شط

1 شَطَّ, aor. ـِ and شَطُّ, (S, Msb, K,) [the latter contr. to analogy,] the pret. like ضَرَبَ and قَتَلَ, (Msb, [and the like is said in the TA,]) inf. n. شَطٌّ and شُطُوطٌ, (S, K,) It (a house, or dwelling, S, Msb, TA, and a place of visitation, TA) was, or became, distant, remote, or far off. (S, Msb, K.) b2: شَطَّ فِى السَّوْمِ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ and شَطُّ, (Msb,) inf. n. شَطُّ and شَطَطٌ; (TA;) or فِيهِ ↓ أَشَطَّ; (S;) or both, (Msb, K,) but the latter is the more common; (K;) and ↓ اشتطّ; (S;) He went far, (S, K,) or beyond the due bounds, in offering a thing for sale and demanding a price for it, or in bargaining for a thing: (S, Msb, K:) the verb in this phrase is also followed by عَلَيْهِ [against him]. (TA.) IB says that شَطَّ signifies بَعُدَ [meaning He, or it, was, or became, distant, &c.]: and that ↓ أَشَطَّ signifies أَبْعَدَ [meaning he went far, &c.]. (TA.) You say also, فِى طَلَبِى ↓ أَشَطُّوا They went far, or very far, or to a great or an extraordinary length, in seeking me. (S, K. *) And القَوْمُ فِى طَلَبِنَا ↓ أَشَطَّ The people, or company of men, sought us walking and riding. (TA.) And فِى المَفَازَةِ ↓ أَشَطَّ He went away in the desert: (K:) as though he went far in it. (TA.) And شَطَّ فِى سِلْعَتِهِ, inf. n. شَطَطٌ, He exceeded the due bounds, and went far from what was right, in respect of his commodity, or article of merchandise. (K.) And شَطَّ فِى حُكْمِهِ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (K, TA,) only, (TA,) or شَطِّ and شَطُّ, (Msb,) the latter aor. is mentioned in the L, (TA,) inf. n. شَطَطٌ, (Msb, TA,) in the K, erroneously, شَطِيطٌ, (TA,) and شُطُوطٌ also; (Msb;) and ↓ اشطّ; (Msb, K;) and ↓ اشتطّ; (K;) or فِى القَضِيَّةِ ↓ اشطّ; (S;) He acted unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, (S, Msb, K,) in his judging, or exercising jurisdiction or rule, or passing sentence, (Msb, K,) or in judging, &c., (S,) عَلَيْهِ against him. (K.) And شَطَطْتُ عَلَيْهِ, (S, L,) aor. ـُ (L,) and ↓ أَشْطَطْتُ; (S, L;) I acted unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, against him: mentioned by A'Obeyd. (S, L.) It is said in the Kur [xxxviii. 21], وَلَا تَشْطُطْ, or ↓ تُشْطِطْ, or ↓ تُشَطِّطْ, or ↓ تُشَاطِطْ, accord. to different readings, And go not thou far from what is right: (K, TA:) all having this meaning: (TA:) or exceed not the due bounds. (Bd.) شَطَطٌ signifies The exceeding the due bounds (AA, S, Mgh) in selling, and in demanding or seeking, and in exercising jurisdiction, &c., (AA,) or in everything. (S.) It is said in a trad. لَهَا مَهْرُ مِثْلِهَا لَا وَكْسَ وَلَا شَطَطَ [She shall have the dowry of her like:] there shall be no falling short nor exceeding. (S.) And you say of a just sale, لَا بَخْسَ فِيهِ وَلَا شَطَطَ, (S in art. بخس,) or ولا شُطُوطَ, (T and TA in that art.,) [There is no deficiency in it nor excess.] You also say شَطَّ فِى القَوْلِ, aor. ـِ and شَطُّ, inf. n. شَطَطٌ and شُطُوطٌ, He was rough, harsh, or coarse, in speech. (Msb.) A2: شَطَّ used transitively, [aor. ـُ He passed, or passed beyond, [or, probably, passed far away from,] a place. (TA.) b2: شَطَّ فُلَانًا, (K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. شَطٌّ and شُطُوطٌ, (K,) He distressed, or afflicted, such a one, and treated him, or used him, unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically: (K:) so say Az and Aboo-Malik. (TA.) b3: شَاطَّهُ فَشَطَّهُ: see 3.2 شطّط, inf. n. تَشْطِيطٌ, He strove, laboured, exerted himself, or did his utmost, in acting unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, and exceeding the due bounds. (K, * TA.) See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.3 شاطّهُ, (K,) inf. n. مُشَاطَّةٌ, (TA,) He vied with him in اِشْتِطَاط [i. e. going far, or beyond the due bounds, in offering a thing for sale and demanding a price for it, or in bargaining for a thing; or acting unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, in judging, &c.]. (K.) Yousay, ↓ شاطّهُ فَشَطَّهُ [He vied with him in so doing, and surpassed him, or overcame him, therein]. (TA.) See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.4 أَشْطَ3َ see 1, in nine places.8 إِشْتَطَ3َ see 1, in two places.

شَطٌّ The bank, or side, of a river: (S, Msb, K:) and of a valley: (S, Msb:) or, of the latter, the rising ground next the bottom: (AHn:) pl. شُطُوطٌ (Msb, K) and شُطَّانٌ; (K;) the latter occurring in a verse, accord. to one relation; but accord. to another relation, it is شُطْآنٌ, pl. of شَاطِئٌ, which is syn. with شَطٌّ. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) The side of a camel's hump; (S, K;) any side thereof: (S:) or the half thereof: (K:) pl. شُطُوطٌ. (S, K.) شَطَّةٌ: see شَاطٌّ.

شِطَّةٌ: see شَطَاطٌ, in two places.

شَطَطٌ, for أَمْرٌ ذُو شَطَطٍ, (Mgh,) and قَوْلٌ ذُو شَطَطٍ, (Bd in lxxii. 4,) An action, or affair, (Mgh,) and a saying, (Bd,) that is extravagant, or exorbitant, or exceeding the due bounds. (Mgh, Bd.) [See 1, of which it is an inf. n.]

شَطَاطٌ Distance; remoteness; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ شِطَاطٌ and ↓ شِطَّةٌ, with kesr, (K,) and ↓ مَشَطَّةٌ. (TA.) It is said in a trad., اَللّٰهُمَّ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ وَسُوْءِ المُنْقَلَبِ ↓ وَعْثَآءِ السَّفَرِ وَكَآبَةِ الشِّطَّةِ i. e. [O God, verily I seek protection by Thee from trouble of travel, and grievousness] of distance of the space to be journeyed over, [and evilness of return to my home.] (TA.) b2: And Distance, or farness, between the two extremities of a man; as also ↓ شِطَاطٌ and ↓ شَطَاطَةٌ. (K.) And Tallness, and beauty of stature: (K:) or justness of stature: (IDrd, S, K:) as also ↓ شِطَاطٌ, (S, K,) in either sense. (K.) A2: Also, and ↓ شِطَاطٌ, Fragments of baked bricks. (K.) b2: [Freytag erroneously assigns the first and last meanings in this paragraph to شَطَّةٌ: and he adds, from Reiske, a meaning belonging to شِظَاظٌ.]

شِطَاطٌ: see شَطَاطٌ, in four places.

شَطُوطٌ A she-camel having a large hump; (As, S, K;) as also ↓ شَطَوْطَى: (K:) or large in the two sides of the hump: (TA:) pl. شَطَائِطُ. (K.) شَطَاطَةٌ: see شَطَاطٌ.

شَطَوْطَى: see شَطُوطٌ.

شَطْشَاطٌ A certain bird: (K:) IDrd says that it is asserted to have this meaning; but is not of established authority. (O.) شَاطٌّ Anything Distant, remote, or far. (TA.) b2: A man whose two extremities are far from each other. (K.) b3: جَارِيَةٌ شَاطَّةٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ شَطَّةٌ, (K,) A girl tall, and of beautiful stature: (K:) or of just stature. (S, K.) A2: إِنَّكَ لَشَاطِّى

Verily thou art acting unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, towards me in judging: occurring in a trad. (A'Obeyd, Az, S.) مَشَطَّةٌ: see شَطَاطٌ. b2: Also Difficulty, distress, affliction, trouble, or inconvenience. (TA.)

