, the chiefs of the polytheists, will conceal repentance from the lower class of their people, whom they shall have caused to err; and in like manner say Zj and the [other] expositors. (TA.) In like manner also the two contr. significations are assigned to the verb in the saying of Imra-el- Keys, [in his Mo'allakah,] لَوْ يُسِرُّونَ مَقْتَلِى, which As used to quote with ش, thus, لَوْ يُشِرُّونَ مَقْتَلِى, meaning that they might publish, or make known, my slaughter. (S.) You say also, أَسَرَّ إِلَيْهِ حَدِيثًا He revealed unto him a story (S, K) secretly. (TA.) An ex. occurs in the Kur lxvi. 3. (TA.) And أَسْرَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ المَوَدَّةَ, and بِالمَوَدَّةِ, I showed, or manifested, to him love, or affection. (S.) It is said in the Kur [lx. 1], تُسِرُّونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمَوَدَّةِ, meaning, Ye reveal to them the news of the Prophet by reason of the love that is between you and them; the objective complement of the verb being suppressed: or المودّة may be an objective complement, the ب being a redundant corroborative, as in أَخَذَ الخِطَامَ and أَخَذَ بِهِ: (Msb:) and this interpretation is correct; for إِسْرَارٌ to a person necessarily implies revealing a secret to him and at the same time concealing it from another. (B.) b2: وَأَسَرُّوهُ بِضَاعَةً, in the Kur xii. 19, signifies And they concealed, or kept secret, his case, making him as an article of merchandise: (Jel:) or they conjectured in their minds that they should obtain, by selling him, merchandise. (TA.) [See also an ex. voce اِرْتَغَى, in art. رغو.] b3: اسرّ الفَاتِحَةَ, and بِالفَاتِحَةِ, He recited the Fátihah [or First Chapter of the Kur-án] secretly, or inaudibly: (Msb:) or the latter form of expression is a mistake. (Mgh.) b4: أَسْرَرْتُهُ also signifies نَسَبْتُهُ إِلَى السِّرِّ [which may mean either I attributed it to secrecy, or, like many phrases of this kind, by inversion, I attributed to him secrecy, or mystery]. (Msb.) 5 تسرّر and تسرّى, (M, K,) and ↓ استسرّ, (K,) He took to himself a concubine-slave. (M, * K, * TA.) And تَسَرَّرْتُ جَارِيَــةً, and تَسَرَّيْتُهَا, (S,) and ↓ اِسْتَسَرَّيْتُهَا, (TA,) I took to myself a girl, or young woman, as a concubine-slave. (S, * TA.) تَسَرَّرْتُهَا is [said to be] thus changed to تَسَرَّيْتُهَا, (T, S, Msb,) for alleviation of the pronunciation, (Msb,) on account of the three ر s following one another, (T,) being like تَظَنَّنْتُ and تَظَنَّيْتُ. (T, * S.) Lth says that تسرّيت is a mistake; but Az says that it is correct. (TA.) ↓ اِسْتَسَرَّنِى

occurs in a trad. as signifying He took me to himself as a concubine-slave; but by rule one should say تَسَرَّرَنِى, or تَسَرَّانِى: as to ↓ استسرّنى, it [more properly] signifies “ He revealed to me his secret. ” (TA.) b2: تَسَرَّرَ فُلَانٌ بِنْتَ فُلَانٍ [as though signifying Such a one took to himself the daughter of such a one as a concubine-slave] is said when a man of low birth takes as his wife a woman or girl of high birth because of the abundance of his property and the littleness of hers. (M.) 6 تسارّوا They spoke, or discoursed, secretly together; acquainted one another with secrets. (S, K.) [See also 3.]

A2: تسارّإِلَى ذٰلِكَ (tropical:) He experienced pleasure, or delight, at that: as, for instance, at his scratching a part of his body, or pressing, or kneading, it; and at a thing disliked by another person. (A, TA.) [But I am in some doubt as to the correctness of this, and incline to think that it is a mistake for ↓ استسرّ.]10 استسرّ He, or it, became concealed; or he, or it, concealed himself or itself: (K:) it (a thing, or an affair,) became hidden or concealed or secret: (A, Msb:) it (the moon) became concealed (S, M, A, TA) by the light of the sun, (TA,) [i. e. by its proximity to the sun,] for one night, or for two nights. (AO, S.) A2: استسرّهُ He took extraordinary pains in concealing it, or keeping it secret. (TA.) b2: See also 5, in four places. b3: اِسْتَسَرَّنِى He revealed to me his secret. (TA.) A3: See also 1; and see 6, last sentence.

سَرٌّ A man who rejoices, or gladdens, another; or makes him happy; (S, K;) [and so ↓ سَارٌّ:] fem. سَرَّةٌ; with which ↓ سَارَّةٌ is syn. (Lh, M, K.) You say رَجُلٌ بَرٌّ سَرٌّ A man who treats with goodness and affection and gentleness, and rejoices &c., (S, K, TA,) his brethren: (TA:) pl. بَرُّونَ سَرُّونَ. (S, K.) سُرٌّ: see سُرُورٌ: A2: and سِرٌّ, last sentence but one.

A3: It is also a contraction of سُرُرٌ, pl. of سَرِيرٌ. (Sb, M.) A4: Also, and ↓ سِرَرٌ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ سَرَرٌ, (S, K, in the CK سُرَر,) The navel-string of a child; i. e. the thing that the midwife cuts off from the navel (سُرَّة) of a child; (S, K;) the thing that hangs from the navel (سُرَّة) of a newborn child, and that is cut off: or ↓ سِرَرٌ signifies the part that is cut off thereof, and that goes away: (M:) pl. (of سِرَرٌ, S, [or of سُرٌّ or سَرَرٌ,]) أَسِرَّةٌ, (Yaakoob, S, M, K,) which is extr. (M.) One says, عَرَفْتُ ذٰلِكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُقْطَعَ سُرُّكَ [I knew that before thy navel-string was cut]: one should not say سُرَّتُكَ; for the سُرَّة is not cut. (S.) and وَاحِدِ ↓ وَلَدَتْ ثَلَاثَةً فِى سَرَرٍ She brought forth three [boys] consecutively, or one at the heels of another. (M.) [See also سِرٌّ, last sentence.]

سِرٌّ A secret; a thing that is concealed, or suppressed, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) in the mind; (TA;) as also ↓ سَرِيرَةٌ: (S, M, A, K:) or the former has the above-mentioned signification, and the latter signifies a secret action, whether good or evil: (Lth:) [and the former, also, a mystery:] pl. of the former, أَسْرَارٌ; (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) and of the latter, سَرَائِرُ. (S, A, K.) It is said in a prov., مَا يَوْمُ حَلِيمَةَ بِسِرٍّ [The day of Haleemeh is not a secret]: applied to anything commonly known: alluding to Haleemeh the daughter of El-Hárith the son of Aboo-Shemir El-Ghassánee; for, when her father sent an army to El-Mundhir the son of Má-es-Semà, she took forth for the soldiers some perfume in a vessel (مِرْكَن), and perfumed them with it. (S.) [You say also, هُوَ مَوْضِعُ سِرِّى He is the depositary of my secret, or secrets.] The words of the Kur [lxxxvi. 9] ↓ يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ signify In the day wherein the secret tenets and intentions shall be tried and revealed: (Jel:) or by السرائر is here meant fasting, and prayer, and alms-giving, and ablution on account of the pollution termed جَنَابَة. (TA.) [See also a verse cited in the third paragraph of art. عرض.] b2: A thing that is revealed, appears, or is made manifest: thus it has two contrary significations. (MF.) b3: السِّرُّ [for مَحَلُّ السِّرِّ, (assumed tropical:) The heart; the mind; the recesses of the mind; the secret thoughts; the soul;] is a syn. of الضَّمِيرُ. (K in art. ضمر. [See also سَرِيرَةٌ.]) [لَا تُتْعِبْ سِرَّكَ (assumed tropical:) Weary not thy heart, or mind, is a common modern phrase. And one says, of a deceased holy man, قَدَّسَ اللّٰهُ سِرَّهُ (assumed tropical:) May God sanctify his soul.] b4: سِرٌّ also signifies Secrecy; privacy; contr. of عَلَانِيَةٌ. (S in art. علن.) Yousay سِرًّا وَعَلَانِيَةً [Secretly and openly; or privately and publickly]. (Kur ii. 275, &c.) b5: Concealment. (S.) b6: Suppression; contr. of إِعْلَانٌ. (Msb.) [So in the phrase تَكَلَّمَ سِرًّا He spoke with a suppressed, or low, voice; softly.] b7: [One having private knowledge of a thing. Yousay,] فُلَانٌ سِرُّ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one has [private] knowledge of this thing. (TA.) b8: (tropical:) The penis (T, S, M, K) of a man: (T:) and (tropical:) the vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation, of a woman. (K.) One says, اِلْتَقَى السِّرَّانِ (tropical:) The two pudenda met. (A.) b9: (tropical:) Concubitus. (AHeyth, S, Mgh, K.) b10: (tropical:) Marriage: (M, A, Msb, K:) pl. أَسْرَارٌ. (TA.) You say, وَاعَدَهَا سِرًّا (tropical:) He promised her marriage, she promising him the same. (A.) So, accord. to some, in the Kur ii.

235. (TA.) b11: (tropical:) Plain declaration of marriage: (K:) i. e., a man's offering himself in marriage to a woman during her عِدَّة: so expl. as occurring in the Kur ubi suprà: (TA:) or a man's demanding a woman in marriage during her عِدَّة. (Mujáhid.) b12: (tropical:) Adultery, or fornication: (AHeyth, (K:) so, accord. to Aboo-Mijlez and El-Hasan, in the Kur ubi suprà. (TA.) Hence the saying, لَا يُرْجَى مِنْ وَلَدِ السِّرِّ بِرٌّ (tropical:) One does not hope for filial piety from the offspring of adultery, or fornication. (TK.) b13: (assumed tropical:) Origin; syn. أَصْلٌ; (M, K;) as in the phrase هُوَ كَرِيمُ السِّرِّ كَثِيرُ البِرِّ He is of generous origin, of much filial piety. (TK.) b14: (assumed tropical:) The commencement, or first night, of a lunar month: (K, TA:) or its middle; (K;) app. meaning what are called الأَيَّامُ البِيضُ: (TA:) but Az says, I know it not in this sense. (IAth.) b15: (assumed tropical:) The interior of anything; its heart. (K.) Whence سِرُّ الشَّهْرِ and اللَّيْلِ (assumed tropical:) [The middle of the lunar month and of the night]. (TA.) b16: The marrow of anything. (TA.) b17: (tropical:) The pure, or choice, or best, part of anything. (Fr, M, K.) You say, أَعْطَيْتُكَ سِرَّهُ (tropical:) I gave thee the pure, or choice, or best, part of it. (A.) b18: (tropical:) The pure, or genuine, quality of race, or lineage: (S, A, K:) its best quality: (S, K:) and the middle sort thereof; (S;) and of rank, or quality, or the like: (M:) as also ↓ سَرَارٌ and ↓ سَرَارَةٌ. (M, K.) One says, هُوَ فِى سِرِّ قَوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is of the best [in race or family] of his people: (TA:) or of the middle sort of them. (S.) b19: (tropical:) The low, or depressed, part of a valley: (K:) the best, (S, K,) or most fruitful, (As, M, TA,) part thereof: (As, S, M, K:) as also ↓ سَرَارٌ (M, K) and ↓ سَرَارَةٌ (As, S, M, K) and ↓ سُرَّةٌ: (M, K:) or the last signifies the middle of a valley: (S:) the pl. of سِرٌّ is سِرَرٌ and سُرُورٌ (M) and أَسِرَّةٌ, like as أَقِنَّةٌ is of قِنٌّ, (S,) or the last is pl. of ↓ سَرَارٌ, like as أَقْذِلَةٌ is of قَذَالٌ; (M;) and that of ↓ سَرَارَةٌ is ↓ سَرَارٌ, (S,) or [this is a coll. gen. n., and the pl. is] سَرَائِرُ: (M:) also

↓ سُرَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) the middle of a city: and أَسِرَّةٌ the middles of meadows. (TA.) And أَرْضٌ سِرٌّ (assumed tropical:) Fruitful, good, land; (M, K;) as also ↓ سَرَّآءُ. (K, * TA.) b20: Also (assumed tropical:) Goodness; excellence. (Msb.) b21: Also, and ↓ سُرٌّ, (M, K,) and ↓ سِرَرٌ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ سُرُرٌ, (K,) and ↓ سِرَارٌ, (S, M, K,) A line of the palm of the hand, (M, K, *) and of the face, (M,) and of the forehead: (S, M, Mgh:) pl. (of سِرٌّ, TA, or of ↓ سِرَارٌ, S) أَسِرَّةٌ, (M, TA,) and (of the same, K, or of ↓ سِرَرٌ, S, Mgh) أَسْرَارٌ; (S, M, Mgh, K;) and pl. pl., [i. e. pl. of أَسْرَارٌ,] أَسَارِيرُ: (S, M, (Mgh, K:) this last, accord. to AA, signifies the lines in the forehead, from the shrivelling of the skin; and its sing. is ↓ سَرَرٌ: (TA:) some also apply the pl. أَسِرَّةٌ to (tropical:) lines, or streaks, of herbage; as being likened to the lines of the hand and of the face, but this is not of valid authority: (M:) and أَسَارِيرُ (as pl. of أَسْرَارٌ, which is pl. of سِرَرٌ, TA) also signifies the beauties of the face, and of the cheeks, and of the elevated parts of the cheeks. (K, TA.) b22: وُلِدَ لَهُ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَلَى سِرٍّ, (K,) and عَلَى

وَاحِدٍ ↓ سِرَرٍ, (K, * TA,) means Three children were born to him, whose navel-strings were cut in a similar manner, without any female among them. (K. [See also سُرٌّ.]) سُرَّةٌ The navel; i. e. the place from which the navel-string (سُرّ) has been cut off; (S;) the small cavity, or hollow, of the belly, (M, TA,) in the middle thereof; (TA;) what remains of the سِرَر: (M:) [see سُرٌّ:] pl. سُرَرٌ [in the CK erroneously سِرَرٌ] and سُرَّاتٌ. (S, K.) b2: [Hence,] سُرَّةُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) [The navel of the horse,] the star, of Pegasus, that is in the head of Andromeda. (Kzw.) b3: [Hence likewise] سُرَّةٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A perforation in the middle of a jar such as is termed مُزَمَّلَة [q. v.], in which is fixed a tube of silver or lead, whence one drinks. (Har p. 548.) b4: And (assumed tropical:) The place where the water rests, in the furthest part, of a watering-trough, or tank. (K, TA.) b5: See also سِرٌّ, in two places, in the latter part of the paragraph.

