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1 سَنَّهُ, (M, L, K,) [aor. ـُ inf. n. سَنٌّ, (M,) He (a man, M, L) bit him (another man, M, L) with his أَسْنَان [or teeth]. (M, L, K: but in the K, with the أَسْنَان.) [Hence, app.,] سُنَّتِ الأَرْضُ The herbage of the land was eaten. (L, K.) b2: And, (M, L, in the K “ or,”) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He broke his (a man's, M, L) أَسْنَان [or teeth]. (M, L, K.) b3: سُنَّتِ البَدَنَةُ: and سَنَّهَا اللّٰهُ: see 4. b4: Also, (accord. to the M and L, but accord. to the K “ or,”) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He pierced him, or thrust him, with the سِنَان [or spear-head]. (M, L, K.) And سَنَّهُ بِالرُّمْحِ He pierced him, or thrust him, with the spear. (L.) b5: And He fixed, or mounted, upon it (i. e. the spear) the سِنَان [or iron head]; (M, L, K;) and ↓ أَسَنَّهُ he put to it a سِنَان. (L.) b6: Also, (S, M, L, Msb, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, L, Msb,) He sharpened it, whetted it, or made it sharp-pointed, (S, M, L, Msb, K,) and polished it, (M, L, K,) namely, a thing, (M, L,) or a knife; (S, L, Msb, K;) and so ↓ سنّنهُ: (M, L, K:) and سَنَّ he sharpened, whetted, or made sharp-pointed, a spear-head upon the مِسَنّ: (L:) and he rubbed, or grated, a stone upon a stone. (Fr, L.) b7: [Hence,] سَنَّنِى هٰذَا الشَّىْءُ (assumed tropical:) This thing [sharpened my appetite;] made me desirous of food. (K.) The Arabs say [also] الحَمْضُ تَسُنُّ الإِبِلَ عَلَى الخُلَّةِ (assumed tropical:) The [plants, or trees, called]

حمض strengthen the camels [or sharpen their appetites] for the [plants, or trees, called] خلّة, like as the whetstone strengthens [or sharpens] the edge of the knife. (L.) b8: [Hence also,] سَنَّ

أَضْرَاسَهُ, (M, L, K, *) [aor. and] inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He rubbed and cleaned his teeth with the stick used for that purpose; (M, L, K;) as though he polished them. (M, L.) b9: And سَنَّ الإِبِلَ, (ISk, S, M, L,) or المَالَ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He tended well, (K,) or pastured and tended well, (ISk, S, L,) or pastured, and rendered fat, or plump, (M, L,) the camels, (ISk, S, M, L,) or the cattle; (K;) [so that they became in good condition, free from mange or the like;] as though he polished them. (ISk, S, M, L, K.) b10: And سَنُّوا المَالَ They sent the cattle into the pasturage. (El-Muärrij, S, L, K. *) b11: And سَنَّ الإِبِلَ, (M, L, K,) [aor. and] inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He drove the camels quickly: (M, L, K:) or, as some say, السَّنُّ signifies السَّيْرُ الشَّدِيدُ [i. e. the making to go vehemently; السَّيْرُ being here syn. with التَّسْيِيرُ]: (M, L:) you say, سَنَنْتُ النَّاقَةَ I made the she-camel to go (سِرْتُهَا, S, or سَيَّرْتُهَا, L) vehemently. (S, L.) b12: إٍنَّمَا إُنَسَّى لِأَسُنَّ, occurring in a trad., meaning I am made to forget only that I may drive men by directing to the right way, and show them what is needful for them to do when forgetfulness occurs to them, may be from سَنَّ [expl. above as] meaning “ he pastured and tended well ” the camels. (L.) b13: سَنَّ عَلَيْهِ المَآءَ, [aor. and inf. n. as above,] He poured forth the water upon him, or it; (M, L, K;) as also ↓ اسنّهُ: (Ham p. 611:) or he discharged the water gently upon him, or it. (M, L.) You say, سَنَنْتُ المَآءَ عَلَى وَجْهِى, (S, L,) or عَلَى الوَجْهِ, (Msb,) or سَنَّ المَآءَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ, (L,) or فِى وَجْهِهِ, (Mgh,) aor. as above, (Mgh, L,) and so the inf. n., (L,) I [or he] discharged the water without scattering upon his face: if scattering it in pouring, you say, شَنَنْتُ: (S, L:) or I, or he, poured the water gently (Mgh, L, Msb) upon the face, (Msb,) or upon his face. (Mgh, L.) And سَنَّ التُّرَابَ He poured the dust, or earth, gently upon the ground: (S, L:) and he put it gently upon a corpse. (L.) And سَنَّتِ العَيْنُ الدَّمْعَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, The eye poured forth tears. (M, L.) And اُسْنُنْ قُرُونَ فَرَسِكَ Make the [issues of] sweat to flow from thy horse by plying him hard, in order that he may become lean, or light of flesh: and سُنَّ لَهُ قَرْنٌ, and قُرُونٌ, An issue, and issues, of his sweat, was, and were, made to flow. (L.) سَنَّ عَلَيْهِ الدِّرْعَ, (S, M, L, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (S, M, L,) He put (lit. poured) upon him the coat of mail. (S, M, L, K.) b14: سَنَّ الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ The stallion threw down the she-camel (كَبَّهَا, in copies of the K [erroneously] رَكِبَهَا,) upon her face. (L, K. * [See also 3.]) b15: سَنَّ الطِّينَ He plastered pottery with the clay: (M, L:) or he made the clay into pottery. (M, L, K.) b16: سَنَّهُ, (S, L, K,) aor. as above, (S,) and so the inf. n., (S, L,) also signifies He formed it, fashioned it, or shaped it; (S, L, K;) namely, a thing: (K:) and some say, he made it long. (L.) b17: And [from the former of these two meanings, app.,] He instituted, established, or prescribed, it, i. e. a custom, practice, usage, or the like, whether good or bad; set the example of it; originated it as a custom &c. to be followed by others after him. (L.) You say, سَنَنْتُ لَكُمْ سُنَّةً فَاتَّبِعُوهَا [I have instituted &c., for you an institute, a custom, a practice, a usage, or the like, to be followed, therefore follow ye it]. (L.) And سَنَّ فُلَانٌ طَرِيقًا مِنَ الخَيْرِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, Such a one originated [or instituted] an act of goodness, or piety, [or a good, or pious, way of acting,] which his people knew not, and which they afterwards followed, or pursued. (L.) And سَنَّ اللّٰهُ سُنَّتَهُ لِلنَّاسِ God manifested, or made known, his statutes, or ordinances, and commands and prohibitions, [i. e. his laws,] to men: (M, L:) and سَنَّ اللّٰهُ سُنَّةً God manifested, or made known, a right way [of acting &c.]: (L:) [and in like manner one says of any one,] سَنَّ الأَمْرَ He manifested, or made known, the thing, affair, or case. (K.) b18: and سَنَّ سُنَّةً, (M, L,) or طَرِيقَةً, (K,) [aor. and] inf. n. as above, (M, L,) He pursued [a way, course, rule, mode, or manner, of acting or conduct or life or the like]; as also ↓ استنّها; (M, L;) or ↓ استسنّها; (so in the K;) and بِهَا ↓ استنّ: (K in art. سير:) and بِطَرِيقٍ مِنَ الخَيْرِ ↓ استسنّوا [They followed, or pursued, a good, or pious, way of acting]. (L.) It is said in a trad. respecting the Magians, أَهْلِ الكِتَابِ ↓ سُنُّوا بِهِمْ سُنَّةَ, i. e. Pursue ye with them the way of the People of the Scripture, or Bible; act with them as ye act with these; granting them security on the condition of receiving [from them] the [tax called]

جِزْيَة. (Mgh, L. *) A2: سُنَّ is also expl. as meaning He, or it, became altered for the worse, or stinking: so in a trad. of Barwaa the daughter of Wáshik, where it is said, كَانَ زَوْجُهَا سُنَّ فِى بِئْرٍ

[Her husband had become altered for the worse, or stinking, having died, in a well which he had descended]: from the saying in the Kur مِنْ حَمَأ

مَسْنُونٍ: [see مَسْنُونٌ:] but some say that he [who used this phrase] meant [to say, or meant thereby,] أَسِنَ, i. e. his head became affected with vertigo by reason of a foul odour that he smelt, and he swooned. (L.) 2 سنّنهُ: see 1, near the beginning. b2: [Hence,] سنّن المَنْطِقَ (assumed tropical:) He made the speech good, or beautiful; (M, L, K;) as though he polished it. (M, L.) b3: And سنّن إِلَيْهِ الرُّمْحَ, (M, L, K,) inf. n. تَسْنِينٌ, (M, L,) He directed, or pointed, the spear towards him, or it. (M, L, K.) 3 سانّ النَّاقَةَ, inf. n. مُسَانَّةٌ and سِنَانٌ, (S, M, L, K,) He (the stallion-camel) bit the she-camel with the fore part of the mouth: (L:) or he opposed himself to her, (M, L,) or drove her, (S, L,) or bit her with the fore part of the mouth, and drove her, (K,) to make her lie down, (S, M, L, K,) in order that he might cover her: (S, M, * L, K:) or he covered her without her desiring it, or before she desired it, by force. (IB, L.) 4 اسنّ, (S, M, L, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِسْنَانٌ, (Mgh, L, Msb,) said of a man, (S, M, L, Msb, K,) and of other than man, (Msb,) i. q. كَبِرَ [meaning He became advanced in age, or fullgrown], (S, L, Msb,) or كَبِرَتْ سِنُّهُ [which means the same]; (M, L, K;) as also ↓ استسنّ: (K:) but Az says that الإِسْنَانُ in the case of an animal of the ox-kind and of the sheep or goat, is not the same as in that of a man: for in such animals it means [the attaining to the age of] the coming forth of the [permanent] ثَنِيَّة [or central incisor]: (Msb:) or in such animals it means at least [the attaining to the age of] the shedding of the [tooth called] ثنيّة [which is generally said to be in the third year]; and at the utmost in such animals, [the attaining to the age of] what is termed الصُّلُوغ or السُّلُوغ [which is in the sixth year]; and at the utmost in camels, [the attaining to the age of] what is termed البُزُول [which is generally in the ninth year]. (Mgh, L.) [It is also expl. in the K as meaning His tooth grew forth: but the right explanation is one given in the Mgh and L; i. e. his tooth whereby he became مَسِنّ grew forth.] لَمْ يُسْنَنْ, occurring in a trad. of Ibn-'Omar, as some relate it, is a mistake for لَمْ يُسْنِنْ. (Mgh, L.) And البَدَنَةُ ↓ سُنَّتِ, a phrase mentioned by KT, as meaning The teeth of the بدنة grew forth, is also a mistake [for أَسَنَّت]. (L.) b2: You say also, اسنّ سَدِيسُ النَّاقَةِ The [tooth called] سديس of the she-camel grew forth, i. e. in the eighth year. (S, L.) A2: Also, said of God, He made a tooth to grow forth. (S, L, K.) اللّٰهُ ↓ سَنَّهَا, [referring to the teeth of a بَدَنَة,] a phrase mentioned by KT, is a mistake [for أَسَنَّهَا]. (L.) b2: See also 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in two places.5 تسنّن بِهِ [He took him, or it, as an exemplar, example, or object to be imitated]. (K voce قُدْوَةٌ.) b2: تسنّن فِى عَدْوِهِ He (a man) went at random, heedlessly, or in a headlong manner, in his running; as also ↓ استنّ. (M, L.) A2: See also 5 in art. سنه, last signification.6 تَسَانَّتِ الفُحُولُ i. q. تَكَادَمَت [meaning The stallion-camels bit one another with the fore part of the mouth]. (L, K.) 8 استنّ He rubbed and cleaned his teeth with the سِوَاك [or piece of stick used for that purpose]; (S, M, L, K;) he made use of the سِوَاك, passing it over his teeth. (L.) b2: And He took, or seized, with the teeth. (KL.) A2: استنّت العَيْنُ The eye poured forth its tears. (M, L.) b2: استنّ said of the blood of a wound made with a spear or the like, It issued in a gush. (Az, L.) b3: Said of the سَرَاب [or mirage], It was, or became, in a state of commotion, went to and fro, or quivered. (M, L, K.) b4: Said of a horse, i. q. قَمَصَ [app. as meaning He pranced, leaped, sprang, or bounded]: (S, K:) he frisked; or was brisk, lively, or sprightly: he ran, in his friskiness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, in one direction: he ran, by reason of his friskiness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, a heat, or two heats, without a rider upon him: (L:) he ran to and fro, by reason of briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness: from سَنَّ as signifying “ he poured forth ” water, and as signifying “ he sharpened ”

iron upon a whetstone. (Har p. 47.) It is said in a prov., اِسْتَنَّتِ الفِصَالُ حَتَّى القَرْعَى, (S, Meyd, L,) or الفُصْلَانُ, (Meyd,) i. e. The young weaned camels leaped, sprang, or bounded; (S * L;) even those affected with the small pustules called قَرَع; (Meyd, L;) which are small white pustules, the remedy for which is salt, and the butter (جُبَاب) of camels' milk: (Meyd:) when the healthy young weaned camels do thus, those affected with such pustules do the like in imitation, but become disabled from doing it by weakness: the prov. is applied to the man who introduces himself among a people, or party, to whom he does not belong: (L:) or to him who speaks with one before whom he should not speak by reason of the greatness of his rank: and some related it differently, saying, القُرَيْعَى [which is the dim. of القَرْعَى]; (Meyd;) and القُرْعُ [which is pl. of الأَقْرَعُ, q. v.]: and some say that استنّت الفِصَالُ signifies the young weaned camels became fat, or plump, and their skins became [sleek] like مَسَانّ [or whetstones]. (L.) And it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, رَأَيْتُ

أَبَاهُ يَسْتَنُّ بِسَيْفِهِ كَمَا يَسْتَنُّ الجَمَلُ, meaning [I saw his father] exulting with briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, and brandishing his sword, [like as the camel exults with briskness, and lashes with his tail.] (L.) See also 5. b5: [Also He took, held, or followed, the سَنَن, i. e., road, or way, or main and middle part thereof: and he, or it, was, or lay, in the way. Hence,] one says, خُذْ مَا اسْتَنَّ, meaning [Take thou what lies in the way;] what is easily attainable; what offers itself without difficulty. (AA, TA voce اِنْتَدَبَ.) b6: See also 1, near the end of the paragragh, in two places.10 إِسْتَسْنَ3َ see 4: A2: and see also 1, near the end of the paragraph, in two places. b2: اِسْتَسَنَّتِ الطَّرِيقُ The road was travelled. (K.) R. Q. 1 سَنْسَنَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind blew coldly, or coolly; as also نَسْنَسَت: so in the Nawádir. (L.) سِنٌّ i. q. ضِرْسٌ [as meaning A tooth; in which sense this latter word is often used; though it is frequently restricted to a molar tooth, or to any of the teeth except the central incisors]: (M, L, K:) [or, accord. to some, a single tooth; i. e. one that is not of the double, or molar, kind; as shown by a description in what follows:] of the fem. gender: (S, M, L, Msb:) pl. أَسْنَانٌ (S, M, L, Msb, K) and أَسِنَّةٌ and أَسُنٌّ, (M, L, K,) the last of these mentioned by Lh, and this and the second anomalous; (M, L;) or the second is allowable as pl. of the first of these pls.; (S;) or it is pl. of the سِنَان of the spear; but may also be pl. of أَسْنَانٌ as pl. of سِنٌّ applied to herbage upon which camels pasture, in an instance to be cited in what follows: (A'Obeyd, T, L:) the vulgar say إِسْنَان and أُسْنَان, which are wrong: (Msb:) the أَسْنَان of a human being consist of four ثَنَايَا, and four رَبَاعِيَات, and four أَنْيَاب, and four نَوَاجِذ, and sixteen أَضْرَاس: or, as some say, four ثنايا, and four رباعيات, and four انياب, and four نواجذ, and four ضَوَاحِك, and twelve أَرْحَآء: (Msb:) or the أَسْنَان and أَضْرَاس together make up the number of thirty-two; the ثنابا are four, two above and two below [in the middle]; next are the رباعيات, which are four, two above and two below; next are the انياب, which are four [likewise, two above and two below]; and next are the اضراس, which are twenty, on each side five above and five below; and of these [last] the four that are next to the انياب are the ضواحك; next to each ناب, above and below, is a ضَاحِك; next to the ضواحك are the طَوَاحِن, also called the أَرْحَآء, which are twelve, on each side [above and below] three; and next to these are the نواجذ, which are the last of the teeth in growth, and the last of the اضراس, on each side of the mouth one above and one below: (Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) the dim. of سِنٌّ is ↓ سُنَيْنَةٌ, because it is fem. (S.) One says, لَا آتِيكَ سِنَّ الحِسْلِ, (S, M, L,) i. e. I will not come to thee as long as remains the tooth of the young one of the [kind of lizard called]