شجو

1 شَجِىَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. شَجًا, He was choked; or his throat, or fauces, became obstructed; (S, K;) بِهِ by it; i. e. a bone or the like. (K.) One says, عَلَيْكَ بِالكَظْمِ وَلَوْ شَجِيتَ بِالعَظْمِ [Keep thou to self-restraint though thou be choked by the bone]. (TA.) b2: And, [hence, by a metaphor, (see Har p. 33,)] aor. and inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He grieved, mourned, or lamented; or was sorrowful, sad, or unhappy: (S, Msb:) and he was, or became, anxious, or disquieted in mind. (S.) b3: Also, aor. and inf. n. as above, said of a creditor (غَرِيم), He went away, عَنْهُ [from him]. (K. [See 4.]) A2: شَجَا بَيْنَهُمْ It was, or became, an occasion of contention, or dispute, or of disagreement, or difference, between them. (K.) A3: شَجَاهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. شَجْوٌ, (S, Msb,) [app. originally syn. with أَشْجَاهُ in the first of the senses assigned to the latter in the next paragraph: b2: and hence,] (assumed tropical:) It (anxiety, Msb) grieved him; or caused him to mourn or lament, or to be sorrowful or sad or unhappy; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اشجاهُ. (K.) And, said of wealth (الغِنَى), inf. n. شَجْوٌ, It excited his griefs, mournings, &c., and his desire. (TA.) b3: Also, and ↓ اشجاهُ, (assumed tropical:) It caused him to be mirthful, (Ks, K, TA,) and excited him. (Ks, TA.) Thus each of these verbs has two contr. significations. (K.) But MF observes that طَرَّبَهُ, the explanation here given in the K, is said by the author of the K [in art. طرب] to denote a lightness arising from joy or grief. (TA.) [Generally, however, it means as rendered above.]4 اشجاهُ, inf. n. إِشْجَآءٌ, It choked him; or caused his throat, or fauces, to be obstructed; syn. أَغَصَّهُ; (S, TA;) said of a bone lying across in the throat, or fauces. (TA.) [This is clearly shown to be the meaning in the S, as well as in the TA, intended by أَغَصَّهُ; with which it is also syn. in another sense; for] b2: It signifies [also] (assumed tropical:) It, or he, caused him to fall into grief, mourning, lamentation, sorrow, sadness, or unhappiness. (K.) See also 1, in two places. b3: Also (assumed tropical:) He subdued, overpowered, or overcame, him, (K, TA,) so that he grieved, or was sorrowful. (TA.) b4: And (assumed tropical:) He angered him. (Ks, TA.) b5: and (assumed tropical:) He made him to go away. (Az, TA.) and أَشْجَيْتُهُ عَنِّى (assumed tropical:) I gave him (i. e. a creditor or petitioner) what contented him, so that he went away. (TA.) 6 تَشَاجَتْ عَلَيْهِ, (As, T, K, * TA,) said of a woman of the desert with reference to a young man who had been dallying, and holding amorous converse, with her, (As, T, TA,) (assumed tropical:) She resisted him, and expressed grief, or unhappiness, to him, or on account of him, [i. e. on account of his advances,] saying, Alas, my grief, or my unhappiness! (As, T, K, * TA.) And said of a woman with reference to her husband, meaning (assumed tropical:) She expressed grief, &c., as above. (A, TA.) شَجًا A bone, or some other thing (S, K) of the like sort, (K,) sticking fast, (S,) or lying across, or forming an obstruction, (K,) in the throat, or fauces, (S, K,) of a human being, and of a beast; (TA;) a thing in the throat, or fauces, that [chokes one, or] prevents from swallowing: (Har p. 69:) an inf. n. used as a subst. [properly thus termed]. (Har p. 33.) b2: See also the next paragraph.

شَجْوٌ (assumed tropical:) Anxiety, or disquietude of mind; and grief, mourning, lamentation, sorrow, sadness, or unhappiness; (S;) [and] so ↓ شَجًا: thus termed because a man is choked thereby. (Har p. 33.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A want; an object of want. (Az, K, TA.) One says, بَكَى فُلَانٌ شَجْوَهُ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one wept for his object of want]: and دَعَتِ الحَمَامَةُ شَجْوَهَا [app. (assumed tropical:) The pigeon called for its object of want]. (TA.) شَجٍ (assumed tropical:) Grieving, mourning, or lamenting; or sorrowing, sad, or unhappy; applied to a man; (S, Msb;) and شَجِيَةٌ, of the measure فَعِلَةٌ, applied to a woman: one says, وَيْلٌ لِلشَّجِى مِنَ الخَلِىِّ [mentioned and expl. voce خَالٍ, in art. خلو, where each of these epithets is written with teshdeed to the ى; and likewise in another saying there mentioned]: (S:) or, in this saying, (TA,) it signifies occupied [by anxiety or grief]; (K, TA; [in the CK, الشَّجا is erroneously put for الشَّجِى;]) and خَلِىّ means “ free [therefrom]: ” so says Az: and in this instance الشَّجِى

may mean occupied by a bone choking, or obstructing, his throat, or fauces, or by anxiety, and not having found a way of escape therefrom; or by his opponent, or adversary, whom he has been unable to withstand: (TA:) and sometimes one says ↓ شَجِىٌّ, like as one says حَزِنٌ and حَزِينٌ; though this is rare; (Msb;) it is mentioned in the 'Eyn; but شَجٍ is more known; and is said by Az to be the chaste form: (TA:) Mbr says, the ى of الخلى is with teshdeed, and the ى of الشَّجِى is without teshdeed, (S,) and sometimes this ى is with teshdeed in poetry; (S, K;) but if you make it to be from شَجَاهُ, it is ↓ شَجِىٌّ only, syn. with مَشْجُوٌّ. [i. e. grieved, &c.]; (S;) and so it is said to be by Az and Z: and Az adds, the second way of accounting for it is, that they often lengthen فَعِلٌ with a ى, saying, فُلَانٌ قَمِنٌ لِكَذَا and قَمِينٌ, and سَمِجٌ and سَمِيجٌ, and كَرٍ and كَرِىٌّ: and the third way is, that they assimilated one word in measure to another, as in الغَدَايَا وَالعَشَايَا, the [proper] pl. of غَدَاةٌ being only غَدَوَاتٌ. (TA.) شَجِىٌّ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

مَفَازَةٌ شَجْوَآءُ [A desert, or waterless desert,] difficult to travel. (S, K. *) شَجَوِىٌّ, with fet-h to the ج; rel. n. of شَجٍ. (S.) شَجَوْجًى, (S, K,) of the measure فَعَوْعَلٌ [and therefore with tenween], (Mz 40th نوع, and MF and TA,) like خَجَوْجًى &c., (S, * and Mz ibid.,) and ↓ شَجَوْجَآءٌ, (K,) applied to a man, (S,) Long in the legs: (S, K:) or very tall: or very tall, with bigness (ضِخَم, in the CK ضَخْم,) of the bones: or long in the back, short in the leg; (K;) thus in the M; but Az says the reverse, i. e. long in the legs, short in the back. (TA.) b2: Also, (K,) or the former, (TA,) A bulky horse. (K.) b3: And The عَقْعَق [or magpie]; (K;) [and] so شَجَجَى; (K and TA in art. شج;) fem. with ة [i. e. شَجَوْجَاةٌ]. (K.) b4: And A wind continually blowing; as also شَجَوْجَاةٌ. (K.) All this is in the M. (TA.) شَجَوْجَآءٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

أَمْرٌ شَاجٍ An affair, or event, grieving; or causing to mourn or lament, or to be sorrowful or sad or unhappy. (TA.)

جن

1 جَنَّهُ, (S, Mgh, K,) aor. ـُ (Mgh, TA,) inf. n. جَنٌّ, (TA,) It veiled, concealed, hid, covered, or protected, him; (S, Mgh, K;) said of the night; (S, K;) as also جَنَّ عَلَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. جُنُونٌ, (S,) or جَنٌّ, (K,) or both; (TA;) so in the Kur vi. 76, meaning it veiled him, concealed him, or covered him, with its darkness; (Bd;) and ↓ اجنّهُ: (S, Msb, K:) or this last signifies he, or it, made, or prepared, for him, or gave him, that which should veil him, conceal him, &c. : accord. to Er-Rághib, the primary signification of جَنٌّ is the veiling, or concealing, &c., from the sense. (TA.) And جُنَّ عَنْهُ meansIt (anything) was veiled, concealed, or hidden, from him. (K.) b2: He concealed it; namely, a dead body; as also ↓ اجنّهُ: (S, TA:) or the latter, he wrapped it in grave-clothing: (K:) and he buried it. (TA.) And الشَّىْءَ فِى صَدْرِى ↓ أَجْنَنْتُ I concealed the thing in my bosom. (S.) and وَلَدًا ↓ أَجَنَّتْ, (S,) or جَنِينًا, (K,) said of a woman, (S,) or a pregnant female, (K,) She concealed [or enveloped in her womb a child, or an embryo, or a fœtus]. (TA.) A2: جَنَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. جِنٌّ, It (an embryo, or a fœtus,) was concealed in the womb. (K.) b2: Also, [inf. n., probably, جِنٌّ and جُنُونٌ and جَنَانٌ, explained below,] It (the night) was, or became, dark. (Golius on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof.) A3: جُنَّ, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. جُنُونٌ (S, K) and جِنَّةٌ (S) and جَنٌّ; (K;) and ↓ اُسْتُجِنٌّ, and ↓ تجنّن, and ↓ تجانّ; (K;) He (a man, S) was, or became, مَجْنُون [originally signifying possessed by a جِنِّىّ, or by جِنّ; possessed by a devil or demon; (see Bd li. 39;) and hence meaning bereft of reason; or mad, insane, unsound in mind or intellect, or wanting therein: the verbs may generally be rendered he was, or became, possessed; or mad, or insane]. (S, Msb, K.) b2: جُنَّ الذُّبَابُ, (S, A, TA,) inf. n. جُنُونٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) The flies made much buzzing: (S:) or made a gladsome buzzing in a meadow. (A, TA.) b3: جُنَّ النَّبْتُ, inf. n. جُنُونٌ, (tropical:) The herbage became tall, and tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, and put forth its flowers or blossoms: (S, TA:) or became thick and tall and full-grown, and blossomed. (M, TA.) And جُنَّتِ الأَرْضُ, (Fr, K,) inf. n. جُنُونٌ, (K,) (tropical:) The land produced pleasing herbage or plants: (Fr, TA:) or put forth its flowers and blossoms; as also ↓ تجنّنت. (K, TA.) 2 جَنَّّ see 4.4 أَجْنَ3َ see 1, in four places: A2: and see 8.