سَرَرٌ a subst. from سَارَّهُ [like its syn. نَجْوَى

from نَاجَاهُ, signifying Secret discourse, or a secret communication, between two persons or parties]. (M.) A2: See also سَرَارُ الشَّهْرِ: A3: and سِرٌّ, last sentence but one: A4: and سُرٌّ, in two places.

A5: Also A pain which a camel suffers in his كِرْكِرَة [or callous projection upon the breast], arising from a gall, or sore: (S, * K:) or sores in the hinder part of the كركرة of a camel, nearly penetrating into his inside, but not mortal: or a disease that attacks the horse: (M:) it is said by Lth to be a pain in the navel; but Az and others say that this is a mistake. (TA.) b2: Also Hollowness of a spear-shaft [&c.]. (S, K.) [See أَسَرُّ.]

سُرُرٌ: see سِرٌّ, last sentence but one: A2: and سُرُورٌ.

A3: It is also a pl. of سَرِيرٌ [q. v.]. (S, M, Msb, K.) سِرَرٌ: see سَرَارُ الشَّهْرِ: A2: and سِرٌّ, last two sentences, in three places: A3: and سُرٌّ, in two places.

A4: Also The coats, or coverings, and earth, that are upon truffles; (S, K;) and ↓ سَرِيرٌ signifies the same, (TA,) or the sand (K, TA) and earth and coats or coverings (TA) upon truffles: (K, TA:) here, and in some copies of the Tekmileh, for كَمْأَة, is put أَكَمَة: (TA:) or both signify the earth that is upon truffles: (M:) or the former signifies the round clod of earth in which a truffle grows: (ISh, TA:) pl. of the former, (ISh, S,) and of ↓ the latter, (TA,) أَسْرَارٌ. (ISh, S, TA.) سَرَارُ الشَّهْرِ and ↓ سِرَارُهُ, (S, M, K,) but the latter is not approved by the lexicologists [in general], (Az,) and ↓ سَرَرُهُ (S, M, K) and ↓ سِرَرُهُ, (M,) and ↓ لَيْلَةُ السِّرَارِ (S) [or السَّرَارِ &c.], The last night of the lunar month: (S, K:) or when the month is twenty-nine, it is the twenty-eighth night; and when the month is thirty, it is the twenty-ninth night: (Fr:) or the night in which the moon becomes concealed by the light of the sun: (M:) sometimes this is the case one night, and sometimes it is two nights. (AO, S.) [See also الدَّعْجَآءُ, voce أَدْعَجُ.]

A2: سَرَارٌ is also syn. with سِرٌّ, in two senses: see سِرٌّ, in the latter part of the paragraph, in four places.

A3: It signifies also [Dates in the unripe state in which they are termed] سَيَابٌ [q. v.]. (K.) سِرَارٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places: A2: and سِرٌّ, last sentence but one, in two places: A3: and مَسَرَّةٌ.

سَرُورٌ: see what next follows.

سُرُورٌ, (S, M, A, Msb,) or ↓ سَرُورٌ, when used as a simple subst., (IAar, Sgh, K,) but this is strange, and, accord. to MF, unknown, whether as a simple subst. or as an inf. n., (TA,) and ↓ سُرٌّ (M, Msb) and ↓ سَرَّآءُ and ↓ تَسُرَّةٌ, (M,) Happiness, or joy, or gladness; syn. فَرَحٌ; (M, K; *) contr. of حُزْنٌ: (S:) or dilatation of the bosom with delight, or pleasure, wherein is quiet or tranquillity or rest of mind, of short or of long continuance; whereas فَرَحٌ is dilatation of the bosom with delight, or pleasure, of short continuance, transitory, or fleeting, not lasting, as is the case in bodily and worldly pleasures; but فَرَح is sometimes called سُرُور, and vice versâ: (Er-Rághib, TA in art. فرح:) or سُرُورٌ signifies pleasure, or delight, and dilatation of the heart, of which there is no external sign; distinguished from حُبُورٌ, which is cheerfulness, i. e., pleasure, or delight, or dilatation of the heart, which has a visible effect in the aspect. (TA.) A2: Also sing. of ↓ سُرُرٌ, (TA,) which signifies The upper extremities of the stems of plants. (K, TA.) See also مَسَرَّةٌ.

سَرِيرٌ [A couch-frame; a bedstead: a raised couch, or couch upon a frame: a throne:] a thing upon which one lies; syn. مُضْطَجَعٌ: (M, K:) or a thing upon which one sits: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَسِرَّةٌ and [of mult.] سُرُرٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and some, for the latter, say سُرَرٌ, as more easy of pronunciation, (S, Msb,) and make the same change in other similar pls., (S,) and he who says صِيْدٌ [for صُيُدٌ, pl. of صَيُودٌ,] says سُرٌّ for سُرُرٌ. (Sb, M.) It is said to be derived from سُرُورٌ, because it generally belongs to persons of ease and affluence and of authority, and to kings. (MF.) b2: Hence, and as an appellation of good omen, (Er-Rághib,) A bier, before the corpse is carried upon it: (K:) when the corpse is carried upon it, it is called [نِعْشٌ and] جَِنَازَةٌ. (TA.) b3: [Hence,] سَرِيرُ بَنَاتِ نَعْشٍ (assumed tropical:) [The bier of BenátNaash;] the seven stars that are upon the neck and breast and two knees of the Greater Bear, resembling a semicircle; [app. τ, η, υ, ø, q, e, and f; (as in Freytag's Lex.;)] also called الحَوْضُ. (Kzw.) b4: [Hence likewise] سَرِيرٌ also signifies (tropical:) Dominion, sovereignty, rule, or authority: and ease, comfort, or affluence: (S, * K: [in some copies of each of which, we find النِّعْمَةُ in the place of النَّعْمَةُ:]) and settled means of subsistence. (M, TA.) You say, زَالَ عَنْ سَرِيرِهِ (tropical:) He ceased to enjoy authority, or power, and ease, comfort, or affluence. (A.) [See also an ex. in a verse cited in art. دغفل.] b5: And (tropical:) The part where the head rests upon the neck: (S, M, K, TA:) pl. أَسِرَّةٌ and سَرَائِرُ. (TA.) A2: See also سِرَرٌ, in two places: A3: and مَسَرَّةٌ.

سَرَارَةٌ: see سِرٌّ, in the latter part of the paragraph, in three places. It signifies also (assumed tropical:) The best of the productive parts of a meadow. (TA.) b2: And hence, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) Pureness, choiceness, or excellence, of anything: (M, K:) pureness, and excellence, of race, or lineage. (S.) It has no verb. (M.) You say, هُوَ فِى سَرَارَةٍ مِنْ عِيشَةٍ (tropical:) [He is in the best condition, or mode, of life]. (A.) And لَهَا عَلَيْهَا سَرَارَةٌ (assumed tropical:) She possesses superiority over her. (Fr.) سَرِيرَةٌ; and its pl. سَرَائِرُ: see سِرٌّ, first and fourth sentences, in three places. b2: Also The heart, or mind. (KL. [And so سِرٌّ, q. v.]) And One's inner man; syn. جَوَّانِىٌّ: opposed to عَلَانِيَةٌ and بَرَّانِىٌّ [q. v.]. (T in art. بر.) سَرَّآءُ Ampleness, or freedom from straitness, of the means, or circumstances, of life; syn. رَخَآءٌ; [or a happy state or condition;] contr. of ضَرَّآءُ; (S;) i. q. ↓ مَسَرَّةٌ and ↓ سَارُورَآءُ [contr. of مَضَرَّةٌ and ضَارُورَآءُ]. (K.) b2: See also سُرُورٌ: b3: and see سِرٌّ, near the end of the paragraph. b4: Also i. q. بَطْحَآءُ [q. v.]. (TA.) سِرِّىٌّ [rel. n. from سِرٌّ; Of, or relating to, anything secret: a secret, or mysterious, thing. b2: And] A man who does things secretly: pl. سِرِّيُّونَ. (M.) سُرِّيَّةٌ A concubine-slave; a female slave whom one takes as a possession and for concubitus; (M;) a female slave to whom one assigns a house, or chamber, in which he lodges her, (S, K,) and whom he takes as a possession and for concubitus: (TA:) of the measure فُعْلِيَّةٌ, (S, M, Mgh, Msb,) from سِرٌّ as signifying “ concubitus,” (S, M, * Mgh, Msb, K,) or as signifying “ concealment,” because a man often conceals and protects her from his wife; (S;) altered from the regular form of a rel. n., (S, M, Msb, K,) by its having damm [in the place of kesr]; (S, Msb;) for the rel. n. is sometimes thus altered, as in the instances of دُهْرِىٌّ from الدَّهْرُ and سُهْلِىٌّ from الأَرْضُ السَّهْلَةُ: (S:) or it is with damm to distinguish it from سِرِّيَّةٌ, which is applied to “ a free woman with whom one has sexual intercourse secretly,” (Msb,) or “ one who prostitutes herself: ” (TA:) or it is from سُرٌّ in the sense of سُرُورٌ; because her owner rejoices in her; (Akh, * S, * Msb;) and if so, it is agreeable with analogy: (Msb:) so says A Heyth; and this is the best that has been said respecting it: (TA:) or it is of the measure فُعُّولَةٌ, from سَرْوٌ, (M, Mgh,) the latter و being changed into ى for euphony, and then the [other] و being incorporated into it and thus becoming ى like it, after which the dammeh is changed into a kesreh because the ى is next to it: (M:) the pl. is سَرَارِىُّ (ISk, S, TA) and سَرَارٍ; (ISk, TA;) the latter, by poetic license. (Ham p. 304.) سِرِّيَّةٌ A free woman with whom one has sexual intercourse secretly, (Msb, TA, *) or who prostitutes herself: (TA:) distinguished from سُرِّيَّةٌ [q. v.]. (Msb, TA.) سُرْسُورٌ Intelligent; knowing; skilful; (S, M, K;) entering much into affairs, (S, K,) by means of his good artifices or artful contrivances. (TA.) You say, هُوَ سُرْسُورُ مَالٍ He is one who manages well, or takes good care of, property, or cattle, (AA, M, * K, * TA,) knowing what is conducive to the good thereof. (AA, TA.) And هُوَ ابْنُ سُرْسُورِهَا He is the knowing with respect to it. (T in art. بنى.) b2: A person beloved, or a friend; a special, or choice, companion; (K;) as also ↓ سُرْسُورَةٌ. (TA.) A2: Also The نَصْل [or spun thread, that has come forth,] of the spindle. (K.) سُرْسُورَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سَارٌّ; and its fem., with ة: see سَرٌّ.

سَارُورَآءُ: see سَرَّآءُ.

أَسَرُّ An adventive; one abiding among a people to whom he is not related; syn. دَخِيلٌ. (S, K.) Lebeed says, وَجَدِّى فَارِسُ الرَّعْشَآءِ مِنْهُمْ رَئِيسٌ لَا أَسَرُّ وَلَا سَنِيدُ [And my grandfather, the rider of Er-Raashà, was of them; a chief, not an adventive, nor of suspected origin]. (S.) A2: Also a camel having a gall, or sore, in the كِرْكِرَة [or callous projection upon the breast]: (S:) or having a pain therein, arising from a gall, or sore: (K:) or having sores in the hinder part thereof, nearly penetrating into his inside, but not mortal: or having the disorder termed ضَبٌّ, which is a tumour in the breast: (M:) fem. سَرَّآءُ. (M, K.) [See سَرَرٌ.] b2: زَنْدٌ أَسَرُّ A زند [or piece of stick, or wood, for producing fire,] that has become hollow [by wear]. (AHn, S, M, K. [See 1, near the end of the paragraph.]) And قَنَاةٌ سَرَّآءُ A hollow spearshaft. (S, M, K.) تَسُرَّةٌ: see سُرُورٌ.

