عيص
عِيصٌ A dense, or tangled wood; a numerous collection of dense, or tangled, trees: (
S,
O,
K:) or [lote-trees of the species called] سِدْر (
AHn,
O,
TA) collected together in one place, (
AHn,
O,) of which the lower parts are dense, or tangled: (
AHn,
TA:) or dense, or tangled, trees, some growing in, or among, the lower parts of others: (
TA:)
pl. [of pauc.] أَعْيَاصٌ and [of mult.] عِصْيانٌ: (
O,
K:) also what are collected together (
AHn,
O,
K,
TA) in a place, (
AHn,
O,
TA,) and are near together, and dense, or tangled, (
AHn,
O,
K,
TA,) of [trees of the kinds called] عِضَاه, (
O,
K,) or of [the trees called] سِدْر and عَوْسَج and نَبْع and سَلَم and all kinds of عضاه: so says 'Omárah, (
O,
TA,) and
AHn says the like: (
TA:) or (
K) what are dense, or tangled, and numerous, (El-Kilábee,
O,
TA,) of thick and tough trees, (El-Kilábee,
O,
K,
TA,) such as the سَلَم and طَلْح and سَيَال and سِدْر and سَمُر and عُرْفُط and عِضَاه. (El-Kilábee,
O,
TA.)
b2: Also A place of growth of the best of trees: (
Lth,
A,
O,
K:) or, as some say, the lower parts of trees. (
TA.)
b3: And hence, (
A,) A stock, or race. (
S, *
A,
K. *) You say, هُوَ مِنْ عِيصِ بَنِى هَاشِمٍ He is of the stock, or race, of Benoo-Háshim. (
A.) and مَا أَكْرَمَ عِيصَهُ How generous, or noble, are his fathers, or ancestors, and paternal and maternal uncles, and the people of his house ! (
TA.) and it is said in a
prov., عِيصُكَ مِنْكَ وَإِنْ كَانَ أَشِبًا, i. e. Thy stock is an appertenance of thine though it be thorny and intricate or confused: (
Az,
O,
TA:) meaning,
accord. to
A'Obeyd, those who are connected with thee by origin are thy kinsmen, although they follow a different way of life: have patience, therefore, for thou canst not remove them from thee: (
Meyd:) [see Freytag's Arab.
Prov., ii. 95:] implying dispraise: or,
accord. to
AHeyth, عِيصٌ أَشِبٌ denotes praise; force of resistance, or inaccessibleness or unapproachableness, and numerousness, being meant thereby. (
O,
TA.) You say also, هُوَ فِى عِيصِ صِدْقٍ He is of a good, or an excellent, stock. (
Sh,
O,
TA.)
b4: جِئْ بِهِ مِنْ عِيصِكَ means Bring thou it from wherever it is. (
TA.) عَيْصَآءُ: see عَوِيصٌ, (in art. عوص,) last sentence.
مَعِيصٌ A place of growth [
app., as seems to be implied in the
S, of trees such as are termed عِيص]. (
S,
O,
K.) مِعْيَاصٌ Any one who is hard, or difficult, with respect to that which another desires of him: (
O,
K:)
app. originally مِعْوَاصٌ: mentioned in the
L in art. عوص. (
TA.)
