فلت

1 فَلَتَ, intrans. and trans., syn. with أَفْلَتَ, q. v. (Msb.) See also 8.3 فالتهُ بِهِ, (A, TA,) inf. n. مُفَالَتَةٌ (A, O, TA) and فِلَاتٌ, (O, K, TA,) He came upon him suddenly, at unawares, or unexpectedly, with it. (A, O, * K, * TA.) 4 افلت, (T, S, O, Msb, TA,) inf. n. إِفْلَاتٌ; (T, Msb, TA;) and ↓ انفلت; (T, S, O, TA;) and ↓ تفلّت; (S, O, TA;) and ↓ فَلَتَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. فَلْتٌ; (Msb;) signify the same; (T, S, O, Msb, TA;) i. e. He, or it, (a bird, &c., Msb, or a thing, S, O,) escaped; got away; or became, or got, loose, clear, quit, free, or at liberty; (O, Msb, TA;) [or did so] suddenly: (TA:) or إِفْلَاتٌ and ↓ اِنْفِلَاتٌ and ↓ تَفَلُّتٌ signify a thing's going forth suddenly: (Mgh:) or ↓ انفلت signifies he, or it, went forth quickly: (Msb:) and one says أَفْلَتَنِى, (M, K,) for افلت مِنِّى [he escaped, &c., from me]; (Sgh, TA in art. جرع;) and منّى ↓ تفلّت, and ↓ انفلت; (M, K;) all signifying the same. (TA.) [See exs. voce جُرْعَةٌ; and another ex. in art. حص, conj. 7.] b2: See also 5.

A2: افلتهُ; (T, S, M, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ 2, aor. ـِ inf. n. فَلْتٌ; both verbs being trans. as well as intrans.; (Msb;) He made him, or it, [and he suffered him, or it,] (namely, a man, M, or a bird, &c., Msb,) to escape, or get away, or to become, or get, loose, clear, quit, free, or at liberty; he set him, or it, loose, free, or at liberty; (T, M, O, Msb, TA;) he saved him, or freed him, from destruction. (T, TA.) [See, again, حُرْعَةٌ.]5 تَفَلَّتَ see 4, in three places. b2: تفلّت عَلَيْنَا, (Mgh,) or عَلَيْهِ, (O, K, TA,) He seized, (Mgh, O, K, TA,) or came suddenly, (TA,) upon us, (Mgh,) or upon him. (O, K, TA.) Hence, in a trad. of Umm-Háni, فَتَفَلَّتَ عَلَيْهِمَا لِيَقْتُلَهُمَا [And he seized upon them both to slay them]. (Mgh.) b3: and تفلّت إِلَيْهِ He was desirous of it, or he longed for it; (M, O, K, TA;) as also ↓ أَفْلَتَ; namely, a thing. (M, TA.) Hence the saying, أَرَاهُ يَتَفَلَّتُ إِلَى

صُحْبَتِكَ [I see him to be desirous of thy companionship]. (TA.) And one says, لَا أَرَىلَكَ أَنْ تَتَفَلَّتَ إِلَى هّذَا وَلَا أَنْ تَتَفلَّتَ عَنْهُ [I am not of opinion that thou shouldst be desirous of this, nor that thou shouldst be averse from it]. (TA.) 7 إِنْفَلَتَ see 4, in four places.8 افتلتهُ He took it quickly, or hastily; namely, a thing: (M, TA:) or he seized it, or carried it off, by force; or took it hastily and openly; or snatched it at unawares. (As, O.) And it is doubly trans.: you say, اِفْتَلَتَهَا اللّٰهُ نَفْسَهَا [God took away from her suddenly her soul]: and hence, اُفْتُلِتَتْ نَفْسَهَا [lit. She had her soul taken away from her suddenly]; (O, TA;) a phrase occurring in a trad., (T, O, TA,) meaning she died suddenly, without disease: (T, TA:) you say, اُفْتُلِتَ نَفْسَهُ, meaning He died suddenly; (M, TA;) and اُفْتُلِتَ نَفْسُهُ; (S, TA;) with the نفس in the accus. case and in the nom. case; (TA;) and اُفْتُلِتَ alone; meaning he died suddenly. (S4, O, K, TA.) [See also اُفْتُئِتَ, in art. فأت; and اُفْتِيتَ in the same.] And اِفْتَلَتَهُ المَوْتُ; and ↓ فَلَتَهُ; as also لَفَتَهُ; Death took him away suddenly. (IAar, T, TA.) b2: And اُفْتُلِتَ بِأمْرِ كَذَا He was taken suddenly by such a thing, before his preparing for it. (O, K, TA: omitted in the CK.) b3: And اُفْتُِلتَ عَلَيْهِ The affair was decided against him exclusively of him [i. e. without his having any part in the decision]. (TA.) [See also 8 in art. فوت.] b4: اُفْتُلِتَ also signifies It (any affair) was done without pausing. (T, TA.) b5: And one says, اِفْتَلَتَ الكَلَامَ, meaning He extemporized the speech; spoke it without consideration, or thought, or preparation, or without pausing, or hesitating. (S, M, O, K.) فَلَتٌ Escape: one says, لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ فَلَتٌ There is no escape for thee from this affair, or event, or case. (En-Nadr, T, K, * TA. *) فُلَتٌ and فُلَّتٌ: see فَلَتَانٌ.

