بعض

1 بَعَضَهُ البَعُوضُ, [aor. ـَ inf. n. بَعْضٌ, The بَعُوض [or gnats, or musquitoes,] bit him; and annoyed, or molested, him. (TA.) And بُعِضُوا They were bitten by the بَعُوض: (A:) or were annoyed, or molested, thereby. (K.) بَعَضَهُ is not used in relation to anything but بَعُوض. (TA.) A poet says, praising a man who passed the night within a كِلَّة [or thin curtain used for protection from gnats, or musquitoes], which is also called أَبُو دِثَارٍ, لَنِعْمَ البَيْتُ بَيْتُ أَبِى دِثَارٍ

إِذَا مَا خَافَ بَعْضُ القَوْمِ بَعْضَا [Excellent indeed is the tent, the tent of Aboo-Dithár, when some of the people fear biting, and annoyance, or molestation, from gnats, or musquitoes]: by بعضا meaning عَضًّا. (TA.) 2 بعضهُ, inf. n. تَبْعِيضٌ, He divided it into parts, or portions, (S, A, Msb, K,) distinct, or separate, one from another. (Msb) You say, أَخَذُوا مَالَهُ فَبَعَّضُوهُ They took his property and divided it into parts, or portions. (A, TA.) And عَضَّى الشَّاةَ وَ بَعَّضَهَا [He limbed, or dismembered, the sheep, or goat, and divided it into parts, or portions]. (A, TA.) [Hence,] مِنْ in certain cases, and بِ in the like cases, as in the saying شَرِبْتُ بِمَآءِ كَذَا [“ I drank of,” i. e. “ some of, such water ”], are said to be لِلتَّبْعِيضِ [For the purpose of dividing into parts, or portions]. (Msb.) 4 ابعضوا They had بَعُوض [or gnats, or musquitoes], (K,) or abundance thereof, (A,) in their land. (A, K.) 5 تبعّض It was, or became, divided into parts, or portions. (S, K.) بَعْضٌ Some, or somewhat or some one, (lit. a thing,) of things, or of a thing: Th says that it signifies thus accord. to all the grammarians; (Msb, TA;) except Hishám, as will be seen hereafter: (TA:) or a part, or portion, (A, Msb, K,) of a thing, (Msb,) or of anything; (A, K;) whether little or much: (TA:) accord. to both these explanations, it may denote the greater part; as eight of ten: (Msb:) [thus it signifies some one or more; and it relates to persons and to other things:] pl. أَبْعَاضٌ; (S, IJ, K;) but ISd doubts whether IJ had an authority for this. (TA.) You say, بَعْضُ الشَّرِّ أَهْوَنُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ [Some kinds of evil are easier to be borne than some]. (A.) And جَارِيَةٌ حُسَّانَةٌ يُشْبِهُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا [A very beautiful girl, parts of whom resemble other parts]. (A.) [And ضَرَبَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا Some of them beat some; i. e. they beat one another.] And لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا

أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍ [We have tarried a day or part of a day]. (Kur xviii. 18.) And one says to a man of a company of men, “Who did this? ” and he answers, أَحَدُنَا or بَعْضُنَا [Some one of us]; meaning himself. (A.) The article ال should not be prefixed to it, (K, * TA,) because it is originally a prefixed n., and as such determinate either literally or virtually, so that it does not admit another cause of being determinate; (TA;) contr. to what is said by IDrst (K, TA) and Ez-Zejjájee; for they said البَعْضُ and الكُلُّ; which, properly, as ISd says, is not allowable; and it is said in the O that IDrst, in this matter, was at variance with all the people of his age: (TA:) AHát says that the Arabs did not say الكُلُّ nor البَعْضُ, but that people used these expressions, even Sb and Akh in their two books, by reason of their little knowledge in this way: (K, * TA:) a remark, says MF, which is extr., and needs no comment: (TA:) [for who surpassed Sb and Akh in knowledge respecting matters of this kind?] AHát also relates his having told As that he had seen in the book of [that celebrated and chaste author] Ibn-ElMukaffa', العِلْمُ الكَثِيرٌ وَ لٰكِنَّ أَخْذَ البَعْضِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ تَرْكِ الكُلِّ [Science is large; but the acquiring of part is better than the neglecting of the whole]; and that As disapproved of it most strongly, saying that the article ال is not prefixed to بَعْضٌ and كُلٌّ because they are determinate without it: (TA:) Az, however, says that the grammarians allow its being prefixed to these two words, (Msb, TA,) though As disallows it, (TA,) because they are meant to be understood as prefixed ns.; (Msb;) or because the article is meant to be a substitute for the noun to which they should be prefixed; or, in the case of بَعْضٌ, because this word is equivalent to جُزْءٌ, which receives the article ال. (MF.) It is related of AO, that he assigned also to بَعْضٌ the contr. meaning of All; or the whole: adducing as a proof thereof the words of the Kur [xl. 29], يُصِبْكُمْ بَعْضُ الَّذِى

يَعِدُكُمْ as meaning All of that with which he threateneth you will befall you: and the saying of Lebeed.

أَوْ يَعْتَلِقْ بَعْضَ النُّفُوسِ حِمَامُهَا [as meaning Or their death shall cling to all living creatures: or, accord. to another relation, او يَرْتَبِطْ, which means the same as او يعتلق]: thus also AHeyth explains the above-cited verse of the Kur; and thus Hishám explains the saying of Lebeed, erroneously asserting that بعض is here a pl.: (TA:) but with respect to the former instance, the Prophet had threatened them with two things, the punishment of the present world and that of the world to come; so he says, “This punishment will befall you in the present world; ”

which is part (بعض] of the two threats; without denying the punishment of the world to come: or, as Aboo-Is-hák says, he mentions the part to indicate the necessary consequence of the whole: and as to the saying of Lebeed, by بعض النفوس he means himself. (TA [app. from ISd].) أَرْضٌ بَعِضَةٌ A land abounding with بَعُوض [or gnats, or musquitoes]; (K;) as also ↓ مَبْعَضَةٌ, like as you say مَبَقَّةٌ. (TA.) And لَيْلَةٌ بَعِضَةٌ A night in which are many بَعُوض; as also ↓ مَبْعُوضَةٌ (A, K.) بَعُوضٌ [Gnats, or musquitoes;] i. q. بَقَّ [which signifies both gnats, or musquitoes, (called in Egypt نَامُوس,) and also bugs]: n. un. with ة: (S:) or pl. of بَعُوضَةٌ, (K,) which signifies i. q. بَقَّةٌ. (A, K.) A poet speaks of the humming of the بعوض of the water. (TA.) The author of the K says, in the B, that the word is taken from بَعْضٌ, because of the smallness of the body of the بعوضة in comparison with other living things. (TA.) You say, كَلَّفَنِى مُخَّ البَعُوضِ (tropical:) He imposed upon me a difficult thing: (A:) or an impossible thing. (TS, K.) أَرْضٌ مَبْعَضَةٌ: see بَعِضَةٌ لَيْلَةٌ مَبْعُوضَةٌ: see بَعِضَةٌ