A3: Also اجنّهُ He (God) caused him to be, or become, مَجْنُون [originally signifying possessed by a جِنِّىّ, or by جِنّ; and hence generally meaning bereft of reason; or mad, insane, unsound in mind or intellect, or wanting therein]. (S, Msb, K.) [and so, vulgarly, ↓ جنّنهُ, whoever, or whatever, be the agent.] b2: ما اجنّهُ [How mad, or insane, &c., is he!] is anomalous, (Th, S,) being formed from a verb of the pass. form, namely, جُنَّ; (Th, TA;) for of the مَضْرُوب one should not say, مَا أَضْرَبَهُ; nor of the مَسْلُول should one say, مَا أَسَلَّهُ: (S:) Sb says that the verb of wonder is used in this case because it denotes want of intellect [which admits of degrees]. (TA.) A4: اجنّ also signifies وَقَعَ فِى مَجَنَّةٍ [app. meaning He fell into, or upon, a place containing, or abounding with, جِنّ]. (TA.) 5 تَجَنَّّ see 1, in two places. b2: تجنّن عَلَيْهِ, and ↓ تَجَانَنَ, (S, K,) and ↓ تَجَانَّ, (S,) He feigned himself مَجْنُون [i. e. possessed by a جِنِّىّ, or by جِنّ; and hence generally meaning bereft of reason; or mad, insane, &c.;] to him; (S, K;) not being really so. (TA.) 6 تَجَانَّ and تَجَانَنَ: see 1: b2: and see also 5.8 اجتنّ, (accord, to the S,) or ↓ اجنّ, (accord. to the K,) He was, or became, veiled, concealed, hidden, covered, or protected, or he veiled, concealed, hid, covered, or protected, himself, (S, K,) عَنْهُ from him, or it; (K;) as also ↓ استجن. (S, K.) You say, بِجُنَّةٍ ↓ استجن He was, or became, veiled, &c., or he veiled himself, &c., by a thing whereby he was veiled, &c. (S.) 10 إِسْتَجْنَ3َ see 8, in two places: A2: and see also 1.

A3: اِسْتِجْنَانٌ is also syn. with اِسْتِطْرَابٌ; (S, K;) استجنّهُ meaning استطربهُ, i. e. He excited him to mirth, joy, gladness, or sport. (TK.) جِنٌّ The darkness of night; as also ↓ جُنُونٌ and ↓ جَنَانُ, (K, TA,) the last [written in the CK جُنان, but it is] with fet-h: (TA:) or all signify its intense darkness: (TA:) or all, the confusedness of the darkness of night: (K:) [all, in these senses, are app. inf. ns.: (see 1:)] the last, ↓ جَنَانٌ, also signifies night [itself]: (K:) or [so in copies of the K, accord. to the TA, but in the CK “ and,”] the dense black darkness of night: (S, K:) and ↓ جُنُونٌ, the veiling, or concealing, or protecting, darkness of night. (ISk, S.) b2: Concealment: so in the phrase, لَا جِنَّ بِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ There is no concealment with this thing. (K, * TA.) One of the Hudhalees says, وَلَا جِنَّ بِالبَغْضَآءِ وَالنَّظَرِ الشَّزْرِ [And there is no concealment with vehement hatred and the looking with aversion]. (TA.) A2: [The genii; and sometimes the angels;] accord. to some, the spiritual beings that are concealed from the senses, or that conceal themselves from the senses; all of such beings; (Er-Rághib, TA;) the opposite of إِنْسٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb, Er-Rághib, TA;) thus comprising the angels; all of these being جِنّ; (Er-Rághib, TA;) thus called because they are feared but not seen: (S:) or, accord. to others, certain of the spiritual beings; for the spiritual beings are of three kinds; the good being the angels; and the evil being the devils (شَيَاطِين); and the middle kind, among whom are good and evil, being the جِنّ; as is shown by the first twelve verses of ch. lxxii. of the Kur: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or it here means intelligent invisible bodies, predominantly of the fiery, or of the aerial, quality: or a species of souls, or spirits, divested of bodies: or human souls separate from their bodies: (Bd:) or the جِنّ are the angels [exclusively]; (K;) these being so called in the Time of Ignorance, because they were concealed, or because they concealed themselves, from the eyes: so, accord. to some, in the Kur [xviii. 48], where it is said that Iblees was of the جِنّ: and so, as some say, in the Kur [vi. 100], where it is said that they called the جِنّ partners of God: (TA:) but some reject the explanation in the K, because the angels were created of light, and the جِنّ of fire; and the former do not propagate their kind, nor are they to be described as males and females; contrary to the case of the جِنّ; wherefore it is generally said that in the phrase [in the Kur xviii. 48, above mentioned] إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ كَانَ مِنَ الجِنِّ, what is excepted is disunited in kind from that from which the exception is made, or that Iblees had adopted the dispositions of the جِنّ: (MF, TA:) or, as some say, the جِنّ were a species of the angels, who were the guardians of the earth and of the gardens of Paradise: (TA:) ↓ جِنَّةٌ, also, signifies the same as جِنٌّ: (S, Msb, K:) so in the last verse of the Kur: (S:) in the Kur xxxvii. 158 meaning the angels, whom certain of the Arabs worshipped; (TA;) and whom they called the daughters of God: (Fr, TA:) a single individual of the جِنّ is called ↓ جِنِّىٌّ, [fem. with ة:] (S, TA:) and ↓ جَانٌّ, also, is syn. with جِنٌّ: (Msb:) or الجَانٌ means the father of the جِنّ; (S, Mgh, TA;) [i. e. any father of جِنّ; for] the pl. is جِنَّانٌ, like حِيطَانٌ pl. of حَائِطٌ: (S, TA:) so says El-Hasan: it is said in the T, on the authority of AA, that the جانّ is, or are, of the جِنّ: (TA:) or جَانٌّ is a quasi-pl. n. of جِنٌّ; (M, K;) like جَامِلٌ and بَاقِرٌ: (M, TA:) so in the Kur lv. 56 and 74: in reading the passage in the Kur lv. 39, 'Amr Ibn-'Obeyd pronounced it جَأَنٌ: (TA:) it is related that there were certain creatures called the جَانّ, who were upon the earth, and who acted corruptly therein, and shed blood, wherefore God sent angels who banished them from the earth; and it is said that these angels became the inhabitants of the earth after them. (Zj, TA.) بَاتَ فُلَانٌ ضَيْفَ جِنٍّ

[Such a one passed the night a guest of جنّ] means, in a desolate place, in which was no one that might cheer him by his society or converse. (TA.) The saying of Moosà Ibn-Jábir, فَمَا نَفَرَتْ جِنِّى وَلَا فُلَّ مِبْرَدِى

may mean And my companions, who were like the جِنّ, did not flee when I came to them and informed them, nor was my tongue, that is like the file, deprived of its sharp edge: or by his جنّ he means his familiar جنّ, such as were asserted to aid poets when difficulties befell them; and by his مبرد, his tongue: (Ham p. 182 [where other explanations are proposed; but they are far-fetched]:) or by his جنّ he means his heart; and by his مبرد, his tongue. (S.) The Arabs liken a man who is sharp and effective in affairs to a جِنِّىّ and a شَيْطَان: and hence they said, نَفَرَتْ جِنُّهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He became weak and abject. (Ham ubi suprà.) b2: The greater, main, or chief, part, or the main body, or bulk, of men, or of mankind; as also ↓ جَنَانٌ; (K;) because he who enters among them becomes concealed by them: (TA:) or the latter means the general assemblage, or collective body, of men: (IAar, S, * TA:) or what veils, conceals, covers, or protects, one, of a thing. (AA, TA.) b3: (tropical:) The flowers, or blossoms, of plants or herbage. (K, TA.) b4: (tropical:) The prime, or first part, of youth: (S, K, TA:) or the sharpness, or vigorousness, and briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, thereof. (TA.) Yousay, كَانَ ذٰلِك فِى جِنِّ شَبَابِهِ (tropical:) That was in the prime, or first part, of his youth. (S, TA.) and أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرَ بِجِنِّ ذٰلِكَ (tropical:) I will do that thing in the time of the first and fresh state of that. (S, TA.) جِنٌّ may also signify (assumed tropical:) The madness, or insanity, of exultation, or of excessive exultation. (TA.) And one says, اِتّقِ النّاقَةَ فَإِنّهَا بِجِنِّ ضِرَامِهَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) Fear thou the she-camel, for she is in her evil temper on the occasion of her bringing forth. (TA.) b5: Also i. q. جدّ [app. جِدٌّ, as meaning (assumed tropical:) Seriousness, or earnestness]; because it is a thing that is an accompaniment of thought, or reflection, and is concealed by the heart. (TA.) جَنَّةٌ A [garden, such as is called] بُسْتَان: (S, Mgh:) or a garden, or walled garden, (حَدِيقَة, Msb, K,) of trees, or of palm-trees, (Msb,) or of palms and other trees: (K:) or only if containing palm-trees and grape-vines; otherwise, if containing trees, called حديقة: (Aboo-'Alee in the Tedhkireh, TA:) or any بستان having trees by which the ground is concealed: and sometimes concealing trees: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and palm-trees: (S:) or tall palm-trees: (Mgh:) or shadowing trees; because of the tangling, or luxuriousness of their branches; as though concealing at once what is beneath them: then a بستان; because of its dense and shadowing trees: (Bd in ii. 23:) or a بستان of palms and other trees, dense, and shadowing by the tangling, or luxuriousness, and denseness, of their branches; as though it were originally the inf. n. of un. of جَنَّهُ, and meaning “ a single act of veiling ” or “ concealing ” &c.: (Ksh ib.:) then, with the article ال, [Paradise,] the abode of recompense; because of the جِنَان therein; (Ksh and Bd ib.;) or because the various delights prepared therein for mankind are concealed in the present state of existence: (Bd ib.:) [and] hence الجَنَّاتُ [the gardens of Paradise], (so in a copy of the S,) or جَنَّاتُ عَدْنٍ [the gardens of continual abode]: (so in another copy of the S:) [for] the pl. of جَنَّةٌ is أَجِنَّةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and جِنَيْنَة (Msb, TA) and جُنَّةٌ, but this last is strange. (MF, TA.) [Dim. ↓ جُنَيْنَةٌ, vulgarly pronounced جِنَيْنَة, and applied to A garden; as though it were a little Paradise.]