فَلْتَةٌ A sudden, or an unexpected, event; or a thing that comes upon one suddenly, or at unawares: and anything done without consideration: (IAth, L, TA:) and an affair, or event, that happens without its being soundly, thoroughly, or well, performed or effected: pl. فَلَتَاتٌ: it has no broken pl.: (M, TA:) and فَلَتَاتٌ signifies slips, or faults, of an assembly, or a company of men sitting together. (T, O, K, TA.) One says, مَاتَ فَلْتَةٌ [He died suddenly]. (M.) And كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فَلْتَةً That (meaning an affair, or event, S, O) was sudden, or unexpected; (S, M, O, Msb, K, TA;) without premeditation, (S, O, Msb, K, TA,) and without a wavering in opinion: (S, O, K, TA:) or, as some say, it was [like] a thing hastily and forcibly seized, or snatched: (L, TA:) and, accord. to some, it is derived from فَلْتَةٌ in the sense next following. (O, * TA.) b2: The last night of any of the sacred months, of which night people differ as to whether it be lawful to war therein or not, wherefore the avenger of blood hastens to obtain retaliation. (O, TA:) or the last night of the month; (S, M, O, K, TA;) i. e., of any month: (S, O, K, TA:) or the last day of a month after which is a sacred month; (S, M, O, K, TA;) as the last of Jumáda-l-Ákhireh; because a man might see therein him on whom he would take his blood-revenge, and if he delayed to do so, and the next day arrived, the sacred month commenced, and the opportunity escaped him: (M, TA:) or an hour observed by the Arabs in the Time of Ignorance; namely, the last hour of the last day of Jumáda-l-Ákhireh: they made hostile attacks, or incursions, during this hour, even when the new moon of Rejeb had risen: Rejeb not commencing until sunset: (AHeyth, T, TA:) or لَيْلَةُ فَلْتَةٍ (or accord. to MF لَيْلَةُ الفَلْتَةِ, TA,) the night by [the deducting of] which the month becomes deficient, and by [the addition of] which it becomes complete; for sometimes some persons see the new moon when others do not see it, and these latter make a hostile attack, or incursion, upon the others; and it is thus called because it is like a thing that has been let loose after having been bound. (M, TA.) A2: See also فَلُوتٌ.

فُلَتَةٌ: see the next paragraph.

فِلْتَانٌ: see the next paragraph.

فَلَتَانٌ i. q. تَفَلُّتٌ: (M:) [or] it is from التَّفَلُّتُ, (T,) like صَلَتَانٌ (T, S) from الاِنْصِلَاتُ: (T:) an epithet signifying Brisk, lively, or sprightly, (Lth, T, S, O, K,) and sharp of spirit; (Lth, T, S, O;) applied to a man, (Lth, T,) or to a horse, (S, O,) as also ↓ فُلَتٌ and ↓ فُلَّتٌ and ↓ فِلْتَانٌ, (O,) the last of which is said by Kr to be pl. of فَلَتَانٌ signifying swift, fleet, or quick; (M;) or all are applied in this latter sense to a horse: (K:) and ↓ فُلَتَةٌ كُلَتَةٌ, applied to a horse, that leaps, springs, or bounds, with his whole body and limbs. (K in art. كلت.) Also, i. e. فَلَتَانٌ, Strong, sturdy, hard, or hardy; (T, O, K; *) applied to a man. (T, O.) And Bold, or daring; (T, O, K;) applied to a man: (T:) and so فَلَتَانَةٌ applied to a woman. (T, O.) And Desirous of evil, or mischief. (M, TA.) And, some say, Fleshy; having much flesh. (M.) A2: Also A certain bird, (M, K, TA,) of which they assert that it preys upon birds, (M,) or that preys upon apes, or monkeys, (K, TA,) said by AHát to be the زُمَّج, (TA,) which, accord. to him, is the male eagle: (TA in art. زمج:) it is of a colour inclining to yellow; and sometimes it seizes the lamb, or kid, and the young child: thus in the “ Hayát el-Hayawán ” &c. (TA.) فَلُوتٌ A garment of which the two edges cannot be drawn together, by reason of its smallness; (A'Obeyd, T, S, O, K:) of which the two edges cannot be drawn together in the hand, (M, L,) so that they escape from the hand of the wearer when he wraps himself in the garment: (L:) applied as an epithet to a بُرْدَة, as also ↓ فَلْتَةٌ: (O, L:) or فَلُوتٌ signifies a garment that does not remain fixedly upon its wearer, by reason of its roughness or coarseness, or its smoothness or softness. (IAar, O.) مُنْفَلِتٌ, for which one should not say مُفْلِتٌ, as an epithet applied to a camel, That has got loose (ISh, T.)