ضَبّ; (M, L;) meaning, ever; (S, M, * L;) because the حسل never sheds a tooth: (S, L:) or, as Lh relates it, on the authority of ElMufaddal, سِنَّىْ حِسْلٍ; [using the dual form of سِنٌّ;] and [it may be rendered, accord. to the former reading, (assumed tropical:) during the life of the young one of the ضّب, for] he says, they assert that the ضبّ lives three hundred years, and that it is the longest-lived creeping thing upon the earth. (M, L.) A poet (Aboo-Jarwal El-Jushamee, whose name was Hind, L) says, describing camels taken as a bloodwit, فَجَآءَتْ كَسِنِّ الظَّبْىِ لَمْ أَرَ مِثْلَهَا بَوَآءَ قَتِيلٍ أَوْ حَلُوبَةَ جَائِعِ [And they came; (assumed tropical:) like the age of the gazelle was the age of every one of them: I have not seen the like of them for an equivalent of a slain person, or a milch camel of one hungry: (I have given a reading of this verse that I have found in the M and TA in art. ظبى, instead of that in the present art. in the S and L, in which سنآءَ and سَنَآءَ are put in the place of بَوَآءَ app. for سِنَآءَ, an inf. n. of سَانَاهُ, and as such here meaning a soothing, or the like:)] he means that they were ثُنْيَان, [pl. of ثَنِىٌّ], because the ثَنِىّ is one shedding [or that has shed] his ثَنِيَّة, and the gazelle has no ثَنِيَّة [in the upper jaw], so that he is always [one that may be termed] a ثَنِىّ. (S, L.) It is said in a trad., إِذَا سَافَرْتُمْ فِى الخِصْبِ فَأَعْطُوا الرُّكُبَ

أَسِنَّتَهَا, [expl. as] meaning When ye journey in the land abounding with herbage, enable ye the ridden beasts to take of the pasturage: (S, L:) but Az states that A'Obeyd says, I know not أَسِنَّة except as pl. of the سِنَان of the spear; and if the trad. be [correctly] preserved in memory, it seems to be pl. of أَسْنَان; for سِنٌّ [sometimes] signifies the [portion of] herbage upon which camels pasture; and its pl. is أَسْنَانٌ; one says, أَسْنَانٌ مِنَ المَرْعَى; and the pl. of أَسْنَانٌ is أَسِنَّةٌ: Aboo-Sa'eed says that this last is pl. of سِنَانٌ, not of أَسْنَانٌ, and ↓ سِنَانٌ is applied to the [plants, or trees, called] حَمْض, as meaning (assumed tropical:) a strengthener [i. e. a sharpener of the appetite] of the camels for the [plants, or trees, called] خُلَّة: [see a phrase in the earlier part of the first paragraph:] in like manner, also, [he says,] when they light upon what is termed سِنٌّ مِنَ المَرْعَى [a portion of pasturage], this is termed عَلَى السَّيْرِ ↓ سِنَانٌ [a strengthener, or sharpener, for journeying]: this explanation is approved by Az, and likewise that of A'Obeyd: it is also related, on the authority of Fr, that السِّنُّ signifies the eating vehemently: [a signification mentioned in the K as well as in the L:] and Az says, I have heard more than one of the Arabs say, أَصَابَتِ الإِبِلُ اليَوْمَ سِنًّا مِنَ المَرْعَى

[The camels have obtained to-day a good portion of pasturage] when they have eaten well of the best of the pasturage: Z says that ↓ أَعْطُوا الرُّكُبَ أَسِنَّتَهَا means (assumed tropical:) Give ye to the ridden beasts what will prevent their being slaughtered; for when their owner pastures them well, they become fat, and goodly in his eye, and therefore he withholds himself, with niggardliness, from slaughtering them, and this [condition of them] is likened to أَسِنَّة [as meaning “ spear-heads ”] pl. of سِنَانٌ: [see also أَخَذَتْ رِمَاحَهَا, said of camels, voce رُمْحٌ:] or if the pl. of سِنٌّ be intended by it, the meaning is, enable ye them [i. e. the ridden beasts] to take of the pasturage; and hence the trad., أَعْطُوا السِّنَّ حَظَّهَا مِنَ السِّنِّ, i. e. Give ye the possessors of the سِنّ [meaning tooth] their share of the سِنّ which is the pasture. (L.) السِّنُّ is also used for ذَوَاتُ السِّنِّ [The possessors of the tooth] as meaning the slave and horses and the like and other animals, [collectively, in like manner as خُفٌّ and حَافِرٌ are used,] in a trad. of 'Omar. (L.) And it is said in a trad. of Ibn-Dhee-Yezen, لَأُوطِئَنَّ أَسْنَانَ العَرَبِ كَعْبَهُ, for ذَوِى أَسْنَانِ العَرَبِ, meaning [I will assuredly make] the great men and the nobles [of the Arabs to tread upon his ankle]. (L.) [But اسنان in this instance may be pl. of سِنٌّ in the sense here next following; so that ذوى اسنان may be rendered the advanced in age.]) b2: Hence, (L,) (tropical:) Life; (S, M, L, Msb;) metaphorically used in this sense as indicative of its length and its shortness; (L;) [for the teeth vary with the length of life;] the measure, (K,) or extent, of life; (Msb, K;) [the age attained;] used in relation to human beings and others: (M, L, K:) of the fem. gender in this sense also, (M, L, Msb,) because meaning مُدَّةٌ: (Msb:) pl. أَسْنَانٌ, (M, L, K,) only. (M, L.) You say رَجُلٌ حَدِيثُ السِّنِّ, meaning (assumed tropical:) A young man. (S, Msb, K, all in art. حدث.) And جَاوَزْتُ أَسْنَانَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِى (assumed tropical:) [I have exceeded] the lives of the people of my house. (L.) And صَدَقَنِى سِنَّ بَكْرِهِ [and سِنُّ بَكْرِهِ, expl. in art. بكر]. (L.) b3: And (assumed tropical:) A like, an equal, or a match, in age, of another; (M, L, K;) like تِنٌّ; (M, L;) as also ↓ سَنِينٌ, (M, L, K,) and ↓ سِنِينٌ, (L,) or ↓ سَنينَةٌ: (M, K:) in this sense also fem.; and [therefore] the dim. is ↓ سُنَيْنَةٌ; (L;) one says, اِبْنِى سُنَيْنَةُ ابْنِكَ [My son is the equal in age of thy son]: (El-Kanánee, L:) and the pl. is أَسُنٌّ and أَسْنَانٌ. (L.) b4: Also (assumed tropical:) A tooth of a مِنْجَل [or reaping-hook]: (M, L, K: *) pl. أَسْنَانٌ, signifying its أُشُر. (L and K in art. اشر.) b5: [And (assumed tropical:) A tooth of a comb.] The Arabs say كَأَسْنَانِ المُشْطِ meaning (assumed tropical:) [Like the teeth of the comb] in equality, in respect of any state, or condition: but if they mean equality in respect of evil, they say سَوَاسِيَةٌ كَأَسْنَانِ الحِمَارِ [Equals like the teeth of the ass]; سواسية being an anomalous pl. of سَوَآءٌ. (Har p. 39.) b6: and (assumed tropical:) The nib, i. e. the place of paring, of a writingreed: (S, L, K:) [and each lateral half of that part; for] the writing-reed has a right سِنّ and a left سِنّ: (TA in art. حرف:) [and ↓ سِنَّةٌ occurs in the K voce جِلْفَةٌ as meaning the point of a writing-reed.] One says, أَطِلْ سِنَّ قَلَمِكَ وَسَمِّنْهَا وَحَرِّفْ قِطَّتَكَ وَأَيْمِنْهَا [Make long the nib, or pared portion, of thy writing-reed, and make it thick (lit. fat), and make thy mode of cutting the extremity of the nib oblique, and make it to incline towards the right]. (S, L. *) b7: A tooth [or pin] of a key [app. of the kind of wooden lock called ضَبَّة, q. v.]. (MA.) b8: See also سِنْسِنٌ. b9: Also, (M, K, and A and K in art. فص,) or ↓ سِنَّةٌ, (S, JM,) A clove, (فَصٌّ, S and A as syn. with سِنٌّ in art. فص, and JM in explanation of سِنَّةٌ in the present art., or فَصَّةٌ, S and L in explanation of سِنَّةٌ,) or a حَبَّة [app. here meaning small distinct portion] of the head [app. here meaning bulb], (M and L and K in explanation of سِنٌّ,) of garlic. (S, M, A, L, K, JM.) A2: [Accord. to some,] one says, وَقَعَ فُلَانٌ فِى سِنِّ رَأْسِهِ, meaning Such a one fell into [what equalled] the number of his hairs, of good, (M, * L, K, *) and of evil: (L:) or, as some say, into what he willed, or wished, and had authority to decide: (L, K:) but this is a mistranscription: (Meyd:) the correct saying is فِى سِىِّ رَأْسِهِ, (Az, Meyd, L,) and سَوَآءِ رَأْسِهِ, meaning he fell into a state of enjoyment, or welfare; (Meyd;) the former sometimes expl. as meaning, [he lighted upon, or came upon, what equalled] the number of the hairs of his head, of wealth, or good: (A'Obeyd, Meyd:) or what equalled [the hairs of] his head, of abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life: (Az, L, and Meyd * on the authority of IAar:) the saying is a prov. (Meyd.) A3: السِّنُّ also signifies The wild bull. (L, K.) سَنَّةٌ, (K,) or ↓ سِنَّةٌ, (so in the L,) A she-bear; syn. دُبَّةٌ. (K: in the L دِبَّة.) And A she-lynx: syn. فَهْدَةٌ. (L, K.) سُنَّةٌ A way, course, rule, mode, or manner, of acting or conduct or life or the like; syn. طَرِيقَةٌ, (Mgh, L, Msb,) as also ↓ سَنَنٌ, (S, L,) and سِيرَةٌ; (S, M, L, Msb, K;) whence the saying, سُنُّوا بِهِمْ سُنَّةَ أَهْلِ الكِتَابِ, expl. in the first paragraph of this art., last sentence but one, (Mgh,) and the saying of the Hudhalee [Khálid Ibn-Zuheyr] cited in the first paragraph of art. سير; (S;) and this is [said to be] the primary signification; (L;) whether good, or bad; (M, L;) approved or disapproved: (Msb:) or, accord. to Sh, a way [of acting &c.] that has been instituted, or pursued, by former people, and has become one pursued by those after them; and this, he says, is the primary signification: (L:) it signifies also [particularly] a way of acting &c. that is commended, or approved, and right; wherefore one says, فُلَانٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ السُّنَّةِ [Such a one is of the people of the commended and right way of acting &c.; generally meaning, of those who follow the institutes, or ways, of the Prophet]; and is from ↓ سَنَنٌ signifying “ a way,” or “ road; ” (T, L;) and is also syn. with سَنَنٌ: (L:) and [the laws, i. e] the statutes, or ordinances, and commands and prohibitions, of God: (Lh, M, L, K:) [also a practice or saying, or the practices and sayings collectively, of Mohammad, or any other person who is an authority in matters of religion, namely, any prophet, or a Companion of Mohammad, (see Kull p. 203,) as handed down by tradition:] when used unrestrictedly in matters of the law, السُّنَّةُ meansonly what the Prophet [Mohammad] has commanded, and what has been handed down from him by tradition, [or, as in the JM, and what he forbade,] and what he has invited to do, by word or deed, of such things as are not mentioned in the Kur-án; wherefore one says, in speaking of the directions, or evidences, of the law, الكِتَابُ وَالسُّنَّةُ meaning the Kur-án and the Traditions: (L:) [thus used, it may be rendered the institutes of the Prophet; or his rule or usage:] or in the law it signifies the way of acting &c. that is pursued in religion without being made obligatory, or necessary; it is what the Prophet persevered in doing, or observing, with omitting, or neglecting, [it] sometimes; and if the said persevering is in the way of religious service, it constitutes [what are termed] سُنَنُ الهُدَى; if in the way of custom, سُنَنُ الزَّوَائِدِ: so that سُنَّةُ الهُدَى [the سُنَّة of right direction] is that of which the observance is a completion of religion, and it is that to the omission, or neglect, whereof attach blame and misdemeanour; and سُنَّةُ الزَّوَائِدِ [the سُنَّة of supererogatory acts] is that of which the observance is good, but to the omission, or neglect, whereof neither blame nor misdemeanour attaches, such as the ways of the Prophet in his standing and sitting and clothing and eating: (KT:) سُنَنٌ is the pl. (Msb.) سُنَّةُ الأَوَّلِينَ, in the Kur xviii. 53, i. e. سُنَّتُنَا فِى الأَوَّلِينَ [The way pursued by us in respect of the former, or preceding peoples], means the destruction decreed to befall them; (Jel;) or extirpation; (Bd;) or, as Zj says, their beholding punishment; (أَنَّهُمْ عَايَنُوا العَذَابَ; [or, as expl. in the K, مُعَايَنَةُ العَذَابِ;]) for the believers in a plurality of gods said, [as is related in the Kur viii. 32,] O God, if this be the truth from Thee, then do Thou rain down upon us stones from heaven. (M, L.) b2: Also Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or other quality or property: (M, L, K:) pl. سُنَنٌ. (M, L.) b3: And The face; (M, L, K;) because of its polish and smoothness: (M, L:) or the ball of the cheek (حُرُّ الوَجْهِ): or the circuit (دَائِرَة) of the face: or the form: (M, L, K:) or the form of the face: (S:) or the forehead and two sides thereof: (M, L, K:) all from the meaning of polish and smoothness and evenness: (M, L:) or the principal part of the face; the part thereof in which beauty is generally known to lie: (M in art. ام:) or the side of the cheek: pl. سُنَنٌ. (L.) You say, رَجُلٌ قَبَِيحُ السُّنَّةِ A man foul, or ugly, in respect of the form, and of what confronts one, of the face. (L.) And هُوَ أَشْبَهُ شَىْءٍ سُنَّةً وَأُمَّةً He is the most like thing in form, and face, and in stature. (L.) b4: And The black line, or streak, on the back of the ass. (L.) A2: Also, (S, K,) or ↓ سِنَّةٌ, (so in the L,) A sort of dates, of ElMedeeneh, (S, L, K,) well known. (L.) سِنَّةٌ: see سِنٌّ, in the last quarter of the paragraph, in two places. b2: Also i. q. سِكَّةٌ, meaning A ploughshare; i. e. the iron thing with which the ground is ploughed up: (AA, IAar, S, L: [see also لُؤَمَةٌ:]) pl. سِنَنٌ. (L.) b3: [And] A twoheaded فَأْسٍ [i. e. hoe or adz or axe]: (K:) or [its pl.] سِنَنٌ signifies [simply] i. q. فُؤُوسٌ [pl. of فَأْسٌ]. (L.) A2: See also سَنَّةٌ: A3: and see سُنَّةٌ, last sentence.