برص

1 بَرِصَ, (S, [so in two copies, in one mentioned by Freytag بُرِصَ, which is a mistake,] M, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. بَرَصٌ, (M, Msb,) He (a man, S) was, or became, affected with بَرَص [or leprosy (see بَرَصٌ below)]. (S, M, Msb, K.) [See also بَرِشَ.]2 برّص رَأْسَهُ, (A,) inf. n. تَبْرِيصٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He shaved his head. (Ibn-'Abbád, A, Sgh, K.) b2: برّص المَطَرُ الأَرْضَ, (TK,) inf. n. as above, (K,) (assumed tropical:) The rain fell upon the land before it was ploughed, or tilled. (Ibn'-Abbád, Sgh, K.) 4 ابرص He begot a child that was أَبْرَص [or leprous]. (K.) A2: ابرصهُ اللّٰهُ God rendered him, or caused him to be or become, أَبْرَص [or leprous]. (S, K.) 5 تبرّص الأَرْضَ (tropical:) He (a camel, A, TA) found no pasture in the land without depasturing it; (Sgh, K;) left no pasture in the land. (A.) بَرْصٌ, with fet-h, A certain small reptile (دُوَيْبَّةٌ) that is in the well. (Ibn-'Abbád, Sgh, K. [In the CK, فى البَعِيرِ is put by mistake for فِى البِئْرِ.]) [Perhaps it is the same as is called بُرْص, (see this word below,) which may be a vulgar pronunciation; and if so, this may be the reason why the author of the K has added, cont?? to his usual rule, “with fet-h.”]

بُرْصٌ i. q. وَزَغَةٌ [A lizard of the species called gecko, of a leprous hue, as its name برص indicates; so applied in the present day]; (TA;) and ↓ أَبُو بَرِيصٍ , (M,) or ↓ أَبُو بُرَيْصٍ, (TA,) is a surname of the same. (M, TA.) [See also بَرْصٌ; and see سَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, voce أَبْرَصُ; and بَرِيصَةً.]

بَرَصٌ [Leprosy; particularly the malignant species thereof termed “leuce;”] a certain disease, (S, TA,) well known, (TA,) which is a whiteness; (S;) a whiteness incident in the skin; (M;) a whiteness which appears upon the exterior of the body, by reason of a corrupt state of constitution. (A, K.) b2: (tropical:) What has become white, in a beast, in consequence of his being bitten. (K, TA.) بُرْصَةٌ (assumed tropical:) i. q. بَلُّوقَةٌ; (ISh;) pl. بِرَاصٌ, (ISh, K,) which signifies White places, (ISh,) or portions distinct from the rest, (K,) in sand, which give growth to nothing. (ISh, K.) b2: The pl. also signifies (assumed tropical:) The alighting-places of the jinn, or genii: (K:) [reminding us of our fairy-rings:] in which sense, also, it is pl. of بُرْصَةٌ. (TA.) b3: Also, the sing., (assumed tropical:) An aperture in clouds, or mist, through which the face of the sky is seen. (M, TA.) بِرَصَةٌ: see سَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, voce أَبْرَصُ.

بَرِيصٌ A shining, or glistening; syn. بَصِيصٌ (A, K) and بَرِيقٌ. (A.) A2: Also A certain plant, resembling the سُعْد [or cyperus], (AA, K,) growing in channels of running water. (AA.) A3: أَبُو بَرِيصٍ: see بُرْصٌ.

بُرَيصٌ dim. of أَبْرَصُ, q. v.

A2: أَبُو بُرَيْصٌ: see بُرْصٌ.

A3: أَبُو بُرَيص is also the name of A certain bird, otherwise called بلعة, [so written in the TA, without any syll. signs,] accord. to IKh, and mentioned in the K in art. بلص. (TA.) بَرِيصَةٌ A certain small reptile (دَابَّةٌ صَغِيرَةٌ), smaller than the وَزَغَة; when it bites a thing, the latter is not cured. (M, TA.) [See also بُرْصٌ; and see سَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, voce أَبْرَصُ.]

أَبْرَصُ [Leprous;] having the disease called بَرَصٌ: (S, M, K:) fem. بَرْصَآءُ: (M, Msb:) pl. بُرْصٌ (Msb, TA) and بُرْصَانٌ. (TA.) b2: سَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, (S, M, Msb, K,) the former word being decl., prefixed to the latter as governing it in the gen. case; (S, Msb;) and سَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, as one word, the former being indecl. with fet-h for its termination, and the latter being imperfectly decl., (S, Msb;) in this and in the former instance; (Msb;) and سَمُّ أَبْرَصَ; (as in some copies of the K in art. سم;) i. q. الوَزَغَةُ [The species of lizard described above, voce بُرْصٌ]: (M, and so in the JK and K in art. وزغ:) or such as are large, of the وَزَغ [whereof وَزَغَةٌ is the n. un.]: (A, Msb:) or [one] of the large [sorts] of the وَزَغ: (S, K:) determinate, as a generic appellation: (S, TA:) As says, I know not why it is so called: (TA:) [the reason seems to be its leprous hue: see بُرْصٌ:] its blood and its urine have a wonderful effect when put into the orifice of the penis of a child suffering from difficulty in voiding his urine, (K, TA,) relieving him immediately; (TA;) and its head, pounded, when put upon a member, causes to come forth a thing that has entered into it and become concealed therein, such as a thorn and the like: (K:) the dual is سَامَّا أَبْرَصَ: (S, M, Msb, K:) and the pl. is سَوَامُّ أَبْرَصَ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) ابرص having no dual form nor pl.; (M;) or, (K,) or sometimes, (Msb,) or if you will you may say, (S,) السَّوَامُّ, without mentioning ابرص; and ↓ البِرَصَةُ; (S, Msb, K;) and الأَبَارِصُ; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) without mentioning سَامّ; (S, Msb, K;) the last of these pls. being as though formed from a rel. n., [namely, أَبْرَصِىٌّ,] although without [the termination] ة, like as they said المَهَالِبُ [for المَهَالِبَةُ]. (M.) b3: الأَبْرَصُ The moon. (A, Sgh, K.) [So called because of its mottled hue.] You say, بِتُّ لَا مُؤْنِسِى إِلَّا الأَبْرَصُ [I passed the night, none but the moon cheering me by its presence]. (A, TA.) b4: حَيَّةٌ بَرْصَآءُ A serpent having in it, (K,) i. e., in its skin, (M, TA,) white places, distinct from the general colour. (M, K, TA.) b5: أَرْضٌ بَرْصَآءُ (tropical:) Land bare of herbage; (A;) of which the herbage has been depastured (K, TA) in some places, so that it has become bare thereof. (TA.)