فخر

1 فَخَرَ, (S, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (O, Msb, K,) inf. n. فَخْرٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and فَخَرٌ (S, O, K) and فَخَارٌ, (K,) or this is a simple subst., (Msb,) or it is a mistake for فِخَارٌ, accord. to some, and this may be an inf. n. either of فَخَرَ, for there are many instances of the same kind, or of فَاخَرَ, (MF,) or فَخَارٌ, with fet-h, is post-classical, and therefore not allowable, (Th, O,) and فَخَارَةٌ and فِخِّيرَى and فِخِّيرَآءُ; (K;) and ↓ افتخر; (S, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ تفاخر; (L in art. فتح;) [He gloried, or boasted; i. e.] he gloried in, boasted of, boasted himself in, or praised or commended himself for, certain properties, or particular qualities: (K:) he enumerated, or recounted, the particulars of his ancestral nobility or eminence, or his own glorious or honourable deeds or qualities: (S, TA:) or he arrogated to himself greatness and nobility: (TA:) or he contended for superiority by reason of honours arising from memorable deeds or qualities, and from parentage or relationship, and other things relating to himself or to his ancestors: (Msb:) or he contended for superiority by reason of things extrinsic to himself, such as wealth, and rank or station. (TA.) You say فَخَرْتُ بِهِ [I gloried in it, or by reason of it; &c.]. (Msb.) And ↓ تفاخر بِمَا عِنْدَهُ He gloried in, boasted of, or boasted himself in, what he possessed. (L in art. فتح.) and فَخَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ One party of them boasted against another [بِكَذَا in such a thing or quality &c.]. (K.) b2: Also فَخَرَ, inf. n. فَخْرٌ, He magnified himself by boasting. (TA.) b3: فَاخَرَهُ فَفَخَرَهُ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ (O, K, [in two copies of the S written فَخَرَ, contrary to analogy in a verb signifying surpassing in a contest, accord. to most of the grammarians,]) inf. n. فَخْرٌ: (S:) see 3. b4: فَخَرَ فُلَانٌ اليَوْمَ عَلَى فُلَانٍ فِى الشَّرَفِ وَالجَلَدِ وَالْمَنْطِقِ Such a one excelled to-day such a one in nobleness and hardiness and speech. (ISk, TA.) b5: فَخِرَ, aor. ـَ (O, K,) inf. n. فَخَرٌ, (TA,) He disdained, or scorned. (IAar, O, K, TA.) b6: فَخَرَهُ عَلَيْهِ: see 4.2 فَخَّرَ see 4.3 فَاْخَرَ ↓ فَاخَرَهُ فَفَخَرَهُ, (ISk, S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. of the former مُفَاخَرَةٌ (Msb, K) and فِخَارٌ, (K,) [and aor. of the latter فَخُرَ, or, accord. to some, فَخَرَ, (see 3 in art. خصم,)] He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in فَخْر [i. e. glorying, or boasting, &c., or in glory, or excellence, i. e. he emulated, or rivalled, him therein, and he surpassed him, or overcame him, therein; and, simply, he vied with him, and surpassed him]: (Msb, * K:) or he contended with him for superiority in generousness or nobleness of father and mother: (ISk, S:) and he surpassed him, or overcame him, therein. (ISk, S, Msb, K.) 4 افغرهُ عَلَيْهِ; (ISk, S, O, K;) and ↓ فخّرهُ عليه, inf. n. تَفْخِيرٌ; (ISk, S, O;) or عليه ↓ فَخَرَهُ, aor. ـَ (Az, O, * K,) inf. n. فَخْرٌ; (Az, O, TA;) He judged him, or made him, to excel, or to have excelled, him in فَخْر [or glorying, or boasting, or glory, or excellence]. (ISk, S, O, K.) b2: أَفْخَرَتْ She (a woman) brought forth none but such as was فَاخِر [or goodly, &c.]. (Lth, O.) 5 تفخّر (S, TA) and ↓ تفاخر (TA) He magnified himself; he was, or became, proud, haughty, or disdainful; syn. of the inf. n. of the former تَعَظُّمٌ, and تَكَبُّرٌ; (S, TA;) and that of the latter تَعَاظُمٌ. (TA.) 6 تفاخروا [They vied, or competed, or contended for superiority, one with another, in فَخْر, i. e., glorying, or boasting, or in glory, or excel-lence, i. e. they emulated, or rivalled, one another therein; and, simply, they vied, one with another;] they boasted together, one party against another. (S, * K.) تفاخروا فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ They boasted among themselves of their several causes of boasting. (Msb.) b2: See also 1, in two places; and 5.8 إِفْتَخَرَ see 1, first sentence. b2: [Hence,] افتخرت زَوَاخِرُهُ (tropical:) [Its herbs] became tall. (A, TA.) 10 استفخرهُ He bought it فَاخِرًا [i. e. of a good, a goodly, or an excellent, quality], namely, a garment, or piece of cloth, (Lth, O,) or a thing. (K.) And in like manner the verb is used in relation to the giving [and app. the taking] in marriage. (O.) فَخْرٌ [Glory: excellence: originally an inf. n.: as also فُخْرَةٌ.] You say عَلَيْهِمْ ↓ إِنَّهُ لَذُو فُخْرَةٍ, i. e. فَخْرٍ [Verily he possesses glory, or excellence, above them: or perhaps the meaning of this phrase may be verily he has a disposition to boast himself against them]: and هٰذَا ↓ مَا لَكَ فُخْرَةُ, i. e. فَخْرُهُ [Thou hast not the glory, or excellence, of this]. (Lh, TA.) فُخْرٌ and فُخُرٌ Thickness of an udder, with contractedness of the orifices of the teats, and with paucity of milk. (TA.) فُخْرَةٌ: see فَخْرٌ, in two places.

فِخْرَةٌ [A manner of glorying, or boasting]. Yousay فَخَرَ فِخْرَةً حَسَنَةً [He gloried, or boasted, in a good manner]. (Lh, TA.) فَخَارٌ [said in the Msb to be a simple subst.: see 1].

فَخُورٌ: see فَاخِرٌ. b2: Also A she-camel great in the udder, contracted in the orifices of the teats: (As, S, O:) or great in the udder, having little milk; (K, TA;) and likewise applied to a ewe or she-goat: or that yields thee what she has of milk, and has nothing remaining thereof. (TA.) b3: And A thick udder, contracted in the orifices of the teats, and having little milk: (K, TA:) erroneously repeated in the K among words ending with ز. (TA.) b4: And A palm-tree great in the trunk, thick in the branches. (S, O, K.) b5: Also, and ↓ فَيْخَرٌ, (O, K,) which is likewise with ز, (TA,) both applied to a horse, (O, K,) and the latter to a man also, (O,) Great in the yard, (O, K,) and long therein: (K:) and the latter, applied to a penis, great; mentioned by IDrd as with ز: (TA:) and the pl. is فَيَاخِرُ. (K, TA.) فَخِيرٌ One who vies, or competes, or contends, with another in glorying, or boasting, &c., (O, K,) or for superiority in generousness or nobleness of father and mother; (S;) i. q. مُفَاخِرٌ; (K;) like خَصِيمٌ (S, TA) in the sense of مُخَاصِمٌ. (TA.) You say جَآءَ فُلَانٌ فَخِيرً ثُمَّ رَجَعَ أَخِيرًا [Such a one came contending with others in glorying, or boasting, &c.: then returned last, or meanest]. (A.) b2: Also Overcome in فَخْر [i. e. glorying, or boasting, &c.]. (K.) فَخَّارٌ Baked pottery; baked vessels of clay: (Msb, voce خَزَفٌ:) or baked clay: before it is baked, it is called خَزَفٌ and صَلْصَالٌ: (Msb in the present art.:) or i. q. خَزَفٌ: (S, O, K:) or a kind of خَزَف of which earthen vessels, or jars, mugs, &c., are made: (TA:) or earthen vessels; vessels made of potters' clay: pl. of [or rather a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is] فَخَّارَةٌ. (K.) فِخِّيرٌ: see the paragraph here following.