سَنَنٌ A way, or road: (T, L:) the main and middle part thereof; (A'Obeyd, Mgh, L;) the beaten track, or part along which one travels, thereof; as also ↓ سُنَنٌ: (A'Obeyd, L:) the نَهْج [i. e. plain, or open, track] of the road; and so ↓ سُنَنٌ and ↓ سُنُنٌ (M, L, K) and ↓ سِنَنٌ: (K:) and, all of these, the course, or direction, of the road: (M, L, K:) but ISd says, [in the M,] I know not ↓ سِنَنٌ on any other authority than that of Lh. (L.) One says, تَنَحَّ عَنْ سَنَنِ الطَّرِيقِ (S, L, Msb) and ↓ سُنَنِهِ and ↓ سُنُنِهِ [Go thou away, or aside, from the main and middle part of the road, or from the beaten track thereof; &c.]: (S, L:) and عَنْ سَنَنِ الخَيْلِ (S, Msb) from the way of the horses, (Msb,) or from the course, or direction, thereof. (S.) And تَرَكَ فُلَانٌ لَكَ سَنَنَ الطَّرِيقِ and ↓ سَُنَهُ (Lh, M, L) and ↓ سُنُنَهُ (L) and ↓ سِنَنَهُ (Lh, M, L) [respecting which last see what precedes] Such a one left, or has left, to thee the course, or direction, of the road. (Lh, M, L.) And اِمْضِ عَلى سَنَنِكَ and ↓ سُنَنِكَ (L) or ↓ سُنُنِكَ (M) Go along on thy course. (M, L.) سَنَنٌ also signifies A way of acting or the like; syn. طَرِيقَةٌ; (S, L;) as also سُنَّةٌ: (Mgh, L, Msb: see the latter word, in the former half of the paragraph, in two places:) you say, اِسْتَقَامَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى سَنَنٍ وَاحِدٍ [Such a one went on undeviatingly in one way]: (S, L, Msb: *) and [in like manner] ↓ جَآءَتِ الرِّيحُ سَنَائِنَ The wind came in one way, (S, K,) in one course, or direction, and one way, (M, L,) not varying: (S, L:) and [similar to the former of these two phrases is the saying] بَنَى القَوْمُ بُيُوتَهُمْ عَلَى سَنَنٍ وَاحِدٍ i. e. [The people, or party, built their houses, or constructed their tents,] in one mode, or manner. (M, L.) Also The aim, or intention, of a man. (ISh, M, * L.) [Accord. to Fei,] السَّنَنُ also signifies الوَجْهُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [by which may be meant The place, or tract, or quarter, of the land, towards which one goes; or it may mean the face, or surface, of the ground]: and so ↓ سُنُنٌ and ↓ سُنَنٌ. (Msb.) A2: السَّنَنُ also signifies الإِبِلُ تَسْتَنُّ فِى عَدْوِهَا [app. meaning The camels that leap, spring, or bound, in their running; (see 8;) or rather السَّنَنُ مِنَ الإِبِلِ has this meaning, as appears from what here follows]: (K:) or [a horse, or camel,] that perseveres in his running and advancing and retiring: and one says, جَآءَ سَنَنٌ مِنَ الخَيْلِ, i. e. شَوْطٌ [app. meaning There came a number of horses running a heat; for شوط in this explanation seems, from the phrase to which it relates and from what immediately precedes the mention of that phrase, to be an inf. n. used as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, and therefore, agreeably with a common rule, applied to a pl. number as well as to a single individual]: (M, L:) and جَآءَ مِنَ الخَيْلُ سَنَنٌ لَا يُرَدُّ وَجْهُهُ [app. meaning, in like manner, There came, of the horses, a number running a heat, the course of which was not to be turned away]; (S, L; not expl. in either;) and so, مِنَ الإِبِلِ [of the camels]. (L.) b2: And Sh explains سَنَنٌ as applied in a verse of El-Aashà

to People, or a party, hastening to fight, or slay. (L.) A3: Also, [as a quasi-inf. n.,] The leaping, springing, or bounding, [so I here render اِسْتِنَان, inf. n. of 8, which see for other, similar, meanings,] of camels and of horses. (L. [It is there mentioned in another place, and in the M, as a subst., meaning a quasi-inf.n., from اِسْتَنَّ.]) سُنَنٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in six places. b2: It is also pl. of سُنَّةٌ [q. v.]. (Msb, &c.) سُنُنٌ: see سَنَنٌ, in five places.

سِنَنٌ: see سَنَنٌ, in three places.

سَنَان, also pronounced سَنَّان: see سَنَا, in art. سنو and سنى, last sentence.

سِنَانٌ, (K,) or سِنَانُ رُمْحٍ, (S, M, Mgh, Msb,) A spear-head; (K;) the iron [head] of a spear: so called because of its polish: (M, L:) pl. أَسِنَّةٌ. (T, S, Msb, K.) One says, هُوَ أَطْوَعُ السِّنَانِ He is one to whom the spear-head is subservient, howsoever he will. (K.) b2: See also an ex. of its pl. voce سِنٌّ, in the middle of the paragraph.

A2: And سِنَانٌ is syn. with مِسَنٌّ, q.v. (S, M, L.) b2: See also سِنٌّ, near the middle of the paragraph, in two places.

A3: Also Flies; syn. ذِبَّانٌ [pl. of ذُبَابٌ]. (El-Muärrij, L.) سَنُونٌ A dentifrice; (S, M, L, K;) a medicament with which the teeth are rubbed and cleansed, compounded for the purpose of strengthening and freshening them: (L:) pl. سَنُونَاتٌ. (K in art. سرط [where, in the CK, سُفُوفَاتٌ is erroneously put in its place].) A2: See also سَنِينَةٌ.

سِنُونَ and سُنُونَ pls. of سَنَةٌ: see this last in art. سنه.

سَنِينٌ: see مَسْنُونٌ, in two places. b2: Also What flows [upon, or from, the whetstone] on the occasion of sharpening iron [or a knife or the like], and which is always stinking. (Fr, L.) and What falls from a stone when one rubs, or grates, it (Fr, S, L, K) upon another stone. (Fr, L.) A2: See also سِنٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

سِنِينٌ: see سِنٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

A2: See also سَنَةٌ (of which it is a pl.) in art. سنه.

سَنِينَةٌ Elevated sands extending lengthwise upon the ground: or sands having the form of حِبَال [pl. of حَبْلٌ, q. v.]: and ↓ سَنُونٌ is syn. therewith in the former or latter of these senses: (M, L:) or سَنائِنُ has the former of these meanings, and سَنِينَةٌ is its sing. (S, K.) A2: Also Wind: (M, L, K:) [or a gentle wind: (Freytag, from the Deewán of the Hudhalees:)] pl. سَنَائِنُ. (L.) b2: See also the pl., in relation to wind, voce سَنَنٌ, near the middle of the paragraph.

A3: See also سِنٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

سُنَيْنَةٌ: see سِنٌّ, of which it is the dim., in the former half of the paragraph: A2: and again, in the latter half of the same.

A3: See also سَنَةٌ (of which it is an irreg. dim.) in art. سنه.

سِنْسِنٌ The edge (S, M, L, K) of a vertebra (S, M, L) or of the vertebræ (K) of the back; (S, M, L, K;) as also ↓ سِنْسِنَةٌ and ↓ سِنٌّ: (M, L, K:) pl. سَنَاسِنُ: (S, L:) and the head [of any] of the bones of the breast: and the extremity of the rib in the breast: (K:) or, as some say, سَنَاسِنُ signifies the heads of the extremities of the bones of the breast, which are the soft heads of the bones of the زَوْر: or the extremities of the ribs in the breast: or, of a horse, the prominent [ribs, or anterior parts of the ribs, called] جَوَانِح, resembling the ضُلُوع, but stopping short of the ضُلُوع: (M, L:) or the upper part of the hump of a camel: (Ham p. 689:) [or the middle of the lower part of the hump; for,] accord. to Az, لَحْمُ سَنَاسِنِ البَعِيرِ signifies the flesh that is between the two sides, or halves, of the hump of the camel; which is the best of the sorts of flesh, and is marbled with fat: (L:) or سَنَاسِنُ signifies bones [in general]; as also شَنَاشِنُ: (IAar, L:) and (S) accord. to Ibn-'Amr [or Aboo-'Amr?] and others, (L,) it signifies the heads of the مَحَالَة [app. here meaning vertebræ]; (S, L;) and [it is also said that the sing.] سِنْسِنٌ signifies the head of the مَحَالَة [which signifies a vertebra as well as vertebræ, or is more correctly without ة when applied to the latter]. (K.) A2: Also Thirst. (K.) سِنْسِنَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سَنْسَانٌ [app. A blast of smoke]. One says نَسْنَاسٌ مِنْ دُخَانٍ and سَنْسَانٌ, meaning [of] the smoke of fire. (L in the present art. and TA in art. نس.) رِيحٌ سَنْسَانَةٌ A cold, or cool, wind; as also نَسْنَاسَةٌ. (L.) إَسَنُّ More [and most] advanced in age: (M, L, K:) a correct Arabic word. (M, L.) Yousay, هٰذَا أَسَنُّ مِنْ هٰذَا This is more advanced in age than this: (M, L, K: *) and Th says, speaking of Moosà Ibn-'Eesà-Leythee, أَدْرَكْتُهُ أَسَنَّ

أَهْلِ البَلَدِ [meaning I lived in his time, he being the most advanced in age of the people of the town, or country]. (M, L.) مُسِنٌّ Advanced in age, or full-grown; (L, Msb;) applied to a beast, contr. of فَتِىٌّ: (S and Mgh and Msb in art. فتو:) or, applied to an animal of the ox-kind and to the sheep or goat, [at the least,] in the third year: (L: [see the verb, 4:]) fem. with ة: (Msb:) pl. مَسَانٌّ, (L, Msb,) which, applied to camels, is [said to be] syn. with كِبَارٌ [as meaning advanced in age, or full-grown], (K,) contr. of أَفْتَآءُ [pl. of فَتِىٌّ] so applied. (S, L.) مِسَنٌّ A whetstone; i. e. a stone, (S, M, L, Msb,) or anything, (K,) with which, (S, K,) or upon which, (M, L, Msb, K,) one sharpens, or whets, or makes sharp-pointed, (S, M, L, Msb, K,) and polishes, (M, L, K,) a knife and the like; (Msb;) and ↓ سِنَانٌ signifies the same. (S, M, L.) مَسْنُونٌ [Bitten with the teeth: whence, app., what next follows]. You say أَرْضٌ مَسْنُونَةٌ and ↓ سَنِينٌ meaning Land of which the herbage has been eaten. (L, K.) b2: Sharpened, or whetted, or made sharp-pointed, and polished; as also ↓ سَنِينٌ; (M, L, K;) applied to a knife (K) or thing [of any kind]. (M, L.) Made smooth. (S, L.) Formed, fashioned, or shaped. (S, M, L.) Made long. (L.) You say وَجْهٌ مَسْنُونٌ (assumed tropical:) A face in which is length, without breadth; (مَخْروُطٌ;) smooth and even; or smooth and long; or long, and not high in the ball; or soft, tender, thin, and even; as though the flesh were ground (سُنَّ [like as a thing is ground in sharpening and polishing]) from it. (M, L.) And رَجُلٌ مَسْنُونُ الوَجْهِ (assumed tropical:) A man beautiful and smooth in the face: (Lh, M, L, K:) or a man in whose nose and face is length: (S, L, K:) or beautiful and long in the face. (L.) مِنْ حَمَأ مَسْنُونٍ, in the Kur [xv. 26 and 28 and 33], (L,) means (assumed tropical:) [Of black mud] altered [for the worse in odour]; (AA, S, L;) in which sense مَسْنُون is also applied to water; (AHeyth, L;) [or] stinking: (AA, S, M, L, K:) from سَنَنْتُ الحَجَرَ عَلَى الحَجَرِ “ I rubbed, or grated, the stone upon the stone; ” what flows between them, termed سَنِين, being always stinking: (Ksh and Bd in xv. 26: [and the like is said in the L, on the authority of Fr:]) or, accord. to I'Ab, it means moist: accord to AO, poured forth: or, as some say, poured forth in a form, or shape: (L:) or formed, fashioned, or shaped: (Ksh, Bd:) or poured forth in order to its drying [or hardening], and becoming formed, fashioned, or shaped, like as molten, or liquified, substances are poured forth into moulds. (Ksh, * Bd.) مُسْتَنُّ الحَرُورِ is said to mean The place of the running of the سَرَاب [or mirage, app. in consequence of the hot wind]: or the place of the vehement heat of the hot wind; as though it were running to and fro therein (كَأَنَّهَا تَسْتَنُّ فِيهِ عَدْوًا): or it may mean the place whence issues the [hot] wind: but the first is the explanation given by the preceding authorities. (M, L.) A2: المُسْتَنُّ [an epithet used as meaning] The lion. (K. [Thus applied, act. part. n. of اِسْتَنَّ.]) مُسْتَسَنُّ and مُسْتَسِنُّ: see what follows.

مِسَنْسَنٌ A travelled road; (T, M, L, and so in the CK; in some copies of the K ↓ مُسْتَسِنٌّ;) as also ↓ مُسْتَسَنٌّ. (K.)

فيظ

1 فَاظَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. فَيْظٌ (ISk, T, S, M, K) and فُيُوظٌ and فَيَظَانٌ (S, M, K) and فَيْظَانٌ (Lh, TA) and فَيْظُوظَةٌ, (Lth, M, K,) He (a man, S) died; (ISk, T, S, M, K;) as also, (sometimes, S) ↓ فَاظَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. فَوْظٌ (ISk, T, S, M, K) and فَوَاظٌ; (S, K, TA; but in the CK, فُوَاظٌ, and there said to be with damm;) or, accord. to IJ, only the inf. n., فَوْظٌ, of the latter verb is used, though the verb itself is allowable on the ground of analogy. (M.) You say also, حَانَ فَيْظُهُ and ↓ فَوْظُهُ, [in the CK فُوْظُهُ,] The time came for his dying. (M, K.) In like manner, (S,) you say also, فَاظَتْ نَفْسُهُ His soul departed, or went forth; Lth, T, S, M;) on the authority of AO and Ks; and the like is related on the authority of Az; (S;) aor. ـِ (M,) inf. n. فَيْظٌ (Lth, T, M) and فَيْظُوظَةٌ; (Lth, T;) and [accord. to some,] فَاظَتْ نَفْسُهُ, inf. n. فَوْظٌ: (M:) or, when the نفس is mentioned, you say, فَاضَتْ, with ض: (K:) As says, I heard Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà say that one should not say فَاظَتْ نَفْسُهُ, (T, * S, M, *) but فاظ, (S, M,) meaning “ he died; ” and not فَاضَ, with ض, decidedly; (S;) or not فَاضَتْ: (T:) [but what was said by As respecting these two verbs has been stated more fully, and variously, in art. فيض, q. v.:] AO says that فاظت نَفْسُهُ is of the dial. of Keys; and فاضت, of the dial. of Temeem: Fr says that the people of El-Hijáz and Teiyi say the former; and Kudá'ah and Temeem and Keys say the latter: AHát says, I heard Az say that Benoo-Dabbeh alone say the latter; and ElMázinee relates the like on the authority of Az. (TA.) b2: You say also, فَاظَ نَفْسَهُ, (Ks, S, M, K,) aor. ـِ (Ks, T,) He vomited forth his soul: (Ks, S, M, K:) the verb being trans. as well as intrans. (Ks, S.) 4 افاظهُ He (God) caused him to die. (K, TA.) And you say also, ضَرَبْتُهُ حَتَّى أَفَظْتُ نَفْسَهُ [I beat him, or smote him, until I made his soul to depart, or go forth]. (S.) And لَأُفِيظَنَّ نَفْسَكَ [I will assuredly cause thy soul to depart, or go forth] (M.) And افاظهُ اللّٰهُ نَفْسَهُ [God caused him to vomit forth his soul]. (Ks, T, S, M.) تفيّظوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ They constrained themselves to vomit forth their souls. (S, TA.) [But in one copy of the S, I find يُفِيظُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ, expl. as meaning They cause to vomit forth their souls; which suggests that the right reading may perhaps be يُفِيظُوا: or it may be يَفِيظُوا, from فَاظَ نَفْسَهُ.]