جُنَّةٌ A thing by which a person is veiled, concealed, hidden, covered, or protected: an arm, or armour, with which one protects himself: (S:) anything protective: (K:) or coats of mail, and any defensive, or protective, arm or armour: (TA:) pl. جُنَنٌ. (S.) b2: A piece of cloth which a woman wears, covering the fore and kind parts of her head, but not the middle of it, and covering the face, and the two sides of the bosom, (K,) or, accord. to the M, the ornaments [حُلِىّ instead of جَنْبَى] of the bosom, (TA,) and having two eyeholes, like the بُرْقُع. (K.) جِنَّةٌ: see its syn. جِنٌّ: A2: and جُنُونٌ.

جَنَنٌ A grave; (S, K;) because it conceals the dead: (TA:) and so ↓ جَنِينٌ, of the measure فَعيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b2: Grave-clothing; (K;) for the same reason. (TA.) b3: A garment that conceals the body. (TA.) [See also جَنَانٌ.]

A2: A dead body; (S, K;) because concealed in the grave; the word being of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, like نَفَضٌ in the sense of مَنْفُوضٌ. (TA.) جَنُنٌ: see جُنُونٌ.

جَنَانٌ: see جِنٌّ, first sentence, in two places: A2: and see the same in the latter part of the paragraph. b2: Also A garment: (K:) or a garment that conceals one; as in the saying, مَا عَلَىَّ جَنَانٌ إِلَّا مَا تَرَى [There is not upon me a garment that conceals me save what thou seest]. (S.) [See also جَنَنٌ.] b3: The حَرِيم [or surrounding adjuncts, or appertenances and conveniences,] (K, TA) of a house; because concealing the house. (TA.) b4: The interior of a thing that one does not see; (K;) because concealed from the eye. (TA.) b5: The heart; (T, S, M, Msb, K;) because concealed in the bosom; (T, M;) or because it holds things in memory: (M, TA:) or its رُوع [i. e. the heart's core, or the mind, or understanding, or intellect]; (K;) which is more deeply hidden: (TA:) and (sometimes, TA) the soul, or spirit; (IDrd, K;) because the body conceals it: (IDrd, TA:) pl. أَجْنَانٌ. (IJ, K.) You say, مَا يَسْتَقِرُّ جَنَانُهُ مِنَ الفَزَعِ [His heart does not rest in its place by reason of fright]. (TA.) b6: A secret and bad action. (TA. [Before the word rendered “ secret ” is another epithet, which is illegible.]) جُنَانٌ: see مِجَنٌّ: A2: and what here next follows.

جُنُونٌ: see جِنٌّ, first sentence, in two places.

A2: Also, inf. n. of جُنَّ; (S, K;) [originally signifying A state of possession by a جِنِّىِّ, or by جِنّ; diabolical, or demoniacal, possession; and hence meaning] loss of reason; or madness, insanity, or unsoundness in mind or intellect; (Mgh;) or deficiency of intellect: (Sb, TA:) [it may generally be rendered possession, or insanity:] ↓ جُنُنٌ is a contraction thereof; (S, K;) or accord. to some, an original form: (MF, TA:) and ↓ جَنَّةٌ, also, (an inf. n. and a simple subst., S,) signifies the same as جُنُونٌ: (S, Msb, K:) as also ↓ مَجَنَّةٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ جُنَانٌ, but this last is vulgar. (TA.) b2: Also Persistence in evil; and pursuance of a headlong, or rash, course. (Ham p. 14.) جَنِينٌ Anything veiled, concealed, hidden, or covered: (K:) applied as an epithet even to rancour, or malice. (TA.) b2: Buried; deposited in a grave. (IDrd, S.) b3: An embryo; a fœtus; the child, or young, in the belly; (S Msb, K;) [i. e.,] in the womb: (Mgh:) pl. أَجِنَّةٌ (S, Msb, K) and أَجْنُنٌ. (ISd, K.) b4: And the former of these pls., Waters choked up with earth. (TA.) A2: See also جَنَنٌ. b2: Also The vulva. (TA.) جُنَانَةٌ: see مِجَنٌّ.

جَنِينَةٌ, accord. to the copies of the K, but in the M ↓ جِنِّيَّةٌ, (TA,) A [garment of the kind called]

مِطْرَف, (K, TA,) of a round form, (TA,) like the طَيْلَسَان, (K, TA,) worn by women: (TA:) in the T, said to be certain well-known garments. (TA.) جُنَيْنَةٌ: see جنَّةٌ, last sentence.

جِنِّىٌّ Of, or relating to, the جِنّ, or جِنَّة. (K.) b2: See جِنٌّ. In the saying, وَيْحَكِ يَا جِنِّىَّ هَلْ بَدَا لَكِ

أَنْ تُرْجِعِى عَقْلِى فَقَدْ أَنَى لَكِ [Mercy on thee! O Jinneeyeh, جِنِّىَّ being for جِنِّيَّةُ,) doth it appear fit to thee that thou shouldst restore my reason? for the time hath come for thee to do so], a woman resembling a جِنِّيَّة is meant, either because of her beauty, or in her changeableness. (TA.) A2: The tallness, or length and height, of a camel's hump. (TA.) جِنِّيَّةٌ [fem. of جِنِّىٌّ, q. v. ]

A2: See also جَنِينَةٌ جِنْجِنٌ and جَنْجَنٌ and ↓ جِنْجِنَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ جِنْجَنَةٌ (K) and (as some say, TA) ↓ جُنْجُونٌ (K) are sings. of جَنَاجِنُ, which signifies The bones of the breast: (S, K:) or the heads of the ribs of men and of others: (M, TA:) or the extremities of the ribs, next the sternum. (T, TA.) جَنْجَنَةٌ: see what next precedes.

جُنْجُونٌ: see what next precedes.

جَانٌّ: see جِنٌّ. b2: Also A white serpent: (Lth, S, Msb:) or a small white serpent: (Mgh:) or a great serpent: (Zj, TA:) or a species of serpent (AA, M, K) having black-bordered eyes, (M, K,) inclining to yellow, (M, TA,) harmless, and abounding in houses: (M, K:) pl. جَوَانُّ, (AA, TA,) or جِنَّانٌ. (TA.) أَجِنَّكَ كَذَا i. q. مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّكَ [Because that thou art thus]; (S, K;) from which it is contracted by suppressing the ل and ا and transferring the kesreh of the ل to the ا (S.) A poet says, أَجِنَّكِ عِنْدِى أَحْسَنُ النَّاسِ كُلِّهِمْ [Because that thou art in my estimation the goodliest of all mankind]. (S.) The مِنْ is omitted as in the phrase فَعَلْتُهُ أَجْلَكَ for مِنْ أَجْلِكَ. (Ks, TA.) تَجْنِينٌ [an inf. n. used as a simple subst.,] What is said by the جِنّ [or genii]: or, accord. to Es-Sukkaree, strange, uncouth speech or language, difficult to be understood. (TA.) مُجَنٌّ: see مَجْنُونٌ.

مِجَنٌّ A shield; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) because the owner conceals, or protects, himself with it; (Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ مِجَنَّةٌ (Lh, K) and ↓ جُنَانٌ and ↓ جُنَانَةٌ: (K:) pl. مَجَانُّ. (S, Msb.) Sb held it to be of the measure فِعَلٌّ, from مجن; but his opinion is opposed by the fact that the word is of the form which is significant of an instrument, by the doubling of the ن, and by the syns. جنان and جنانة. (MF, TA.) It is said in a trad., that the hand [of a thief] shall not be cut off save for the value of a مِجَنّ; which in the time of the Prophet was a deenár, or ten dirhems; for this is the lowest amount for which that punishment is to be inflicted. (Mgh.) You say, قَلَبَ مِجَنَّهُ [He turned his shield], meaning (tropical:) He dropped shame, and did what he pleased: or he became absolute master of his affair, or case. (K, TA.) And قَلَبْتُ لَهُ ظَهْرَ المِجَنِّ [I turned towards him the outer side of the shield], meaning (assumed tropical:) I became hostile to him after reconciliation. (Har p. 265.) b2: Also A [woman's ornament such as is commonly called] وِشَاح (Az, K.) مَجَنَّةٌ A place in which one is veiled, concealed, hidden, covered, or protected; or in which one veils, conceals, hides, covers, or protects, himself. (S.) b2: A land having in it جِنّ: (S:) or abounding with جِنّ. (K.) A2: See also جُنُونٌ.