مَسَرَّةٌ an inf. n. of سَرَّهُ [q. v.] (S, O, K.) b2: [And A cause of سُرُور, i. e. happiness, or joy, or gladness;] a thing whereby one is made happy, or joyful, or glad: pl. مَسَارُّ. (Msb.) b3: See also سَرَّآءُ. b4: Also, [perhaps as being a cause of pleasure,] The extremities of sweet-smelling plants; (M, O, K;) and so ↓ سُرُورٌ: (O, K:) or the latter, the upper halves of the stems of plants; (Lth, M, O; [but see سُرُورٌ;]) properly, the parts of a lotus-plant that are concealed [by the water] and are consequently succulent and soft and beautiful: and ↓ سَرِيرٌ, the root, or lower part, of a lotusplant, whereon it rests: (O:) or this last, the pith of the lotus-plant; (M, K;) and so ↓ سِرَارٌ: (TA:) [accord. to Az,] اِبْنُ المَسَرَّةِ signifies the branch [or sprig] of رَيْحَان [or of a sweetsmelling plant]. (T in art بنى.) مِسَرَّةٌ An instrument in which one speaks secretly, like a طُومَار [i. e. a roll, or scroll] (S, K) &c. (TA.) مَسْرُورٌ Happy, or joyful, or glad; or affected with سُرُور [q. v.]. (S, TA.) A2: Having the navel-string cut. (TA, from a trad.) b2: And with ة, applied to the kind of jar termed مُزَمَّلَة, Having a سُرَّة, meaning a perforation in the middle, in which is fixed a tube of silver or lead, whence one drinks. (Har p. 548.) وَقَفْتُ عَلَى مُسْتَسَرِّهِ I became acquainted with his hidden, or secret, affair. (A, * TA.)

عنبر

عَنْبَرٌ [Ambergris;] a certain odoriferous substance, (S, O, Msb, K,) well known; (O, Msb;) an excrement found in the belly of a certain great fish, [the spermaceti-whale,] which is called by the same name; (Towsheeh, TA;) or an excrement of a certain marine beast; (K;) or, accord. to Ks, a vegetable [substance found] in the bottom of the sea and driven by the waves to the shores thereof, whence it is taken; (O;) or, (O, K,) as the physicians say, (O,) it issues from a source in the sea; (O, * K;) [and there are other opinions respecting its origin, mentioned in the TA; but these I do not add, as it is well known to be an excrement of the spermaceti-whale;] the best kind is the white, and the whitish; next, the blue [or gray]; and the worst, the black: (TA:) the word is masc. and fem., (AA, IAmb, O, Msb,) like مِسْكٌ: (IAmb, TA voce ذَكِىٌّ:) MF says that most hold the ن to be augmentative, the measure being فَنْعَلٌ, as it is said to be in the Msb. (TA.) b2: [As mentioned above, it signifies also The spermaceti-whale;] a certain great fish; (Msb in art. عبر;) a certain marine fish, (Az, O, K,) the length of which reaches to fifty cubits, called in Pers\. پاله [app. a mistranscription for وَالْ: see بَالٌ]: (Az, TA:) shields are made of its skin; (Mgh, O, TA;) and the people of Juddeh have sandals, or shoes, made thereof. (O, TA.) b3: And hence, (O,) A shield (S, O, K) made of the skin of the fish above-mentioned: (O, K:) and some say, coats of defence (دُرُوع). (O.) A2: Also Saffron. (K.) b2: And (as some say, TA) [The plant called] وَرْس. (K.) b3: [Accord. to Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. lxiv.) now applied to Gomphrena globosa.]

A3: See also the next paragraph, in two places.

عَنْبَرَةُ قَوْمٍ The purity of the pedigrees of a people. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) Hence the vulgar say of a thing that is pure, ↓ هٰذَا عَنْبَر. (TA.) b2: عَنْبَرَةُ القِدْرِ The onion: (K:) because it makes [the contents of] the قدر to become savoury. (TA.) b3: عَنْبَرَةُ الشِّتَآء, (Ks, O, K, TA,) or, accord. to Kr, it is الشتآءِ ↓ عَنْبَرُ, (TA,) The vehemence, or rigour, of winter. (Ks, Kr, O, K.) عَنْبَرِىٌّ Of, or belonging to, بَنُو العَنْبَرِ, (O, K,) or بَلْعُنْبَرِ, (O,) a tribe of تَمِيم, (O,) who were the most skilful people as guides: (O, K:) hence the proverbial saying, أَنْتَ عَنْبَرِىٌّ بِهٰذَا البَلَدِ [Thou art an 'Amberee in this country, or district]. (O, K. *)

عنبر: عنبر: صيرّه أسود. (القلائد ص222).
عَنْبَر: عَمْبر أشهب، عمبر رمادي، عمبر سنجاني بسبب لونه الأسود. (مملوك 1،2: 133).
عنبر خام: عمبر أشهب، رمادي، سنجابي (بوشر).
عنبر سائل: صمغ العنبر، (بوشر).
عَنَبَر، والجمع عنابر: مخزن الغَّلة. مولدة (محيط المحيط) وهي تحريف انبار التي ذكرها فريتاج في مادة الألف.
عَنْبَر: مخزن في قعر المركب: يقول وايلد (ص110): العنبر مخزن في قعر المركب مخزن فيه البضائع وغيرها من الحاجيات.
وعند همبرت (ص28) العنبر التحتاني بهذا المعنى. (ألف ليلة 2: 116) وقد ترجمها لين إلى الانجليزية بما معناه: قمرة، حجرة في سفينة.
عَنْبَرة: قطعة عنبر سنجابي. (كرتاس ص58) (= قطعة عنبر) القلائد ص222، المقري 1: 860).
عَنْبَرَة: عنبر سنجابي. (المقري 2: 529).
عَنْبرة، والجمع عنابر: نخبة، خبرة، زهرة، صفرة. (بوشر).
عَنْبَري: يذكر مؤلف البيان (2: 319) كسائين عنبريين ضمن الهدايا التي وزعها المنصور على صحابته. وقد قلت في معجمي يجب أن نفهم من هذا إنه رداء أو معطف من جلد سمكة بحرية كبيرة تسمى العنبر. ولم أجد حتى الآن ما يحملني على تغيير هذا. صحيح أن العنبري يطلق في العصور الحديثة اسماً لنسيج كما رأينا منذ قليل، غير إنه لا يوجد ما يدلنا على أن هذه الكلمة كانت تدل على هذا المعنى في القرن العاشر الميلادي ولما كان جلد العنبر يتخذ لصناعة التروس والنعال والأحذية والدروع (انظر لين) فمن المحتمل أيضاً إنه استخدم لصناعة المعاطف.
غير أني قد أخطات حين نقلت في هذا الموضوع عبارة المقريزي، فهذا المؤلف (2: 103 طبعة بولاق). يتحدث من غير شك عن العنبر الخام (وهو مادة تتكون في أحشاء حوت العنبر وليس عن شيء آخر، والمشكلة التي يصعب حلها هي معرفة معنى كلامه هذا، فهو يقول: وكان يتخذ منه الوسادات والناموسيات والستائر. والفعل اتخذ لا يبعث على التفكير بأشياء مشبكة بقطع من العنبر، بل بأشياء مصنوعة كلها منه، وهذا غريب.
عَنْبَر: اسم حجر لونه إلى السواد أو الخضرة رائحة العنبر الخام وتتخذ منه الأكواب. (انظر القزويني 1: 231).
عَنْبر: نوع من القماش ينسج في الإسكندرية ودمياط (صفة مصر 12: 270) وقماش رقيق جعد من الحرير (كريب). (صفة مصر 17: 390).
ويقول كاترمير (مملوك 1: 2: 133): (حسب ما يقول السيد إستيف) (مالية مصر ص59). إنه قماش يسمى بمصر عنبر وذلك بلا شك لأن لونه اسود. وبلا شك هذه موضع شك عندي. إذ يجب أن نجد الدليل على أن هذا القماش أسود دوماً، ولا دليل على ذلك.
العَرَق العنبري: هو أجود العَرَق (محيط المحيط).
عنبري: عرق (مشروب روحي)، شراب كحولي فيه رب الفواكه، قافيه (شراب سكر)، عرق عنبري. (بوشر، همبرت ص17، لين عادات 1: 223). وفي محيط المحيط أيضاً: العَمْبَري نوع من العرق حلو وهو من أجوده.
عنبري مثلَّج: عرق مثلج. (بوشر).
عَنْبِرية: قنينة عرق. (بوشر).
عنبرينا: في تاريخ أبي الفداء (5: 80): وسيف محلّى بالذهب وتلكش وعنبرينا. ولا شك في كتابة الكلمة، فهي ليست مذكورة في مخطوطتنا كما تأكدت من ذلك بل هي مذكورة أيضاً في مخطوطتي باريس (رقم 750 و749 تكملة المخطوطات العربية) التي تفضل السيد دفريمري فراجعها حين طلبت منه ذلك، والمخطوطة الأولى منهما قد تسخت لاستعمال المؤلف. وأرى أنها الكلمة عَنْبَرينَه، وهي إما نوع من الحلي مملوءة بالعنبر الخام يتقلدها النساء في أعناقهن، وإما ضفيرة زهور ينظم بين زهورها العنبر كما يقول فلَّرس. وكلمة عنبرينة كلمة فارسية.
عَنْبَرْ كيس: نسيج من القطن أبيض رقيق. (محيط المحيط) وكَليكَوت وهو قماش قطني خشن يصنع أصلاً في مدينة كليكوت على شاطىء مالابار (رولاند) وهو يكتبها عنبر فير وكذلك يكتبها بوسييه. ودَبُلان، وهو نوع من النسيج الهندي. (غدامس ص42) مجلة الشرق والجزائر: 21، 13= 153).
مُعَنْبَر: يعني فيما يقول فريتاج، ولم يذكر نصا يؤيده، وكذلك فيما يقول صاحب محيط المحيط. الذي تابعه ما تفوح منه رائحة العنبر. وبهذا المعنى ترجمها دي ساسي طرائف: (1: 78). وتعني هذه الكلمة عادة أسود (مملوك 1، 2: 133).

ظلف

1 ظَلَفَ الصَّيْدَ, (S, M, O,) or الشَّاةَ, (K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. ظَلْفٌ, (M,) He hit in his ظِلْف [or cloven hoof] (S, M, O, K) the animal of the chase (S, M, O) at which he had shot or cast, (S, O,) or the شاة [a term including the antelope and the like]. (K.) A2: ظَلَفَ أَثَرَهُ, (S, M, O, K,) aor. ـِ and ظَلُفَ, (M, K,) inf. n. ظَلْفٌ, (M, TA,) He made his foot-marks to be unapparent, in order that he might not be tracked: (K:) or he went, or walked, upon hard and rugged ground, in order that his foot-marks might not be visible (S, M, O, K) upon it; (S, O;) as also ↓ اظلفهُ; (S, M, L, TA;) in the K, erroneously ↓ ظالفه. (TA.) b2: And ظُلِفَ It (a herd of camels driven together) was taken along ground such as is termed ظَلَف, (which means rugged ground, such as does not show foot-marks, M,) in order that the foot-marks thereof might not be followed. (S, O.) b3: And ظَلَفَهُمْ, (M, K,) aor. ـُ (M,) or ـِ (TA,) inf. n. ظَلْفٌ, (M, TA,) He followed their foot-marks. (M, K.) A3: ظَلَفَ نَفْسَهُ عَنْهُ, (T, S, M, O, K,) aor. ـِ (S, O, K,) inf. n. ظَلْفٌ, (S, O,) He withheld himself from doing it, or coming to it; (S, O, K;) namely, a thing: (S, O:) or he restrained himself from it; (T, K;) namely, a thing that would disgrace him: (T:) or he withheld himself from the love, or blamable love, of it; namely, a thing. (M.) And ظَلَفَهُ عَنْهُ, (T, M,) aor. ـِ inf. n. ظَلْفٌ, He withheld him from it; namely, an affair: (M:) or he made him to be, or become, far, or aloof, from it; or to avoid it; namely, a thing; as also ↓ اظلفهُ. (T, TA.) And ظَلَفَهُ [alone] He withheld him from that in which was no good. (M.) A4: ظَلِفَتِ الأَرْضُ, (M, K,) [aor. ـَ inf. n. ظَلَفٌ, (S, * M, TA,) The ground was rugged, not showing a foot-mark. (S, * M, K.) And ظَلِفَتْ مَعِيشَتُهُ, inf. n. ظَلَفٌ, His means of subsistence became hard, strait, or difficult. (TK.) A5: ظَلِفَتْ نَفْسِى

عَنْ كَذَا, aor. ـَ inf. n. ظَلَفٌ, My mind, or soul, abstained, or refrained, from such a thing. (S.) A6: [And accord. to the KL, ظَلَفٌ as an inf. n. signifies The being ineffectual (i. e. unretaliated, or uncompensated by a mulct, as expl. below); said of blood; and so ظَلْفٌ (which is also expl. below): b2: and the being concealed].2 ظلّف عَلَيْهِ, (IAar, T, O, K,) inf. n. تَظْلِيفٌ, (O,) He exceeded it; (IAar, T, O, K;) i. e. [a certain number of years in age, as, for instance,] السِّتِينَ [sixty], (T,) or الخَمْسِينَ [fifty]: (O:) and so طَلَّفَ and طَلَّثَ and ذَرَّفَ &c. (T, TA.) 3 ظالفهُ: see 1, former half: it is a mistake, in the K, for اظلفهُ. (TA.) 4 اظلف, said of a man, (IAar, T, O,) or of a company of men, (M,) He, or they, became, or came to be, (IAar, T, M, O, K,) in, or upon, a hard place, (IAar, T, O,) or in, or upon, what is termed أُظْلُوفَة (M, K) and ظَلَف. (M.) A2: اظلفهُ: see 1, in two places.