قَنَا الإنسان غَنَماً يَقْنُو قُنواً وقنْواناً وقنْيَاناً واقْتَنى يقْتَني اقْتِناءً: وهو أنْ يَتَخِذَه لنَفْسِه لا للبَيْع. وهي القِنْيَة والقِنْوَةُ. ومنه قَنِيْتُ حَيَائي: أي لَزِمْتُه، ومنه: فاقْنَيْ حَيَاءكِ لا أبالكِ
وقانَيْتُ الرّجُلَ: إذا دارَيْتَه وسَكّنْتَه. وقَنطَ الرجُلُ: إذا استَحْيى، يَقْنى قنىً.
وقيل في قَوْله عَزَّ وجلَّ: " وأنَّه هو أغنى وأقْنى " أي أرْضى وأقْنَعَ.
وهو مَقْنَىَ من فلانٍ ومَغْنىً منه: أي مَكان يَلْزَمُه ويَدُوم فيه.
ويُقال: قَنَاه اللَهُ وأقْنَاه: أي جَعَلَ له ما يَقْتَنِيه.
وتَقَنّى: بمعنى اقْتَنى.
وقَنِيَ يَقْنى قِنىً: بمنزلة غَنِيَ يَغْنى غِنَىً.
وفي المَثَل: " لا تَقْن من كَلْبِ سَوْءٍ جِرْواً ".
والقِنى والقِنْوُ والقُنْوُ - بالضِّمَ -: العِذْقُ بما عليه قَبْلَ الإِنْضَاج، والجميع القِنْوَانُ والقِنْيَانُ والقُنْيَانُ، والأقْنَاء.
والمَقْنُوَةُ - خَفِيفةً - من الظِّلِّ: حيثُ لا تُصِيْبُه الشَّمسُ، ومكانٌ مَقْنَاةٌ ومَقْنُوَةٌ.
والقَنَاةُ: ألِفُها واوٌ، والجميع القَنَوَاتُ والقَنا والقِنِيْنَ والقُنِيْنَ ورجُلٌ قَنّاءٌ ومُقَنّ: صاحِبُ قَناً. ويقولون: لا والذي أنا من قَنَاهُ: خَلَقَه. وقانَهُ اللَّهُ على حُبِّه: أي من خَلَقِه.
والقَنَوَانُ: الضَّخْمُ التامُّ القَنَاةِ والقامَةِ.
والقَنَاةُ: كَظِيْمَةٌ تُحْفَرُ تَحْتَ الأرْض لمَجرى الماء، وقَنَّيْتُ المَكانَ: حَفَرْته. وقال ابنُ الأعرابيَ: سُمَيَتْ قَنَاةُ الماء بهذا الاسم لأنَّهم كانوا يَدَعُونَ بين رَأس كل خَرْقٍ وبين الذي يَلِيْه قَدْرَ قَنَاة لانْضِمام بعضِها إلى بعضٍ.
والقَنَا: مَصدَرُ الأقْنى من الأُنُوف والجميع قُنْوٌ، وهو ارتفاعٌ في أعلاه بَيْنَ القَصَبَةِ والمارِنِ، وفَرَسٌ أقْنى، وبازٍ أقْنى. والأقْنى: القَصِيرُ. والقَنَا: الكِبَاسَةُ. والحُفْرَةُ التي يُوضَعُ فيها النَّخْلُ للغَرْس.
والمُقَاناةُ: إشْرَابُ لَوْنٍ بلَوْنٍ، تقولُ: قانِ هذا بذاك: أي أشْرِبْ أحَدَهما بالآخَرِ. وهي - أيضاً -: المُدَاراةُ وحُسْن السَيَاسَة. والمُدَاوَمَةُ أيضاً، وقانى له كذا: أي دامَ.
وأقْنَاني الصَّيْدُ إقْنَاءً: أي أمْكَنَني. وأقْنى الصَيْدُ: بَرَزَ. وما أقْنى فلانُ لقَبِيْح: أي ما دَنَا منه. وما يُقَانُوْنَ مالَهم ولا يُعَانُوْنَه: أي ما يَقوْمُوْنَ عليه.
وقانَيْتُ بَيْنَ الخَيْطَيْن: أي جَمَعْتُ. وخَيْطٌ مُقَانَىً: وهو أنْ يكونَ خَيْطٌ أبيضُ وآخَرُ أسْوَدُ في النَّسْج.
ويقولون: لأَقْنوَنَّكَ قِنَاوَتَكَ. أي لأَجْزِيَنَّكَ جَزَاءَكَ.
وقانَيْتُ المَكانَ: أي هَيأْتَه، وكذلك أُدْحِيُّ النَّعَامَةِ إذا قُوْنِيَ بالعِيدان مَعَ الرِّيْش.

سل

1 سَلَّ الشَّىٌءَ, (S, M, Mgh,) aor. ـُ (S, M,) inf. n. سَلٌّ; (S, M, Mgh, K;) and ↓ استلّهُ, (M,) inf. n. اِسْتِلَالٌ; (K; [in the CK, الِاسْلال is put in the place of الِاسْتِلَال;]) He drew the thing out or forth from another thing: (Jel in xxiii. 12:) or he pulled out the thing, or drew it forth, gently: (M, K: *) or he drew, or pulled, the thing out, or forth, as a sword from its scabbard, and a hair from dough. (Mgh.) You say, سَلَّ السَّيْفَ, (S, Msb,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (Msb;) and ↓ استلّهُ, both signifying the same; (S;) [i. e. He drew the sword;] as also ↓ اسلّهُ, inf. n. إِسْلَالٌ. (TA.) In the saying of El-Farezdak, غَدَاةَ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ كَانَّ سُيُوفَكُمْ

↓ ذَآنِينُ فِى أَعْنَاقِكُمْ لَمْ تُسَلْسَلِ [In the morning when ye turned back, as though your swords were ذآنين (pl. of ذُؤْنُونٌ a species of fungus) upon your necks, (for the sword was hung upon the shoulder, not by a waist-belt,) not drawn forth], he has separated the doubled letter: thus the verse is related by IAar: but by Th, ↓ لَمْ تَسَلَّلِ [for تَتَنَسَلَّلِ]. (M.) It is said in a trad., لَأَسُلَّنَّكَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تُسَلُّ الشَّعْرَةُ مِنَ العَجِينِ [I will assuredly draw thee forth from them like as the single hair is drawn forth from dough]. (TA.) And in another trad., اَللّٰهُمَّ أْسْلُلْ سَخِيمَةَ قَلْبِى (tropical:) [O God, draw forth the rancour of my heart]: and hence the saying الهَدَايَا تَسُلُّ السَّخَائِمَ وَتَحُلُّ الشَّكَائِمَ (tropical:) [Presents draw away feelings of rancour, and loose, or melt, resistances, or incompliances]. (TA.) And سُلَّ, said of a colt, means He was drawn forth a سَلِيل [q. v.]. (M, TA.) b2: Also He took the thing. (Msb.) Hence one says, تُسَلُّ المَيِّتُ مِنْ قِبَلِ رَأْسِهِ إِلَى القَبْرِ, i. e. [The dead body] is taken [head-foremost to the grave]: (Msb:) [or is drawn forth &c.: for] it is said of the Apostle of God, سُلَّ مِنْ قِبَل رَأْسِهِ, meaning He was drawn forth [&c.] from the bier. (Mgh.) b3: Also, aor. and inf. n. as above, He stole the thing: (Msb, TA:) or he stole it covertly, secretly, or clandestinely; (TA;) and so ↓ اسلّهُ. (TK. [But see 4, below, where اسلّ meaning “ he stole ” is mentioned only as intrans.]) Yousay, سَلَّ البَعِيرَ جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ He drew away the camel from among the other camels in the middle of the night: and in like manner you say of other things. (TA.) A2: سَلَّ, aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. سَلٌّ, (TK,) said of a man; (TA;) or سَلَّتْ, aor. ـَ [whence it would seem that the sec. Pers\. of the pret. is سَلِلْتَ, and the inf. n. سَلَلٌ,] said of a sheep or goat, شاة; (M;) He, or it, lost his, or its, teeth: (M, K:) on the authority of Lh. (M.) A3: سُلَّ, (M, Msb, K,) in the pass. form, (Msb,) with damm, (K,) He was, or became, affected with the disease termed سِلّ [q. v.]. (M, Msb, K.) 4 أَسْلَ3َ see 1, second sentence. b2: اسلّ, (ISk, S, M, Mgh,) inf. n. إِسْلَالٌ, (ISk, S, K,) also signifies He stole: (ISk, S, Mgh:) or he stole covertly, secretly, or clandestinely. (M, K.) See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. You say, اسلّ مِنَ المَغْنَمِ He stole of the spoil. (Mgh.) b3: إِسْلَالٌ signifies also An open raid or predatory incursion. (TA.) b4: And اسلّ He aided another to steal, or to steal covertly, secretly, or clandestinely. (TA.) b5: [See also إِسْلَالٌ below. Accord. to Freytag, اسلّ signifies He received a bribe: but this requires consideration: he gives no authority but the K, which does not justify this explanation.]

A2: اسلّهُ He (God) caused him to be affected with the disease termed سِلّ [q. v.]. (S, M, Msb, K.) 5 تسلّل: see 7: and see also 1, in the former half of the paragraph. b2: Also i. q. اِضْطَرَبَ [It was, or became, in a state of commotion, agitation, &c.]; said of a thing; as though it were imagined to be repeatedly drawn forth. (Er-Rághib, TA.) 7 انسلّ It (a thing) became pulled out, or drawn forth, gently; (M;) it became drawn, or pulled out or forth, as a sword from its scabbard, and a hair from dough. (Mgh.) You say, انسلّ السَّيْفُ مِنَ الغَمْدِ The sword [became drawn from the scabbard: or] slipped out from the scabbard. (TA.) And انسلّ قِيَادُالفَرَسِ مِنْ يَدِهِ [The leading-rope of the horse slipped out or] came forth [from his hand]. (Mgh.) b2: And [hence], as also ↓ تسلّل, (S, M, K,) He slipped away, or stole away; i. e., went away covertly, secretly, or clandestinely: (M, K:) or he went forth, مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ [from among them]. (S.) And اِنْسَلَلْتُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ I went away, and went forth, deliberately, or leisurely, and by degrees, from before him. (TA.) Sb says that اِنْسَلَلْتُ [used in this or a similar sense] is not a quasi-pass. verb; but is only like [a verb of the measure] فَعَلْتُ; like as اِفْتَقَرَ is like ضَعُفَ. (M.) It is said in a prov., رَمَتْنِى بِدَائِهَاوَانْسَلَّتْ [She reproached me with her own fault, and slipped away]: (S, Meyd, TA:) [originally] said by one of the fellow-wives of Ruhm, daughter of El-Khazraj, wife of Saad Ibn-Zeyd-Menáh, on Ruhm's reproaching her with a fault that was in herself. (Meyd, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. cap. x. no. 2; and another prov. there referred to in cap. ii. no. 78.]) And one says also, بِكَذَا ↓ استلّ, meaning He went away with such a thing covertly, secretly, or clandestinely. (TA.) 8 إِسْتَلَ3َ see 1, first and second sentences: A2: and see also 7, last sentence.10 استسل النَّهْرُ جَدْوَلًا (tropical:) The river had a rivulet or streamlet, branching off from it. (TA.) R. Q. 1 سَلْسَلَةٌ [as inf. n. of سُلْسِلَ (see مُسَلْسَلٌ below)] signifies A thing's being connected with another thing. (M, K.) [It is also inf. n. of سَلْسَلَ, as such signifying The connecting a thing with another thing.] b2: [Hence, or the reverse may be the case,] سَلْسَلْتُهُ I bound him with the سِلْسِلَة [or chain]. (O. TA.) b3: And سَلْسَلْتُ المَآءَ فِى الحَلْقِ I poured the water into the throat, or fauces, [app. in a continuous stream.] (S, * O.) b4: And مَاسَلْسَلَ طَعَامًا He did not eat food: (K:) as though he did not pour it into his throat, or fauces. (TA.) A2: Accord. to IAar, سَلْسَلَ signifies He ate a سَلْسَلَة, i. e., a long piece of a camel's hump. (O.) A3: See also 1, third sentence. R. Q. 2 تَسَلْسَلَ, said of water, It ran into the throat, or fauces: (S, O:) or it ran down a declivity, or declivous place: (M, K:) or (assumed tropical:) it became [fretted with a succession of ripples] like a chain, in running [in a shallow and rugged bed], or when smitten by the wind. (S.) b2: And, said of lightning, (assumed tropical:) It assumed the form of سَلَاسِل, [i. e. chains, meaning elongated streams,] pl. of سِلْسِلَةٌ [q. v.], in the clouds. (M.) b3: And تَسَلْسُلٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) The glistening, and [apparent] creeping, of the diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, [resembling a chain, (see مُسَلْسَلٌ,) and also likened to the creeping of ants, (see فِرِنْذٌ, and رُبَدٌ,)] of a sword. (TA. [See also أَثْرٌ.]) b4: And تَسَلْسَلَ said of a garment, (assumed tropical:) It was worn until it became thin; (O, K;) like تَخَلْخَلَ. (O.) سَلٌّ, (M, K,) applied to a man, (M,) Whose teeth are falling out; (M;) losing his teeth: (K:) fem. with ة: (M, K:) likewise applied to a sheep or goat (شَاْةٌ); on the authority of Lh; (M;) and to a she-camel whose teeth have fallen out from extreme old age; or one extremely aged, having no tooth remaining; on the authority of IAar. (TA.) A2: See also سَلَّةٌ, in two places.

سُلٌّ: see what next follows.

سِلٌّ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ سُلَالٌ, (S, M, K,) the former [the more common, and] often occurring in the verses of chaste poets, though El-Hareeree says in the “ Durrat el-Ghowwás ” that it is an erroneous term of the vulgar, and that the latter is the right term, (TA,) signify the same, (S, M, K,) as also ↓ سُلٌّ and ↓ سَلَّةٌ, (K,) [Consumption: or phthisis:] an emaciating, oppressive, and fatal malady: (T, TA:) a certain disease, well known; said in the medical books to be one of the diseases of girls, because of the abundance of blood in them: (Msb:) accord. to the physicians, (TA,) an ulcer, (K, TA,) or ulcers, (Msb,) [or ulceration,] in the lungs; (Msb, K, TA;) succeeding (تُعَقِّبُ [grammatically referring to سَلَّة]) either ذَات الرِّئَة [i. e. inflammation of the lungs] or ذَات الجَنْب [i. e. pleurisy]: (in the CK, بِعَقَبِ ذات الرِّيّةِ اوذاتِ الجَنْبِ is [erroneously] put in the place of تُعَقِّبُ ذَاتَ الرِّئَةِ أَوْ ذَاتَ الجَنْبِ: and in what here follows, the gen. case is put in the place of the nom. in four instances:) or a rheum (زُكَامٌ), and defluxions (نَوَازِلُ), or a long cough, and attended with constant fever. (K, TA.) b2: Hence the saying, in a trad., غُبَارُذَيْلِ المَرْأَةِ الفَاجِرَةِ يُورثُ السِّلَّ (assumed tropical:) [The dust of the skirt of the vitious woman occasions the loss of property]; meaning that he who follows vitious women and acts vitiously, loses his property, and becomes poor: the diminution and departure of property being likened to the diminution and wasting away of the body when one has the disorder termed سِلّ. (TA.) سَلَّةٌ The drawing of swords; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ سِلَّةٌ. (K.) So in the saying, أَتَيْنَاهُمْ عِنْدَ السَّلَّةِ [We came to them on the occasion of the drawing of swords]. (S, M, K.) b2: And Theft: (S, Msb:) or covert, secret, or clandestine, theft; (M, K;) like إِسْلَالٌ [except that the former is a simple subst., and the latter is an inf. n., i. e. of 4]: (K:) one says, فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ سَلَّةٌ [Among the sons of such a one is theft, or covert theft]: (S:) and الخَلَّةُ تَدْعُو إِلَى السَّلَّةِ [Want invites to theft, or covert theft]. (TA.) A2: Also (tropical:) The rush (دُفْعَة) of a horse among other horses, in running: (TA:) or the rush (دُفْعَة) of a horse in striving to outstrip: (S, TA: [I read فِى سِبَاقِهِ, as in a copy of the S; instead of فى سِيَاقِهِ, as in other copies of the S and in the TA:]) so in the saying, فَرَسٌ شَدِيدُ السَّلَّةِ (tropical:) [A horse of which the rush &c. is vehement]: (S, TA:) and خَرَجَتْ سَلَّتُهُ عَلَى

الخَيْلِ (S) or عَلَى سَائِرِ الخَيْلِ (TA) (tropical:) [His rush in striving to outstrip proceeded against the other horses]. b2: And A revulsion of shortness of breathing (اِرْتِدَادُ رَبْوٍ) in the chest of a horse, in consequence of his suppressing such shortness of breathing [so I render مِنْ كَبْوَةٍ يَكْبُوهَا, but this phrase admits of other renderings, as will be seen in art. كبو]: (M, K:) when he is inflated thereby, one says, أَخْرَجَ سَلَّتَهُ [app. meaning he has manifested his revulsion of shortness of breathing]; and thereupon he is urged to run with vehemence, and made to sweat, and coverings are thrown upon him, and that shortness of breathing (ذٰلِكَ الرَّبْوُ) passes forth. (M.) b3: [In a sheep or goat, or a ewe or she-goat, it seems to mean Power, or force, of long continuance: see مَسْلُولَةٌ, voce مَسْلُولٌ.]