مِجَنَّةٌ: see مِجَنٌّ.

مَجْنُونٌ [Possessed by جِنِّىّ, or by جِنّ, or by a devil, or demon; a demoniac: (see Bd li. 39:) and hence meaning bereft of reason; or mad, insane, unsound in mind or intellect, or wanting therein: (see جُنُونٌ:) it may generally be rendered possessed; or mad, or insane:] part. n. of جُنَّ: (Msb:) or anomalously used as pass. part. n. of أَجَنَّهُ: (S, * K, * TA:) one should not say ↓ مُجَنٌّ: (S, TA:) [pl. مَجَانِينُ.] b2: نَخْلَةٌ مَجْنُونَةٌ (tropical:) A tall palm-tree: (S, K, TA:) pl. مَجَانِينُ. (S, TA.) And نَبْتٌ مَجْنُونٌ (tropical:) A plant, or herbage, that is tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, in part, and strong. (TA.) And أَرْضٌ مَجْنُونَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Land producing much herbage, that has not been depastured. (TA. [See also what next follows.]) أَرْضٌ مَتَجَنِّنَةٌ (tropical:) Land having much herbage, so that it extends in every way. (K, TA.) مَنْجَنُونٌ and مَنْجَنِينٌ: see art. منجن

حث

1 حَثَّهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. حَثٌّ, He hastened him, or hurried him uninterruptedly, or in any manner. (TA.) And حَثَّهُ عَلَيْهِ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. حَثٌّ, (S, Msb, K,) with which are syn. ↓ حُثْحُوثٌ [app. a quasi-inf. n.] and ↓ حِثِّيثَى [an intensive inf. n.]; and ↓ استحثّهُ; and ↓ حثّثهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَحْثِيتٌ; (S;) and ↓ احتثّهُ; (A, K;) and ↓ احثّهُ; (K;) and ↓ حَثْحَثَهُ; (S, A, K;) He incited, excited, urged, or instigated, him to it, or to do it, (S, A, Msb, K,) namely, a thing; (S, Msb;) syn. حَرَّضَهُ; (Msb;) or حَضَّهُ; (S, A, K;) or حَثَّ is used in relation to pace, or journeying, or marching; and حَضَّ in other cases: so says El-Hareeree, on the authority of Kh. (TA.) You say, حَثّ دَابّتَهُ, and ↓ حَثْحَثَهَا, [He incited, or urged, his beast,] بِالسَّوْطِ [with the whip]. (A.) And حَثَّ الفَرَسَ عَلَى العَدْوِ, and ↓ استحثّهُ, He made the horse to go quickly, or in a brisk or sprightly manner; or urged him to run by striking him with the foot, or by beating him. (Msb.) b2: See also R. Q. 1.2 حَثَّّ see 1.4 أَحْثَ3َ see 1.6 تحاثّوا, (S, A,) inf. n. تَحَاثٌّ, (K,) They incited, excited, urged, or instigated, one another. (K, TA.) You say, لَا يَتَحَاثَّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ المِسْكيِنِ They do not incite, excite, urge, or instigate, one another to feed the needy. (S, TA.) and التَّقْوَى أَصْلُ مَا تَحَاثُّ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ [Piety is the principal, or best, thing to which men incite one another.] (A, TA.) 8 احتثّ He was, or became, incited, excited, urged, or instigated. (S, K.) A2: See also 1. This verb is both trans. and intrans. (K.) 10 إِسْتَحْثَ3َ see 1, in two places. R. Q. 1 حَثْحَثَ: see 1, in two places. b2: Also He moved about [a thing]; or put [it] in motion, or into a state of commotion; (K;) [and so ↓ حَثَّ, as is implied in the M, voce فَدَّ, where it is used as meaning it (a bird) moved, or flapped, its wings.] You say, حَثْحَثَ المِيلَ فِى العَيْنِ He moved about the collyrium-style in the eye. (A, TA.) and [hence,] حَثْحَثُوا ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرَ ثُمَّ تَرَكُوهُ (assumed tropical:) They stirred up (حَرَّكُوا) that affair, and then left it, or abandoned it. (TA.) b3: He scattered about the utensils, or furniture, of his house, or tent; as also عَثْعَثَ. (TA in art. عث.) A2: Also, inf. n. حَثْحَثَةٌ, It was, or became, in a state of commotion: (L:) or in a state of consecutive motion. (TA.) It (lightning) was, or became, in a state of commotion, (K, TA,) as some say, (TA,) in the clouds. (K, TA.) b2: It (rain, and hail, and snow,) appeared and went away, without pouring down. (L.) A3: He (a man) slept. (TA.) حُثٌّ Small particles of straw. (S, K, TA.) b2: Anything bruised, brayed, or broken into small particles. (L.) b3: Coarse sand: (As, S:) or what is مُتَرَقْرِق, (K,) probably, [says SM,] a mistake for مَدْقُوق [broken into small particles], agreeably with an explanation of حُثٌّ in the L, for, as to مترقرق, [he adds,] I have not found it in any book, (TA, [meaning that he had not found a signification assigned to it that is appropriate here,]) of sand, and of earth, or dust: or what is dry, or firm, or hard, and coarse, of sand. (K, TA.) b4: Bread without any seasoning, or condiment, to render it pleasant, or savoury. (A'Obeyd, S, K.) b5: سَوِيقٌ حُثٌّ, (S, K,) as also عُثٌّ, (TA in art. عث,) [Meal of parched barley or wheat] not moistened, or stirred about, with water &c.; expl. by غَيْرُ مَلْتُوتٍ; (S, and in a similar manner in the K;) and in like manner حُثٌّ is applied to collyrium (كُحْل), and to musk: or سويق not finely ground. (TA.) [See also حُثٌّ.] b6: تَمْرٌ حُثٌّ Dates not sticking together. (IAar, TA.) [See also حَثٌّ.]

حَثَاثٌ and ↓ حِثَاثٌ Sleep; as also ↓ حَثْحَاثٌ and ↓ حُثْحُوثٌ. (TA.) You say, مَا ذُقْتُ حثاثًا I tasted not sleep. (TA.) And مَا اكْتَحَلْتُ حَثَاثًا and حِثَاثًا I slept not: (S, K:) As says the latter; but A 'Obeyd asserts the former to be the more correct: (S:) Th mentions both. (TA.) And مَا كَحَلْتُ عَيْنِى بِحثاثٍ I have not anointed my eye with sleep. (TA.) And مَا جَعَلْتُ فِى عَيْنِى حثاثًا [I have not put any sleep into my eye]; (A, TA;) meaning I have been very wakeful. (TA.) Or حثاث signifies Light, or little, sleep. (IDrst, TA.) It is related on the authority of an Arab of the desert that it signifies A little collyrium: and on the authority of El-Fihree, that it is syn. with بَرُودٌ, i. e. كُحْلٌ [collyrium]. (TA.) b2: نَوْمٌ حَثَاثٌ or حِثَاثٌ Little sleep. (TA.) [See also حَثِيثٌ.]

حِثَاثٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

حَثُوثٌ: see what next follows, in two places.

حَثِيثٌ, in the sense of حَاثَّةٌ, A woman inciting, exciting, urging, or instigating. (TA.) b2: and in the sense of مَحْثُوثَةٌ, A woman incited, excited, urged, or instigated. (TA.) [So, too, a man.]

b3: And [hence,] A sharp man, quick in his affair; as though his soul incited him; as also ↓ حَثُوثٌ. (TA.) b4: And Quick, or swift; as also ↓ حَثُوثٌ and ↓ حَثْحَاثٌ and ↓ حُثْحُوثٌ: (K:) pl. of the first حِثَاثٌ. (L.) You say فَرَسٌ حَثِيثُ السَّيْرِ [A horse quick, or swift, of pace]. (A.) and مَضَى حَثِيثًا (A, Msb) He passed, or went away, quickly, or swiftly. (Msb.) And وَلَّى حَثِيثًا He retreated quickly and eagerly. (S.) And قَرَبٌ

↓ حَثْحَاثٌ i. e. [A] quick [night-journey to water], in which is no flagging: (S:) or [a] hard [nightjourney to water]; as also ثَحْثَاحٌ and حَذْحَاذٌ. (TA.) And ↓ خِمْسٌ حَثْحَاثٌ i. e. [A journey in which the second and third and fourth days are without water,] in which is no flagging; as also حَذْ حَاذٌ: or long and fatiguing, in which is no flagging; as also قَعْقَاعٌ. (TA.) And ↓ حَيَّةٌ حَثْحَاثٌ A serpent that is in constant motion. (TA.) b5: نَوْمٌ حَثِيثُ Light sleep. (IDrst, TA.) [See also حَثَاثٌ.]