بوش

1 بَاشَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. بَوْشٌ, He mixed, or confounded. (Fr.) See also شَابَ, in art. شوب. b2: He associated with بَوْش, meaning, people of the lowest or basest or meanest sort. (IAar.) b3: بَاشُوا, (K,) inf. n. as above, (A, K,) They (mixed people, A, K, of the lowest or basest or meanest sort, TA) cried out, or vociferated; or did so calling for aid or succour; or in distress and impatience; or in fear. (A, K.) 2 بوّشوا, inf. n. تَبْوِيشٌ, They became mixed, or confused: (K:) or numerous, and mixed or confused: (TA:) and ↓ تبوّشوا signifies the same. (K.) 5 تَبَوَّشَ see 2.

بَوْشٌ A mixed or confused assembly or company: (A, K:) or an assembly, or a company, of mixed or confused people: (S:) or only of different tribes: or a multitude of men: as also ↓ بُوشٌ, in these several senses: (K:) and, accord. to the women of Temeem, of beasts also: (Aboo-'Adnán, TA in art. هوش:) or people of the lowest or basest or meanest sort: (IAar:) or a family, or household: (ISd:) and [it is said by F that] it also signifies sons of the same father, when assembled together: (K:) resembling a contr. signification to that mentioned above, which restricts the application to such as are of different tribes: but it is said in the O, that بَنُو الاباء, [app. a mistake for بَنُو الأَبِ, meaning sons of the same father,] when assembled together, are not called by this name: (TA:) أَوْبَاشٌ is a pl. of this word, formed by transposition. (S.) You say, جَاؤُوا فِى هَوْشٍ وَ بَوْشٍ

They came in assemblage and multitude. (A.) And جَآءَ مِنَ النَّاسِ الهَوْشُ وَ البَوْشُ The multitude of the people came: (Az:) or the assembly and family or household. (ISd.) And تَرَكْتُهُمْ هَوْشًا بَوْشًا I left them [in great numbers and] in confusion. (K.) And ↓ بَوْشٌ بَائِشٌ, (S, K,) or ↓ بَائِشٌ ↓ بُوشٌ, (CK,) [app. A numerous, or large, assembly of mixed or confused people.] And ↓ جَآءَ بِالبَوْشِ البَائِشِ He came with multitude, or the multitude. (TA.) بُوشٌ: see بَوْشٌ, in three places.

بَوْشِىٌّ A poor man having a numerous family or household: (S, K:) or having a family or household: (Aboo-Sa'eed:) and one of the baser and common sort of men: as also ↓ بُوشِىٌّ. (K.) بُوشِىٌّ: see what next precedes.

بَائِشٌ: see بَوْشٌ, in three places.

سلق

1 سَلَقَهُ, (S, K,) [aor. ـُ inf. n. سَلْقٌ, (TK,) He prostrated him on the back of his neck; (K;) or threw him down on his back; (S;) as also ↓ سَلْقَاهُ, inf. n. سِلْقَآءٌ. (S, K.) You say, طَعَنْتُهُ فَسَلَقْتُهُ and ↓ سَلْقَيْتُهُ, i. e. [I thrust him, or pierced him, and] threw him down on his back. (S.) And سَلَقَنِى لِحُلَاوَةِ القَفَا and سَلْقَانِى ↓ عَلَى قَفَاىَ He threw me down on my back: and so with ص; but more commonly with س. (TA, from a trad.) And سَلَقَهُ الطَّبِيبُ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ The physician extended him on his back. (TA.) And سَلَقَهَا, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He threw her down on the back of her neck [or on her back] for the purpose of compressing her; namely, his wife: (Msb:) or he spread her, and then compressed her; (S, K;) as also ↓ سَلْقَاهَا; (S;) namely, a girl, or young woman. (K.) b2: He thrust him, or pierced him, (K, TA,) with a spear; (TK;) and pushed him, or repelled him; and dashed himself, or his body, against him; (TA;) and ↓ سَلْقَاهُ signifies the same; (K, TA;) inf. n. سِلْقَآءٌ: (TA:) [and he struck him, or smote him; for the inf. n.] سَلْقٌ signifies the act of striking, or smiting. (TA.) [Hence,] سَلَقَهُ بِالكَلَامِ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. سَلْقٌ, (S, TA,) (tropical:) He hurt him, or displeased him, with speech; (S, K, TA;) spoke strongly, or severely, to him; (S, TA;) made him to hear that which he disliked, or hated, and did so much: (TA:) and سَلَقَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ (assumed tropical:) he said to him that which he dislike, or hated. (Msb.) سَقُوكُمْ بِأَلْسِنَةٍ حِدَادٍ, in the Kur xxxiii. 19, means (tropical:) They hurt you, or displease you, (Fr, Jel, TA,) by what they say, or bite you, (Fr, TA,) or are extravagant, or vehement, in speech to you, (AO, S, TA,) or smite you, (Bd, Jel,) with sharp tongues: (Fr, Bd, TA:) سَلْقٌ signifying the act of assaulting, and smiting, with force, with the hand, or arm, or (assumed tropical:) with the tongue: (Bd:) and the verb is also with ص; but this is not allowable in the reading [of the Kur]. (TA.) b3: You say also, سَلَقَتِ الأَقْدَامُ وَالحَوَافِرُ الطَّرِيقَ, (TK,) inf. n. سَلْقٌ, (K,) The feet of men, and the hoofs of horses or the like, marked, or made marks upon, the road. (K, TK.) b4: And سَلَقَهُ He flayed him with a whip. (K.) b5: He galled it; namely, the back of his camel. (TA.) b6: He (a beast) abraded the inner side of his (the rider's) thigh. (TA.) b7: He peeled it off; namely, the flesh from the bone (عَنِ العَظْمِ); syn. اِلْتَحَاهُ; (O, K, TA;) he removed it therefrom. (TA.) b8: He removed its hair, (Msb, K,) and its fur, (K,) with hot water, (Msb, K,) leaving the traces thereof remaining; (K;) aor. ـُ inf. n. سَلْقٌ. (Msb.) b9: He boiled it with fire: (K:) or he boiled it slightly: inf. n. as above. (TA.) You say, سَلَقْتُ البَقْلُ I boiled the herbs, or leguminous plants, with fire, slightly: (S:) or I boiled them with water merely: thus heard by Az from the Arabs: (Msb:) and in like manner, eggs, (S, Msb,) in their shells: so says Az. (Msb.) You say also, سَلَقْتُ شَيْئًا بِالمَآءِ الحَارِّ [I cooked a thing with hot water]. (Lth, TA.) And سُلِقَ is said of anything as meaning It was [boiled, i. e.] cooked with hot water (TA.) b10: سَلَقَ البَرْدُ النَّبَاتَ The cold nipped, shrunk, shrivelled, or blasted, the herbage, or plants; syn. أَحْرَقَهُ [q. v.]. (K.) b11: سَلَقَ المَزَادَةَ, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He oiled, or greased, the leathern water-bag: (S, K:) and in like manner, الأَدِيمَ [the hide, or tanned hide]. (TA.) and سَلَقَ البَعِيرَ (K, TA) بِالهِنَآءِ (TA) He smeared the camel all over with tar: (K, TA:) from Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) A2: سَلَقَ الجُوَالِقَ, aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. سَلْقٌ, (S, TA,) He inserted one of the two loops of the [sack called] جوالق into the other: (S, TA:) or سَلَقَ العُودَ فِى العُرْوَةِ he inserted the stick into the loop [of the جوالق]; as also ↓ اسلقهُ: (K:) accord. to AHeyth, سَلْقٌ signifies the inserting the [stick called] شِظَاظ at once into the two loops of the [two sacks called]