A3: See also سِلٌّ.

A4: Also A [basket of the kind called] جُونَة: (K:) or a thing like the جُونَة, (M,) or like the covered جُونَة, which is also called سَبَذَةٌ; so says Az: (TA:) a receptacle in which fruit is carried: (Msb:) [sometimes covered with red skin: (see حَوَرٌ:) in the present day commonly applied to a basket made of twigs, oblong and deep, generally between a foot and a foot and a half in length:] and ↓ سَلٌّ signifies the same: (M, K:) what is termed سَلَّةُ الخُبْزِ [the bread-basket] is well known: (S:) سَلَّةٌ meaning as expl. above is not thought by IDrd to be an Arabic word: (M:) [the dim. ↓ سُلَيْلَةٌ occurs in the K voce جُونَةٌ, and in the Mgh voce رَبْعَةٌ, &c.:] the pl. is سِلَالٌ (M, K) and سَلَّاتٌ (Msb) and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ سَلٌّ, of which Abu-l-Hasan says that it is in his opinion a rare kind of pl. [or coll. gen. n.] because it denotes what is made by art, not created, and it should more properly be regarded as of the class of كَوْكَبٌ and كَوْكَبَةٌ [which are syn.] because this is more common than the class of سَفِينَةٌ and سَفِينٌ. (M.) A5: Also A fault, or defect, in a water-ing-trough or tank, or in a [jar of the kind called]

خَابِيَة: (M, K:) or a breach between the أَنْصَابِ, (K,) or [more properly] between the نَصَائِب, [i. e. the stones set up, and cemented together with kneaded clay, around the interior,] (M,) of a watering-trough or tank. (M, K.) b2: And Fissures in the ground, that steal [i. e. imbibe] the water. (TA.) A6: Also One's sewing [a skin, or hide, with] two thongs in a single puncture, or stitch-hole. (M, K.) سِلَّةٌ: see سَلَّةٌ, first sentence.

سُلَالٌ i. q. سِلٌّ, q. v. (S, M, K.) سَلِيلٌ A drawn sword; i. q. ↓ مَسْلُولٌ. (M, K.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A child, or male offspring; [because drawn forth;] (S, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ سُلَالَةٌ; (M, Mgh, Msb, K;) metonymically so termed: (Mgh:) or, when it comes forth from the belly of its mother; as also ↓ the latter; the former so called because created from the [sperma genitalis, which is termed] سُلَالَة: (Akh, TA:) fem. of the former ↓ سَلِيلَةٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) applied to a daughter. (AA, K.) b3: A colt; (M, K;) and with ة a filly; (S, * M, TA;) the ة being affixed, though سليل is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, because the word is made a subst.: (Ham p. 102:) or, as some say, (M, in the K “ and ”) the former signifies a colt that is born not in a [membrane such as is called] مَاسِكَة nor [in one such as is called] سَلًى: if in either of these, it is termed بَقِيرٌ [not بُقَيْرٌ as in the CK]. (M, K.) [See also دُعْمُوصٌ.] b4: And A young camel when just born, before it is known whether it is a male or a female. (As, S, TA.) A2: Clear, or pure, beverage or wine; (K, TA;) as though gently drawn away from dust or motes or particles of rubbish or the like: such is said to be the beverage, or wine, of Paradise: or cool beverage or wine: or such as is clear from dust or motes or particles of rubbish or the like, and from turbidness; of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: or such as is easy [in its descent] in the throat, or fauces. (TA.) [See also سُلَالَةٌ, and سَلْسَالٌ.]

A3: The channel of the water, or place in which the water flows, in a valley: or the middle of a valley, (M, K, *) where flows the main body of water. (M.) and A wide (S, M, K) and deep (M, K) valley, (S, M, K,) that gives growth to the [trees called]

سَلَم and سَمُر, (S, K,) or that gives growth to the سَلَم and ضَعَة and يَنَمَة and حَلَمَة; (M;) and ↓ سَالٌّ signifies the same: (M, K:) or this latter, a place in which are trees: (TA:) or a narrow channel of a torrent in a valley: (As, S, TA:) or a low place surrounded by what is elevated, in which the water collects: (En-Nadr, TA:) pl. of both سُلَّانٌ, (M, K,) or of the former accord. to Kr, (M, TA,) and of the latter accord. to As [and the S], (TA,) or that of the latter is سَوَالُّ. (En-Nadr, K, TA.) One says سَلِيلٌ مِنْ سَمُرٍ

like as one says غَالٌّ مِنْ سَلَمٍ. (S.) The phrase سَالَ السَّلِيلُ بِهِمْ [lit. The wide, or wide and deep, valley, &c., flowed with them] is used by the poet Zuheyr (S, IB) as meaning (assumed tropical:) they journeyed swiftly. (IB, TA.) A4: The brain of the horse. (M, K.) b2: The hump of the camel. (M, K.) b3: The نُخَاع [or spinal cord]. (M, K.) b4: and سَلِيلُ اللَّحْمِ The [portions that are termed]

خَصِيل [q. v. voce خَصِيلَةٌ] of flesh: [the former word in this case being app. a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is ↓ سَلِيلَةٌ (q. v.); the more probably as it is added that] the pl. is سَلَائِلُ. (TA.) سُلَالَةٌ What is, or becomes, drawn forth, or drawn forth gently, from, or of, a thing: (M, K:) or so سُلَالَةُ شَىْءٍ: (S:) [an extract of a thing: and hence,] the clear, or pure, part, or the choice, best, or most excellent, part [of a thing]; (Mgh; and Ksh and Bd and Jel in xxiii. 12;) because drawn from the thick, or turbid, part. (Mgh.) It is said in the Kur [xxiii. 12], وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ سُلَالَةٍ مِنْ طِينٍ, meaning [and verily we created man from] what was drawn forth from every kind of dust, or earth: (Fr, TA:) or from a pure, or choice, or most excellent, sort of earth or clay. (Ksh, Bd, Jel.) b2: and [hence,] The sperma genitalis of a man, or human being; (S, TA;) what is drawn from the صُلْب [app. here meaning loins] of the man and from the تَرَائِب [pl. of تَرِيبَة, q. v.,] of the woman: (AHeyth, TA:) the water (مَآء) that is drawn from the back. ('Ikrimeh, TA.) b3: See also سَليلٌ, second sentence, in two places.

سَلِيلَةٌ: see سَلِيلٌ, second sentence. b2: Also A sinew, (عَصَبَةٌ, (M, K, or عَقَبَةٌ, K,) or a portion of flesh having streaks, or strips, (M, K,) that separate, one from another. (TA.) And The oblong portion of flesh of the part on either side of the backbone: (K:) or this is called سَلِيلَةُ المَتْنِ: (M:) [or] accord. to As, [the pl.] سَلَائِلُ signifies the long streaks, or strips, of flesh extending with the backbone. (TA.) See also سَلِيلٌ, last sentence. [Also] A small thin thing [or substance] resembling flesh: pl. سَلَائِلُ. (TA in art. خشم.) And سَلَائِلُ السَّنَامِ Long slices cut from the camel's hump. (TA.) b3: And the pl., Oblong نَغَفَات [or portions of dry mucus or the like] in the nose. (M.) b4: Also [Goats'] hair separated, or plucked asunder, with the fingers, then folded, and tied; then the woman draws from it one portion after another, which she spins: (M:) or سَلِيلَةٌ مِنْ شَعَرٍ signifies what is drawn forth from a ضَرِيبَة of [goats'] hair, which is a portion thereof separated, or plucked asunder, with the fingers, then folded, and rolled up into long portions, the length of each being about a cubit, and the thickness that of the half of the fore arm next the hand: this is tied, then the woman draws from it one portion after another, and spins it. (S.) [See also عَمِيتَةٌ.]

A2: Also A certain long fish, (K, TA,) having a long مِنْقَار [app. meaning beak-like snout, or nose]. (TA.) سُلَيْلَةٌ: see سَلَّةٌ (of which it is the dim.), in the latter half of the paragraph.

سُلَّآءٌ; n. un. with ة; mentioned in the M and K in this art. as well as in art. سلأ: see the latter art. سَلَّالٌ: see سَالٌّ.

A2: [And it seems to be somewhere mentioned in the S, though not in the present art., as meaning A maker of the sort of baskets called سِلَال (pl. of سَلَّةٌ): for Golius explains it, as on the authority of J, as signifying qui sportas qualosque contexit.]

سَلْسَلٌ and ↓ سَلْسَالٌ and ↓ سُلَاسِلٌ (S, M, K) Sweet water, (M, K,) that descends easily in the throat, or fauces; (M;) water that enters easily into the throat, or fauces, by reason of its sweetness and clearness: (S:) or cold, or cool, water: (M, K:) or water that has fluctuated to and fro, in the place where it has continued, until it has become limpid, or clear. (Er-Rághib, TA.) and the first and ↓ second, Mellow wine: (M, K:) the former is expl. by Lth as meaning sweet and clear, that runs [easily] into the throat, or fauces, when drunk. (TA.) b2: And غَدِيرٌ سَلْسَلٌ [A pool of water left by a torrent] which, being smitten [or blown upon] by the wind, becomes [rippled so as to be] like the سِلْسِلَة [or chain]. (TA.) سُلْسُلٌ A boy, or young man, light, or active, in spirit; as also لُسْلُسٌ. (IAar, O.) سِلْسِلٌ: see سِلْسِلَةٌ, in two places.

سَلْسَلَةٌ [as an inf. n.: see R. Q. 1.

A2: Also] A long piece of a camel's hump: (IAar, O, K:) accord. to AA, it is called لَسْلَسَةٌ: accord. to As, لِسْلِسَةٌ. (O.) سِلْسِلَةٌ A chain, i. q. زِنْجِيرْ in Pers\.; (KL;) rings (دَائِرٌ [app. used as a coll. gen. n., though I do not know any authority for such usage of it,] K [in the M دَائِرَةٌ]) of iron (S, M, K) or the like (M, K) of metals: derived from السَّلْسَلَةُ signifying “ the being connected ” with another thing: (M: [see R. Q. 1:]) pl. سَلَاسِلُ. (S, Mgh, TA.) It was a custom to extend a سِلْسِلَة over a river or a road, the ships or beats or the passengers being arrested thereby, for the purpose of the taking of the tithes from them by an officer set over it. (Mgh.) b2: [Hence,] سِلْسِلَةُ بَرْقٍ (tropical:) An elongated stream of lightning [like a chain] in the midst of the clouds: (S, TA: *) or سَلَاسِلُ البَرْقِ means what have assumed the form of chains (مَاتَسَلْسَلَ), of lightning, (M, K,) in the clouds; (M;) and السَّحَابِ [i. e., of the clouds in like manner]: (K: [but I think that وَالسَّحَابِ in the K is evidently a mistranscription for فِى السَّحَابِ the reading in the M:]) sing. سِلْسِلَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ سِلْسِلٌ, (K,) thus in the copies of the K, but in the L ↓ سِلْسِيلٌ, which is [said to be] the correct word. (TA. [See, however, what follows.]) And in like manner, سَلَاسِلُ الرَّمْلِ (assumed tropical:) What have assumed the form of chains (مَا تَسَلْسَلَ) of sands: (M:) or سَلَاسِلُ signifies (tropical:) sands that become accumulated, or congested, (يَنْعَقِدُ,) one upon another, and extended along: (A'Obeyd, S, O, K, TA:) you say رَمْلٌ ذُوسَلَاسِلَ (tropical:) [sands having portions accumulated, or congested, &c.]: and ذَاتُ سَلَاسِلَ, which has been expl. as meaning (assumed tropical:) elongated sands: (TA:) sing. سِلْسِلَةٌ (M, TA) and ↓ سِلْسلٌ, (M,) or ↓ سِلْسِيلٌ; and الرَّمْلِ ↓ سَلْسُولُ, with fet-h [to the first letter], is a dial. var. of سِلْسِيلُهُ. (TA.) b3: And سَلَاسِلُ كِتَابٍ (tropical:) The lines of a book or writing. (O, K, TA.) b4: and بِرْذَوْنٌ ذُو سَلَاسِلَ (assumed tropical:) [A hackney] upon whose legs one sees what resemble سَلَاسِل [or chains]. (M.) A2: Also The وَحَرَة, (O, K,) which is a small reptile, [a species of lizard, the same that is called السِلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَآءُ, (see أَرْقَطُ,)] spotted, black and white, having a slender tail, which it moves about when running. (TA.) سَلْسَالٌ: see سَلْسَلٌ, in two places.

سَلْسُولٌ: see سِلْسِلَةٌ.

سِلْسِيلٌ: see سِلْسِلَةٌ, in two places.

سُلَاسِلٌ: see سَلْسَلٌ.

سَالٌّ [act. part. n. of سَلَّ, Drawing out, or forth: &c. b2: Stealing: or stealing covertly, secretly, or clandestinely:] a thief; as also ↓ سَلَّالٌ [which is commonly applied in the present day to a horse-stealer and the like] and ↓ أَسَلُّ. (TA.) A2: See also سَلِيلٌ.

أَسَلُّ: see the next preceding paragraph.

إِسْلَالٌ A bribe. (S, M, K.) It is said in a trad., لَا إِغْلَالَ وَلَا إِسْلَالَ There shall be no treachery, or perfidy, and no [giving or receiving of a] bribe: or, and no stealing. (S in this art. and in art. غل. [See 4.]) مَسَلّ in the phrase مَضْجَعُهُ كَمَسَلِّ شَطْبَةٍ, in the trad. of Umm-Zara, meaning [His sleepingplace is] like a green palm-stick drawn forth from its skin [by reason of his slenderness], or, as some say, a sword drawn forth [from its scabbard], is [originally] an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n. (TA. [See also art. شطب.]) مِسَلَّةٌ A large needle: (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K:) [a packing-needle:] pl. مَسَالُّ. (S, Mgh, Msb.) مُسَلِّلٌ Subtle of machination in stealing. (TA.) مَسْلُولٌ: see سَلِيلٌ. b2: [Hence, elliptically,] A man (Msb) whose testicles have been extracted. (Mgh, Msb.) A2: Also Affected with the disease termed سِلّ: (S, M, Msb, K:) [regularly derived from سُلَّ, but] anomalous [as derived from أَسَلَّهُ]: (S, M, Msb:) Sb says, as though the سِلّ were put into him. (M.) A3: AA says that the مَسْلُولَة of غَنَم [meaning sheep or goats, i. e., applied to a شَاة, meaning a sheep or goat, or a ewe or she-goat,] is One whose powers, or forces, are of long continuance (اَلَّتِى يَطُولُ قُوَاهَا): and that one says [of such] فِى فِيهَا سَلَّةٌ [in which phrase فى seems evidently to have been preposed by mistake: see سَلَّةٌ]. (O, TA.) مُسَلْسَلٌ A thing having its parts, or portions, connected, one with another. (S, O.) b2: and [hence, (see سِلْسِلَةٌ,)] Chained; bound with the سِلْسِلَة. (TA.) [المَرْأَةُ المُسَلْسَلَةُ is the name of The constellation Andromeda; described by Kzw and others.] b3: (assumed tropical:) Lightning that assumes the form of chains (يَتَسَلْسَلُ) in its upper portions, and seldom, or never, breaks its promise [of being followed by rain]. (IAar, TA.) b4: Applied to hair, [as also ↓ مُتَسَلْسِلٌ, (K in art. حجن,) (assumed tropical:) Forming a succession of rimples, like water running in a shallow and rugged bed, or rippled by the wind; (see R. Q. 2;) or] crisp, or curly, or twisted, and contracted; syn. جَعْدٌ. (Mgh.) b5: (assumed tropical:) A sword having in it, or upon it, diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, resembling the سِلْسِلَة [or chain]. (TA.) [See also مُسَلَّسٌ.] b6: (assumed tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, figured with stripes, or lines; (K;) as also مُلَسْلَسٌ: as though formed by tranposition. (TA.) Also, and ↓ مُتَسَلْسِلٌ, (assumed tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, woven badly (M, K) and thinly. (M.) b7: حَدِيثٌ مُسَلْسَلٌ (assumed tropical:) A tradition [related by an uninterrupted chain of transmitters,] such as when one says, I met face to face such a one who said, I met face to face such a one, and so on, to the Apostle of God. (O, TA.) مُتَسَلْسِلٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places. b2: Also (assumed tropical:) A garment worn until it has become thin, (TA.)