حِثِّيثَى: see 1.

حَثْحَاثٌ: see حَثَاثٌ: A2: and see also حَثِيثٌ, in four places.

حُثْحُوثٌ: see 1: A2: and see also حَثَاثٌ: A3: and حَثِيثٌ.

فَرَسٌ جَوَادُ المَحَثَّةِ A horse that runs repeatedly when incited [to do so]. (S.)

عط

1 عَطَّ الثَّوْبَ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. عَطٌّ, (S, O,) He slit, or rent, the garment, or piece of cloth, lengthwise, (Lth, S, O, K,) or breadthwise, without separation, (Lth, O, K,) but not heard by Mtr as meaning breadthwise in chaste language; (Har p. 636;) like ↓ عطّطهُ; (K;) or this, of which the inf. n. is تَعْطِيطٌ (S, O, TA) and تَعْطَاطٌ also, (TA,) is with teshdeed to denote muchness [of the action], or multiplicity [of the objects]: (S, O, * TA:) and الثَّوْبَ ↓ اعتطّ signifies [the same, or simply] he slit, or rent, the garment, or piece of cloth. (TA.) El-Mufaddal is related to have said that he had read in a copy of the Kur-án, [in xii. 28,] فَلَمَّا رَأَى قَمِيصَهُ عُطَّ مِنْ دُبُرٍ

[And when he saw that his shirt was rent in the hinder part]. (O, K. *) 2 عَطَّّ see the preceding paragraph.5 تَعَطَّّ see what next follows.7 انعطّ It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) became slit, or rent, (S, O, K,) lengthwise, or [accord. to some] breadthwise, without separation; as also ↓ تعطّط: (K:) or the latter signifies تَشَقَّقَ [as meaning it became slit, or rent, &c., much, or in several, or many, places; or is like the former verb but said of several, or many, garments, &c.]. (O.) b2: Also, said of a stick, or branch, or the like, It bent without breaking so as to part asunder. (Az, O, K.) 8 إِعْتَطَ3َ see 1. b2: [Hence,] one says, اعتطّ أَوَائِلَ القَوْمِ (tropical:) He clave the foremost persons of the people, or party. (TA.) عُطُطٌ [Wrappers of the kind called] مَلَاحِف [pl. of مِلْحَفَةٌ] slit, or rent; or slit, or rent, much, or in many places. (IAar, O, K.) عَطِيطٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, slit, or rent, [lengthwise, or, accord. to some, breadthwise, without separation;] as also ↓ مَعْطُوطٌ. (TA.) مَعَطٌّ [A place of slitting or rending &c.]. One says فَتْقٌ وَاسِعُ المَعَطِّ [A rent of which the place of slitting is wide]. (TA.) مَعْطُوطٌ: see عَطِيطٌ.

صوف: صَوَّف: صَوَّفه. جعله صوفّياً (محيط المحيط).
صَوَّف: تعفَن، عَفِن (بوشر).
صُوف: شملة، نسيج يتخذ من الصوف وشعر الماعز ويلقى على الكتفين، نسيج من الصوف والحرير (بوشر).
صُوف: زغب (بوشر).
صوف البَحْر: هو ليس الطحلب والأشنة كما يقول لين ناسياً ان الصاد العربية تقابل الزاي العبرية وليس الصاد ولذلك رأي مخطئاً أن كلمة صوف هي نفس كلمة صوف العبرية التي لا علاقة لها بها.
وفي مادة تستحق الاعتبار لابن البيطار (2: 141) أو بالأحرى لأستاذه أبو العباس النباتي يؤكد فيها أن العرب يطلقون اسم صوف البحر على ما يسميه اليونان ابيا اكس اكسلارنس اوفليونوفا أوكسفكسوف ابيوف. وما يسميه الإيطاليون الآن لانابينا أي الألياف التي تنتجها الرخويات الكبيرة المسماة الصفة البحرية أو المثلثة الأصداف والتي تربط بها صدفتها على الصخور.
وهذه الألياف الناعمة الدقيقة التي تشبه الحرير كانت تستخدم منذ القدم لصنع نسيج فاخر وذلك لجمال ألوانه الطبيعية والذي يلمع كما لو كان قد نثر عليه مسحوق الذهب. واكثر ما يفعل ذلك سكان شواطئ البحر الأبيض المتوسط. كما يصنعون منه جوارب وقفافيز غالية الثمن. وكانوا يصنعون منه جوخاً ثميناً بعد خلطه بالصوف. (انظر ترتولين، دي باليو ص47، طبعة سويس وتعليقة هذا العالم ص172 - 175، معجم العلوم الطبيعية المجلد 32 ص157، 319، مجلة العلوم الطبيعية لسنة 1857 ص350).
إن مقالة ابن البيطار التي لم يحسن سونثيمر ترجمتها وحرف ما فيها من أسماء هي من الطول بحيث لا يمكن نقلها هنا. ولكن إليك ما يقوله الاصطخري (ص42): ((يرى في سنتارم في بعض فصول السنة حيوان يأتي من البحر ويحتك ببعض صخور الساحل ويترك عليها وبراً في لون الذهب ليناً ناعماً كالحرير لا يختلف عنه في شيء، وهذه المادة نادرة جداً وغالية الثمن جداً، تجمع وينسج منها قماش يتلون كل يوم بألوان مختلفة. والأمراء الأمويون في الأندلس هم اللذين يختصون به، ولا يمكن الحصول على شيء منه إلا سراً. والقطعة من هذا النسيج قيمتها أكثر من ألف دينار)).
وفي البيان (2: 319): أن المنصور وزع في إحدى غزواته وعشرين كساء من صوف البحر، وكان هذا الكساء يشبه الكلادس الذي ذكره بروكوب فيما نقله سوينر.
صوف الكلب: تعبير يتمثل به كما يقال (لبن الطير) ويراد به شيئاً غير موجود (الثعالبي لطائف ص26، فالنون ص40).
صُوفَة. صوفتُه حَمْراء: تقول العامة فلان صوفته حمراء أي إنه عرضة للتهم يسرع إليه ظن السوء (محيط المحيط).
صَوفَة: تسفنجة (فوك) وفيه صَوْفة.
صُوفَة: بالمعنى القديم لحارس الكعبة. وهذه الكلمة التي تكتب صوفي أيضاً هي الكلمة العبرية: زوقة ومعناها حارس. انظر بنو إسرائيل في مكة (ص184 - 185).
صَوفان: بقل قصير ذو زغب. والحَرُّوق وهو ما تقع فيه النار عند القدح يتخذ من البقل المذكور وغيره. (بوشر، محيط المحيط، همبرت ص196، الجريدة الآسيوية 1850، 1: 229) وترجمة كاترمير فيها نسيج من الصوف ترجمة غير صحيحة.
صوفانة: واحدة الصوفان للبقل المذكور، وللَحُّروق (بوشر).
صُوِفيّ: مرتدي الصوف. ففي رياض النفوس (ص83 ق): عليه جُبَّة من صوف - فقلت له السلام عليك يا صوفي.
تَوْحيد التَصوُّف: علم اللاهوت (دوماس بيل ص63).
العلم التصوفي: علم الصوفية (ابن بطوطة 4: 344).
تَصْويف: تعفّن، شيء عَفِن (بوشر).
مُصَوَّف: ذو صوف، فيه كثير من الصوف (ألكالا، ابن البيطار 1: 5، 535) وفي رياض النفوس (ص78 ق): فأخذ ركوته وجلداً مصوفاً كان عنده. وفي موضع آخر منه: وذكر عنه إنه لم يكن في بيته غير كتبه وجلد مصوف وركوة معلقة وناموسة.
مُصَوَّف: كثيف الشعر ومجعَّده (ألكالا). مسْتَصْوف: هو الذي يشبه نفسه بالصوفي (محيط المحيط).

صوف

1 صَافَ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ (S, O,) inf. n. صَوْفٌ and صُؤُوفٌ; and صَوِفَ, (S, O, K,) inf. n. صَوَفٌ; (S;) He (a ram) had much صُوف [or wool], (S, O, K,) after having little thereof. (S, O.) A2: صاف السَّهْمُ عَنِ الهَدَفِ, aor. ـُ and يَصِيفُ, (S, M, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. صَوْفٌ and صَيْفٌ and صَيْفُوفَةٌ, (O and K in art. صيف,) The arrow turned aside from the butt: (S, M, O, Msb, K:) like ضاف. (S and O in art. ضيف.) And صاف عَنِّى وَجْهُهُ His face turned away from me. (K.) And صاف عَنِّى شَرُّهُ, (S, M, O,) aor. ـُ inf. n. صَوْفٌ, (M,) His (a man's, S, O) evil, or mischief, turned away from me. (S, * M, O. *) 2 صوّف الكَرْمُ The grape-vine showed its fruitstalks [anew] after the cutting off of its fruit-(M,) 4 اصاف اللّٰهُ عَنِّى شَرَّهُ God turned away, or may God turn away, from me his evil, or mischief. (S, K.) [Mentioned also in art. صيف.]5 تصّوف He became a صُوفِىّ: (Msb:) he devoted himself to religious exercises; or applied himself to devotion: or he asserted himself to do so: (TA:) but it is post-classical. (Msb.) صَافٌ (S, M, O, K) and ↓ صَائِفٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and ↓ صَافٍ, (M, O, K,) which last is formed by transposition [from the second], (M,) and ↓ صَوِفٌ (M, O, K) and ↓ أَصْوَفُ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and ↓ صُوفَانٌ (AHeyth, TA) and ↓ صُوفِانِىٌّ, (M, O, K,) A ram having much صُوف [or wool]: (S, M, O, Msb, K:) fem. with ة, (K, [in which it seems to refer only to the last, i. e.]) the fem. epithet is ↓ صُوفَانِيَّةٌ, (O,) or ↓ صُوفَانَةٌ, (AHeyth, and so in a copy of the M,) and صَافَةٌ also. (M.) b2: and لِمَّةٌ صَافَةٌ [A lock of hair hanging down below the lobe of the ear] of which the hair is like صُوف [i. e. wool]. (M.) A2: See also صُوفٌ.

