فرسخ
فَرْسَخٌ, mentioned, but not explained, by
J [in the
S], (
K,) [A parasang, or league;] three Háshimee miles (أَمْيَال هَاشِمِيَّة [see مِيلٌ]): or twelve thousand cubits: or ten thousand cubits: (
K:) three miles of the Háshimee measure, i. e.,
accord. to the
Bári' and the
T [&c.], twenty-five bow-shots; twenty-five times the measure termed غَلْوَةٌ [
q. v.]: (
Msb:) or three miles, i. e. thirty bow-shots reckoning the bow-shot as four hundred cubits, or sixty bow-shots reckoning the bow-shot as two hundred cubits: (
Msb voce مَيلٌ:) the ancient Greeks said that it is three miles, reckoning these [together] as about sixty bow-shots [of the shorter measure mentioned above]: (
Msb in the present art.:) or,
accord. to some, six miles: (
L: [but this is
app. a mistake occasioned by finding it
expl. as consisting of sixty bow-shots and supposing these to be bow-shots of four hundred cubits each:]) it is [said to be] from the same word as signifying “ rest,” or “ ease; ” (
K,
TA;) because, when a man walks the distance thus called, he sits down, and rests: or,
accord. to the
Msb, from فَرْسَخَةٌ signifying “ width; ” the word having this meaning, however, is فَرْشَخَةٌ, with ش: (
TA:) [the truth is, that] it is a
Pers\. word [فَرْسَنْگ], arabicized: (
S, A:) the
pl. is فَرَاسِخُ. (
S,
A,
Msb.) The other meanings of this word, not mentioned by
J, may have been regarded by him as not of established authority. (
TA.)
b2: It signifies also An opening, or intervening space, between two things. (
K.)
b3: and A thing in which is no opening, or intervening space: as though having two
contr. significations. (
K.)
b4: Also A thing that is lasting and abundant, that does not cease, or come to an end. (
ISh,
K.)
b5: And A long time (
K,
TA) of the night or of the day: thus in the saying, اِنْتَظَرْتُكَ فَرْسَخًا [I looked, or waited, for thee, or I have looked, &c., a long time &c.]. (
TA.)
b6: And A سَاعَة [meaning hour or time] (
K,
TA) of the day: or a time of the night and of the day:
pl. as above. (
TA.)
b7: And The time, (
K,
TA,) or interval, (
TA,) between stillness and motion. (
K,
TA.)
b8: And Stillness, or quiet: (
K,
TA:) a meaning mentioned by more than one of the authorities respecting strange words. (
TA.)
b9: And Rest, or ease. (
K.)