فرع
فَرَّعَ فُرُوْعاً. وأفْرَعَ: في مَعْنى صَعِدَ وهَبَطَ جميعاً. ويُقال في الهُبُوط: فَرَّعَ؛ أيضاً. وفَرَعْتُه: عَلَوْتَه. وفَرَعْتُ أرْضَ كذا: جَوَّلْتُ فيها فَعَلِمْتُ خَبَرَها. وفَرَعْتُ الفَرَسَ: قَدَعْتَه. وفَرَعْتُ بينهم: حَجَزْتَ. ورَجُلٌ مِفْرَعٌ وقَوْمٌ مَفَارِعُ: إِذا كَفُّوا بين النّاس وَقَوَوْا على ذلك، وفي الحديث: " أنَّ جارِيَتَيْنِ أخَذَتا بِرُكْبَتَي النبيِّ صلّى الله عليه وآلِهِ وسَلَّم - وهو في الصَّلاة فَفَرَّع بينهما " أي فَرَّقَ.
وفَرَعًها وافْتَرَعَها: اقْتَضَّها. وأَفْرَعَتْ: رأتِ الدَّمَ عندَ الوِلادَة أوْ في أوَّل ما حاضَتْ.
وهو أوَّلُ صَيْدٍ فَرَعْنا دَمَه: أي صَبَبْناه. وأفْرَعَتِ الضَّبُعُ في الغَنَم: أفْسَدَتْ وأدْمَتْ، وكذلك أفْرَعَ اللِّجَامُ الفَرَسَ: أي أدْمى فاه. ورُوِيَ عنهم: بِئسَ ما أفْرَعْتَ: أي ابْتَدَأْتَ.
وأفْرَعُوا الفَرَعَةَ واسْتَفْرَعوا وفَرَّعُوا: نَحَروْها. والفَرَعَةُ: أوَّل نِتَاج الناقَة، وكانوا يَتَبَرَّكُونَ بنَحْرِه. وقيل: كانوا إِذا بَلَغَ الإبِلُ المائةَ نَحَروا واحِداً وأُطْعِمَ الناس وهو الفَرَعَة. ويُقال: أَفْرَعَتِ الإبِلُ: أي نُتِجَتِ الفَرَعَ. وأفْرَعُوا: فَعَلَتْ إبِلهم ذلك.
والفَرَعُ: القِسْم. وأتَيْتُه في فَرْع الضُّحى: أي في أوَّله. وفَرَعَةُ الجَبَل وفارِعتُه: قُلَّتُه. والفُرْعَانُ: الشِّعَابُ في الجِبَال، والواحِد: فَرَعٌ. والفَرَعَةُ: القَمْلةُ الصَّغيرة، وقيل الكَبيرة، والجَميعُ: الفَرَعُ. ويُقال: الفَرْعَةُ - بِسُكُون الرّاء -؛ والفَرْعُ الجَمْع، ومنه: حَسَّانُ بن الفُرَيْعَة. والفَرَعَة: جِلْدَةٌ تُزَادُ في القِرْبَة أو الجِراب إِذا ضَاقَ.
وأُفْرِعَ بِسَيِّد بَني فلانٍ: أي أخَذُه. وأفْرَعُوا: انْتَجَعُوا في أَوَّل الناس. ووَادٍ مُفْرعٌ: كَفَى أهْلَه. وأفْرَعَ فلانٌ: طالَ وارتَفَعَ. وأفْرَعْتُ به فما أحْمَدْتُه: نَزَلْتُ به. وفارِعَة الوادي: أعْلاه. والفَرْعُ: أعْلى كُلِّ شيءٍ. وقَوْسٌ فَرْعٌ: إِذا اتُّخِذَتْ من رَأْسِ القَضِيْب.
والفَرْعُ: المالُ المُعَدُّ: والشَّعَرُ؛ جميعاً، يُقال: فَرِعَ وهو أفْرَعُ وفارعٌ. الجَميعُ: الفُرْعَان.
وفَرْعَةُ الطَّريْق وفارِعَتُه: حَوَاشِيْه. وقيل: الفارِعَةُ: ما ارْتَفَعَ منه وظَهَرَ؛ والجَميعُ: الفَوَارعُ. والفَرْعَاءُ والمَفْرَعُ مِثْلُه. وهو مُفْرَعُ الكَتِفِ؛ أي عَرِيْضُها. وتَفَرَّعْتُم: تَزَوَّجْتَ في سادَتِهم.
والمُفْرِعُ: الطَّويلُ من كُلِّ شَيءٍ. وفَوَارِعُ: مَوَاضِع. وفارعٌ: اسْمُ حِصْنٍ كان المَدينَةِ لحسّان بن ثابِت. فأمّا قَوْلُ الهُذَليِّ:
وذَكَّرَها فَيْحُ نَجْمِ الفُرُوْع
فهي فُروعُ الجَوْزاء، وهو أشَدُّ ما يَكون من الحَرِّ، ويُرْوى: الفُرُوْغِ؛ بالغَيْن مُعْجَمَةً.
وقَوْلُ أُمَيَّةَ:
حَيِّ داوودَ وابنَ عَادٍ ومُوسى ... وفُرَيْعٌ بُنْيَانُه بالثِّقَالِ
فيُقال: أرادَ ب فُرِيْعٍ فِرْعَوْنَ.
رفع: المَرْفُوْعُ من سَيْرِ الفَرَس: دُوْنَ الحُضْر وفَوْقَ المَوْضوع، ويُقال: أرْفَعْ من دابَّتِكَ.
والرَّفْعَةُ: مِثْلُ جَرْي الفَرَس إِذا فَعَلَه البَعيرُ. ورافَعَني فلانٌ وخَافَضَني: داوَرَني كُلَّ مُدَاوَرَةٍ. ورَفُعَ رَفَاعَةً فهو رَفِيْعٌ. ورَفَّعَ الحِمَارُ في العَدْو: إِذا كان بعضُه أرْفَعَ من بعضٍ. والرَّفِيْعَةُ: ما تَرْفَعُه على غيرك عند السُّلْطان. والرِّفْعَة: نَقِيْضُ الذِّلَّة. والرِّفَاعَةُ: ما تُنَفِّجُ به المرْأَةُ عَجِيْزَتَها. وأرْفَعَ بهم: أتَّقى عليهم. ورَافَعْتُه: تارَكْتَه. ورَفَّعْتُهم: باعَدْتَهم في الحَرْب. ورَفَعْتُه رَفْعاً: خَبَأْتَه وَأَحْرَزْتَه. وقيل: في قَوْل جَرير:
رَفَعْنَ الكُسَا والعَبْقَرِيَّ المُرَقَّما.
اتَّخَذْتَها رَفِيْعَةً فاخِرة. وفي صَوْتِه رُفَاعَةٌ رَفَاعَةٌ: أي ارتِفاعٌ. ورَفَعْتُه: نَسَبْتَه، ومنه: حَدِيْثٌ مَرْفُوْعٌ. وهذا زَمَنُ رَفَاعِ الزَّرْعِ ورِفَاعِه: وذلك حين يُحْصَدُ فَيُرْفَع.

فرع

1 فَرَعَ [He, or it, overtopped, or surpassed in height or tallness: this seems to be the primary signification]. It is said in a trad., يَكَادُ يَفْرَعُ النَّاسَ طُولًا (O, TA) He is, or was, near to overtopping the people, or surpassing them in tallness. (TA.) And one says, فَرَعَ فِى قَوْمِهِ i. e. طَالَ [app. meaning He surpassed in tallness among his people or party]; as also ↓ افرع. (TA.) And فَرَعَ القَوْمَ, (K,) or فَرَعْتُ قَوْمِى, (S, O,) inf. n. فَرْعٌ and فُرُوعٌ, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, superior to the people or party, (K,) or I was, or became, superior to my people or party, (S, O,) in eminence, or nobility, or in beauty, or goodliness. (S, O, K.) And فَرَعَ صَاحِبَهُ (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, superior to his companion; he excelled him. (IAar, TA in art. برع.) [See also 5.] b2: And فَرَعَ, (O, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. فَرْعٌ (TK [as is indicated in the K, and, in the former of the two senses here following, فُرُوعٌ also, said in the TA to be syn. with صُعُودٌ]), (tropical:) He (a man, O) ascended: and also he descended: thus having two contr. significations: (O, K, TA:) or, accord. to IAar, it has the former meaning, and ↓ افرع has the latter meaning: (TA: [but see what follows:]) you say, فَرَعْتُ الجَبَلَ (S, TA) and فِى الجَبَلِ, (TA,) I ascended the mountain; (S, TA;) as also ↓ فَرَّعْتُهُ, (S, O, * K, *) inf. n. تَفْرِيعٌ: (S, O, K:) and فِى الجَبَلِ ↓ فَرَّعْتُ I descended the mountain; as also فِيهِ ↓ أَفْرَعْتُ: (S, O, K:) or, as IB says, on the authority of A 'Obeyd, فِى الجَبَلِ ↓ افرع means he ascended the mountain: and مِنْهُ ↓ افرع he descended it. (TA.) b3: And فَرَعْتُ رَأْسَهُ بِالعَصَا, (S, O, K, * TA, *) inf. n. فَرْعٌ; (O, TA;) as also قَرَعْتُهُ, (S, O,) inf. n. قَرْعٌ; (O;) (tropical:) I smote his head, [or assailed it, smiting,] syn. عَلَوْتُهُ (S, O, K, * TA) بِهَا (K, TA) ضَرْبًا, (TA,) [with the staff, or stick], and بِالسَّيْفِ [with the sword]. (TA.) b4: فَرَعْتُ فَرَسِى بِاللِّجَامِ, (S, O, K, *) aor. ـَ inf. n. فَرْعٌ, (S, O,) (assumed tropical:) I pulled in my horse by the bridle and bit, to stop him. (S, O, K.) b5: فَرَعْتُ بَيْنَهُمَا, (S, O,) or بَيْنَهُمْ, (K, TA,) aor. ـَ inf. n. فَرْعٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) I interposed, or intervened as a barrier, (S, O, K, TA,) between them two, (S, O, TA,) or between them, (K, TA,) and restrained (S, O, K, TA) them two, (S, O, TA,) or them, and made peace, or effected a reconciliation, between them: (K, TA:) and ↓ فرّع بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, inf. n. تَفْرِيعٌ, (assumed tropical:) He made a separation, and interposed, or intervened as a barrier, between the people, or party: and hence the saying in a trad., بَيْنَ الغَنَمِ ↓ كَانَ يُفَرِّعُ i. e. He was making a separation between the sheep, or goats: IAth says that Hr has mentioned it as with ق; but, he adds, Aboo-Moosà says, it is one of his mistakes. (TA.) A2: هٰذَا أَوَّلُ صَيْدٍ فَرَعَهُ meansThis is the first object of the chase of which he shed, or has shed, the blood. (TA. [See also 4.]) b2: See also 8.

A3: فَرَعَ الأَرْضَ: see 4.

A4: فَرِعَ, [aor. ـَ (TA,) inf. n. فَرَعٌ, (S, O, K, TA,) He (a man) was, or became, abundant, (TA,) or free from deficiency, (S, O, K,) in respect of the hair [of the head]. (S, O, K, TA.) [See أَفْرَعُ.]2 فَرَّعَ see 1, near the middle, in two places.

A2: فَرَّعْتُ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَصْلِ مَسَائِلَ, (Msb, K, but in the latter فَرَّعَ,) inf. n. تَفْرِيعٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) I derived, or deduced, questions, or problems, or propositions, from this fundamental axiom or principle; (Msb;) or made questions to be the فُرُوع [i. e. the branches, meaning derivatives,] of this fundamental axiom or principle: (K, TA:) a tropical phrase. (TA.) A3: See again 1, latter half, in two places.

A4: And see also 4, former half, in three places.3 فارع الرَّجُلَ He sufficed the man; and bore, or took upon himself, a responsibility for him. (TA.) 4 أَفْرَعَ see 1, in five places. b2: You say افرع بِهِم meaning He alighted at their abode [as a guest]; syn. نَزَلَ. (K.) And أَفْرَعْنَا بِفُلَانٍ فَمَا أَحْمَدْنَاهُ i. e. نَزَلْنَا بِهِ [We alighted as guests at the abode of such a one, and we did not find him to be such as should be commended]. (S, O.) b3: And افرع فى لومه [app. فِى لُؤْمِهِ] i. e. اِنْحَدَرَ [as though meaning (tropical:) He lowered himself in his meanness, or sordidness; but I suspect it to be a mistranscription]; a tropical phrase. (TA.) A2: افرع الأَرْضَ He went round, or about, or round about, (S, O, K, TA,) or did so much, (S, O, TA,) in the land, (S, O, K, TA,) as also ↓ فَرَعَهَا, and ↓ فرّعها, (TA,) and consequently knew its state, or case, or circumstances. (S, O, K, TA.) A3: افرعت الإِبِلُ The camels brought forth the [firstlings, or] first offspring (الفَرَعَ). (O, K.) b2: And أَفْرَعُوا, (O,) or القَوْمُ افرع, (K,) They, (O,) or the people, or party, (K,) were, or became, persons whose camels had brought forth the first offspring. (O, K.) b3: And افرع القَوْمُ The people, or party, sacrificed the فَرَع [or firstling of a camel, or of a sheep or goat]: (S, Msb:) or افرع الفَرَعَةَ he sacrificed the فَرَعَة, (O, K,) which signifies the same as the فَرَع; (Mgh, Msb;) and so الفَرَعَةَ ↓ استفرع; (O;) or [simply] ↓ استفرع; (K;) and افرع [alone]; (O;) and ↓ فرّع, (O, K,) inf. n. تَفْرِيعٌ; (K;) he sacrificed the فَرَعَ; (O, K;) whence the trad., ↓ فَرِّعُوا