A3: And see art. صيف.

صَافٍ: see the next preceding paragraph.

صُوفٌ [Wool;] an appertenance of sheep, (in the S لِلشَّاةِ, in the M لِلْغَنَمِ, and in the O and Msb [more definitely] لِلضَّأْنِ,) which is to them like شَعَرٌ to goats and وَبَرٌ to camels: (M:) [in the K only said to be well know:] n. un. صُوفَةٌ, (M,) [i. e.] this latter has a more particular signification [meaning a portion, flock, tuft, or wisp, of wool]: (S, O, Msb, K:) and sometimes صُوفٌ is used in the sense of the n. un., as mentioned by Sb: (M:) the pl. of صُوفٌ is أَصْوَافٌ [meaning sorts of wool]: (M:) and the dim. of the n. un. is ↓ صُوَيْفَةٌ. (TA.) One says خَرْقَآءُ وَجَدَتْ صُوفًا [An unskilful woman that has found wool]: (As, O, K:) a prov. (As, O) relating to property possessed by such as does not deserve to have it: (As, TA:) because the unskilful woman, when she lights upon wool, mars it, (O, K,) not spinning it well: (O:) applied to the stupid person who finds property and wastes it; (O, K;) or to him who finds that of which he knows not the value, and wastes it. (Z, TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ يَلْبَسُ الصُّوفَ وَالقُطْنَ, meaning Such a one wears what is made of wool and of cotton. (A, TA.) In the saying of a poet, حَلْبَانَةٍ رَكْبَانَةٍ صَفُوفِ تَخْلِطُ بَيْنَ وَبَرٍ وَصُوفِ [Of one that is milked and ridden, that yields a row of bowls of her milk, (but see صَفُوفٌ, of which other explanations have been given,) that mingles camels' fur and wool], the latter hemistich means, as Th says, accord. to IAar, that is sold, and with the price whereof are purchased camels and sheep: or, accord. to As, that is quick in her pace; the drawing back of her fore legs being likened to [the motion of] the bow of the نَدَّاف who mixes camels' fur and wool. (M.) One says also, أَخَذْتُ بِصُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ (S, M, K, but in the M أَخَذَ,) and بِصُوفَتِهَا (M, O) and ↓ بِصَافِهَا, (M, K,) and بِطُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ and بِطَافِهَا, and بِظُوفِ زَقَبَتِهِ and بِظَافِهَا, and بِقُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ and بِقَافِهَا, (S, O,) meaning (tropical:) [I laid hold upon] the pendent hair in the hollow of the back of his neck: (IDrd, S, M, O, K:) or the downy hairs upon the back of his neck: (M, O:) or the skin of his neck: (IAar, S, O, K:) or the back of his neck, altogether: (Fr, S, O, K:) or I took him by force: (Abu-l-Ghowth, S, O, K:) or I followed him, thinking that I should not reach him, and overtook him; and this one says whether he lay hold upon his neck or not. (Abu-s-Semeyda', S, O, K.) And أَعْطَاهُ بِصُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ (tropical:) [He gave it altogether]; like أَعْطَاهُ بِرُمَّتِهِ: or (as expl. by A' Obeyd, S, O) he gave it gratuitously; not taking a price. (S, O, K.) b2: صُوفُ البَحْرِ [lit. The wool of the sea] is a thing [or substance] in the form of the animal صُوف [i. e., of wool; evidently meaning sea-weed resembling wool; such as is found in abundance thrown up on the beaches of the Red Sea: and that this is generally, if not in every instance, meant by the identical Hebrew word סוּף, as used in the Bible, has been most satisfactorily shown in art. “ Red Sea ” (by my deeply-lamented nephew Edward Stanley Poole) in Dr. William Smith's “ Dictionary of the Bible ”]: it is said in one of the أَبَدِيَّات, [see art. ابد,] لَا آتِيكَ مَا بَلَّ بَحْرٌ صُوفَةً [I will not come to thee as long as a sea wets a portion of صُوف], or, as Lh relates it, مَا بَلَّ البَحْرُ صُوفَهُ [as long as the sea wets its صُوف; meaning, ever]. (M, TA.) صَوِفٌ: see صَافٌ.

صُوفَةٌ n. un. of صُوفٌ [q. v.]. (M &c.) b2: [Also applied by physicians to A pessary, or suppository, of wool, containing a medicament of some kind, to be inserted into the vagina or rectum.]

A2: Also Any of those who had the management of aught of the work of the بَيْت [meaning the House of God, i. e. the Kaabeh], and who were called ↓ الصُّوفَانُ: (M:) [accord. to the TA, it is said that الصُّوفَانُ and الصُّوفَةُ are both alike appel-lations applied to any of such persons:] J and others say that صُوفَةٌ was the father of a tribe of Mudar, who used to serve the Kaabeh, and to return with the pilgrims from ' Arafát, in the Time of Ignorance; and it is implied in the S [that they were also called آلُ صُوفَانَ, or] that صُوفَة was also called صُوفَان; and in a saying of Z, that الصُّوفَان and آلُ صُوفَان were appellations of one and the same people: [hence, app., the applications of صُوفَةٌ and صُوفَانٌ to any servants of the Kaabeh:] but accord. to Sgh and the K, آلُ صُوفَانَ is a mistake for آلُ صَفْوَانَ. (TA.) صُوفَانٌ, and its fem., with ة: see صَافٌ: A2: and for the former see also صُوفَةٌ.

A3: Also [A species of agaric, i. e., of the kind of fungus thus called;] a certain thing [or substance] that comes forth from the heart of trees, flaccid and dry, in which fire is struck, and which is the best of things for the purpose of those who strike fire. (TA.) صُوفَانَةٌ, applied to a ewe, is fem. of صُوفَانٌ: see صَافٌ. (AHeyth, TA.) b2: Also A certain herb, or leguminous plant, (بَقْلَةٌ,) downy, (M, K,) and short, (K,) mentioned by Aboo-Nasr as of the kind termed أَحْرَار [pl. of حُرٌّ], but not specifically described by him. (AHn, M.) صُوفِىٌّ, a post-classical word, A man of the people called the صُوفِيَّة: (Msb:) [formerly applied to any devotee: afterwards, particularly, to a mystic; one who seeks to raise himself to a high degree of spiritual excellence by contemplation of divine things so as to elicit the mysteries thereof:] the صُوفِيَّة may be so called [from the Greek sofos: or] in relation to the people called آلُ صُوفَان, [see صُوفَةٌ,] as resembling them in the devotion of themselves to religious exercises: or in relation to those called أَهْلُ الصُّفَّةِ, wherefore they are also called الصُّفِّيَّةُ: or in relation to الصُّوف [i. e. wool], which is proper to devotees and recluses: this last is the derivation commonly received. (TA.) صُوفَانِىٌّ; and its fem., with ة: see صَافٌ.

صُوَيْفَةٌ dim. of صُوفَةٌ, n. un. of صُوفٌ, q. v. (TA.) صَوَّافٌ A manufacturer of صُوف [or wool, or of woollen garments &c.]. (TA.) صَائِفٌ: see صَافٌ.

صَيِّفَةٌ, originally صَيْوِفَةٌ, A [garment of the kind called] جُبَّة having much صُوف [or wool]. (TA.) أَصْوَفُ: see صَافٌ.