ظَلْفٌ, of ground, or land, Such as is rugged, that will not show any foot-mark; (M;) as also ↓ ظَلَفٌ: (S, * M:) or so ↓ ظَلِفَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ ظَلُفَةٌ and ↓ ظَلَفَةٌ: (K:) and ↓ ظَلَفٌ signifies ground such as horses like to run upon: (T:) or (i. e. the last) a place elevated above the water and the mud; and so ↓ ظَلِفٌ; (K;) this last thus expl. by Ibn-'Abbád: (O:) or this last and ↓ ظَلِفَةٌ, accord. to ISh, (TA,) or ↓ ظَلَفٌ and ↓ ظَلَفَةٌ, (so accord. to a copy of the T, in which the authority is not mentioned,) signify ground, or land, in which the foot-mark will not appear, and which is high and rugged: and accord. to Fr, ↓ ظَلِفٌ and ↓ ظَلِفَةٌ signify ground, or land, that will not show a foot-mark; as though it were prevented from doing so: (T, TA:) and ↓ ظِلْفٌ, (so in a copy of the T,) or ↓ ظَلِفٌ, (so in the TA,) accord. to Fr, signifies such as is soft, of ground, or land: but accord. to IAar, such as is hard, and does not show a foot-mark; in which is no softness, so as to be difficult to him who walks upon it; nor sand, so that the camels would have their feet burnt upon it; nor stones, so that they would be chafed, or abraded, in the soles of their feet, upon it: and it is also expl. (by IAar, TA) as meaning such as is rugged and hard, of ground, or land: (T, TA:) and ↓ ظَلِفَةٌ signifies high ground, or land, that will not show a foot-mark. (M.) [See also ظَلِيفٌ.] b2: [In the CK, الظَّلْفُ is erroneously put for الظَّلَفُ as relating to the means of subsistence.]

A2: ظَلْفٌ also signifies Ineffectual, null, or void: and allowable. (TK.) One says, ذَهَبَ دَمُهُ ظَلْفًا, (AA, S, M, O, K,) and ↓ طَلَفًا, (AA, T, S, M, O, K,) and ↓ ظَلِيفًا, (M,) as also طَلْفًا and طَلَفًا (AA, O) [and طَلِيفًا], His blood went for nothing; as a thing of no account; ineffectually; or in vain; unretaliated, or uncompensated by a mulct. (AA, T, S, M, O, K.) الظُّلْفُ in Har p. 312, there said to be used as meaning Continence, and disdain of base actions, is app. a mistake for الظَّلْفُ, inf. n. of 1 in the phrase ظَلَفَ نَفْسَهُ.]

ظِلْفٌ The ظُفْر [meaning cloven hoof] of any ruminant (T, M) of the bovine kind and the like; (T;) [i. e.] it is an appertenance of the bovine kind and of the sheep and goat (S, O, Msb, K) and of the gazelle or antelope (S, O, K) and the like, (O, Msb, K,) which is to them like the ظُفْر to man, (Msb,) or like the قَدَم to us: (K:) one says the رِجْل and قَدَم of a man, and the حَافِر of a horse, and the خُفّ of a camel and of an ostrich, and the ظِلْف of a bovine animal and of a sheep or goat [and the like]: (ISk, T, TA:) pl. أَظْلَافٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and ظُلُوفٌ: (S, O, K:) and أَظْلَاف is applied, by 'Amr Ibn-Maadee-kerib, to the hoofs of horses, (S, M, O,) as is said by Lth and Az and IF, by poetic license, (O,) metaphorically: (S, O:) and by El-Akhtal, metaphorically, to the feet of men. (M, IB, TA.) [Its dual is used in the K, in explanations of the words شَعِرَةٌ and أَشْعَرُ, in the latter instance on the authority of Lh, as meaning The two halves of a cloven hoof.] And one says, مَا جَشِمْتُ إِلَيْكَ ظِلْفًا [app. meaning I have not had the trouble of bringing to thee so much as the hoof of a gazelle or the like]. (Az, TA in art. جشم, q. v.) And هُوَ يَأْكُلُهُ بِضِرْسٍ وَيَطَؤُهُ بِظِلْفٍ

[He eats it with a lateral tooth, and treads it with a cloven hoof; app. meaning, vehemently]. (TA.) b2: It is sometimes used as meaning (tropical:) Cloven-hoofed animals. (TA.) One says, مَا لَهُ خُفٌّ وَلَا حَافِرٌ وَلَا ظِلْفٌ (tropical:) [He possesses not camels, nor horses or asses or mules, nor sheep or goats or other cloven-hoofed beasts]. (TA in art. خف.) b3: It also signifies [or implies] The making consecutive progressions in walking and in other actions, (T, K,) or, accord. to the L, in a thing. (TA.) One says, جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ عَلَى ظِلْفٍ وَاحِدٍ (T, A, O, TA) i. e. The camels came following one another. (A, TA. [See also a similar phrase voce خُفٌّ.]) And غَنَمُ فُلَانٍ ظِلْفٍ وَاحِدٍ and وَاحِدٍ ↓ ظَلَفٍ The sheep, or goats, of such a one, have all of them brought forth [app. one after another]. (M.) b4: Also A thing that is suitable to the requirements of a man, and of a beast: (M:) and an object of desire: (M, O, K:) and an object of want. (T, K.) One says, أَصَابَ فُلَانٌ ظِلْفَهُ Such a one attained what was suitable to his requirements, and what he desired: and sometimes one says the like of any beast that finds, or lights on, or meets with, that which he likes. (M.) وَجَدَتِ الدَّابَّةُ ظِلْفَهَا is a prov., (M, O,) applied to him who finds the means of attaining that which he seeks; (Meyd;) meaning [The beast found what was suitable to its requirements; or,] what withheld it [from other things] and prevented its desire [thereof]. (A, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 807.]) And one says, وَجَدَتِ الشَّاةُ ظِلْفَهَا The sheep, or goat, found suitable pasturage, and therefore did not quit it: (K, TA:) a prov. mentioned by Fr; applied to him, of men and of beasts, that finds what is suitable to him. (TA.) And بَلَدٌ مِنْ ظِلْفِ الغَنَمِ A country of such as are suitable to sheep or goats. (M.) And وَجَدَ ظِلْفَهُ He found what he loved, (O,) or what he desired, (K,) and what was suitable to him; (TA;) said of a man. (O.) And مَا وَجَدْتُ عِنْدَهُ ظِلْفِى I did not find with him the object of my want. (TA.) A2: See also ظَلْفٌ, near the middle of the paragraph. b2: [In some copies of the K, الظِّلْفُ is erroneously put for الظَّلَفُ as relating to the means of subsistence. And in the CK ظِلْفُهَا is erroneously put for ظَلِفُهَا as meaning ظَلِفُ النَّفْسِ.]

ظَلَفٌ [as an inf. n.: see 1, last quarter. b2: Also] Hardness, or difficulty, (S, O, K,) or coarseness, (M,) in the means of subsistence: (S, M, O, K:) thus the word is correctly written: not ظِلْف, as we find it written in [copies of] the K: [nor ظَلْف, as in the CK:] and ظَلَفُ العَيْشِ occurs in a trad., (O, TA,) meaning straitness, and hardness or difficulty, and coarseness, of the means of subsistence. (TA.) A2: See also ظَلْفٌ, in three places, near the beginning of the paragraph.

A3: And see the last sentence of that paragraph. b2: Also Anything that is easy, or of light estimation, paltry, or despicable; [as also طَلَفٌ;] syn. كُلُّ هَيْنٍ, (M,) or كُلُّ هَيِّنٍ. (TA.) A4: See also ظِلْفٌ, latter half. b2: And see ظَلِيفَة.

ظَلِفٌ: see ظَلْفٌ, former half, in three places.

A2: ظَلِفُ النَّفْسِ, [accord. to the CK ظَلْفُ النَّفْسِ, but this is a mistranscription,] and النَّفْسِ ↓ ظَلِيفُ, (M, O, K,) A man who withholds himself from the love, or blamable love, of a thing: (M:) or one who abstains from that which is indecorous; syn. نَزِهُ النَّفْسِ. (O, K.) And اِمْرَأَةٌ ظَلِفَةُ النَّفْسِ i. q. عَزِيزَةٌ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهَا [app. A woman strong to resist, in her own estimation; and therefore meaning one who abstains from that which is indecorous: Golius renders it mulier pudica, et de honore suo sollicita]. (S, TA.) A3: See also ظَلِفَةٌ.

الظُّلَفُ in Har p. 623, there said to mean The restraining the soul from its desire, or blamable inclination, is app. a mistranscription for الظَّلَفُ, inf. n. of ظَلِفَتِ النَّفْسُ.]

ظَلْفَةٌ: see ظَلْفٌ.

A2: Also A certain brand, or mark made with a hot iron, upon a camel; and so ↓ ظَلِفَةٌ. (O, K.) ظَلَفَةٌ: see ظَلْفٌ, in two places, near the beginning. b2: [Hence, perhaps,] one says, أَقَامَهُ اللّٰهُ, عَلَى الظَّلَفَاتِ, (TA, [there said to be مُحَرَّكَة,]) or الظلِفات, (so in a copy of the T, [i. e.

↓ الظَّلِفَاتِ,]) meaning [God made him to keep to] a state of hardship and straitness. (T, TA.) ظَلِفَةٌ: see ظَلْفٌ, in four places: b2: and see ظَلَفَةٌ: A2: and ظَلْفَةٌ.

A3: Also The [lower] end of the [curved piece of wood called the] حِنْو [that lies against the side, at the fore part and at the hinder part,] of the [kind of saddle called] قَتَب, and of the [kind called] إِكَاف, and the like; being in what is next to the ground, of the sides thereof: (Lth, T, TA:) or its pl., which is ظَلِفَاتٌ (S, M, O, K) and ↓ ظَلِفٌ, (O, K, [or rather the latter is a coll. gen. n.,]) signifies the four pieces of wood, (S, M, O, K,) of the [saddle called the] رَحْل and of the [saddle called the] قَتَب, (S, O,) that are upon the two sides of the camel, (S, M, O, K,) the lower ends of which touch the ground when they are put down upon it; in the وَاسِط [or fore part of the saddle] are two (i. e. ظَلِفَتَانِ), and so in the مُؤَخَّرَة [or hinder part], and they are the lower portions of the حِنْوَانِ; (S, O, K;) for the parts above them, next to the [pieces of wood called the] عَرَاقِى, are [called] the عَضُدَانِ, and the elongated pieces of wood upon the sides of the camel are the أَحْنَآء [pl. of حِنْوٌ]: (S, O:) Az says that the upper portions of the ظَلِفَتَانِ, [a mistake for the حِنْوَانِ, as is shown by what follows,] next to the عَرَاقِى, are [called] the عَضُدَانِ; below them being the ظَلِفَتَانِ, which are the lower parts of the حِنْوَانِ of the وَاسِط and of the مُؤَخَّرَة. (T, TA.) b2: [Hence] one says, قَامُوا عَلَى ظَلِفَاتِهِمْ, meaning عَلَى أَطْرَافِهِمْ (tropical:) [They stood upon their extremities, i. e. their feet]. (TA.) b3: And نَحْنُ عَلَى ظَلِفَاتِ أَمْرٍ (tropical:) We are on the verge of an affair, or event. (TA.) b4: See also ظَلِيفَة.

ظَلْفَآءُ A smooth stone or rock, or a hard, smooth, large stone, (صَفَاةٌ,) even with the ground, (T, O, K,) round (مدورة), (so in a copy of the T, [i. e. مُدَوَّرَة,]) or extended (مَمْدُودَة). (O, K.) ظُلَّفٌ [a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned: accord. to general analogy, the sing. should be ظَالِفٌ]. ظُلُوفٌ ظُلَّفٌ means Hard ظُلُوف [or divided hoofs]: (S, O, K:) the latter word being a corroborative. (S, O.) ظَلِيفٌ A rough, or rugged, place, (S, M, O, K, TA,) in which is much sand. (M, TA. [See also ظَلْفٌ.]) b2: And A man (S, O) evil in condition (T, S, M, K) in respect of his means of subsistence: (T:) and low, abject, or abased, and weak. (M, O, K.) b3: And An affair that is hard, or difficult: (K:) anything difficult to one to seek: (IDrd. M, O:) and evil hard to be borne, or severe. (S, O.) b4: See also ظَلِفٌ.

A2: Also Hardship, or difficulty. (O, K.) A3: ذَهَبَ بِهِ ظَلِيفًا He went away with it, or took it away, without compensation, or without price: (T, S, M, K:) and so طَلِيفًا. (Yoo, TA in art. طلف.) And ذَهَبَ بِغُلَامِى ظَلِيفًا He went away with, or took away, my young man, or slave, without price. (Az, S, O.) b2: See also ظَلْفٌ, last sentence.

A4: أَخَذَهُ بِظَلِيفِ رَقَبَتِهِ He took him by the base of his neck. (O, K, * TA.) b2: See also what here follows.

أَخَذَهُ بِظَلِيفَتِهِ, (S, M, O, L,) or ↓ بِظَلِيفِهِ, (K,) and ↓ بِظَلَفِهِ, (S, O, K,) ↓ بِظَلِفَتِهِ, (T, M, L,) He took it altogether, or wholly, (T, * S, O, K,) or with its root, or base, and wholly, (M, L,) not leaving of it anything: (T, S, M, O, L, K:) so says Az. (S.) أُظْلُوفَةٌ A piece of rugged, or rough, ground: (T:) or ground, (S, O, K,) or hard ground, (TA,) in which are sharp stones, as though its composition were that of a mountain: (S, O, K, TA:) pl. أَظَالِيفُ. (T, S, &c.) مَظْلُوفٌ An animal of the chase, at which one has shot or cast, hit in his ظِلْف [or cloven hoof]. (Yaakoob, S.)