إِنْ شَئْتُمْ وَلٰكِنْ لَا تَذْبَحُوا غَرَاةً حَتَّى يَكْبَرَ i. e. Slaughter ye the firstling [of a camel, or of a sheep or goat], but slaughter not one that is little, whose flesh is like glue, [until it be full-grown.] (O, TA. *) b4: And [hence, perhaps,] أَفْرَعْتُهُ I made him to bleed. (Msb.) And أَفْرَعَتِ الضَّبُعُ الغَنَمَ, (O, K, TA,) so says Ibn-'Abbád, (O, TA,) or فِى الغَنَمِ, so in the L, (TA,) The hyena, or female hyena, injured, and made to bleed, (O, K, TA,) or killed, and injured, (L, TA,) the sheep or goats. (O, L, K, TA.) And افرع اللِّجَامُ الفَرَسَ The bit made the mouth of the horse to bleed. (O, K. [See also 1, near the end.]) and افرع المَرْأَةَ, said of menstruating, It made the woman to bleed. (TA.) And [hence, app.,] افرع العَرُوسَ He accomplished his want in respect of the compressing of the bride. (AA, O, K. * [See also 8.]) b5: And افرعت She (a woman) saw blood on the occasion of childbirth: (O, K:) or, as some say, before childbirth: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or at the first of her menstruating: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or she menstruated: (A'Obeyd, L, TA:) or she (a woman, or a beast,) first saw blood when taken with the pains of parturition, or near to bringing forth: and افرع لَهَا الدَّمُ the blood appeared to her. (L, TA.) A4: And افرع He began, or commenced, discourse, or a narration; (K;) and so ↓ استفرع; (Sh, O, K, TA;) and ↓ افترع: (Sh, TA:) and likewise, as also ↓ استفرع, a thing. (K.) One says, بِئْسَ مَا أَفْرَعْتَ بِهِ Very evil is that with which thou hast begun, or commenced: (S, O:) and نِعْمَ مَا أَفْرَعْتَ [or أَفْرَعْتَ بِهِ] Very good is that which [or with which] thou hast begun. (Msb.) And افرع سَفَرَهُ, and حَاجَتَهُ, He began, commenced, or entered upon, his journey, and his needful affair. (TA.) And افرعوا مِنْ سَفَرِهِمْ They came, or arrived, from their journey when it was not the proper time for their coming. (TA.) b2: And افرعوا They sought after herbage in its place (اِنْتَجَعُوا) among the first, or foremost, of the people. (S, O, K.) A5: افرع أَهْلَهُ, thus in all the copies of the K, expl. as meaning كَفَلَهُمْ, and likewise in the O, is a mistranscription by Sgh, whom the author of the K has here followed: it is correctly, افرع الَوادِى أَهْلَهُ i. e. The valley sufficed its people; syn. كَفَاهُمْ. (TA.) A6: أُفْرِعَ بِسَيِّدِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ, (O, K,) with damm, (K,) means The chief of the sons of such a one was taken (O, K, TA) and slain. (TA.) 5 تفرّعت أَغْصَانُ الشَّجَرِ The branches of the trees became abundant. (S, O, K. *) b2: and [hence,] تفرّع الوَادِى (assumed tropical:) [The valley branched forth]. (TA.) b3: [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce فَظِيعٌ.] b4: تَفَرَّعَتْ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَصْلِ مَسَائِلُ (O, Msb, K, TA) (tropical:) Questions, or problems, or propositions, were derived, or deduced, from this fundamental axiom or principle; (Msb;) or were made to be the فُرُوع [i. e. the branches, meaning derivatives,] thereof; (K, TA;) [they ramified therefrom;] is a tropical phrase. (TA.) A2: تَفَرَّعَهُمْ (tropical:) He set upon them (O, K, TA) with reviling and the like; as in the A and L: (TA:) and he was, or became, superior to them, (O, K, TA,) in eminence, or nobility; and excelled them: (TA: [see also 1:]) or it signifies, (S, K, TA,) or signifies also, (O,) (tropical:) he married, or took to wife, the chief of their women, (S, O, K, TA,) and the highest of them: (TA:) and تَفَرَّعْتُ بِبَنِى فُلَانٍ (tropical:) I married among the noble and high of the sons of such a one; like تَذَرَّيْتُهُمْ and تَنَصَّيْتُهُمْ. (TA.) 8 افترع: see 4, latter half. b2: Hence, (TA,) He devirginated a maid; (S, O, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ فَرَعَهَا. (K.) b3: And hence, افترع قَصِيدَةَ كَذَا (tropical:) [He broached such an ode], and مَعَانِىَ كَذَا [such meanings]: (Har p. 61:) and يَفْتَرِعُ أَبْكَارَ المَعَانِى (tropical:) [He broaches virgin meanings]. (TA, and Har ubi suprà.) 10 إِسْتَفْرَعَ see 4, former half, in two places: A2: and the same again, latter half, in two places.

فَرْعٌ The upper, or uppermost, part of anything; (S, O, Msb, K;) the فَرْع being what branches forth (يَتَفَرَّعُ) from the lower, or lowest, part thereof: (Msb:) pl. فُرُوعٌ only. (TA.) It is said in a trad. أَىُّ الشَّجَرِ أَبْعَدُ مِنَ الخَارِفِ قَالُوا فَرْعُهَا قَالَ وَكَذٰلِكَ الصَّفُّ الأَوَّلُ [What part of trees is furthest from the plucker of the fruit? they said, The uppermost part thereof; he said, And such like is the first row of the persons worshipping in the mosque]. (TA.) Thus فَرْعُ الأُذُنِ signifies The upper, or uppermost, part of the ear; (K, * MF, TA;) pl. as above. (TA.) And فُرُوعُ المُقْلَتَيْنِ The upper, or uppermost, parts of the two eyeballs. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] A branch of a tree or plant: (KL, TA:) or the head of a branch: or a great branch: and a branch of anything. (MA.) b3: [And hence, (assumed tropical:) A branch, or subdivision, or derivative, of anything that is regarded as a fundamental or a whole;] a thing that is built, or founded, upon another thing; opposed to أَصْلٌ: (K, TA:) [the pl. فُرُوعٌ, as opposed to أُصُولٌ meaning “ fundamentals,” signifies, in the conventional language of the lawyers and the men of science in general, the derivative institutes of the law, &c.: see 2:] عِلْمُ الفُرُوعِ [the science of the derivative institutes of the law] is what is commonly known by the appellation of عِلْمُ الفِقْهِ [the science of jurisprudence; because it is mainly concerned with institutes derived from fundamentals]. (Hájjee Khaleefeh.) b4: And (tropical:) The hair of a woman: pl. as above [app. used in a collective sense like the French “ cheveux ”]: (K, TA:) one says اِمْرَأَةٌ طَوِيلَةُ الفُرُوعِ [meaning (tropical:) A long-haired woman]. (TA.) And (K) (tropical:) Full [or abundant] hair. (S, O, K, TA.) b5: And (tropical:) The noble, or man of eminence, of a people or party: (S, O, K, TA:) pl. as above: (TA:) one says, هُوَ فَرْعُ قَوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is the noble, or man of eminence, of his people or party, (S, O, TA, *) and مِنْ فُرُوعِهِم of their nobles, &c. (TA.) b6: And [app. from the same word as signifying “ a branch of a tree,”] (assumed tropical:) A valley branching off. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) A channel in which water runs to the شِعْب (K, TA) i. e. the وَادِى [here meaning the water-course in a low tract or between the two acclivities of two mountains]: (TA:) [but] in this sense its pl. is فِرَاعٌ. (K, TA.) A2: Also [or قَوْسٌ فَرْعٌ] A bow that is made from the extreme portion of a branch, (As, S, O, K, TA,) from the head thereof: (As, TA:) and (K) a bow that is not [made from a branch] divided lengthwise (S, O, K, TA) is called قَوْسٌ فَرْعٌ; (S, O, TA;) such as is [made from a branch] divided lengthwise being called قَوْسٌ فِلْقٌ: (S, O:) or the فَرْع is [one] of the best of bows: (AHn, K, TA:) and [this word is used as an epithet, i. e.] one says قَوْسٌ فَرْعٌ and فَرْعَةٌ. (K.) A3: Also, i. e. فَرْعٌ, Property that is beneficial, or serviceable, and made ready, or prepared: (O, K, TA:) or, accord. to the S, it is ↓ فَرَعٌ which has this signification; but this is said by Sgh [app. in the TS], and after him by the author of the K, to be a mistake; and a verse in which it occurs with the ر quiescent is cited in the O and K as an ex. of it in this sense: it may be, however, that the poet has made the ر quiescent of necessity [by poetic license, for the sake of the metre]; or it may here [properly] signify

“ a branch,” and be metonymically used as meaning recent property. (TA.) A4: See also the next paragraph, latter half.

فَرَعٌ The firstling of the camel, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) or of the sheep or goat, (L, K,) which they used to sacrifice to their gods, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) looking for a blessing thereby; (S, O, Msb;) and ↓ فَرَعَةٌ signifies the same: (Mgh, Msb:) hence, (Mgh, O, K,) it is said in a trad., [implying the prohibition of this custom,] لَا فَرَعَ وَلَا عَتِيرَةٌ, (S, O, K, *) or وَلَا عَتِيرَةَ ↓ لَا فَرَعَةَ: (Mgh: [see عَتِيرَةٌ:]) or when the camels amounted to the number for which their owner wished, they sacrificed [a firstling]: (TA:) or when one's camels amounted to a complete hundred, (K, TA,) he sacrificed a he-camel thereof every year, and gave it to the people to eat, neither he nor his family tasting it, or rather, it is said, (TA,) he sacrificed a young, or youthful, he-camel to his idol: and the Muslims used to do it in the first part of ElIslám: then it was abrogated: (K, TA:) accord. to the Bári' and the Mj, the firstling of camels and also that of sheep or goats are thus called: (Msb:) the pl. [of فَرَعٌ] is فُرُعٌ, with two dammehs. (K.) It is said in a prov., أَوَّلُ الصَّيْدِ فَرَعٌ [The first of what are taken by the chase or the like is a فرع] as being likened to a firstling: so says Yezeed Ibn-Murrah. (TA. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 35.]) b2: The poet Ows Ibn-Hajar, (S, O,) or Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim, has used it as meaning The skin of a فَرَع; (S, O; *) suppressing the prefix جِلْد: (S:) for they used to clothe with its skin another young one of a camel, in order that the mother of the one sacrificed might incline to it [and yield her milk]. (O; and the like is said in the TA.) A2: Also, and ↓ فَرْعٌ, Lice: (S, K:) or, as some say, small lice: (TA:) and one thereof is termed ↓ فَرَعَةٌ and ↓ فَرْعَةٌ: (S, K:) or, accord. to some, فرعة signifies a large louse. (TA.) A3: And the former (فَرَعٌ), Food that is prepared [app. for persons invited to partake of it] on the occasion of camels' bringing forth; like as خُرْسٌ signifies such as is on the occasion of a woman's bringing forth. (TA.) b2: And A portion, or share; syn. قِسْمٌ: (O, K, TA:) accord. to some, peculiarly of water. (TA.) b3: See also فَرْعٌ, last quarter.

A4: It is also the inf. n. of فَرِعَ. (TA. [See 1, last sentence.]) فَرْعَةٌ A high, or an elevated, place of a mountain: pl. فِرَاعٌ: so in the saying, اِيْتِ فَرْعَةً مِنْ فِرَاعِ الجَبَلِ فَانْزِلْهَا [Come thou to one of the high places of the mountain and descend it]: (S, TA:) or, as some say, it signifies particularly the head of a mountain. (TA. [See also فَارِعَةٌ.]) b2: and فَرْعَةُ الجُلَّةِ The highest, or uppermost, of the dates of the [receptacle called] جُلَّة [q. v.]. (TA.) b3: And فرعة الطريق [i. e. فَرْعَةُ الطَّرِيقِ] and فرعته [sic, app. ↓ فَرَعَتُهُ,] and ↓ فَرْعَاؤُهُ and ↓ فَارِعَتُهُ all signify The highest part of the road, and the place where it ends: or the conspicuous and elevated part thereof: or ↓ فَارِعَتُهُ signifies the sides, or borders, thereof. (TA. [See also قَارِعَةُ الطَّرِيقِ.]) b4: and one says, أَتَيْتُهُ فِى فَرْعَةٍ مِنَ النَّهَارِ (tropical:) I came to him in a first part of the day. (TA.) A2: See also فَرَعٌ, latter half.

فُرْعَةٌ The blood of the virgin on the occasion of devirgination.

فَرَعَةٌ: see فَرْعَةٌ.

A2: [Also] A piece of skin that is added in the قِرْبَة [or water-skin] when the latter is not full-sized, or complete. (O, K.) A3: See also فَرَعٌ, first quarter, in two places: A4: and the same again, latter half, in one place.

A5: It is also a pl. of فَارِعٌ [q. v.]. (O, K.) فُرُوعُ الجَوْزَآءِ means The most intense degree of heat: (S, O, TA:) [or rather الفُرُوعُ is a name of a certain asterism of الجَوْزَآءُ (which is an appel-lation of Orion and of Gemini, either whereof may be here appropriately meant,) at the season of the auroral rising of which the heat becomes most intense:] Aboo-Khirásh says, وَظَلَّ لَهَا يَوْمٌ كَأَنَّ أُوَارَهُ ذَكَا النَّارِ مِنْ نَجْمِ الفُرُوعِ طَوِيلُ

[And a day continued to them, the heat whereof was as though it were the blazing of fire, from the asterism of the فُرُوعِ; a long day]: (S, * O, TA:) in the S, وَظَلَّ لَنَا; but correctly لَهَا, meaning to the she-asses: (TA:) and Aboo-Sa'eed related it as above with the unpointed ع in الفروع: (S, * TA:) in the same manner, also, it is expl. by him as used in the phrase فَيْحُ نَجْمِ الفُرُوعِ [which I would render the vehement raging of the heat of the asterism of the فروع] in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee-'Áïdh: El-Jumahee related it differently, with غ; but the فُرُوغ [or rather the فَرْغَانِ] are of the stars of Aquarius; and the season thereof [i. e. of their auroral rising] is cold; there is then no فيح. (TA.) فُرَيْعٌ, occurring [with tenween, perfectly decl.,] in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt, (O, K,) i. q. ↓ فِرْعَوْنُ, (O,) which is a proper name of such as was King of the Amalekites [or rather of the ancient Egyptians, in general], like as قَيْصَر was of the Room [or Greeks of the Lower Empire], and كِسْرَى of the Persians, (Ksh in ii.

46,) [and also] a foreign word, (Msb,) [wherefore it is imperfectly decl., in Hebr.

פַּרְעֹה, i. e. Pharaoh,] a dial. var. of فِرْعَوْنُ, or used by poetic license: (K:) the pl. of the latter is فَرَاعِنَةٌ. (Msb.) فِرْعَوْنُ: see the next preceding paragraph.

فَارِعٌ [Overtopping, or surpassing in height or tallness: this seems to be the primary signification]. You say جَبَلٌ فَارِعٌ A mountain higher, or taller, than what is next to it. (S, O.) b2: and High, or tall; applied to a man, and to an extended gibbous piece of sand. (TA.) b3: and High, or elevated; goodly in form or aspect or appearance; beautiful: (Aboo-'Adnán, O, K:) or [simply] high [app. in rank or dignity]: (IAar, O:) and also low, ignoble, or mean: (IAar, O, K:) thus having two contr. significations. (O, K.) b4: And a man of the Arabs said, ↓ لَقِيتُ فُلَانًا فَارِعًا مُفْرِعًا, meaning [I met such a one] one of us ascending and the other descending. (S, O, TA.) A2: Also sing. of فَرَعَةٌ, which signifies The armed attendants, or guards, of the Sultán, or sovereign: (O, K, TA:) it is like وَازِعٌ. (TA.) فَارِعَةٌ The higher, or highest, part of a mountain [and of a valley]: one says, اِنْزِلْ بِفَارِعَةِ الوَادِى

وَاحْذَرْ أَسْفَلَهُ [Alight thou in the higher, or highest, part of the valley, and beware of its lower, or lowest, part]. (S, O.) See also فَرْعَةٌ, in two places. b2: الفَارِعَةُ مِنَ الغَنَائِمِ means The surplus that is deducted [so I render المُرْتَفِعَةُ الصَّاعِدَةُ, app. such things as cannot be divided and are therefore removed,] from the main stock of the spoils before they are divided into fifths. (TA.) b3: And فَوَارِعٌ, (pl. of فَارِعَةٌ, TA,) applied to تِلَاع, [a word variously explained, here, I think, used as signifying either high, or low, grounds, (see its sing. تَلْعَةٌ,)] (S, O, * K, *) means Of which the channels wherein the torrents flow are in high, or elevated, parts. (S, O, K.) فَيْفَرْعٌ (K, TA) and فَيْفَرَعٌ (TA) A species of trees. (K, TA.) أَفْرَعُ Free from deficiency in the hair [of the head]; (S, O, K;) contr. of أَصْلَعُ; (IDrd, S, O, K;) used only in this sense; not applied to a man who is large in the beard or in the whole head of hair: (IDrd, S, O:) the Prophet was أَفْرَع, (S, O,) and so was Aboo-Bekr, (O, K,) and 'Omar was أَصْلَع: (O:) fem. فَرْعَآءُ; (S, O, K;) accord. to IDrd, applied to a woman as meaning having much hair: (S, O:) pl. فُرْعَانٌ, (O, K,) like its contr. صُلْعَانٌ; (O;) and also فُرْعٌ. (K.) 'Omar, being asked, “Are the صُلْعَان better or the فُرْعَان,” said “ The فرعان are better,” meaning to assert the superior excellence of Aboo-Bekr over himself. (O.) b2: فَرْعَآءُ الطَّرِيقِ: see فَرْعَةٌ.