فِخِّيرَةٌ: see the paragraph here following.

فِخِّيرَآءُ: see the paragraph here following.

فَاخِرٌ an epithet from فَخَرَ in the first of the senses expl. above; as also ↓ فَخُورٌ: (K:) [the former signifies Glorying; boasting; &c.: and the latter, the same as] ↓ فَخِّيرٌ one who glories, or boasts, much; (S, O, TA;) as also ↓ فِخِّيرَآءُ: (O, TA:) and ↓ فِخِّيرَةٌ one who glories, or boasts, very much. (O, * TA.) b2: A thing, (S, O, Msb,) or anything, (K,) [superb, grand; as though glorying, or boasting;] good; goodly; excellent; of excellent quality. (S, O, Msb, K.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:) Dates not yet ripe (بُسْرٌ) that grow large, and have no stones: (S, O, K:) as though they boasted against others. (TA.) فَيْخَرٌ: see فَخُورٌ, last sentence.

فَاخُورٌ A species of sweet-smelling plants; (S, TA;) i. q. رَيْحَانُ الشُّيُوخِ; (K, TA;) thus called by the people of El-Basrah; accord. to AHn, the مَرْو [or marum] having broad leaves; and said to be that of which there have come forth, in its midst, جَمَامِيح [pl. of جُمَّاحٌ, q. v.], like foxes' tails, with a red, sweet-smelling blossom in the middle thereof: the physicians assert that it cuts short the [sleep termed] سُبَات. (TA.) b2: [A meaning assigned by Golius to this word belongs to فُنَاخِرَةٌ.]

مَفْخَرَةٌ and مَفْخُرَةٌ A thing in which one glories, or boasts himself; (K;) a cause of glorying or boasting; a generous quality or action, or a generous quality that is inherited by generation from generation; syn. مَأْثَرَةٌ: (S, O:) pl. مَفَاخِرُ. (Msb.)

فرص

1 فَرَصَهُ, (M, K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) or ـِ (O in art. فرس,) inf. n. فَرْصٌ, (S, M,) He cut it; (S, M, K;) namely, skin, or a skin, (M,) [and metal; (see مِفْرَصٌ;)] or it signifies, (TA,) or signifies also, (S, K,) sometimes, (S,) he slit it, or cut or divided it lengthwise: and he made a hole in it: (S, K, TA:) namely, skin, or a skin: (TA:) or he slit it, namely, a skin, with an iron instrument having a wide end, like as the maker of sandals slits the two ears of the sandal at the heel, to put into them the شِرَاك [or the two arms of the شراك]: (Lth, TA:) or فَرَصْتُ النَّعْلَ signifies I made a hole in each of the two ears of the sandal, for the شراك [or for the two arms of the شراك]. (S.) A2: Also, (S, M, K,) aor. ـِ [so in a copy of the M, but accord. to a rule of the K it should rather be فَرُصَ,] inf. n. as above, (M,) He hit, or hurt, his فَرِيصَة [q. v.]; (M, K; and so in a copy of the S;) or, accord. to [other copies of] the S, his فَرِيص [q. v.]; (TA;) which is a place where a wound causes death. (S.) b2: And فَرِصَ, [aor. ـَ inf. n. فَرَصٌ; and فُرِصَ, inf. n. فَرْصٌ; He had a complaint of his فَرِيصَة. (M.) A3: فَرَصَ الفُرْصَةَ: see 8.2 تَفْرِيصُ نَعْلِ القِرَابِ, (L,) or تفْرِيصُ أَسْفَلِ النَّعْلِ (O, K, TA) [i. e.] نَعْلِ القِرَابِ, (TA, [in the O بَعْدَ القِرَابِ, which is an evident mistranscription,]) signifies The ornamenting, or engraving, (تَنْقِيش, O, L, K, TA,) of the نعل [i. e. shoe of iron or silver, at the bottom of the scabbard of a sword] (L,) or of the lower part of the نعل (O, K, TA) of the scabbard, (O, * TA,) with the extremity of the [instrument of] iron. (O, L, K, TA.) 3 فَارَصَنِى فِى المَآءِ, (A,) inf. n. مَفَارَصَةٌ, (K,) He took of the water with me, each of us taking his turn. (A.) The inf. n. signifies The doing, or taking, with another, each in his turn. (K.) 4 أَفْرَصَتْهُ الفُرْصَةُ The opportunity gave him power or ability [to do a thing]. (M, A, K.) 5 تفرّص الفُرْصَةَ: see 8.6 تفارصوا المَآءَ They shared the water among themselves by turns. (M, A, * Msb.) And تفارصوا بِئْرَهُمْ They took, or drew, of the water of their well by turns. (S, K.) 8 افترص الفُرْصَةَ He took, or seized, the opportunity; or he arose and hastened to be before another, or others, in taking, or seizing, the opportunity; syn. اِنْتَهَزَهَا; (O, K;) or اِغْتَنَمَهَا: (TA:) or he got, or took, the opportunity; as also ↓ تفرّصها; and ↓ فَرَصَهَا, (M, TA,) aor. ـِ (so in a copy of the M,) inf. n. فَرْصٌ. (TA.) You say also, افترص الأُمُورَ [He took, or seized, opportunities to do things]. (A.) And فُلَانٌ لَا يُفْتَرَصُ إَحْسَانُهُ وَبِرُّهُ [Such a one's beneficence and kindness are not caught at]; because there is no fear that his beneficence and kindness will become beyond one's reach. (A, TA. [See also 8 in art. فرط.]) b2: مَنِ افْتَرَصَ مُسْلِمًا, occurring in a trad., is an instance of the verb derived from فَرْصٌ signifying the “ act of cutting,” or from فُرْصَةٌ signifying “ an opportunity; ” and the meaning is [Such as] detracts, or, literally, cuts off, somewhat [from the honour of a Muslim wrongfully]: or assumes authority over the honour of a Muslim wrongfully, by speaking evil of him behind his back, or otherwise, or defaming him. (IAth, L, TA. *) A2: افترصت الوَرَقَةُ [from الفَرِيصَةُ, “the quivering muscle ” so called,] The leaf was caused to quiver. (M, TA.) فَرْصٌ The stones of the مُقْل [or fruit of the Theban palm]: n. un. with ة. (AA, O, K.) فَرْصَةٌ: see فِرْصَةٌ.