وسط:
وسّط: قتله بأن شطر جسمه إلى شطرين. انظر فيما يتعلق بهذا النوع من التنكيل الوحشي: (مملوك 27:1:1، الملابس 276، عدد 18).
وسّطه: جعله وسيطاً أو أرسل فلاناً لكي يتوسط (معجم بدرون).
وسّط: سار إلى منتصف الطريق (بيرتون 235:1).
توسّط في: تشفع له إلى ... أو توسل لأجله إلى (الجريدة الآسيوية 1849، 3:1831).
تواسط: توسّط بين s'entremettre ( بقطر).
وَسَط: للحرارة المعتدلة tempéré ( معجم الجغرافيا) للأسلوب style ( بقطر).
وساط الناس: آبارهم (معجم الجغرافيا).
وسط: حزام، الموضع الذي يشد فيه الجسم (بقطر): شدَّ وسطه (ألف ليلة 60:1 و 68و 83 مخطوطة المقريزي 450:2): وأوساطهم مشدودة ببنود قطن بعلبكي. (النويري، أفريقيا 24): وجعل على وسط كل خادم ألف دينار. إن تعبير ضرب أوساطهم الذي ورد في (أخبار 2:61) = وسطَّهم أي قتلهم بأن قطع أجسامهم نصفين (انظر المقدمة 197:1).
وسط: حزام، أو ما يشدّ به وسط الجسم (ابن جبير 9:36): وأدخلت الأيدي إلى أوساطهم بحثاً عما عسى أن يكون فيها. وفي (16:59): وإدخال الأيدي إلى أوساط التجار فحصاً عما تأبطوه أو احتضنوه من دراهم أو دنانير (المقري 22:657:1): فقال لممالكيه أنظروا وسطه فجسّوا الكمران وقالوا خذوا الصرّة التي فيه. وفي (11:217): فوجدوا أكثر الغرقى والدنانير في أوساطهم. وفي (رياض النفوس 84): وكانوا ربما جعلوا الكتب في أوساطهم وحجرهم.
انقطع وسطي: كنت في حاجة إلى التبول (بقطر).
له يد في الوسط: كان له غرض ما للتدخل في هذه القضية (بقطر).
من وسط: من خلال وعلى سبيل المثال من وسط البرية؛ وهناك تعبير مرّق سيفه من وسط جسده أي ادخله في أحدهم وتعبير من وسط البلور (بقطر).
وسط: في (محيط المحيط): (الوَسَط عند المنطقيين والحسابين الواسطة) أنظرها.
وسط الحمل: ما يضاف إلى الحمل الذي تحمله الدابة بعد تحميلها (الكالا).
وسط القبر: الحجارة الموسِّطة (الوسطانية) المغطاة ببلاطة من المرمر أو الحجارة أو الأدواز وأحياناً من الطابوق وغالباً بالأعشاب (بروسلار) بحث حول قبور أمراء بني زيان 20).
سطة؟ = واسطة ( et Proestan tior margarita sive bacca norilis media) ( عباد 76:3).
وسطىّ: التي في المنتصف (فوك).
الوسطى: إصبع الوسط (دومب 86).
وَسطاني: الذي في الوسط (بقطر).
وسطاني: (في محيط المحيط): ( .. ومن الأولاد المتوسط بين ولدين أكبر وأصغر. مولّدة).
وسطاني: معتدل، مقارب، متوسط (بقطر).
وسطاني: موسط ومتوسط mur mitoyen: بالغ، ناضج، يافع، رشيد، عاقل، مطبوخ (ألف ليلة 101:2، برسل 276:9).
وسطانية: نوع من الملابس في سومطرا (ابن بطوطة 232:4).
وساطة والجمع وسائط: سبيل، طريقة moyen؛ عمل وساطة: اتخّذ شفيعاً. (بقطر).
واسطة: متوسط، وسيط، مصلح بين طرفين
والجمع وسائط (فوك، ابن الأثير 48:1).
واسطة: مداخلة، توسط entrmise meditation, ( بقطر).
واسطة: والجمع وسائط: تسوية، صك تراض، صك تحكيم Compromis ( الكالا).
واسطة: وسط الأمور mezzo-termine ( بقطر).
واسطة: الاعتدال في الأمور، وَسْط ووَسَط (مجازاً أو حقيقةً أو توفيقاً بين أمرين) (بقطر).
واسطة: فاصل زمني، فاصل ترفيهي بين مسرحيتين interméde وتطلق أيضاً على المواد التي تضم إلى بعضها وتقطّر (بقطر).
واسطة: أقطار تتوسط أقطاراً أخرى (معجم الجغرافيا).
واسطة: قناة، ومجازاً طريق أو واسطة؛ بواسطة: la faveur de تحت ظل ال ... ، على يد ال .. (بقطر).
واسطة: في (محيط المحيط): ( ... وعند المنطقيين الحد الأوسط في التصديق. وعند الحسابين العدد الثاني والثالث في الأربعة، وذلك كالستة والثمانية من قولنا نسبة أربعة إلى ستة كنسبة ثمانية إلى اثنتي عشر. ويسمى العددان الآخران بالطرفين).
واسطة: في (محيط المحيط): (يقال فلان من واسطة قومه أي خيارهم).
واسطي: نعت لنوع فاخر من الأستار يصنع في مدينة واسط (معجم الجغرافيا).
واسطي: نعت لنوع من أنواع الأقواس عامية متوسط أي متوسط السعة (معجم الجغرافيا).
واسطية: نوع من أنواع السفن (معجم الجغرافيا).
أوسط: في (محيط المحيط): (واليوم الأوسط والليلة الوسطى ويجمع الأوسط على الأواسط والوسطى على الوسط كأفضل وإذا أريد الليالي يقال العشر الوُسَط وإن أريد الأيام قيل العشرة الأواسط؛ وفي المصباح قولهم العشر الأوسط عامي ولا عبرة بما فشا على ألسنة العوام مخالفاً لما نقله أئمة اللغة ... ).
أوسط: أكثر ملائمة (تقوم21): وهذا الوقت أوسط نتاج الإبل وأعدل الأزمنة له.
الأوسط: inpudicus ( المعجم اللاتيني).
العلم الأوسط: (في محيط المحيط): ( ... هو الرياضي ويسمى بالحكمة الوسطى).
وسطى: الإصبع الوسطى والجمع عند (فوك): وُسطيّات.
الطريقة الوسطى: دين الدروز (دي ساسي كرست 238:2).
توّسط: اعتدال (المقدمة 342:2): médiocrite. موسَط: الخشبة التي ترفع هيكل البناء أو الجزء الوسطي المركزي منه (م. الأسبانية 166).
مَوُسَطَة: (الأصح: موسطة) والجمع مواسط: وسّط (فوك).
موسَطة: خليج (الكالا)؛ وكذلك منتصف المرسى أو الجوف (ديلاب 159)؛ ولعل (الكالا) قد خطر بباله المعنى نفسه حين جعل الكلمة مرادفاً ل: Profundo.
مواسطة: مداخلة، توسط بين .. (بقطر): interposition intervention.
متوسِط: وسط، سعة أو حجم متوسط (بقطر)؛ سعة معتدلة (دي ساسي كرست 326:1). معتدل فيما يملكه، أي بين الغني والفقير (معجم التنبيه)؛ ويقال متوسِط
(المقري 21:136:1) أي معتدل ويقال أيضاً في الحديث عن شخص من الأشخاص انه متوسط أي معتدل (مرسنج 90: معجم الجغرافيا).
متوسِط: مصلح بين، وسيط (بقطر).
متوسط: في (محيط المحيط): ( ... وعند المهندسين الأصم الذي هو في المرتبة الثانية وفيما بعدها).
متواسط: متوسط mitoyen ( بقطر).

وسط

1 وَسَطَ القَوْمَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. وَسْطٌ (S, Msb, K) [and وُسُوطٌ (as shown below)] and سِطَةٌ, (S, K,) He sat, [or was, or became,] in the middle, or midst, of the people, or company of men; (K;) or among them: (TA;) i. q. ↓ توسّطهُمْ; (S, K;) or بَيْنَهُمْ ↓ توسّط: (Msb:) and in like manner, وَسَطَ المَكَانَ [he was, or became, or sat, in the middle, or midst, of the place]: (Msb:) and وَسَطَ الشَّىْءَ, and ↓ وسّطهُ, and ↓ توسّطهُ, he was, or became, in the middle, or midst, of the thing: and [in like manner] وُسُوطُ الشَّمْسِ signifies السَّمَآءَ ↓ تَوَسُّطُهَا [The sun's being, or becoming, in the middle, or midst, of the sky]. (M.) b2: وَسَطَ الشَّىْءَ also signifies He, or it, was, or became, in the best part of the thing, most remote from the two extremes. (TA.) And وَسَطَهُ He alighted, or took up his abode, in, or among, the best, or most generous, thereof. (M.) and وَسَطَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ, and فِى قَوْمِهِ, inf. n. وَسَاطَةٌ, The man occupied, or held, a middle place, [meaning the best place, or one of the best places,] among his people, in respect of truth and equity. (Msb.) And وَسَطَ قَوْمَهُ فِى الحَسَبِ, aor. ـِ inf. n. سِطَةٌ, [He held a middle, or good, or the best, rank among his people in regard of grounds of pretension to respect.] (M.) And وَسُطَ فِى

حَسَبِهِ, [aor. ـْ inf. n. وَسَاطَةٌ and سِطَةٌ, [He held a middle, or good, or the best, rank in regard of his grounds of pretension to respect;] (M, TA;) and وَسَطَ signifies the same; (M;) and so does ↓ وسّط, (M, TA,) inf. n. تَوْسِيطٌ. (TA.) [See وَسَطٌ, below.]2 وسّطهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَوْسِيطٌ, (S, K,) He put it in the middle, or midst. (S, K.) b2: And [so in the S, but in the K “ or,”] He cut it [in the middle, or midst, i. e.] in two halves. (S, K.) [See the pass. part. n., below.] b3: [In the Kur, c. 5,] some read, فَوَسَّطْنَ بِهِ جَمْعًا [which may mean And have put in the midst, thereby, a company of the enemy: or have divided in two halves, thereby, &c.: or have thereby become in the midst of a company of the enemy]: (S, TA:) others read فَوَسَطْنَ. (TA.) See 1, first sentence. b4: وسّط فى حَسَبِهِ: see 1, last sentence.5 تَوَسَّطَ see 1, first sentence, in four places. b2: توسّط بَيْنَ النَّاسِ He mediated, or interceded, between the men, or people, for the purpose of accommodation; from وَسَطَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ and فِى

قَوْمِهِ, explained above; (Msb;) or from وَسَاطَةٌ; (S;) he made mediation, or intercession, (عَمِلَ الوَسَاطَةَ,) between them. (K.) b3: توسّط also signifies He took what was of a middle sort, between the good and the bad. (K.) وَسْط, with the س quiescent, is an adv. n.; [as such written وَسْطَ, meaning In the middle of: in the midst of; or among;] (S, M, IB, Mgh, K;) and it is for this reason that it has its middle letter quiescent, (S, IB,) like بَيْنَ (IB) with which it is syn.; (IB, Msb;) [for] it may be used in any case in which بَيْنَ may be substituted for it; (S, IAth, K;) and, like بَيْنَ, it does not denote a part of the thing denoted by the noun to which it is prefixed, wherein differing from ↓ وَسَط. (S, IB, K.) You say, جَلَسْتُ وَسْطَ القَوْمِ (S, IB, Msb) I sat [in the middle of, or in the midst of,] or among, the people, or company of men, (IB, Msb;) not being one of them. (IB.) And وَسْطَ رَأْسِهِ دُهْنٌ [In the middle of his head is oil]; not meaning a component part of the head. (IB.) And it is said in a trad.

الجَالِسُ وَسْطَ الحَلْقَةِ مَلْعُونٌ [The sitter in the midst of the ring is cursed]: for he must of necessity turn his back towards some of those who surround him, and so displease them; wherefore they curse him and revile him. (IAth.) b2: It may not [properly] be used as a decl. n., (IB,) i. e. as an inchoative, (Mgh,) nor as an agent, nor as an objective complement; (IB, Mgh) &c.; thus, also, differing from ↓ وَسَط; unless it have the adverbial particle [فِى] prefixed to it; in which case it has the sense of وَسَط, and you say, جَلَسْتُ فِى وَسْطِ القَوْمِ and فى وَسْطِ رَأْسِهِ دُهْنٌ [like as you say جَلَسْتُ وَسْطَ القَوْمِ and وَسْطَ رَأْسِهِ دُهنٌ, explained above]: and sometimes it is used as a subst., preserving the quiescence [and the adverbial form], like as بَيْنَ is used as a subst. though virtually an adv. n., in cases like that where it is said in the Kur, [vi. 94,] لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنَكُمْ [meaning مَا بَيْنَكُمْ, or, as explained in the Expos. of the Jel., وَصْلُكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ]: (IB:) or وَسْط is sometimes used for ↓ وَسَط, improperly; (S;) or it may be so used; (Msb;) or it is so used by poetic license; (M;) or, as some say, each of them may take the place of the other; and this seems the most likely: (IAth:) or one says وَسْط, with sukoon, only, of that whereof the component parts are separate, or distinct, (IAth, K *,) such as a number of men, and beasts of carriage, &c.; (IAth;) and ↓ وَسَط, (IAth,) or both, (K,) of that whereof the component parts are united, (IAth, K *,) such as a house, and the head, (IAth,) or such as a ring: (K:) it is related, as on the authority of Th, that الشَّىْءِ ↓ وَسَطُ and وسْطُهُ [both meaning The middle, or midst, of the thing] are said when the thing is solid; but when its component parts are separate, or distinct, the word is وَسْطٌ, with sukoon, exclusively. (M.) وَسَطٌ [The middle, midst, or middle part, of a thing; i. e.,] properly, the part of which several lateral, or outer, portions are equal; as, for instance, the middle finger: but also meaning the part which is surrounded, or enclosed, on its several sides, although unequally: (Msb:) or the part that is between the two sides or extremities of a thing; (M, IB, Mgh, K;) [or the part, or point, that is between every two opposite extremities of a thing; and properly when equidistant;] as, for instance, the centre of a circle: (Mgh:) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ, (M, K,) which is [likewise] a subst., like أَفْكَلٌ and أَزْمَلٌ [but imperfectly decl. because originally an epithet]: (M:) وَسَطٌ has its middle letter with fet-h in order that it may agree in measure with its contr., which is طَرَفٌ; the like agreement being frequent: (IB:) and it is only used in cases in which بَيْنَ may not be substituted for it, herein [and in other respects, mentioned in the next preceding paragraph,] differing from وَسْط: (S, IB, K:) [respecting the similar and dissimilar usages of وَسَط and وَسّط, sufficient observations have been made in the next preceding paragraph, which see throughout, and more especially in its latter part:] the pl. of وَسَطٌ is أَوْسَاطٌ; and that of its syn. ↓ أَوْسَطُ is أَوَاسِطُ; or this may be a pl. of ↓ وَاسِطٌ, and originally وَوَاسِطُ. (M.) You say, جَلَسْتُ فِى