A2: Also i. q. مُوَسْوِسُ [app. as meaning Such as is subject to diabolical promptings or suggestions]: so in the trad., لَا يَؤُمَّنَّكُمُ الأَفْرَعُ [The افرع shall by no means act as your Imám]. (Nh, K, TA.) مُفْرَعٌ Anything tall. (TA.) b2: مُفْرَعُ الكَتِفِ A man broad in the shoulder-blade: (S, O, TA:) or high therein. (TA.) And كَتِفٌ مُفْرَعَةٌ A shoulder-blade high, projecting, and broad. (TA.) مُفْرِعٌ: see فَارِعٌ, last sentence but one.

مِفْرَعٌ One who interposes as a restrainer between persons [at variance], (O, K, TA,) and makes peace, or effects a reconciliation, between them: (TA:) pl. مَفَارِعُ. (S, O, K.)

سَرَقُسْطَةُ:
بفتح أوّله وثانيه ثمّ قاف مضمومة، وسين مهملة ساكنة، وطاء مهملة: بلدة مشهورة بالأندلس تتصل أعمالها بأعمال تطيلة، ذات فواكه عذبة لها فضل على سائر فواكه الأندلس، مبنية على نهر كبير، وهو نهر منبعث من جبال القلاع، قد انفردت بصنعة السّمّور ولطف تدبيره تقوم في طرزها
بكمالها منفردة بالنسج في منوالها، وهي الثياب الرقيقة المعروفة بالسرقسطية، هذه خصوصية لأهل هذا الصقع، وهذا السّمّور المذكور هنا لا أتحقق ما هو ولا أيّ شيء يعنى به وإن كان نباتا عندهم أو وبر الدابّة المعروفة، فإن كانت الدابّة المعروفة فيقال لها الجندبادستر أيضا، وهي دابّة تكون في البحر وتخرج إلى البرّ وعندها قوّة ميز، وقال الأطباء:
الجندبادستر حيوان يكون في بحر الروم ولا يحتاج منه إلّا إلى خصاه فيخرج ذلك الحيوان من البحر ويسرح في البر فيؤخذ ويقطع منه خصاه ويطلق فربّما عرض له الصيادون مرّة أخرى فإذا علم أنّهم ماسكوه استلقى على ظهره وفرّج بين فخذيه ليريهم موضع خصيتيه خاليا فيتركوه حينئذ، وفي سرقسطة معدن الملح الذّرآني وهو أبيض صافي اللون أملس خالص، ولا يكون في غيرها من بلاد الأندلس، ولها مدن ومعاقل، وهي الآن بيد الأفرنج صارت بأيديهم منذ سنة 512، وينسب إلى سرقسطة أبو الحسن عليّ بن إبراهيم بن يوسف السرقسطي، قال السلفي: كان من أهل المعرفة والخط، وكان بيني وبينه مكاتبة، وهو الذي تولى أخذ إجازات الشيوخ بالأندلس سنة 512، وروى في تآليفه عن صهر أبي عبد الله بن وضّاح وغيره كثيرا، وصنّف كتابا في الحفّاظ فبدأ بالزهري وختم بي، كلّه عن السلفي، وأنبل من نسب إلى سرقسطة ثابت بن حزم بن عبد الرحمن بن مطرف بن سليمان بن يحيى العوفي من ولد عوف بن غطفان، وقيل: بل الرواية عبد الرحمن بن عوف الزهري أبو القاسم، سمع بالأندلس من محمد بن وضّاح والخشني وعبد الله بن مرّة وإبراهيم بن نصر السرقسطي ومحمد بن عبد الله بن الفار بن الزبير بن مخلد، رحل إلى المشرق هو وابنه قاسم في سنة 288 فسمعا بمكّة من عبد الله بن عليّ بن الجارود ومحمد بن عليّ الجوهري وأحمد بن حمزة، وبمصر من أحمد بن عمر البزّاز وأحمد بن شعيب النسائي، وكان عالما متقنا بصيرا بالحديث والفقه والنحو والغريب والشعر، وقيل إنّه استقضى ببلده، وتوفي بسرقسطة سنة 313 عن 95 سنة، ومولده سنة 217، وابنه قاسم بن ثابت، كان أعلم من أبيه وأنبل وأروع، ويكنى أبا محمد، رحل مع أبيه فسمع معه وعني بجمع الحديث واللغة فأدخل إلى الأندلس علما كثيرا، ويقال إنّه أوّل من أدخل كتاب العين للخليل إلى الأندلس وألّف قاسم كتابا في شرح الحديث ممّا ليس في كتاب أبي عبيد ولا ابن قتيبة سمّاه كتاب الدلائل، بلغ فيه الغاية في الإتقان، ومات قبل كماله فأكمله أبوه ثابت بعده، قال ابن الفرضي: سمعت العبّاس بن عمرو الورّاق يقول سمعت أبا عليّ القالي يقول: كتبت كتاب الدلائل وما أعلم وضع في الأندلس مثله، ولو قال إنّه ما وضع في المشرق مثله ما أبعد، وكان قاسم عالما بالحديث والفقه متقدّما في معرفة الغريب والنحو والشعر، وكان مع ذلك ورعا ناسكا أريد على أن يلي القضاء بسرقسطة فامتنع من ذلك وأراد أبوه إكراهه عليه فسأله أن يتركه يتروّى في أمره ثلاثة أيّام ويستخير الله فيه، فمات في هذه الثلاثة أيّام، يقولون إنّه دعا لنفسه بالموت، وكان يقال إنّه مجاب الدعوة، وهذا عند أهله مستفيض، قال الفرضي: قرأت بخط الحكم المستنصر بالله توفي قاسم بن ثابت سنة 302 بسرقسطة، وابنه ثابت بن قاسم بن ثابت من أهل سرقسطة، سمع أباه وجدّه، وكان مليح الخط، حدث بكتاب الدلائل، وكان مولعا بالشراب، وتوفي سنة 352، قال: وجدته بخط المستنصر بالله
أمير المؤمنين. وسرقسطة أيضا: بليد من نواحي خوارزم، عن العمراني الخوارزمي.

شفر

1 شَفڤرَ The primary signification of [the inf. n.]

شفر [i. e. شَفْرٌ, of which the verb is app. شَفَرَ,] is The act of cutting, or cutting off; syn. قَطْعٌ. (Ham p. 57.) A2: شَفَرَهَا, (K,) inf. n. شَفْرٌ, (TA,) He struck her (a woman's) شُفْر (K, TA) in compressing her. (TA.) b2: And شَفَرَ [or app. شَفَرَ

إِنْسَانًا] He annoyed, molested, harmed, or hurt, a man. (IAar, O, TA.) A3: شَفِرَتْ, aor. ـَ inf. n. شَفَارَةٌ, She (a woman) was one whose gratification of her venereal lust (شَهْوَتُهَا) soon took place: (K:) or she emitted; [or, app., emitted soon;] syn. أَنْزَلَتْ. (TA.) A4: And شَفِرَ, aor. ـَ It decreased, diminished, or became defective or deficient. (IAar, K.) 2 شفّرها, (K,) inf. n. تَشْفِيرٌ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) He compressed her (i. e. a woman, Ibn-'Abbád, O) on the شُفْر of her فَرْج. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) b2: And شَفَّرْتُ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n. as above, I eradicated, or extirpated, the thing. (TA.) A2: شفّر المَالُ, (O, K,) inf. n. as above, (K,) The property became little: (O, K:) and went away: (K:) from IAar. (TA.) b2: And شفّر said of a man, He gave little. (Ham p. 242.) b3: and شفّرت الشَّمْسُ (O, K) لِلْغُرُوبِ (O) (assumed tropical:) The sun became near to setting; (O, K;) being likened to a man whose property has become little, and gone away. (TA.) b4: And in like manner, (TA,) شفّر عَلَى أَمْرٍ (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K) and لِأَمْرٍ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O,) said of a man, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, on the brink, or verge, of the affair, or event, or case. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) 4 اشفر is said in the Tekmileh to signify He (a camel) strove, or exerted himself, in running: but perhaps it should be اشغر, mentioned before [in art. شغر]. (TA.) شَفْرٌ: see the next paragraph, in four places.

شُفْرٌ The place of growth of the eyelash, (Sh, T, S, A, Msb, K,) which is the edge of the eyelid; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ شَفْرٌ (Kr, A, K) and ↓ شَفِيرٌ: (K:) or, accord. to some, this last signifies the upper side of the inner angle of the eye: (TA:) and with the vulgar, the first signifies the eyelash; but this is [said to be] a mistake: (IKt, Msb:) it occurs, however, in this sense, in a trad. of Esh-Shaabee; (IAth, TA;) and in like manner the pl. occurs in another trad.; but the word شَعَر should be considered as understood before it; or what grows is thus called by the name of the places of growth, and the like of this is not rare: (Mgh:) it is of the masc. gender: (Lh, K:) and the pl. is أَشْفَارٌ, (Sb, S, Mgh, Msb,) the only pl. form. (Sb, TA.) [Hence,] one says, ↓ مَا بِالدَّارِ شَفْرٌ, (Ks, Fr, T, S, Msb, K,) and شُفْرٌ, (Lh, Msb, K,) but Sh disallows this latter, (TA,) and ↓ شَفْرَةٌ, (Fr, Sgh, K,) (tropical:) There is not in the house any one: (S, Msb, K, &c.:) and مَا رَأَيْتُ

↓ مِنْهُمْ شَفْرًا (tropical:) I saw not of them any one: from the شفر of the eye: meaning one having a شفر: (A:) and شفر is also used in this sense without a negation. (TA.) One says likewise, مَا تَرَكَتِ السَّنَةُ ظُفْرًا وَلَا شُفْرًا (tropical:) The year of drought left not anything: and sometimes they said ↓ شَفْرًا, with fet-h, and in this case they said ظَفْرًا, for assimilation. (A.) b2: Also, (S A, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ شَفِيرٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) The edge, border, margin, brink, brow, (S, Mgh, Msb,) or side, (A, K,) of anything; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) as of a valley and the like, (S,) or as of a river &c.: (Mgh and Msb, in relation to the latter word:) one says, النَّهْرِ ↓ قَعَدُوا عَلَى شَفِيرِ, and البِئْرِ, and القَبْرِ, They sat upon the side of the river, and of the well, and of the grave: (A:) and both words signify the side of the upper part of a valley. (K.) b3: and الشُّفْرُ, (K,) or شُفْرُ الفَرْجِ, (Msb,) and شُفْرُ المَرْأَةِ, (TA,) The edge, (Msb, K,) or border, (TA,) of the vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation, [meaning, of each of the labia majora,] of a woman: (Msb, K, TA:) pl. أَشْفَارٌ: (Msb:) the إِسْكَتَانِ are the two sides [or labia majora] of the vulva of a woman; and the شُفْرَانِ are the two borders of the said اسكتان: (AHeyth, Mgh, TA:) Lth says that the ↓ شَافِرَانِ are [two parts] of the pudendum muliebre: (TA:) and شُفْرُ الرَّحِمِ and ↓ شَافِرُهَا signify [in like manner] the edges of the vulva: (S:) and شُفْرَا المَرْأَةِ and ↓ شَافِرَاهَا, the two edges of the رَحِم [or vulva (for الرَّحِم is here used tropically, for الفَرْج, as it is in many other instances,)] of a woman. (TA.) شِفْرٌ: see شَفْرَةٌ, first sentence.

شَفَرٌ: see سَفَنٌ, first sentence.

شَفِرٌ [an epithet of which the fem. only is mentioned]. شَفِرَةٌ and ↓ شَفِيرَةٌ signify A woman who experiences the gratification of her venereal lust (شَهْوَتَهَا) in her شُفْر; so that she emits (تُنْزِلُ) speedily: or [in the CK “ and ”] who is content with the least of coitus: (K, TA:) contr. of قَعِرَةٌ and قَعِيرَةٌ. (TA.) شَفْرَةٌ A large knife; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ شِفْرَةٌ, though this is mentioned only by the author of the Mgh; (MF; [but it is not in my copy of the Mgh; and Golius mentions ↓ شُفْرَةٌ as having this signification, on the authority of Meyd;]) or a broad knife: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. شِفَارٌ (Msb, K) and شَفَرَاتٌ (Msb) and [coll. gen. n., of which شِفْرَةٌ is the n. un., or it may be a quasi-pl. n. of شَفْرَةٌ,] ↓ شِفْرٌ. (TA.) b2: And hence, (Mgh, TA,) (tropical:) A servant; (S, Mgh, TA;) because of his utility. (TA.) It is said in a prov., أَصْغَرُ القَوْمِ شَفْرَتُهُمْ (tropical:) The least of the party is their servant. (S, Mgh.) b3: Also A shoemaker's knife. (S, K.) b4: And A piece of iron made broad, and edged, or pointed. (K.) b5: A broad blade: so says the author of the Mgh. (TA. [But not in my copy of the Mgh.]) b6: The edge, or cutting part, (حَدّ,) of a sword: (S, Mgh, K:) or the edge of the cutting part of a sword. (TA. [See ذُبَابٌ.]) The side of a blade: (K:) or each of the two sides thereof. (AHn, TA.) [Each of the two sharp sides or edges of a spear-head and of an arrow-head.] b7: See also شُفْرٌ, second sentence.

شُفْرَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

شِفْرَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

شَفُورٌ i. q. زُنْبُورٌ The hornet, or hornets. (Golius, on the authority of Meyd.)]

شَفِيرٌ: see شُفْرٌ, in three places. b2: Also The edge of the lip of a camel. (K.) A2: شَفِيرَةٌ: see شَفِرَةٌ, voce شَفِرٌ.

يَرْبُوعٌ شُفَارِىٌّ A jerboa having hair upon its ears: (S:) or having large ears: or having long ears, and bare toes, [in the CK, for العَارِى البَرَاثِنِ, which is evidently the right reading, we find العالى البراثن,] not quickly overtaken: (K:) it is [of] a species of jerboa called ضَأْنُ اليَرَابِيعِ, the fattest and the best, with ears somewhat long: (TA:) or having long legs, and soft and fat flesh: (K:) it is said that it has a nail in the middle of its shank. (TA. [See تَدْمُرِىٌّ.]) b2: ضَبٌّ شُفَارِىٌّ A long and bulky [lizard of the kind called] ضبّ. (Ham p. 242.) b3: أُذُنٌ شُفَارِيَّةٌ (as also شُرَافِيَّةٌ [q. v.], TA) A large ear: (K:) or a bulky ear: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or a long ear: (Az, TA:) or a broad ear, soft in the upper part: (TA:) or an ear having much hair and fur. (Ham p. 242.) شَفَّارٌ The possessor of a شَفْرَة [or large knife]. (A, * TA.) شَافِرٌ, and its dual: see شُفْرٌ, last sentence, in three places.

A2: Also One who destroys, or makes away with, his property: so in the Tekmileh. (TA.) مَشْفَرٌ: see what next follows.

مِشْفَرٌ The lip of a camel; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مَشْفَرٌ: (K:) and (tropical:) of a horse: (S, TA:) and (tropical:) of a human being: (K, TA:) or (tropical:) of an Abyssinian, as being likened to that of a camel: (A'Obeyd, TA:) pl. مَشَافِرُ. (S, K.) It is said in a prov., أَرَاكَ بَشَرٌ مَا أَحَارَ مِشْفَرٌ [lit. External skin hath shown thee what a lip hath transmitted to the stomach;] meaning, the external appearance hath rendered thee in no need of inquiring respecting the internal state: (S, K:) originally said of a camel; (TA;) for when you see his external skin, whether he be fat or lean, you take it as an indication of the quality of his food. (K, TA.) b2: Also The vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation, of a woman: (R, MF:) but this is strange. (TA.) b3: And (tropical:) A piece of land: and of sand: (K, TA:) each by way of comparison [to the lip of a camel]. (TA.) A2: Also A state of resistance; inaccessibleness, or unapproachableness: (K:) strength, or power; (K, * TA;) vehemence, or hardness, or firmness. (K, TA.) b2: And A state of perdition or destruction: and thus it is expl. as used in the saying mentioned by Meyd [in his Proverbs, perhaps the origin of this explanation], تَرَكْتُهُ عَلَى مِثْلِ مِشْفَرِ الأَسَدِ [which may be rendered I left him at the like of the lip of the lion]; (TA;) applied to him who is exposed to destruction. (Meyd, TA. *) عَيْشٌ مُشَفِرٌ Strait, scanty, subsistence. (O, K.)