A2: Also, الفَرْصَةُ, The رِيح [or flatus] from which results gibbosity [of the back] (الحَدَبُ): (S, M, O, K:) and الفَرْسَةُ is a dial. var. thereof: (M, TA:) or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, the latter [q. v.] is vulgar. (TA.) فُرْصَةٌ A turn; a time at which, or during which, a thing is, or is to be, done, or had, in succession: (S, A, K:) or a turn, or time, for persons' coming to water in succession, (Yaakoob, S, * M, A, * Msb, K, *) in the cases of the periodical drinkings of their camels, such as the خِمْس and the رِبْع and the سِدْس &c., (Yaakoob, M,) when the water is little; (Msb;) as also ↓ فِرْصَةٌ (M) and ↓ فَرِيصَةٌ: (Yaakoob, M:) a dial. var. of the same is with س; (IAar, M;) and رُفْصَةٌ is another: (TA:) pl. فُرَصٌ. (M, Msb.) You say, جَآءَتْ فُرْصَتُكَ مِنَ البِئْرِ Thy turn, or time, for watering from the well has come. (As, S, * Msb. *) b2: A portion, or share, of what falls to one's lot, of water; syn. شِرْبٌ. (S, K.) b3: An opportunity; a time at which, or during which, a thing may be done, or had; syn. نُهْزَةٌ; (S, M, TA;) and فُرْسَةٌ is a dial. var. of the same. (M.) You say, اِنْتَهَزَ الفُرْصَةَ, i. e. اِغْتَنَمَهَا [expl. above: see 8]. (S.) And أَيَّامُكَ فُرَصٌ [Thy days are opportunities]. (A, TA.) A2: See also فِرْصَةٌ.

A3: Also The temper (سَجِيَّة), and outstripping, and strength, of a horse. (M.) فِرْصَةٌ A piece of wool, (As, M,) or of cotton, (As, S, M, O, Msb, K,) or of rag, (S, O, Msb, K,) with which a woman wipes herself, to purify herself from the catamenia; (S, M, * O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ فَرْصَةٌ and ↓ فُرْصَةٌ: (Kr, M:) from فَرَصَ meaning “ he cut ” a thing: (As, TA:) pl. فِرَاصٌ: (K:) or they say فِرَاصٌ, as though pl. of فِرْصَةٌ. (IDrd, O.) b2: And, accord. to AAF, A piece, or bit, of mush. (M.) A2: See also فُرْصَةٌ.

فَرْصَآءُ A she-camel that remains aside, and when the trough for watering is vacant, comes and drinks: (O, K, * TA:) from فُرْصَةٌ signifying نُهْزَةٌ. (Az, TA.) فِرَاصٌ Strong; (O, K;) as expl. by El-Umawee: (O:) and thick and red; (O, K;) as expl. by Ez-Ziyádee. (O.) A2: مَا عَلَيْهِ فِرَاصٌ, (O,) or مِنْ فِرَاصٍ, (K,) means There is not upon him a garment: (O, K:) so says El-Umawee. (O.) فَرِيصٌ One who shares in water with another, each taking of it in turn. (S, K.) You say, هُوَ فَرِيصِى [He is my sharer in water, each of us taking thereof in turn]; and in like manner, ↓ مُفَارِصِى. (TA.) A2: فَرِيصٌ is also, like فَرَائِصُ, pl. of فَرِيصَةٌ; (S;) [or, rather, فَرِيصٌ is a coll. gen. n., whereof the n. un. is ↓ فَرِيصَةٌ;] which signifies The portion of flesh [or muscle] between the side and the shoulder-blade which incessantly trembles, or quakes, (As, S, K,) in a beast: (As, S:) or the portion of flesh which is in the part extending from the مَرْجِع [or lower part, next the armpit,] of the shoulder-blade to the arm, on either side, and which trembles, or quakes, when the man, or beast, is frightened: (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or the portion of flesh which is by the نَغْض of the كَتِف, [which may app. be here rendered with sufficient exactness the cartilage of the shoulder-blade; or the part of it where it moves to and fro;] in the middle of the side, by the place where the heart beats: there are two such portions, each of them thus called, which tremble, or quake, on an occasion of fright: and the piece of flesh that is between the breast (ثَدْى) and the مَرْجِع [expl. above] of the shoulder-blade, of a man and of a beast: or, as some say, the lower part (أَصْل) of the مَرْجِعُ المِرْفَقَيْنِ [or place to which either elbow returns, in a beast, when, having been removed from the usual place, it is brought back thereto]: (M:) or a small piece of flesh which is in the heart, and which trembles, or quakes, by reason of a calamity, when one is frightened: (A 'Obeyd:) or a piece of flesh [or muscle] in the side, which trembles, or quakes, when one is frightened. (A.) [Hence the saying,] ↓ هُوَ ضَخْمُ الفَرِيصَةِ (tropical:) He is bold and strong. (A, TA.) b2: فَرِيصُ العُنُقِ The external jugular veins (أَوْدَاج) of the neck: n. un. with ة: (A 'Obeyd, S, K:) or the tendons, or sinews, (عَصَب,) and veins, of the neck: so, app., says A 'Obeyd, in the following words of a trad.: إِنِّى لَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ

أَرَى الرَّجُلُ ثَائِرًا فَرِيصُ رَقَبَتِهِ قَائِمًا عَلَى مُرَيْئَتِهِ يَضْرِبُهَا [Verily I hate to see the man having the tendons, or sinews, and veins, of his neck swelling with anger, rising against his little wife, beating her]: for these are what swell out in anger: (S:) or, accord. to IAar, the meaning is, the hair of the فريص, which term is metaphorically used in relation to the neck, though it [really] has no فَرَائِص, because anger causes its veins to swell out [like as fright causes the فَرِيص properly so called to tremble or quake]: (Az, TA:) فَرِيسٌ is a dial. var. of the same. (TA.) [See فَرَصَهُ, last signification.]

فَرِيصَةٌ: see فَرِيصٌ, in two places. b2: الفَرِيصَةُ i. q. أُمُّ سُوَيْدِ, (IDrd, O, K,) i. e., الاِسْتُ. (TA.) A2: See also فُرْصَةٌ.

أَفْرَصُ Humpbacked; as also أَفْرَزُ and أَفْرَسُ. (Fr in TA voce أَعْجَرُ.) مِفْرَصٌ: see what next follows.

مِفْرَاصٌ (IDrd, S, M, A, O, K) and ↓ مَفْرَصٌ (IDrd, S, O, K) A thing with which silver is cut, (S, A,) and gold: (A:) or a broad iron instrument with which one cuts: (M:) or the iron with which iron is cut, or silver: (K:) or a broad iron instrument with which iron is cut: (IDrd, O:) or the iron with which silver is cut: (O:) [see also مِقْرَاضٌ:] or, as some say, i. q. إِشْفًى

[q. v.] with a broad head, with which sandals are sewed. (IDrd, O.) El-Aashà says, وَأَدْفَعُ عَنْ أَعْرَاضِكُمْ وَأُعِيرُكُمْ لِسَانًا كَمِفْرَاصِ الخَفَاجِىِّ مِلْحَبَا [And I defend your honours, and lend to you a tongue like the مفراص of the Khafájee, sharp]. (S.) And you say, بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْهِ مِفْرَاصُ الخَفَاجِىِّ (tropical:) [Between his two sides is an intellect sharp as the مفراص of the Khafájee]. (A.) [Hence it seems that among the tribe of Khafájeh were expert workers with the instrument thus called.]

هُوَ مُفَارِصِى: see فَرِيصٌ, second sentence.

صفر

1 صَفَرَ aor. ـِ inf. n. صَفِيرٌ, (S, M, K,) with which ↓ صُفَارٌ is syn. in a phrase mentioned below; (S;) and ↓ صفّر, (M, K,) inf. n. تَصْفِيرٌ; (TA;) He, or it, (a bird, a vulture, S, and a serpent, or the أَسْوَد, or أَعْرَج, or اِبْن قِتْرَة, or أَصَلَة, M,) whistled; syn. مكَا; (S;) made, or uttered, a certain sound, (M, Msb, * K,) without the utterance of letters. (Msb.) [It is mostly said of a bird: see an ex. voce جَوٌّ.] One says [also], صَفَرَ فِى الصَّفَّارَةِ [He whistled in the whistle]. (M, K.) And صَفَرَ بِالْحِمَارِ, and ↓ صفّر, He called the ass to water [by whistling; for to do thus is the common custom of the Arabs]. (M, K.) And Fr mentions the phrase, ↓ كَانَ فِى كَلَامِهِ صَفَارٌ, meaning صَفِيرٌ [i. e. There was in his speech a whistling]. (S.) A2: صَفِرَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. صَفَرٌ (S, M, A, K, &c.) and صُفُورٌ; (M, K;) and accord. to the T, صَفَرَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. صُفُورَةٌ; (TA;) It, or he, was, or became, empty, void, or vacant; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) namely, a house or tent; (S;) or a vessel, (S, M, &c.,) مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ [of food and beverage]; and a skin, مِنَ اللَّبَنِ [of milk]; (TA;) and a hand; (A;) and a thing; (S, M;) and accord. to ISk, صَفِرَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. صَفِيرٌ, is said of a man. (TA.) [See also 4, last sentence but one.] One says, نَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنْ قَرَعِ الفِنَآءِ وَصَفَرِ الإِنَآءِ (S, M, A) [We seek preservation by God from the yard's becoming void of cattle, and the vessel's becoming empty;] meaning, from the perishing of the cattle. (S.) And صَفِرَتْ وِطَابُهُ, (M, A, K, [in the CK, erroneously, وَطْاَتُهُ,]) and صَفِرَ إِنَاؤُهُ, (A,) [lit. His milk-skins, and his vessel, became empty;] meaning (tropical:) he died; (M, K;) he perished. (A. [See also other explanations in art. وطب.]) A3: صُفِرَ, (M, K,) inf. n. صَفْرٌ, (K,) He had what is termed صُفَار, i. e. yellow water in his belly. (M, K.) 2 صَفَّرَ see above, in two places.

A2: and see 4.