جُوَالِقَانِ when they are put and bound upon the camel. (TA. [See also قَطَبَ الجُوَالِقَ.]) A3: سَلَقَ الحَائِطَ: see 5.

A4: سُلِقَتْ أَفْوَاهُنَا مِنْ أَكْلِ وَرَقِ الشَّجَرِ Our mouths broke out with pimples, or small pustules, from the eating of the leaves of trees. (TA. [See سُلَاقٌ.]) A5: الِتَّى سُلِقَ عَلَيْهَا ↓ هٰذِهِ سَلِيقَتُهُ and سُلِقَهَا [This is his nature, to which he was constitutionally adapted or disposed]: said by Sb. (TA.) A6: سَلَقَ, [intrans., aor. ـُ (S, K,) inf. n. سَلْقٌ, (TA,) He called out, cried out, or shouted; or did so vehemently; or with his utmost force: (S, K:) a dial. var. of صَلَقَ: (S:) he raised the voice: (Ibn-El-Mubárak, TA:) or he raised his voice on the occasion of the death of a man, or on the occasion of a calamity: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) accord. to IDrd, the meaning [of the inf. n.] is a woman's slapping and scratching her face: but the first explanation is more correct. (TA.) b2: Also He ran. (K.) You say سَلَقَ سَلْقَةً He ran a run. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) 4 اسلق, said of a man, His camel's back became white after the healing of galls. (TA.) A2: And He hunted, snared, or trapped, a she-wolf, (IAar. K,) which is called سِلْقَة. (IAar.) A3: See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.5 تَسَلَّقَ see Q. Q. 3. b2: تسلّق عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ (IAar, K, TA) ظَهْرًا لِبَطْنٍ (IAar, TA) He was, or became, restless, agitated, or in a state of commotion, upon his bed, by reason of anxiety or pain: (IAar, K, TA:) but Az says that the verb known in this sense is with ص. (TA.) A2: تسلّق الجِدَارَ, (S, K,) or الحَائِطَ; and ↓ سَلَقَهُ, inf. n. سَلْقٌ; (TA; [comp. the Chald. 165;]) He ascended, climbed, or scaled, the wall: (S, K, TA:) or تَسَلُّقٌ signifies the ascending a smooth wall: or it is like the تَسَلُّق of the Messiah to Heaven. (TA.) 7 انسلق [app. signifies It was, or became, affected with what is termed سُلَاق; said of the tongue: and in like manner said of the eye: or,] said of the tongue, it was, or became, affected with an excoriation: and اِنْسِلَاقٌ in the eye is a redness incident thereto. (TA.) Q. Q. 1 سَلْقَاهُ &c.: see 1, in five places. Q. Q. 3 اِسْلَنْقَى, of the measure اِفْعَنْلَى, (S,) He lay, or slept, (نَامَ,) on his back; (Seer, S, O, K;) like اِسْتَلْقَى [which belongs to art. لقى]; (O, K;) as also ↓ تسلّق. (TA.) سَلْقٌ The mark, or scar, of a gall, or sore, on the back of a camel, when it has healed, and the place thereof has become white; (K;) [like سَحْقٌ;] as also ↓ سَلَقٌ. (S, K.) b2: And The mark made by the [plaited thong called] نِسْع upon the side of the camel, (K, TA,) or upon his belly, from which the fur becomes worn off; (TA;) and so ↓ سَلِيقَةٌ: (S, K: *) سَلَائِقُ [is pl. of ↓ the latter word, and] signifies the marks made by the feet of men and by the hoofs of horses or the like upon the road: (K, TA:) and to these the marks made by the [plaited thongs called]

أَنْسَاع upon the belly of the camel are likened. (TA.) سِلْقٌ [Bete; and particularly red garden-bete: so called in the present day; and also called شَوَنْدَر and سَوَنْدَر and بَنْجَر:] a certain plant, (S, Msb,) or herb (بَقْلَةٌ), (K,) that is eaten, (S,) well known; (Msb, K;) i. q. جغندر [or چُغُنْدُرْ, whence the vulgar name شَوَنْدَر, and hence سَوَنْدَر]; so says ISh; i. e. in Pers\.; in some of the MSS.