وَسَطِ الدَّارِ [I sat in the middle, or middle part, of the house]; (S, Mgh, Msb;) because وَسَط is a subst. (S.) And إِتَّسَعَ وَسَطُهُ [The middle, or middle part, thereof, became wide]. (Mgh, Msb.) And ضَرَبْتُ وَسَطَ رَأْسِهِ [I smote the middle, or middle part, of his head]. (Mgh, * Msb.) And كَسَرْتُ وَسَطَ الرُّمْحِ [I broke the middle, or middle part, of the spear]. (IB.) And وَسَطُهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ طَرَفِهِ [The middle, or middle part, thereof is better than the extremity]. (Mgh, Msb.) And خَيَرُ الأُمُورِ أَوْسَاطُهَا The best of affairs, or actions, or cases, are such of them as are between two extremes. (M. [See R. Q. 1, in art. حق.]) It is sometimes put in the accus. case as an adv. n.; as in the saying, جَلَسْتُ وَسَطَ الدَّارِ; but this is an instance of departure from the original usage; and [the meaning is جَلَسْتُ فِى وَسَطِ الدَّارِ signifying as explained above; so that] it is not here syn. with بَيْنَ, like as وَسْطَ is. (IB.) b2: It is also used as an epithet: (IB, Mgh:) [as such signifying Middle; intermediate; midway, or equidistant, between the two extremities or extremes; in place, or position: but in this sense superseded in usage by ↓ أَوْسَطُ and ↓ وَاسِطٌ and ↓ مُتَوَسِّطٌ: and in time; but in this sense also superseded in usage by ↓ أَوْسَطُ:] middling; of middle sort, kind, or rate; (Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ (S, * M, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ مُتَوَسِّطٌ (M, Mgh, Msb) and ↓ وَسُوطٌ (M, TA) [and ↓ وَسِيطٌ]; between good and bad; (Msb, TA;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (Msb:) conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; just; equitable: (Zj, S, K:) good; (Zj, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ وَسِيطٌ: (M:) most conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; most just; most equitable; applied to what is so of a thing; (S, M, K;) whatever it be; (S, K;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطَ: (M:) best; (Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (S, * Msb, K *:) most generous: (M:) and when used as an epithet, it is applied alike to a masc., fem., sing., dual, and pl., subst.: (Mgh:) the fem. of ↓ أَوْسَطُ is وُسْطَى; (Mgh, Msb;) and the pl. masc. أَوَاسِطُ; and pl. fem. وُسَطٌ. (Msb.) Hence, (Msb,) ↓ الإِصْبَعُ الوُسْطَى (S, Msb, K) The middle finger. (Msb.) And ↓ اليَوْمُ الأَوْسَطُ [The middle day]. (Msb.) And ↓ اللَّيْلَةُ الوُسْطَى [The middle night. (Msb.) And ↓ العَشَرَةُ الأَوَاسِطُ, meaning The [ten middle] days. (Msb.) And العَشْرُ

↓ الوُسَطُ, meaning The [ten middle nights: not ↓ العَشْرُ الأَوْسَطُ; for this is a vulgar mistake, into which relaters of traditions have fallen; or it may be a mistake of transcription. (Msb.) and ↓ الصَّلٰوةُ الوُسْطَى, (M, Mgh, &c.,) mentioned in the Kur, [ii. 239,] (M, K,) meaning The middle prayer (Bd, TA) between the other prayers, (Bd,) or between the prayers of the night and the day; (TA;) or the most excellent of them in particular: (Bd:) i. e. the prayer of the afternoon; ('Alee Ibn-Abee-Tálib, I'Ab, and others, Mgh, Bd, K;) because the prophet said, on the day of the Ahzáb, “they have diverted us from الصلوة الوسطى, the prayer of the afternoon: ” (Bd:) or the prayer of daybreak; (also said to be on the authority of 'Alee, Mgh, Bd, K;) because it is between the prayers of the night and the day; (Bd;) for the saying of the prophet mentioned above does not contravene this and other assertions, since what is meant in the trad. is not what is meant in the Kur: (K:) or, (M, K,) accord. to Abu-l-Hasan, (M,) the prayer of Friday; (M, K;) because it is the most excellent of the prayers; (M;) and he who says otherwise errs, unless he trace up the assertion to the prophet: (M, K:) these three opinions are of the strongest authority; (B;) and the first is that which commonly obtains: (Mgh:) or the prayer of noon; (Mgh, Bd, Msb, K;) because it is in the middle of the day: (Bd:) or the prayer of Friday on the day thereof; but on other days the prayer of noon: (K, and also said to be on the authority of 'Alec:) or the prayer of sunset: (Mgh, Bd, K:) or the prayer of nightfall: (Bd, K:) or [the night-prayer called] الوِتْر: (K:) or the prayer of the breaking of the fast: (K:) or the prayer of sacrifices: (K:) or the prayer of the period called the ضُحَى: (K:) or the prayer of the congregation: (K:) or the prayer of fear: (K:) or the prayers of nightfall and daybreak together: (K, and said to be on the authorities of 'Omar and 'Othmán:) or the prayers of daybreak and the afternoon together: (K:) or any of the five prayers; because before it are two prayers and after it are two prayers: (K:) or all the divinely-appointed prayers: (K:) or certain prayers not particularized: (K:) or prayer of middling length, between long and short. (K.) Hence also, شَىْءٌ وَسَطٌ A middling thing; a thing of middle sort or kind; (Msb;) between good and bad; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ أَوْسَطُ: (Msb:) and in like manner it is applied to a male slave, and a female slave, (Msb,) and two male slaves, and two sheep or goats. (Mgh.) And مَا تُطْعِمُونَ ↓ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ

أَهْلِيكُمْ, in the Kur, [v. 91,] Of the middle sort of that which ye give for food to your families, (Mgh, Msb,) between what is prodigal and what is niggardly. (Mgh.) And ↓ النَّمَطُ الأَوْسَطُ The middle class of men: occurring in a saying of 'Alee, cited in full in art. غط. (M.) And عَلِّمْنِى

↓ دِينًا وَسُوطا Teach thou to me a religion of the middle sort: occurring in a saying of an Arab of the desert to El-Hasan, cited in full voce فَرَطَ. (M, TA.) And جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أَمَّةً وَسَطًا, in the Kur, [ii. 137,] (S, Mgh, Msb,) [We have made you to be a nation] conforming, or conformable, to the just mean; just; equitable: (Zj, S, IB, Bd, K:) or good. (Zj, Bd, Msb, K.) And مَرْعًى

وَسَطٌ Choice pasturage. (M.) And رَجُلٌ وَسَطٌ A good man; as also ↓ وَسِيطٌ: (M:) or a man having good grounds of pretension to respect. (TA.) And فِى قَوْمِهِ ↓ فُلَانٌ وَسِيطٌ, (S, K *,) or بَيْنَهُمْ, (as in some copies of the K,) Such a one is the best of his people (↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ) in race, and the highest of them in station. (S, K.) and الدَّارِ وَالحَسَبِ ↓ فُلَانٌ وَسِيطُ [Such a one is of good quality, or of the best quality, in respect of tribe, and of grounds of pretension to honour]. (Lth.) And هُوَ مِنْ وَسَطِ قَوْمِهِ, and ↓ من أَوْسَطِهِمْ, He is of the best of his people. (Msb.) And in like manner, هُوَ مِنْ وَسَطِ الشَّىْءِ, and ↓ من أَوْسَطِهِ, It is of the best of the thing. (Msb.) And قَالَ

↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ in the Kur, lxviii. 28, The best of them said: (Jel:) or the most rightly directed, of them, to the truth: (Msb:) or it means ↓ أَوْسَطُهُمْ رَأْيًا [the most remote, of them, from either extreme, in judgment]; or سِنًّا [in age]. (Bd.) وَسُوطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

وَسِيطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in five places. b2: A mediator, or an intercessor, for the purpose of accommodation, (O, K,) between people, (O,) or between two persons engaged in mutual altercation or litigation. (K.) وَسَاطَةٌ [originally an inf. n.: (see 1:) b2: and hence, as a subst., Mediation, or intercession]. (S, K: see 5.) b3: وَسَاطَةُ الدَّنَانِيرِ The best of deenárs. (TA.) وَسِيطَةٌ A mean, or means: pl. وَسَائِطُ.]

وَاسِطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., and also as an epithet. b2: وَاسِطُ الكُورِ, (Lth, S, K,) or الرَّحْلِ, (ISh, Az, M,) and ↓ وَاسِطَتُهُ, (Lth, M, K,) and ↓ مَوْسِطَتُهُ, (Lh, M, [or perhaps ↓ مُوسِطَتُهُ, corresponding to ↓ مُؤْخِرَتُهُ,]) The fore-part of the camel's saddle: (S, K:) accord. to Lth, (Az, TA,) the part, of the camel's saddle, which is between the تَادِمَة and the آخِرَة; (Az, M, L;) but this is a mistake; (Az, L;) for the واسط of the camel's saddle is one of the شَرْخَانِ, (ISh, Az, L,) which are its two extremities, [or upright pieces of wood,] like the قَرَبُوسُانِ of the horse's saddle, (Az, L,) between which the rider sits; (ISh, Az, L;) it is the extremity which is next to the head of the camel; (Az, L;) the tall forepart next to the breast of the rider, (ISh, Az, L,) against which the breast of the rider sometimes strikes; (TA, in art. نحز;) the آخِرةَ being the extremity which is next to the tail of the camel; (Az, L;) the hinder part of the saddle, which is its tall and broad piece of wood that is against (تُحَاذِى) the head of the rider: (ISh, Az, L:) the former of these is not called واسط as being a middle part between the آخرة and the قادمة, as Lth says; nor has the camel's saddle any [part called] قادمة. (Az, L.) b3: الوَاسِطُ also signifies The piece of wood that is in the middle, between the two pieces called the عِضَادَتَانِ, in the yoke that is upon the neck of a bull which draws a cart or the like. (L in art. عضذ.) وَاسِطَةٌ The jewel that is in the middle of a قِلَادَة [or necklace], which is the best thereof; (S;) the large pearl (دُرَّة) that is in the middle thereof, which is the most precious of the beads thereof. (L.) b2: [In modern Arabic, A means of doing a thing. You say, بِوَاسِطَةِ كَذَا By means of such a thing. b3: Also, An intermediary, interposer, or agent between parties; a go-between.] b4: See also وَاسِطٌ. b5: هُوَ فِى

وَاسِطَةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) He is in a good condition of life. (Er-Rághib, TA, in art. حف.) أَوْسَطُ; fem. وُسْطَى; pl. masc. أَوَاسِطُ; pl. fem.

وُسَطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as a subst., in two places; and as an epithet, throughout.

مُوسَطٌ What is in the middle of a بَيْت [i. e. house, or tent, &c.], particularly. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) مَوْسِطَةٌ, or مُوسِطَةٌ: see وَاسِطٌ.

قَتَلَ فُلَانًا مُوَسَّطًا He slew such a one cut [in the middle, or midst,] in two halves. (TA.) [This mode of slaughter, termed تَوْسِيطٌ, was often practised under the rule of the Egyptian Sultáns; many instances thereof being mentioned by ElMakreezee and other historians. See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 468.]

مُتَوَسِّطٌ: see وَسَطٌ, as an epithet, in two places.