عس

1 عَسَّ, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S, A, O, Msb,) inf. n. عَسٌّ (S, O, Msb, K) and عَسَسٌ; (S, O, K;) and ↓ اعتسّ; (S, O, K;) He went roundabout, patrolled, or went the rounds, by night, (S, A, O, K,) to guard the people: (TA:) he made search by night after suspicious persons, or persons to be suspected, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) and investi-gated, or discovered, their opinions, or sentiments: (TA:) he went to and fro; syn. اِخْتَلَفَ. (Ham p. 320.) It is said in a prov., كَلْبٌ عَسَّ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَلْبٍ رَبَضَ, (S, O,) or ↓ اعْتَسَّ; (O, K;) or, as some relate it, عَاسٌّ, and رَابِضٍ; (TA;) [A dog that has gone the rounds by night is better than a dog that has lain down; or a dog going the rounds &c.;] said for the purpose of urging to make gain: meaning that he who occupies himself in business is better than he who lacks power or ability: (TA:) or, as some relate it, كَلْبٌ عَسَّ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَسَدٍ

انْدَسَّ [a dog that has gone the rounds by night is better than a lion that has hidden himself]; alluding to the superiority of the weak who occupies himself in making gain over the strong who holds back. (O, TA.) You also say of a wolf, (S, O, K,) and of any beast of prey, (TA,) ↓ عَسْعَسَ, meaning, He went roundabout by night, (S, O, K, TA,) seeking for prey: (TA:) and ↓ تَعَسْعَسَ he (a wolf, TA) sought for prey (S, O, K, TA) by night: (S, TA:) and ↓ اعتسّ he [a man] sought, sought after, or sought to gain, sustenance: (S, O, K:) and ↓ تَعَسْعَسَ he (a wolf, AA, S) smelt [app. to find prey]. (AA, S, O, K. *) A2: عَسَّ خَبَرُهُ, (S, L, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. عَسٌّ, (L, TA,) His tidings were slow, or tardy. (S, L, K, TA. [In the O, خَيْرُهُ.]) b2: عَسَّتْ, aor. ـُ She (a camel) yielded little milk, though her milk had collected in her udder since the next previous milking. (TA.) b3: And عَسَّتْ, aor. ـُ inf. n. عِسَاسٌ, She (a camel) grumbled much on being milked. (TA.) Hence, دَرَّتْ عِسَاسًا She yielded her milk unwillingly. (IDrd, O, K, TA.) b4: And عَسَّتْ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ (S, O, TA,) inf. n. عَسٌّ, (TA,) She (a camel) pastured alone. (S, O, K.) b5: and عَسَّ عَلَىَّ بِخَيْرِهِ He was parsimonious to me with his wealth. (AA, TA.) A3: عَسَّهُ, (A,) aor. ـُ (S, A,) inf. n. عَسٌّ; (A;) and ↓ اعتسّهُ; (S, * K, * TA;) He sought, or sought for or after, him [or it]: (S, * A, K: *) or the latter, he sought, or sought for or after, it (a thing) by night. (TA.) You say, ذَهَبَ يَعُسُّ صَاحِبَهُ He went away seeking his companion. (A.) And الإِبِلَ ↓ اِعْتَسَسْنَا وَلَا قِسَاسًا ↓ فَمَا وَجَدْنَا عِسَاسًا We sought for the camels, or sought for them by night, and found not any trace. (TA.) And الآثَارَ ↓ فُلَانٌ يَعْتَسُّ Such a one traces footsteps. (A.) And ↓ يَعْتَسُّ الفُجُورَ He follows vice, immorality, or unrighteousness. (A.) A4: عَسَّ القَوْمَ, (O, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. عَسٌّ, (TA,) He fed the people, or party, with somewhat little in quantity. (O, K, TA.) 8 إِعْتَسَ3َ see عَسَّ, in three places: b2: and عَسَّهُ, in four places. b3: You say also, اعتسّ بَلَدَ كَذَا He trod such a country, and knew its tidings. (TA.) b4: And اعتسّ النَّاقَةَ He sought to obtain the she-camel's milk. (TA.) b5: And اعتسّ الإِبِلَ He entered into the midst of the camels, and stroked their udders in order that they might yield their milk. (O, K. *) R. Q. 1 عَسْعَسَ: see عَسَّ. b2: عَسْعَسَ اللَّيْلُ The night came on: (AO, IAar, Msb:) or came on with its darkness; (TA;) its darkness came on: (IDrd, S, O, K:) or departed: (IDrd, O, K:) or it has this last meaning also; (AO, IAar, Msb;) bearing two contr. significations: (Ktr, AHát, Msb:) or was dark; meaning, all the night: (IAar:) Fr says that, in the Kur [lxxxi. 17], وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ, accord. to all the expositors, signifies and by the night when it departeth: but that some of his companions asserted the meaning to be when its commencement approacheth, and it becometh dark: like as you say عَسْعَسَ السَّحَابُ, (S, O,) which signifies the clouds approached the earth: (Fr, S, O, K:) or this is only said when it is in the night, with darkness and lightning. (Lth, O, TA.) R. Q. 2 تَعَسْعَسَ: see عَسَّ, in two places.

جئْ بِالمَالِ مِنْ عَسِّكَ وَبِسِّكَ (S, O, K) [Bring thou the property] from where it is and where it is not: (TA:) i. q. مِنْ حَسِّكَ وَبَسِّكَ: (S, O, K, TA:) which means thus: (TA in art. حس:) or whence thou wilt: (S, O, K, TA, ibid.:) or from any, or every, quarter. (TA ibid.) عُسٌّ A [drinking-cup or bowl, of the kind called] قَدَح: (TA:) or a large قَدَح, (S, A, Mgh, O, L, Msb, K,) from which two or three or more [men] may satisfy their thirst; (L, TA;) larger than the غُمَر; (L, voce رِفْدٌ:) though this is greater in height; (TA;) and larger than the قَعْب; (IAar, in TA, voce قَعْبٌ;) but not so large as the رِفْد: (S, O:) pl. عِسَاسٌ (S, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and عِسَسَةٌ (TA) and [pl. of pauc.]

أَعْسَاسٌ. (IAth, Msb.) b2: Hence, one says, هُوَ لَكَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ العُسِّ, meaning (assumed tropical:) It is apparent, manifest, or conspicuous, to thee. (O in art. ظهر.) A2: And The penis. (O, K.) عَسَسٌ: see عَاسٌّ.

عُسُسٌ Slowness, or tardiness. (TA.) A2: Also, [in the CK, erroneously, عُسْعُس,] Covetous merchants or traders: (IAar, O, K, * TA:) accord. to [some of] the copies of the K, it signifies تُجَّارٌ and حُرَصَآءُ; but the conjunction should be omitted. (TA.) A3: And Large vessels. (IAar, O, K.) عِسَاسٌ A trace, footstep, vestige, or the like: see 1, latter part. (TA.) عَسُوسٌ A seeker: (TA:) [see عَاسٌّ:] or a seeker, or pursuer, of prey, or game, (S, O, K, TA,) by night, or at any time; applied to a wolf, or to any beast of prey: (TA:) or a wolf, or, as some say, any beast of prey, that seeks much for prey by night; as also ↓ عَسَّاسٌ and ↓ عَسْعَسٌ and ↓ عَسْعَاسٌ: (TA:) and hence, (S,) ↓ each of the last three, (S, O, K,) as well as the first, (K,) a wolf: (S, O, K:) and the first (عسوس), a dog that pursues much, and will not eat. (TA.) A2: Also A she-camel that yields little milk: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or that will not yield her milk until she becomes remote from men: (O, K:) and one that, when she is roused to be milked, goes along awhile, then goes roundabout, and then yields her milk: (O, * K, * TA:) and one evil in disposition when milked, (O, K, TA,) that grumbles much, (O, TA,) and goes aside from the other camels: (TA:) and one that kicks the milker, and spills the milk: (TA:) and one whose udder is stroked to try if she have milk or not. (O, K.) Also A she-camel that pastures alone; (Az, S, O, K;) like قَسُوسٌ. (Az, S, O.) And A she-camel that seeks after bones, and eats the flesh upon them تَرْتَمّٰهَا [in the TK erroneously تريمها]). (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) b2: Also A woman who does not care for, or mind, her approaching men: (O, K:) or, accord. to Er-Rághib, who ventures upon that which occasions suspicion, or evil opinion. (TA.) b3: And A man in whom is little, or no, good or goodness; or who does little good. (O, K.) b4: And One who is slow, or tardy. (TA.) عَسِيسٌ: see عَاسٌّ.

عَسَّاسٌ: see عَسُوسٌ; each in two places.

عَسْعَسٌ: see عَسُوسٌ; each in two places.

عَسْعَاسٌ: see عَسُوسٌ, in two places.

A2: Also The سَرَاب [or mirage]. (O, K.) عَسَاعِسُ Hedge-hogs: because of their often going to and fro by night. (S, O, K.) عَاسٌّ One who patrols, or goes the rounds, by night, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) for the Sultán, (Msb,) to guard the people: (TA:) who makes search by night after suspicious persons, or persons to be suspected, (S, A, O, K,) and investigates, or discovers, their opinions, or sentiments: (TA:) and any seeker of a thing: (A:) used as a sing and pl.: or it is a quasi-pl. n. also: being, without idghám, [i. e., in its original form, عَاسِسٌ.] like بَاقِرٌ and جَامِلٌ: (TA:) or the pl. is ↓ عَسَسٌ, (S, * A; O, Msb, * K,) or this is a quasi-pl. n., (TA,) and ↓ عَسِيسٌ, like حَجِيجٌ, (O, K,) [or this is also a quasi-pl. n.,] and عُسَّاسٌ and عَسَسَةٌ. (TA.) [See طَائِفٌ.]

مَعَسٌّ A place where a thing is sought, or to be sought; syn. مَطْلَبٌ. (S, O, K.) ISd cites, as an ex., from El-Akhtal, مُعَفَّرَةٌ لَا يُكْنِهُ السَّيْفُ وَسْطَهَا

إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهَا مَعَسٌّ وَطَالِبُ [Defiled with dust, the sword will not reach the middle of it if there be not in it a place where something is to be sought and a seeker]. (TA.) You say also, هُوَ قَرِيبُ المَعَسِّ [He, or it, is near as to the place where he, or it, is to be sought]. (TK.)