جلندر [a mistranscription for چُگُنْدُرْ]; a plant having long leaves, and a root penetrating [deeply] into the earth, the leaves of which are tender, and are cooked: (TA:) it clears [the skin], acts as a dissolvent, and as a lenitive, and as an aperient, or a deobstruent; exhilarates, and is good for the نِقْرِس [i. e. gout, or podagra,] and the joints: its expressed juice, when poured upon wine, converts it into vinegar after two hours; and when poured upon vinegar, converts it into wine after four hours; and the expressed juice of its root, used as an errhine, is an antidote to toothache and earache and hemicrania. (K.) [See also حُمَّاضٌ, and كُرْنُبٌ.] سِلْقُ المَآءِ and سِلْقُ البَرِّ, also, are the names of Two plants. (K.) A2: Also The he-wolf: (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ سِلْقَةٌ the she-wolf: (S, K:) or the latter signifies thus; but سِلْقٌ is not applied to the he-wolf: (K:) the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ: (JM, TA;) or these are pls. of سِلْقٌ; and the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سِلَقٌ and سِلْقٌ, (K,) or [rather] this last is a coll. gen. n. of which سِلْقَةٌ is the n. un. (Sb.) Hence the prov., ↓ أَسْلَطُ مِنْ سِلْقَةٍ (JK, Meyd) i. e. More clamorous than a she-wolf: or it may mean more overpowering. (Meyd.) b2: And hence, (TA,) ↓ سِلْقَةٌ is applied to a woman as meaning (tropical:) Clamorous; or long-tongued and vehemently clamorous, (S, K, TA,) foul, evil, or lewd; (K, TA;) likened to the she-wolf in respect of her bad qualities: (TA:) pl. سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ. (K.) b3: ↓ سِلْقَةٌ also signifies A female lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, (JK,) or a female locust, (TA,) when she has laid her eggs. (JK, TA.) A3: Also A water-course, or channel in which water flows, (K, TA,) between two tracts of elevated, or elevated and rugged, ground: or, accord. to As, an even, depressed tract of ground: (TA:) pl. سُلْقَانٌ (K) and أَسْلَاقٌ and أَسَالِقُ, which (i. e. the second and third of these pls.) are also said to be pls. of سَلَقٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) سَلَقٌ An even plain: (S:) or a smooth, even, tract, of good soil: (O, K: [a meaning erroneously assigned in the CK to سَلْقَةٌ:] or a depressed, even, plain, in which are no trees: (ISh:) or a low tract, or portion, of land, that produces herbage: (JK:) pl. [of mult.] سُلْقَانٌ (S, O, K) and سِلْقَانٌ (K) and [of pauc.] أَسْلَاقٌ, (JK, O, K,) and أَسَالِقُ is also a pl. of سَلَقٌ, or of its pl. أَسْلَاقٌ, as is likewise أَسَالِيقُ: (TA:) ↓ سَمْلَقٌ, also, with an augmentative م, signifies the same, and its pl. is سَمَالِقُ: (S:) or the pl. سُلْقَانٌ signifies meadows (رِيَاض) in the higher parts of [tracts such as are termed] بِرَاق [pl. of بُرْقَةٌ] and قِفَاف [pl. of قُفٌّ]. (Az, TA in art. روض.) b2: See also سَلْقٌ.

سِلْقَةٌ: see سِلْقٌ, in four places.

سَلْقَاةٌ A certain mode of compressing, upon the back. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) [See 1.]

سُلَاقٌ Pimples, or small pustules, that comes forth upon the root of the tongue: or a scaling in the roots of the teeth: (S, K:) sometimes it is in beasts (دَوَابّ). (TA.) b2: And A thickness, or roughness, in the eyelids, by reason of a corrosive matter which causes them to become red and occasions the falling off of the eyelashes and then the ulceration of the edges of the eyelids: (K:) thus سلاق of the eye is expl. in the “ Kánoon. ” (TA.) سَلِيقٌ What fall off [app. of the leaves] (S, K) from trees, (S,) or from shrubs, or small trees; (K;) or from trees which the cold has nipped, or blasted: or, accord. to As, trees which heat, or cold, has nipped, or blasted: (TA:) pl. سُلْقٌ. (K.) b2: And What has dried up of [the plant called] شِبْرِق, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) and become parched by the sun. (Ibn-'Abbád.) A2: Also Honey which the bees build up (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K) along the length of their hive, or habitation: (K:) or, accord. to the T, ↓ سَلِيقَةٌ signifies a certain thing which the bees fabricate in their hive, or habitation, lengthwise: (TA:) pl. سُلْقٌ. (K.) A3: Also The side of a road. (K.) The two sides of the road are called سَلِيقَا الطَّرِيقِ. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) سَلِيقَةٌ What is cooked with hot water (مَا سُلِقَ), of herbs, or leguminous plants, and the like: (K:) or, accord. to Az, what is cooked (مَا طُبِخَ) with water, of the herbs, or leguminous plants, of the [season called] رَبِيع, and eaten in times of famine: pl. سَلَائِقُ, which occurs in a trad., and, as some relate it, with ص. (TA.) b2: And Millet (ذُرَةٌ) bruised, (IAar, IDrd, Z, K,) and dressed, (IAar, IDrd, K,) by being cooked with milk: (IAar:) or أَقِط [a preparation of dried curd] with which are mixed [plants called] طَرَاثيث. (K.) A2: Accord. to Lth, (TA,) The place where the [plaited thong called] نِسْع comes forth [from the ropes that form the breast-girth], (O, K, TA,) in the side of the camel: said by him to be derived from the phrase سَلَقْتُ شَيْئًا بِالمَآءِ الحَارِّ; because it is [as though it were] burnt by the ropes: or, accord. to another explanation, its pl., سَلَائِقُ, signifies the strips of flesh between the two sides. (TA.) b2: See also سَلْقٌ, in two places.

A3: And see سَلِيقٌ.

A4: And The nature, or natural disposition or constitution, (Az, IAar, S, K,) of a man. (IAar, S.) See 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph. One says, إِنَّهُ لَكَرِيمُ السَّلِيقَةِ Verily he is generous in respect of nature. (Az.) [See also سَلِيقِيَّةٌ.]

سَلُوقِىٌّ [applied in the present day to A greyhound, and any hunting-dog;] a sort of dog: (MA:) and a sort of coat of mail: (TA:) ↓ سَلُوقِيَّةٌ [as a coll. n.] is applied to certain coats of mail: (S, K: *) and to certain dogs: so called in relation to سَلُوقُ, [said by Freytag to be written in the K سَلُوقة, but it is there said to be like صَبُور,] a town in El-Yemen; (S, MA, K; *) or a town, or district, in the border of Armenia, (K,) called اللَّان [or لَان]: (TA:) or the coats of mail are so called in relation to the former سلوق; (so in a copy of the S;) and the dogs, in relation to سَلُوق which is the city of اللَّان [or لَان]: (S, TA: *) or both are so called in relation to سَلَقِيَّةُ, a town in the Greek Empire, (IDrd as on the authority of As, and K,) said by ElMes'oodee to have been on the shore of [the province of] Antioch, remains of which still exist; (TA;) and if so, it is a rel. n. altered from its proper form. (K, TA.) b2: [It is also said in the TA to signify A sword: but a verse there cited, after Th, as an ex. of it in this sense, is mistranscribed, and casts doubt upon the orthography of the word, and upon this explanation.]