الرَّمْلَةُ:
واحدة الرّمل: مدينة عظيمة بفلسطين وكانت قصبتها قد خربت الآن، وكانت رباطا للمسلمين، وهي في الإقليم الثالث، طولها خمس وخمسون درجة وثلثان، وعرضها اثنتان وثلاثون درجة وثلثان، وقال المهلبي: الرملة من الإقليم الرابع، وقد نسب إليها قوم من أهل العلم. والرملة: محلة خربت نحو شاطئ دجلة مقابل الكرخ ببغداد. والرملة أيضا:
قرية لبني عامر من بني عبد القيس بالبحرين. والرملة:
محلة بسرخس، ينسب إليها جماعة، منهم: أبو القاسم صاعد بن عمر الرملي شيخ عالم، سمع السيد أبا المعالي محمد بن زيد الحسيني والسيد أبا القاسم علي ابن موسى الموسوي وغيرهما، ذكره أبو سعد في مشيخته قال: توفي في حدود سنة 570. ورملة بني وبر: في أرض نجد، ينسب إلى وبر بن الأضبط بن كلاب، فأما رملة فلسطين فبينها وبين البيت المقدس ثمانية عشر يوما، وهي كورة من فلسطين، وكانت دار ملك داود وسليمان ورحبعم بن سليمان، ولما ولي الوليد بن عبد الملك وولّى أخاه سليمان جند فلسطين نزل لدّ ثمّ نزل الرملة ومصّرها، وكان أوّل ما بنى فيها قصره ودارا تعرف بدار الصباغين واختط المسجد وبناه، وذكر البشاري أن السبب في عمارته لها أنّه كان له كاتب يقال له ابن بطريق سأل أهل لدّ جارا كان للكنيسة أن يعطوه إيّاه ويبني فيه منزلا له فأبوا عليه، فقال: والله لأخربنها، يعني الكنيسة، ثمّ قال لسليمان: إن أمير المؤمنين، يعني عبد الملك، بنى في مسجد بيت المقدس على هذه الصخرة قبّة فعرف له ذلك وإن الوليد بنى مسجد دمشق فعرف له ذلك فلو بنيت مسجدا ومدينة ونقلت الناس إلى المدينة، فبنى مدينة الرملة ومسجدها فكان ذلك سبب خراب لدّ، فلمّا مات الوليد واستخلف سليمان بن عبد الملك وكان موضعها رملة، فسليمان اختطها وصار موضع بلد الرملة بعد الصباغين آبارا عذبة ولم تكن الرملة قبل سليمان بن عبد الملك، أذن للناس أن يبنوا فبنوا مدينة الرملة واحتفر لهم القناة التي تدعى بردة واحتفر أيضا آبارا عذبة وصارت بعد ذلك لورثة صالح بن علي لأنّها قبضت مع أموال بني أميّة، وكان بنو أمية ينفقون على آبار الرملة وقناتها، فلمّا استخلف بنو العبّاس أنفقوا عليها أيضا، وكان الأمر في تلك النفقة يخرج في كلّ سنة من خليفة بعد خليفة، فلمّا استخلف المعتصم أسجل بذلك سجلا فانقطع الاستئمار وصارت النفقة يحتسب بها للعمّال، وشربهم من الآبار الملحة، والمترفون لهم بها صهاريج مقفلة، وكانت أكثر البلاد صهاريج مع كثرة الفواكه وصحة الهواء، واستنقذها صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيّوب في سنة 583 من الأفرنج وخرّبها خوفا من استيلاء الأفرنج عليها مرّة أخرى في سنة 587، وبقيت على ذلك الخراب إلى الآن، وكان أبو الحسن علي بن محمد التهامي الشاعر أقام بها وصار خطيبها وتزوّج بها وولد له ولد فمات بها فقال يرثيه:
أبا الفضل طال اللّيل أم خانني صبري ... فخيّل لي أن الكواكب لا تسري؟
أرى الرملة البيضاء بعدك أظلمت ... فدهري ليل ليس يفضي إلى فجر
وما ذاك إلّا أن فيه وديعة ... أبى ربّها أن تستردّ إلى الحشر
بنفسي هلال كنت أرجو تمامه، ... فعاجله المقدار في غرّة الشّهر
وهي قصيدة ذكرتها في كتابي في أخبار الشعراء مع أختها:
حكم المنيّة في البريّة جاري
وقد سكن الرملة جماعة من العلماء والأئمة فنسبوا إليها، منهم: أبو خالد يزيد بن خالد بن يزيد بن عبد الله بن موهب الرملي الهمداني، روى عن اللّيث ابن سعد والمفضّل بن فضالة، وروى عنه أبو العباس محمد بن الحسن بن قتيبة العسقلاني وأبو زرعة الرازي، ومات سنة 232، وموسى بن سهل بن قادم أبو عمران الرملي أخو علي بن سهل، سمع يسرة بن صفوان وأبا الجماهر وآدم بن أبي إياس وجماعة غيرهم من هذه الطبقة، روى عنه أبو داود في سننه وأبو حاتم الرازي وابنه عبد الرحمن وأبو بكر بن خزيمة وغيرهم، مات بالرملة سنة 262 في جمادى الأولى، وعبد الله بن محمد بن نصر بن طويط، ويقال طويث، أبو الفضل البزّاز الرملي الحافظ، سمع بدمشق هشام بن عمار ودحيما وهشام بن خالد ابن أحمد بن ذكوان ووارث بن الفضل العسقلاني ونوح بن حبيب القومسي وغيرهم، روى عنه أبو أحمد بن عدي وأبو سعيد بن الأعرابي وأبو عمرو فضالة وأبو بكر عبد الله بن خيثمة بن سليمان الأطرابلسي وسليمان بن أحمد الطبراني وغيرهم، وهذه الرملة أراد كثيّر بقوله:
حموا منزل الأملاك من مرج راهط ... ورملة لدّ أن تباح سهولها
لأن لدّ مدينة كانت قبل الرملة خربت بعمارتها.

نمط

2 تَنْمِيطٌ signifies The directing, or guiding, to a thing. (K.) You say, مَنْ نَمَّطَكَ عَلَى

هٰذَا الشَّىْءِ Who directed thee, or guided thee, to this thing? syn. دَلَّكَ عَلَيْهِ. (Ibn-'Abbád.) نَمَطٌ The facing, or outer covering, (ظِهَارَة,) of a bed (T, Mgh, K) upon which one sleeps, (Mgh,) or of a thing that is spread upon the ground to sit or lie upon, (T, K,) whatever it be: (K:) or a sort of carpet or other thing that is spread upon the ground: (S, K:) and a woollen cloth (Mgh, Msb, K) which is thrown over the [kind of vehicle called] هَوْدَج, (Mgh, K,) having a fine nap, or pile, (TA,) of some colour; what is white being seldom or never so called: (Msb:) or a sort of dyed cloth, like زَوْجٌ, these names being seldom or never applied but to what is coloured red or green or yellow; what is white not being called نَمَطٌ: (Az, L:) and a cloth that is spread beneath a horse's saddle: (Meyd, as cited by Golius:) some say, that it is a receptacle like the سَفَط: (Har, p. 273 [but this I think doubtful:] pl. أَنْمَاطٌ [properly a pl. of pauc. but used also as one of mult.] (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and نِمَاطٌ. (IB, K.) A2: A body of men (S, Mgh, Msb, K) whose case is one; i. e. a class of men. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., (S, Mgh,) of 'Alee, (Mgh,) خَيْرُ هٰذِهِ الأُمَّةِ النَّمَطُ الأَوْسَطُ The best of this people is the middle body thereof (S, Mgh) whose case is one; i. e. the middle class thereof: (S, in which is added, يُلْحَقُ بِهِمُ التَّالِى وَيُرْجَعُ إِلَيْهِمُ الغَالِى [he who falls short shall be made to reach them, and he who exceeds the due bounds shall be brought back to them:]) A 'Obeyd says, (Mgh, TA,) the meaning of this saying of 'Alee is, (TA,) that he disliked the exceeding of the due bounds and the falling short (Mgh, TA) in religion. (TA.) A3: A way: (Msb, TA:) a way, course, mode, or manner, of acting, conduct, or the like; (Mgh, K;) as also ↓ انمط: (TA [so there written, without any syll. points:]) a tenet, or body of tenets, belief, creed, opinion, or persuasion, which one takes to, or holds: (Mgh, TA:) a kind, or way, of speech. (TA.) You say, إِلْزَمْ هٰذَا النّمَطَ keep thou to this way. (TA.) And تَكَلَّمُوا عَلَى نَمَطٍ وَاحِدٍ

They spoke according to one way, course, mode, or manner, &c. (Mgh.) b2: (tropical:) A sort, or species, (Mgh, Msb, K,) of a thing, (K,) of goods or commodities, of learning or. science, &c. (TA.) You say, عِنْدِى مَتَاعٌ مِنْ هٰذَا النَّمَطِ (tropical:) I have goods of this sort, or species. (Mgh.) and هٰذَا مِنْ نَمَطِ هٰذَا (tropical:) This is of the sort, or species, of this. (Msb.) نَمَطِىٌّ: see أَنْمَاطِىٌّ.

انمط: see نَمَطٌ.

أَنْمَاطِىٌّ [A maker, or seller, of أَنْمَاط, pl. of نَمَطٌ:] a rel. n. from نَمَطٌ; as also ↓ نَمَطِىٌّ: (K, TA:) the former [from the pl.,] like

أَنْصَارِىٌّ: the latter from the sing., agreeably with analogy. (TA.)

زهو

1 زَهَا, said of seed-produce, It increased, or augmented; received increase and blessing from God; or throve by the blessing of God: (JK, TA:) [or,] said of herbage, aor. ـْ inf. n. زَهْوٌ, it attained its full growth: (Msb:) or it put forth its fruit: or it became tall: (TA:) and, said of palm-trees, (نَخْلٌ, S, Msb, K, TA,) and likewise of plants, (TA,) aor. as above, (Msb, TA,) and so the inf. n., (S, Msb, TA,) they became tall; (K, TA;) became tall and fullgrown; or became of their full height, and blossomed; (TA;) and ↓ ازهى signifies the same: (K:) or both signify they (i. e. palm-trees) showed redness, and yellowness, in their fruit; (S, Msb;) the latter verb mentioned by Az, but [it is said that] As did not know it: (S: [see, however, what follows:]) or, as some say, the former signifies they put forth their fruit; and ↓ the latter, as expl. next before: (Msb:) accord. to Abu-lKhattáb and Lth, one says of palm-trees (نَخْل) only يُزْهِى; not يَزْهُو: and As [is related to have] said, [contr. to what has been asserted of him above,] that when redness appears in [the fruit of] palm-trees, one says ازهى. (TA.) And زَهَا التَّمْرُ, (JK,) or البُسْرُ; and ↓ ازهى; (Mgh, K;) and ↓ زهّى, (K,) inf. n. تَزْهِيَةٌ; (TA;) [The dates, or dates beginning to ripen,] showed their goodness by redness, and yellowness: (JK:) became red, and yellow: (Mgh:) became coloured. (K.) Hence the trad., نَهَى عَنْ بَيْعِ ثَمَرِ النَّخْلِ حَتَّى يَزْهُوَ, or ↓ يُزْهِىَ, [He forbade the selling of the fruit of the palm-trees until its becoming red or yellow], thus differently related. (Mgh.) b2: You say also, زَهَا الغُلَامُ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) The boy grew up; or attained to youthful vigour, or the prime of manhood. (K.) b3: And زَهَتِ الشَّاةُ, (JK, S, K,) aor. as above, (S,) and so the inf. n., (JK, S,) The ewe, or she-goat, became large in her udder: (JK:) or secreted milk in her udder, and was near to bringing forth. (Az, S, K. *) b4: And زَهَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind rose, blew, or became in a state of commotion. (S.) b5: and زَهَتِ الإِبِلُ, (JK, S, M, K,) aor. as above, (JK, M,) and so the inf. n., (S, M,) The camels journeyed, after coming to water, (JK, S, M, K,) a night or more, (JK, S, M,) so says A'Obeyd, (S,) or a night or two nights. (K.) And The camels passed along, (مَرَّت,) so in the copies of the K, but correctly مَدَّت [i. e. made much advance in journeying], as in the M, (TA,) in search of pasturage, after they had drunk, (K, TA,) not pasturing around the water. (TA.) The verb used in relation to camels is also trans., as will be shown below. (S, &c.) A2: زَهْوٌ [as inf. n. of the trans. v. زَهَا, aor. ـْ primarily signifies The act of raising, or elevating: and the act of shaking; or putting in motion, or into a state of commotion: whence زَهَاهُ السَّرَابُ and زَهَتِ الرِّيحُ النَّبَاتَ [both expl. in what follows]. (Har p. 171.) You say, زَهَتِ الأَمْوَاجُ السَّفِينَةَ The waves raised the ship. (TA.) And زَهَا السَّرَابُ الشَّىْءَ, aor. ـْ The mirage raised, or elevated, [to the eye,] the thing [seen in it or beyond it; or rather, made it to appear tall, and as though quivering, vibrating, or playing up and down; as is perhaps meant to be indicated by the citation above from Har]; syn. رَفَعَهُ; written only [thus] with ا [in the pret. and in the aor. ]: (S:) and السَّرَابُ يَزْهَى القُبُورَ وَالحُمُولَ The mirage is as though it raised the tombs and the women's camel-vehicles; or elevated them; expl. by the words كَأَنَّهُ يَرْفَعُهَا. (TA.) b2: And زَهَا المِرْوَحَةَ, said of a person fanning, He put in motion the fan; or put it into a state of commotion; as also ↓ زَهَّاهَا. (TA.) And زَهَتِ الرِيحُ الشَّجَرَ, (S,) or النَّبَاتَ, (K, * TA,) aor. ـْ (S, TA,) inf. n. زَهْوٌ, (K, TA,) The wind shook, or put in motion or into a state of commotion, (S, K, * TA,) the trees, (S,) or the plants, or herbage, after the dew or rain (غِبَّ النَّدَى). (K, TA.) b3: And زَهَاهُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. زَهْوٌ; (K, TA;) and ↓ ازدهاهُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. اِزْدِهَآءٌ; (K, TA;) [not ازهاهُ, as in the TK, followed by Freytag;] i. q. اِسْتَخَفَّهُ: (S, K, * TA:) and تَهَاوَنَ بِهِ: (S:) [the former of these two explanations as meaning He, or it, incited him, or excited him, to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness; or to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness: and the latter of them, or both of them, for the former is often syn. with the latter, as meaning he held him, or it, in little, or light, estimation or account, or in contempt; he contemned, or despised, him, or it: but of this latter meaning I do not remember to have met with any ex.:] and بِهِ ↓ ازدهى signifies the same as ازدهاه (TA) meaning تَهَاوَنَ بِهِ. (JK.) Yousay, زَهَاهُ الشَّىْءُ and ↓ ازدهاهُ, meaning [agreeably with the former of the two explanations in the sentence immediately preceding] اِسْتَخَفَّهُ طَرَبًا: (Har p. 359:) and ↓ يَزْدَهِينِى as meaning [agreeably with the same explanation] يَسْتَفِزُّنِى and يَسْتَخِفُّنِى: (Id. p. 131:) and القَوْمَ ↓ ازدهى as meaning [in like manner] اِسْتَخَفَّهُمْ مِنَ الطَّرَبِ; and also as meaning He pleased the people, or party: (Id. p. 427:) and ↓ اِزْدَهَاهُ also as meaning حَمَلَهُ عَلَى الزَّهْوِ [He incited him, or excited him, to pride, or conceit, or the like]: (Id. p. 131:) and زَهَاهُ الكِبْرُ (K) Pride rendered him self-conceited. (TK.) 'Omar Ibn-'Abee-Rabeea says, وَلَمَّا تَقَاوَضْنَا الحَدِيثَ وَأَسْفَرَتْ وُجُوهٌ زَهَاهَا الحُسْنُ أَنْ تَتَقَنَّعَا meaning And when we discoursed together, and faces shone, beauty excited the possessors of them to levity (اِسْتَخَفَّ أَرْبَابَهَا) and prevented their veiling them with the قِنَاع [or head-covering], by reason of self-admiration: or, as some say, the ها in زهاها refers to a woman mentioned before, not to وجوه; and the meaning is, beauty excited her &c.: and thus the women of the Arabs used to do when they were beautiful: or you may consider the complement of لَمَّا as suppressed; as though he said, when we did all that, we behaved with mutual familiarity, or the like; for the complements of لَوْ and لَمَّا and حِينَ may be suppressed, and their vagueness by reason of their suppression is more forcible in respect of the meaning: أَنْ تَتَقَنَّعَا means مِنْ أَنْ تَتَقَنَّعَا; for they often suppress the preposition with أَنْ: (Ham pp. 552-3:) [J gives two readings of this verse, accord to one of my copies of the S: one is with تَنَازَعَا in the place of تَقَاوَضْنَا, and أَشْرَقَتْ in the place of أَسْفَرَتْ; which make no difference in the meaning: but this is omitted in my other copy: the other is as follows:] فَلَمَّا تَوَافَقْنَا سَلَّمْتُ أَقْبَلَتْ وُجُوهٌ زَهَاهَا الحُسْنُ أَنْ تَتَقَنَّعَا [And when we agreed together, and I saluted, faces advanced, which beauty excited &c, or the possessors of which beauty excited &c.]. (S.) And hence their saying, بِخَدِيعَةٍ ↓ فُلَانٌ لَا يُزْدَهَى