A3: Also صفّرهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. تَصْفِيرٌ, (K,) He made it yellow: (S:) he dyed it yellow; (M, K;) namely, a garment, or piece of cloth. (M.) 4 اصفرهُ He emptied it; or made it void, or vacant; namely, a house or tent [&c.]; (M, K;) as also ↓ صفّرهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَصْفِيرٌ. (TA.) The Arabs say, مَا أَصْغَيْتُ لَكَ إِنَآءً وَلَا أَصْفَرْتُ لَكَ فِنَآءً

[I have not overturned a vessel belonging to thee, nor have I emptied a yard belonging to thee]; meaning I have not taken thy camels nor thy property, so that thy vessel should be overturned and thou shouldst find no milk to milk into it, and so that thy yard should be empty, plundered, no camel or sheep or goat lying in it: it is said in excusing oneself. (M.) A2: [Accord. to Freytag, اصفر signifies also It (a house) was, or became, empty, or void, of (مِنْ) household-goods: so that it is syn. with صَفِرَ: and this is probably correct: for b2: ] أَصْفَرَ, (S, K,) also, (K,) signifies He was, or became, poor; (S, K;) said of a man. (S.) 5 تصفّر المَالُ The cattle became in good condition, the vehement heat of summer having departed from them: [or,] accord. to Sgh, تصفّرت الإِبِلُ signifies The camels became fat in the [season called the] صَفَرِيَّة. (TA.) 9 اصفرّ It become أَصْفَر [i. e. yellow: and also black]: (S, M, K:) and so ↓ اصفارّ: (S, K:) or the former signifies it was so constantly: and the latter, it was so transiently. (Az, TA. [See 9 in art. حمر.]) 11 إِصْفَاْرَّ see the next preceding paragraph.

صَفْرٌ: see صِفْرٌ.

صُفْرٌ: see صِفْرٌ.

A2: Also, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ صِفْرٌ accord. to AO, (S, M, Msb, *) who allowed no other form, but the former is the better, (M,) [Brass;] the metal of which vessels are made; (S;) i. q. نُحَاسٌ [which means both copper and brass]; (A, Msb;) or a sort of نُحَاس; or نُحَاس made yellow; (M;) or the best sort of نُحَاس; (Msb;) or an excellent sort thereof: (TA:) n. un. ↓ صُفْرَةٌ. (M.) b2: And Gold: (M, A, K: [see also الصَّفْرَآءُ, voce أَصْفَرُ:]) or deenars; either because they are yellow (صُفْرٌ [pl. of أَصْفَرُ]), or thus called because resembling the صُفْر of which vessels are made. (M.) b3: And Women's ornaments. (A.) b4: إِنَّهُ لَفِى صُفْرِهِ, (S, O, TA, [thus in an old and very excellent copy of the S, in another copy of which I find, as in Freytag's Lex., ↓ صُفْرَةٍ,]) and ↓ صِفْرِهِ, (TA,) [app. means He is in that state in which he requires to be rubbed with saffron; for it] is said of him who is affected by madness, when he is in the days in which his reason fails; because they used to rub him with somewhat of saffron. (S, O, L.) صِفْرٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓ صُفْرٌ and ↓ صُفُرٌ and ↓ صَفِرٌ (M, K) and ↓ صَفْرٌ (M) and ↓ أَصْفَرُ (Msb) Empty, void, or vacant; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) applied to a house or tent, (S, Msb,) and to a vessel, (M, A,) and to a hand: (A:) each of the first three is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. [and dual] and pl.: (M:) [and so, app., is the last but one:] and each has also for its pl. أَصْفَارٌ. (M, K.) One says بَيْتٌ صِفْرٌ مِنَ المَتَاعِ A house, or tent, or chamber, empty, or void, of furniture and utensils. (S.) And [applying the pl. form of the epithet to a sing. subst.,] إِنَآءٌ أَصْفَارٌ An empty vessel; (M, K;) like as one says بُرْمَةٌ أَعْشَارٌ; on the authority of IAar: (M:) and [applying the sing form of the epithet to a pl. subst.,] آنِيَةٌ صِفْرٌ empty vessels. (M, K.) and رَجُلٌ صِفْرُ اليَدَيْنِ A man empty-handed. (S, Msb.) And صِفْرٌ مِنَ الخَيْرِ (assumed tropical:) Void of good. (TA.) And it is said, in a trad., of Umm-Zara, that she was صِفْرٌ رِدَاؤُهَا meaning (assumed tropical:) Lank in her belly; as though her رداء, which is a garment that falls upon the belly and there ends, were empty. (TA.) And هُوَ صِفْرٌ صِحْرٌ It is [utterly] empty; صحر being an imitative sequent. (Kh, Ham p.

354.) b2: صِفْرٌ in arithmetical notation, in the Indian method, is A circle [or the character ه, denoting nought, or zero; whence our term “ cipher: ” when nought is thus denoted, five is denoted by a character resembling our B: but more commonly, in the present day, nought is denoted by a round dot; and five, by ه]. (L, TA.) A2: See also صُفْرٌ, in two places.

صَفَرٌ [an inf. n. of صَفِرَ, q. v.: b2: and hence,] Hunger: and ↓ صَفْرَةٌ [the inf. n. un.] a hungering once. (M, K.) b3: Also A certain disease in the belly, which renders the face yellow: (M, K:) or a collecting of water in the belly. (KT.) [See also صُفَارٌ.] b4: Also A kind of serpent, (S, M, K,) in the belly, (S, K,) which sticks to the ribs, and bites them, (M, K,) or, as the Arabs assert, which bites a man when he is hungry, its bite occasioning the stinging which a man feels when he is hungry: (S:) used alike as sing. and pl.; or one is termed صَفَرَةٌ: (M:) and it is said to be what is meant by the word in a trad., in which it is disacknowledged: (S, TA:) or a certain reptile (دَابَّة) which bites the ribs and their cartilages: (M, K:) or a certain serpent in the belly, which attacks beasts and men, and which, accord. to the Arabs [of the time of Ignorance], passes from one to another more than the mange or scab; (Ru-beh:) the Prophet, however, denied its doing so: it is said also that it oppresses and hurts a man when he is hungry: (A'Obeyd:) this is the explanation approved by Az: (TA:) or, as also ↓ صُفَارٌ, worms in the belly, (M, K, TA,) and in the cartilages of the ribs, which cause a man to become very yellow, and sometimes kill him. (TA.) You say, عَضَّ عَلَى شُرْسُوفِهِ الصَّفَرُ, meaning, (tropical:) He was hungry. (A.) A2: Accord. to some, (M,) in the trad. above referred to, صَفَرٌ signifies The postponing of [the month] El-Moharram, transferring it to Safar: (A'Obeyd, M, K:) [see نَسِىْءٌ:] or it there means the disease called by this name, because they asserted it to be transitive. (K.) A3: Also The intellect, or understanding; or the heart, or mind; syn. رُوعٌ: (M, K: [in the CK رَوْع:]) the inmost part (لُبّ) of the heart. (M, K.) Hence the saying, (TA,) لَا يَلْتَاطُ هٰذَا بِصَفَرِى