كَلَامٌ سَلِيقِىٌّ [Natural, or untaught, speech;] speech whereof the desinential syntax is not much attended to, but which is chaste and eloquent in respect of what has been heard, though often tripping, or stumbling, in respect of grammar: (Lth, L, TA:) or the speech which the dweller in the desert utters according to his nature and his proper dialect, though his other speech be nobler and better. (L, TA.) And ↓ سَلِيقِيَّةٌ [in like manner, the ة being affixed to the epithet سَلِيقِىٌّ to convert it into a subst.,] signifies The dialect in which the speaker thereof proceeds loosely, or freely, according to his nature, without paying much attention to desinential syntax, and without avoiding incorrectness. (O, TA.) You say, ↓ فُلَانٌ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِالسَّلِيقِيَّةِ, meaning Such a one speaks according to his nature, not from having learned. (S, K.) And ↓ فُلَانٌ يَقْرَأُ بِالسَّلِيقِيَّةِ Such a one reads, or recites, according to the natural condition in which he has grown up, not as having been taught. (TA.) سَلُوقِيَّةٌ: see سَلُوقِىٌّ.

A2: Also The sitting-place of the رُبَّان [or captain] of a ship. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) سَلِيقِيَّةٌ: see سَلِيقِىٌّ, in three places.

سَلَّاقٌ: see مِسْلَقٌ, in two places.

السُّلَاقُ A certain festival of the Christians; (K;) that of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven: (TK:) derived from سَلَقَ الحَائِطَ [expl. above (see 5)]: said by IDrd to be a foreign word (أَعْجَمَىٌّ), and in one place said by him to be Syriac, arabicized. (TA.) سَالِقَةٌ A woman raising her voice, on the occasion of a calamity, (K, TA,) or on the occasion of the death of any one: (TA:) or slapping her face: (K, TA:) thus says Ibn-El-Mubárak: but the former explanation is the more correct: it occurs in a trad., in which such is said to have been cursed by the Prophet; and, as some relate it, with ص. (TA.) سَمْلَقٌ: see سَلَقٌ: and see also art. سملق.

سَيْلَقٌ Quick, or swift; a fem. epithet; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K;) applied to a she-camel: (Ibn-'Abbád, O:) in the Tekmileh, سَلِيقٌ, which is a mistake: in the L, a she-camel having a penetrative energy in her pace. (TA.) الأَسَالِقُ What is next to the لَهَوات [app. here a pl. used as a sing., meaning the uvula] of the mouth, internally: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or the upper parts of the interior of the mouth: (TA:) or the upper parts of the mouth, (M, TA,) those to which the tongue rises: thus applied, it is a pl. having no sing. (TA.) خَطِيبٌ مِسْلَقٌ and ↓ مِسْلَاقٌ and ↓ سَلَّاقٌ (tropical:) An eloquent speaker or orator or preacher: (S, K, TA:) because of the vehemence of his voice and his speech. (S, TA.) And لِسَانٌ مِسْلَقٌ and ↓ سَلَّاقٌ (tropical:) A sharp, cutting, or eloquent, tongue. (TA.) مِسْلَاقٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مَسْلُوقَةٌ, meaning A skinned fowl cooked [i. e. boiled] with water, by itself, [and also any boiled meat, is agreeable with a classical usage of the verb from which it is derived, but] is [said to be a vulgar term. (TA.)

سلق: سَلَق. سلق عرض فلان: ثلبه، طعن فيه، هتك ستره (ميرسنج ص45 رقم 196) شعر سلق بلبن: شعر أشمط مختلط سواده ببياض (بوشر) وارى انه: شَعَر سُلِقِ بلَبن ومعناه الحرفي شعر أغلى مع اللبن.
سَلَّق (بالتشديد): سَلَق، تسلَّق تسوَّر الحائط (ألف ليلة 1: 736) وانظره في مادة تسليق.
سَلَّق: اقتطع من الأرض الخضر (محيط المحيط) تسلَّق: تسوَّر. ويقال أيضاً: تسلَّق على (ألف ليلة 1: 47) وتسلّق إلى (بوشر) سلْق: (باليونانية سِلكوس) ويقول تيرفراست أن الصنف الأبيض من السلق يسمى سيسلين (صقلى) واحدته سِلْقة (الكالا) سلق أبيض (لين عادات 1: 259) واسمه العلمي: beta maritima و beta cycLa ( براكس مجلة الشرق والجزائر 8: 279) ولما كان هذا النبات شديد الخضرة صار يضرب به المثل فيقال أخضر من السلق (معجم الطرائف، بدرون ص137). سلق بري: ضرب من الحُماّض (ابن البيطار 2: 43).
سلق بَراَّني: لسان الثور (المعجم اللاتيني - العربي) وفيه سلك بالكاف.
سلق الماء: نبات اسمه العلمي: potamogetion natans ( ابن البيطار 2: 43).
أخضر سِلْقيّ: أخضر كالسلق (معجم الطرائف).
سلقون: زنجفر أكسيد الرصاص الأحمر (بوشر) وانظر معجم الأسبانية (ص525).
سلاق: كلب سلوقي: ويقال أيضاً: كلب سلاق (مخطوطة الاسكوريال ص893) وجمعها كلاب سلاق.
والكبير من الكلاب السلاقية وهو كلب صيد.
وكلب سلاق أندلسي: كلب طويل الشعر (بوشر) وانظر ما يلي بعد ذلك.
سليق: اللحك السليق: اللحم المسلوق وهو الذي يغلي بالماء دون أن يضاف إليه شيء من دهن وأفاويه (حياة تيمور 2: 64).
سُلاقة: حُمرَ، قار، زفت معدني إسفلت (فوك) الكالا) azulaque أو Zulaque بالأسبانية تعني نوعاً من الإسفلت يصنع من المشاقة والكلس والزيت لربط الأنابيب. والطريقة التي كتبت فيها هذه الكلمة في معجم فوك لا تؤيد رأيي حول اصل هذه الكلمة في معجم الأسبانية (ص229) وأرى الآن أنها مشتقة من سلق بمعنى دهن.
كلب سَلاَقي: سَلُوقي، كلب صيد (القزويني 1: 450) ألف ليلة برسل 1: 42، 179) وانظر فليشر (معجم ص21 - 23 ويلجراف 2: 239) في البحرين وقطر وكذلك كتبت في محيط المحيط سَلوقي: كلب سَلاقي كلب صيد، والجمع سلوقية (المفصل طبعة بروش ص5) وفي أسبانيا يقولون سُلوقي (فوك، الكالا) والأنثى: سُلوقية (الكالا) والجمع في معجم فوك: سلوقيات سلالِق، وعند شيرب الذي يكتبها سلوقي وأيضاً عند لابورت (ص140) وعند دومب (ص65) وهو يكتبها سلوكيْ: سلاف ومن الغريب أن يطلق على السلوقي في ايقوسيا اسم slaugh hound وإن السوقي الأفريقي يشبهــه وهذا ما لاحظه دي سلان في ترجمته تاريخ البربر (2: 338) وهاي (ص89) وجودارد (1: 183) وقد كتب دوماس بحثاً مفصلاً عن هذا الحيوان في جريدة الشرق والجزائر (13: 158 - 163).
سُلُوقِيَّة: إطار الباب فيما يظهر، ففي الازرقي (ص217): وفي المصراعَيْن سلوقيتان فضة مموهتان وفي السلوقيتين لبنتان من ذهب مربعتان - وفي طرف السلوقيتين حلقتا ذهب - وهما حلقتا قفل الباب.
سُلُوقية: نوع من سور متقدم في منحدر (ألكالا) وعند ملر (ص4) ودار بها من جهة البر الحفير والسلوقية. وفي الكالا في مادة معناها حصن خارج السور: قَلَهُرَّة السلوقية.
سُلْوقِيَّة: خندق الحصن (الكالا).
سُلَّم تِسْايِق: سلّم حبال (بوشر) وكذلك: سُلَّم تسليك بالكاف بدا القاف (بوشر، ألف ليلة 2: 104).
مسلوق: مغلي بالماء فقط، وعند بوشر: لحم مسلوق ويسمى في أسبانيا: مسلوق الصقالبة من بين أسماء أخرى (ويقال أيضاً مصلوق لأنهم كثيراً ما يكتبون صلق بدل سلق) شكوري (ص196 و) غير أن هذه الكلمة تعني عند شكوري (ص197 ق) سمكاً مسلوقاً أي مغلي في الماء.
مسلُوقَة: مرق اللحم المغلي، حساء (بوشر) وهذه الكلمة مع جمعها مساليق تدل على هذا المعنى وليس على المعنى الذي نجده عند لين في ألف ليلة (1: 49) وصارت تسقيه الشراب والمساليق بكرة وعشية (ص52، 348، 409) وبالمعنى الذي ذكره لين معتمداً على تاج العروس ففي (برسل 3: 316): سلقت له مسلوقة بطيرين دجاج وصارت كل يوم تسقيه الشراب وتطعمه المساليك (المساليق) وانظر هذا المعنى في عبارة ذكرت في مادة ماصل.
مسلوقة الصبحية: مرق حار وهو نوع من الحساء يقدم للعروسين صبيحة ليلة العرس (بوشر).

