افيون
أَفْيُونٌ, [like صَعْفُوقٌ, but this is of a very
extr. measure; or, as some write it, أُفْيُونٌ, like عُصْفُورٌ
&c.;] or إِفْيَوْنٌ, [like بِرْذَوْنٌ;] (
accord. to different copies of the
K, art. فين;) [an arabicized word, from the Greek أَپْيُونْ, either immediately or through the Persian خَشْخَاش; meaning Opium:] the milk [or juice] of the black Egyptian خشخاش [or poppy, or papaver somniferum]; (
K;) or the milk of the خشخاش, the best of which is the black Egyptian; (
TA;) or the expressed juice of the black Egyptian خشخاش, dried in the sun: cold and dry in the fourth degree: (Ibn-Seenà, or Avicenna, i. 133:) beneficial for hot tumours, especially in the eye; torporific (to the intellect,
TA): in a small quantity, beneficial, and soporific: in a large quantity, a poison: (
K:) [the lexicographers regard the word as Arabic:] some, among whom is the author of the
K, hold that it belongs to art. فين: others, that it belongs to art. افن. (
TA.)