[Such a one will not be incited, or excited, to briskness, &c., by means of deceit, or guile]. (S.) And الفَرَحُ ↓ ازدهاهُ, meaning اِسْتَخَفَّهُ [Joy incited him, &c.]. (MA.) [And hence, perhaps, may be derived most of the following significations.]

b4: زَهَا الطَّلُّ النَوْرَ The طلّ [or fine drizzling rain] made the flowers, or blossoms, to increase in beauty of aspect. (TA.) b5: زَهَا السِّرَاجَ, (K,) aor. ـو [perhaps a mistranscription for يَزْهَاهُ], inf. n. زَهْوٌ, (TA,) He made the سراج [or lamp, or lighted wick,] to give a bright light. (K.) b6: زَهَوْتُ الإِبِلَ I made the camels to journey, after coming to water, (A 'Obeyd, JK, S, K,) a night or more, (A 'Obeyd, JK, S,) or a night or two nights. (K.) Thus the verb in relation to camels is trans. as well as intrans. (S.) b7: زَهَا بِالسَّيْفُ He made a sign with the sword by waving it, or brandishing it. (K, TA.) b8: زَهَا بِالعَصَا He struck with the staff, or stick. (K.) b9: زَهَا بِمِائَةِ رِطْلٍ He computed, or computed by conjecture, [to be of the weight of] a hundred pounds. (K.) You say, زَهَاهُ بِمِائَةِ رِطْلٍ meaning خرزه [a mistake for حَزَرَهُ i. e. He computed it, &c., to be of the weight of a hundred pounds]. (TK. In the TA, زها فلان بمائة رطل, [الشَّىْءَ or the like being omitted by an oversight,] aor. ـْ [which indicates an omission after فلان].) And زَهَوْتُ القَوْمَ I computed, or computed by conjecture, the number of the people, or party. (JK.) A3: زُهِىَ, (JK, S, K,) like عُنِىَ; (S, K;) and زَهَا, (IDrd, S, K,) like دَعَا, but this is rare, (K,) and was dissallowed by As in the sense of زُهِىَ, (TA in art. نخو,) aor. ـْ inf. n. زَهْوٌ; (IDrd, S;) and ↓ أَزْهَى; (K;) said of a man, (JK, S,) He behaved proudly, haughtily, or insolently; (S, K, * TA;) he was proud, vain, and boastful; (K;) or was pleased with himself, or self-conceited: (JK:) ازدهى [i. e. ↓ اُزْدُهِىَ], in like manner, means تَكَبَّرَ: (Har p. 264: [but this more properly signifies, as shown above by an explanation of اِزْدَهَاهُ, he was incited, or excited, to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness:]) the first of these verbs [may be originally pass. of زَهَا in the phrase زَهَاهُ الكِبْرُ, mentioned before, but, as J says,] is one of a class of verbs used in the pass. form though having the sense of the act. form: in using it imperatively, you say, لِتُزْهَ يَا رَجُلُ [Behave thou proudly, &c., O man; see art. ت]; and like this is the aor. [used as an imperative] of every verb of which the agent is not named; for when it is reduced to its essential import, you thereby command something, other than the person whom you address, to affect, or befall, that person; and the third person of the [aor. used as an] imperative is never without ل, as when you say, لِيَقُمْ زَيْدٌ: (S, TA:) J also says, (TA,) I said to an Arab of the desert, of [the tribe of] Benoo-Suleym, What is the meaning of زُهِىَ الرَّجُلُ? and he answered, The man was pleased with himself, or self-conceited: I said, Dost thou say, زَهَا as meaning اِفْتَخَرَ [He gloried, or boasted, &c.]? and he answered, As for us, we do not say it. (S, TA.) One says also, زُهِىَ فُلَانٌ بِكَذَا i. e. نُخِىَ [Such a one gloried, or boasted, and magnified himself, or behaved proudly, by reason of such a thing]; as though meaning زَهَاهُ الإِعْجَابُ بِنَفْسِهِ [i. e. self-conceit elevated him by reason of such a thing]. (Har p. 171.) b2: and one says, زُهِىَ الشَّىْءُ بِعَيْنَيْكَ or لِعَيْنَيْكَ The thing was beautiful in aspect in, or to, thine eyes. (S, accord. to different copies. [The meaning is there shown by what immediately precedes. In three copies of the S, I find the verb in this phrase thus written, زُهِىَ; and only in the PS, زها, for زَهَا, which is the form given by Golius: Freytag writes the phrase زَهَى الشى بعينك.]) 2 زَهَّوَ see 1, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph.4 أَزْهَوَ see 1, in four places, in the first three sentences: b2: and again, in one place, in the last quarter of the same paragraph.

A2: مَا أَزْهَاهُ [meaning How proud, vain, boastful, or selfconceited, is he!] is from زَهَا as syn. with زُهِىَ; not from the latter of these two verbs, because the verb of wonder is not formed from a verb of which the agent is not named. (S.) 8 اِزْدَهَى [originally اِزْتَهَى]: see 1, as a trans. verb, in eight places. And اُزْدُهِىَ: see 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph.

زَهْوٌ [is the inf. n. of زَهَا (q. v.): and also has the significations here following. b2: ] Pride [as implying self-elevation]: (JK, S, K:) vanity, or vain behaviour: (K:) boasting, or glorying: (S, K:) and wrongdoing, injustice, injuriousness, or tyranny. (TA.) b3: A false, or vain, saying; syn. بَاطِلٌ; (S, K, and Ham p. 24;) a lie, or falsehood; (JK, S, K, and Ham * ubi suprà;) or an exaggeration in speech. (Ham ubi suprà.) You say, قَالَ زَهْوًا [He said a false, or vain, saying, &c.]. (Ham ubi suprà.) b4: A beautiful aspect. (S, K.) b5: The blossoms, or flowers, of a plant. (Lth, K.) b6: The brightness of a plant (K, TA) by its becoming red or yellow; (TA;) as also ↓ زُهُوٌّ, (K, TA,) like عُلُوٌّ, (TA,) [in the CK كالزَّهْوِ is here put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ,] and ↓ زَهَآءٌ, (K, TA,) like سَحَابٌ, as the unrestricted mention of it requires, but in some of the copies of the K with damm [i. e. زُهَآءٌ]. (TA.) b7: Also, [or نَبَاتٌ زَهْوٌ, as in the TK,] A plant beautiful and bright, (K,) or fresh. (TA.) b8: And Dates beginning to ripen (بُسْرٌ) that are becoming coloured (مُلَوِّنٌ), (so in some copies of the S and K, and in the Mgh, or مُتَلَوِّنٌ [which signifies the same], Har p. 416), or that have become coloured (مُلَوَّنٌ); (so in other copies of the S and K;) as also ↓ زُهُوٌّ, (K, TA,) like عُلُوٌّ, thus in the handwriting of Az in the T: (TA:) [here, again, in the CK we find كالزَّهْوِ put in the place of كَالزُّهُوِّ: or perhaps it should be ↓ كَالزُّهْوِ; as appears from what follows in the next sentence:] in this sense, زَهْوٌ is an inf. n. used as a subst. (Mgh.) One says, when redness and yellowness appear in palm-trees, قَدْ ظَهَرَ فِيهِ الزَّهْوُ [Dates becoming, or become, red, or yellow, have appeared in them; i. e. فِى النَّخْلِ]: and the people of El-Hijáz say, ↓ الزُّهْوُ, with damm: (S:) [Fei says,] the subst. from زَهَا النَّخْلُ meaning “ the palm-trees showed redness and yellowness in their fruit ” is الزهو [i. e. ↓ الزُّهْوُ], with damm; and AHát says that this term is used only when the colour of the date has become free from admixture in redness or yellowness. (Msb.) b9: Yousay also ثَوْبٌ زَهْوٌ A red and beautiful garment or piece of cloth: and ثِيَابٌ زَهْوَةٌ and ↓ زَاهِيَةٌ [red and beautiful garments &c.]. (JK.) زُهْوٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, latter half, in three places.

زُهَا الدُّنْيَا The ornature, finery, show, pomp, or gaiety, of the present life or world. (K, TA.) The former noun [when indeterminate] is [with tenween, زُهًا,] like هُدًى. (K.) زَهْوَةٌ A shining, glistening, or brilliancy; whatever be the colour. (TA.) زَهَآءٌ: see زَهْوٌ, in the former half of the paragraph.

زُهَآءٌ Number, or amount. (JK, Msb.) Yousay, كَمْ زُهَاؤُهُمْ How many is their number? or how much is their amount? (Msb, TA:) or, the computation of them? (TA.) And هُمْ زُهَآءُ مِائَةٍ

[They are as many as a hundred;] they are the number, or amount, of a hundred; (El-Fárábee, S, Mgh, Msb, K; *) or their number, or amount, is a hundred: (Mgh:) and مِائَةٍ ↓ زِهَآءُ, also, with kesr: (El-Fárábee, Msb:) but the saying of the [common] people هُمْ زُهَآء عَلَى مِائَة is not [correct] Arabic. (Msb.) b2: Also A large number: whence in a trad. respecting the time of the resurrection, إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ بِنَاسٍ مِنْ قِبَلِ المَشْرِقِ

أُولِى زُهَآءٍ i. e. [When ye hear of men coming from the direction of the east,] having a large number. (TA.) b3: And زُهَآءُ الشَّىْءِ signifies The شَخْص [i. e. corporeal form or figure or substance, which one sees from a distance,] of the thing. (TA.) زِهَآءُ مِائَةٍ: see the next preceding paragraph.

زُهُوٌّ: see زَهْوٌ, in two places. b2: Also The redness of colour, and beauty, of garments or cloths. (JK.) زَاهٍ [act. part. n. of زَهَا]. b2: إِبِلٌ زَاهِيَةٌ Camels that will not pasture upon the [plants, or trees, termed] حَمْضِ: (ISk, S:) pl. زَوَاهٍ. (TA.) b3: زَاهِى اللَّوْن Bright in respect of colour. (TA.) ثِيَابٌ زَاهِيَةٌ: see زَهْوٌ, last sentence.

أَزْهَى [meaning More, and most, proud, vain, boastful, or self-conceited, is, like مَا أَزْهَاهُ (q. v.), from زَهَا as syn. with زُهِىَ; not from the latter of these two verbs]. You say أَزْهَى مِنْ غُرَابٍ [More proud, &c., than a crow]; (S, Meyd;) because the crow, in walking, ceases not to go with a proud, or self-conceited, gait, and to look at itself: and مِنْ وَعِلٍ [than a mountain-goat]: and من طَاؤُوسٍ [than a peacock]: and دِيكٍ and ذُبَابٍ and ثَوْرٍ and ثَعْلَبٍ [a cock and a fly and a bull and a fox]: all these are provs. (Meyd.) إِنْزَهْوٌ, in which each of the first two letters is augmentative, and which is said to be the only word of its kind except إِنْقَحْلٌ from قَحَلَ, (MF, TA,) applied to a man, Proud, haughty, or insolent; (Lh, K;) as also ↓ مُزْدَهًى [which more properly means incited, or excited, to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness]; (Har p. 264:) pl. of the former إِنْزَهْوُونَ. (Lh, TA.) [See also what next follows.]

مَزْهُوٌّ, from زُهِى, applied to a man, Proud, haughty, or insolent; (S, TA;) [vain, and boast-ful;] pleased with himself, or self-conceited. (TA.) [See also what next precedes.]

مُزْدَهًى: see إِنْزَهْوٌ, above.