لغز

1 لَغَزَهُ, aor. ـُ (TK,) inf. n. لَغْزٌ, (IF, A, Msb, K,) He turned it from its proper mode or manner; distorted it. (IF, A, Msb, K, TA, TK.) b2: [Hence,] لَغَزَ جِحَرَتَهُ, and ↓ أَلْغَزَهَا, He (a jerboa) made his burrows winding, or tortuous, and perplexing to the enterer thereof. And لَغَزَ فِى حَفْرِهِ, and ↓ أَلْغَزَ, He pursued a winding, or tortuous, course in his burrowing. (A.) 2 لَغَّزَ see 4.3 رَأَيْتُهُ يُلَاغِزُهُ وَيُلَامِزُهُ (tropical:) [I saw him talking enigmatically, or obscurely, with him, or to him, and making signs with him, or to him.] (A, TA.) [See also 3 in arts. حجو and عى.]4 أَلْغَزَ see 1, in two places. b2: الغز كَلَامَهُ, (A, K,) and الغز فِى كَلَامِهِ, (S, A, Msb, K,) signify alike: (K:) or the former, (tropical:) He made his speech, or language, enigmatical, or obscure; not plain: (A:) and the latter, (S, A,) or both, (K,) he made his meaning enigmatical, or obscure, in his speech, or language; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ لغّز: (A:) or the second, he used parabolical language: (Msb:) or both, he concealed a meaning different from that which he made apparent: or he was equivocal, or ambiguous, in his speech, or language, for the purpose of concealment: as in the following verse, cited by Fr: وَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُ النَّسْرَ عَزَّ أَبْنَ دَأُيَةَ وَعَشَّشَ فِى وَكْرَيْهِ جَاشَتْ لَهُ نَفْسِى (tropical:) [And when I saw that the vulture had overcome the raven, and nested in his nest, (lit., in his two nests,) my soul, or stomach, heaved thereat]: the poet likens hoariness to the vulture, because of its whiteness [or grayness]; and youthfulness to the black raven, because the hair of youth is black. (TA.) You say also, الغز فِى يَمِينِهِ (tropical:) He practised [equivocation, or ambiguity, (see لُغَّيْزَى,) or] concealment, [by a mental reservation, or otherwise,] towards the person sworn to, in his oath: the doing of which is forbidden. (A.) لَغْزٌ: see لُغَزٌ, throughout.

لُغَزٌ: see لُغَزٌ, throughout.

لَغَزٌ: see لُغَزٌ, throughout.

لُغَزٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ لُغْزٌ and ↓ لَغْزٌ (K) and ↓ لَغَزٌ and ↓ لُغَيْزَآءُ (TA) A winding, or tortuous, excavation or burrow: this is the primary signification: (IAar, in explanation of لُغْزٌ:) the burrow of a jerboa, which he makes between the قَاصِعَآء and نَافِقَآء, burrowing strait downwards, and then turning crosswise to the right and left, so that his place becomes concealed: (S, K, * TA:) or the burrow of the [lizard called] ضَبّ, and of the jerboa, (A, K,) and of the rat or mouse: (K:) pl. [of the first four] أَلْغَازٌ. (S, A.) b2: Hence, (K,) أَلْغَازٌ (tropical:) Winding, or tortuous, roads, or ways, perplexing to him who pursues them. (A, * K.) You say, إِلْزَمِ الجَادَّةَ وَإِيَّاكَ وَالأَلْغَازَ (tropical:) [Keep thou to the main road, and avoid the winding, or tortuous, by-ways, which perplex him who pursues them]. (A, TA.) b3: Hence also, (S,) لُغَزٌ (S, A, Sgh, Msb, K [omitted in the copies of the K consulted by the author of the TA, through inadvertence, as he observes, but mentioned in the CK,]) and ↓ لُغْزٌ [which is now the most common form] and ↓ لُغُزٌ and ↓ لَغَزٌ (Sgh, K) and ↓ لُغَّيْزَى, (S, K,) with teshdeed to the غ, and not a dim., because the ى of the dim. does not occupy a fourth place, but like خُضَّارَى and شُقَّارَى, (S,) and ↓ لُغَيْزَآءُ, (Az, K,) like حُمَيْرَآءُ, (K,) [and app. ↓ لُغَّيْزَآءُ also, with teshdeed, (see what follows,)] and ↓ أُلْغُوزَةٌ, (K,) (tropical:) An enigma; a riddle; enigmatical, or obscure, language: (S, A, K:) or parabolical language: (Msb:) pl. (of the first four, K, TA) أَلْغَازٌ. (S, A, Msb, K.) And in like manner, يَمِينٌ

↓ لُغَّيْزَآءُ, accord. to Z, with teshdeed to the غ mentioned by Sb with خُلَّيْطَآءُ, or, accord. to Az, without teshdeed, [لُغَيْزَآءُ,] which he regards as the dim. of the form with teshdeed, like as سُكَيْتٌ is of سُكَّيْتٌ, (tropical:) An oath in which is equivocation, or ambiguity, and concealment [by mental reservation or otherwise]. (TA.) لُغُزٌ: see لُغَزٌ.

لَغَّازٌ (tropical:) One who often, or habitually, speaks evil of others in their absence; (K, TA;) as though he did so in equivocal or ambiguous language. (TA.) لُغَيْزَآءُ: see لُغَزٌ, in three places.

لُغَّيْزَى and لُغَّيْزَآءُ: see لُغَزٌ; the second in two places.

أُلْغُوزَةٌ: see لُغَزٌ.

عث

1 عَثَّتْهُ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. عَثٌّ, said of the عُثَّة [or moth-worm], It ate it, or fretted it, namely, wool, (S, Msb, K, TA,) and a garment [&c.]. (TA.) And عُثَّ, said of wool [&c.], It was eaten, or fretted, by the عُثّ [or moth-worm, or moth-worms]. (TA.) b2: Also, (O, TA,) aor. as above, (TA,) and so the inf. n., (K, TA,) said of a serpent (حَيَّة), It bit him. (O, K, TA.) And It (a serpent) blew upon him, without biting him, and his hair in consequence fell off. (TA.) b3: And عَثَّنِى, (O,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He importuned me (O, K *) by asking. (TA.) [And عَتَّنِى signifies the same.]2 عَثَّّ see the next paragraph, in two places.3 عاتّ, (O,) inf. n. مُعَاثَّةٌ and عِثَاثٌ; (O, K;) and ↓ عثّث, (O,) inf. n. تَعْثِيثٌ; (K;) He raised his voice with singing: (O:) or he trilled, or quavered, in singing: (K:) or he raised his voice with singing, and trilled, or quavered: (L:) and عاثّ فِى غِنَائِهِ, inf. n. as above; and ↓ عثّث; he trilled, or quavered, in his singing. (TA.) And عِثَاثٌ is also used to signify The sounding [or ringing] of a bow when its string has been pulled to try its strength: some say that it is like the تَرَنُّم [or ringing] of a basin when it has been struck. (O, TA.) عَثٌّ: see عُثَّةٌ.

عُثٌّ i. q. سُوسٌ [i. e. The moth-worm that eats, or frets, wool, or woollen cloths]: (Msb:) [and the book-worm, or species of moth-worm that eats books: applied to both of these in the present day: and,] accord. to IAar, an insect [of the same kind] that clings to skin, or leather, and eats it: (TA:) [and the weevil; i. e.] the kind of worm, or grub, that eats corn; also called سُوسٌ: (M in art. سوس:) one thereof is termed ↓ عُثَّةٌ: (Msb:) [i. e.] عُثَّةٌ signifies a سُوسَة [or mothworm] that eats, or frets, wool: (S, A, O, K:) or a worm, or grub, that attacks wool and cloths (Mgh and Msb in art. سوس) and wheat or other food; (Mgh in that art.;) also called سُوسَةٌ: (Mgh and Msb in that art.:) and it is said to be the أَرَضَة, [generally signifying the wood-fretter, but here meaning] a certain insect that eats wool, and skin, or leather: (Msb:) the pl. of عُثَّةٌ is عُثَثٌ, (O,) or عُثٌّ, (K,) or both, (S,) or [rather]

عُثٌّ, which is expl. by IDrd as a pl., is a gen. n., having a pl. meaning though it is a sing: (TA:) the pl. of عُثٌّ is عِثَاثٌ. (Msb.) An Arab of the desert, being asked respecting his son, said, أُعْطِيهِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ مِنْ مَالِى دَانِقًا وَإِنَّهُ فِيهِ لَأَسْرَعُ مِنَ العُثِّ فِى الصُّوفِ فِى الصَّيْفِ [I give him, every day, of my property, a dánik (a small silver coin), and verily he is quicker in consuming it than the moth-worm in wool in the summer]. (TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عُثُّ مَالٍ, (S, O,) meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is a consumer of property; (PS;) like as one says إِزَآءُ مَالٍ, (S, O,) meaning “ a manager of property. ” (PS.) [See also عُثَّةٌ below: and عُثَيْثَةٌ.]

A2: أَطْعَمَنِى سَوِيقًا حُثًّا عُثًّا means [He fed me with meal of parched barley or wheat] not moistened and beaten up with anything greasy [such as clarified butter &c.]. (O: in the TA حُثًّا وَعُثًّا.) عَثَّةٌ: see the paragraph here following.

عُثَّةٌ: see عُثٌّ. b2: It is also an appellation of (tropical:) An old woman: (S, O, K:) as though, by reason of her corrupt state or conduct, and want of skill or understanding, she were a سُوسَة. (TA.) b3: Also, (O, K, TA,) and ↓ عَثَّةٌ, (TA,) A woman foul, or obscene, in tongue; (O, K, TA;) despised; obscure, or reputeless: (TA:) and a foolish, or stupid, woman: (O, K:) or, the former signifies, accord. to Az, a woman obscure, or reputeless; whether she be, or be not, lean, or emaciated: and the latter, accord. to IDrd, a woman lean, or spare, in body: and in like manner ↓ عَثٌّ applied to a man: (O:) the pl. of عثّة is عِثَاثٌ. (TA.) عِثَاثٌ Vipers that eat one another in a time of drought. (O, K.) b2: Also pl. of عُثٌّ: (Msb:) b3: and of عُثَّةٌ or عَثَّةٌ. (TA.) عُثَيْثَةٌ dim. of عُثَّةٌ [n. un. of عُثٌّ, q. v.]. (L.) It is said in a prov., عُثَيْثَةٌ تَقْرِمُ جِلْدًا أَمْلَسَا [A little moth-worm gnawing a smooth skin]: applied to a man endeavouring to make an impression, or produce an effect, upon a thing, and unable to do so: (S, O, L, K: *) and said in contempt of a man and of what the latter says in finding fault with one who is free from faults. (O.) عَثَّآءُ The serpent. (O, K.)