This will not adhere to me, [or to my mind,] nor will my soul accept it: (S, TA:) said of that which one does not love. (A.) A4: Also A contract, compact, or covenant: or suretiship, or responsibility: syn. عَقْدٌ. (M, L, K. [In some copies of the K, فقد.]) A5: Also (S, M, Msb, K) and sometimes [صَفَرُ,] imperfectly decl., (K,) but all make it perfectly decl. except AO, who makes it imperfectly decl. because it is determinate [or a proper name] and similar in meaning to سَاعَةٌ, which is fem., meaning that all nouns signifying times are سَاعَات, (Th, M,) and, accord. to some, الصَّفَرُ, (Msb,) [The second month of the Arabian calendar;] the month that is [the next] after ElMoharram (المُحَرَّمُ): (S, M, K:) so called because in it they used to procure their provision of corn from the places [in which it was collected, their granaries having then become empty (صِفْر); agreeably with the opinion of my learned friend Mons. Fulgence Fresnel, that it was so called from the scarcity of provisions in the season in which it fell when it was first named; for it then fell in winter: see the latter of the two tables in p. 1254; and see also نَسِىْءٌ]: or because Mekkeh was then empty, its people having gone forth to travel: or, accord. to Ru-beh, because the Arabs in it made predatory expeditions, and left those whom they met empty: (M:) or because they then made predatory expeditions, and left the houses of the people empty: (Msb in art. جمد:) pl. أَصْفَارٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and, as some say, صَفَرَاتٌ. (Msb.) b2: الصَّفَرَانِ The two months of El-Moharram and Safar; (M;) two months of the year, whereof one was called by the Muslims El-Moharram. (IDrd, M, Msb, K.) صَفِرٌ: see صِفْرٌ, first sentence.

صُفُرٌ: see صِفْرٌ, first sentence.

صَفْرَةٌ: see صَفَرٌ, [of which it is the n. un.,] first sentence.

صُفْرَةٌ [Yellowness;] a certain colour, (S, M, Msb,) well known, (M, K,) less intense than red, (Msb,) found in animals and in some other things, and, accord. to IAar, in water. (M.) b2: Also Blackness. (M, K.) b3: See also صُفْرٌ, in two places.

A2: صُفْرَةُ, imperfectly decl., is a proper name for The she-goat. (Sgh, K.) صَفَرِىٌّ (S, M, K) and ↓ صَفَرِيَّةٌ (K) The increase, or offspring, (نِتَاج,) of sheep or goats (S, M, K [in the CK, او is erroneously put for و before this explanation]) after that called قَيْظِىٌّ: (S, TA:) or at the period of the [auroral] rising of Suheyl [or Canopus, which, in Central Arabia, at the commencement of the era of the Flight, was about the 4th of August, O. S.; here erroneously said in the M to be in the beginning of winter]: (M, K:) or ↓ the latter word signifies [as above, and also the period itself above mentioned: or] the period from the rising of Suheyl to the setting of الذِّرَاع [the Seventh Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 3rd of January, O. S.], when the cold is intense; and then breeding is approved: (M:) or the period from the rising of Suheyl to the rising of السِّمَاك [the Fourteenth Mansion of the Moon, which, in the part and age above mentioned, was about the 4th of October, O. S.], commencing with forty nights of varying, or alternating, heat and cold, called المُعْتَدِلَاتُ: (Az:) the first increase [of sheep and goats] is the صَقَعِىّ, which is when the sun smites (تَصْقَعُ) the heads of the young ones; and some of the Arabs call it the شَمْسِىّ, and the قَيْظِىّ: then is the صَفَرِىّ, after the صَقَعِىّ; and that is when the fruit of the palm-tree is cut off: then, the شَتَوِىّ, which is in the [season called] رَبِيع: then, the دَفَئِىّ, which is when the sun becomes warm: then, the صَيفِىّ: then, the قَيْظِىّ: then, the خَرَفِىّ, in the end of the [season called] قَيْظ: (Aboo-Nasr:) or صَفَرِيَّةٌ signifies, (M, K,) and so صَفَرِىٌّ, (K,) the [period of the] departure of the heat and the coming of the cold: (AHn, M, K:) or the period between the departure of the summer and the coming of the winter: (Aboo-Sa'eed:) or the first of the seasons; [app. meaning the autumnal season, called الخَرِيف, which was the first of the four, and of the six, seasons; or perhaps the first of the seasons of rain, commonly called الوَسْمِىّ;] and it may be a month: (AHn, M, K:) or the latter, (M,) or both, (TA,) the beginning of the year. (M, TA.) [Hence,] أَيَّامُ

↓ الصَّفَرِيَّةِ Twenty days of, or from, (مِنْ,) the latter part of the summer, or hot season. (TA voce حُلَّبٌ.) b2: Also the former, (S,) or ↓ both, (TA,) The rain that comes in the beginning of autumn: (S:) or from the period of the rising of Suheyl to that of the setting of الذِّرَاع [expl. above]. (TA.) b3: Also the latter, (S, M,) or ↓ both, (K,) A plant that grows in the beginning of the autumn: (S, M, K:) so called, accord. to AHn, because the beasts become yellow when they pasture upon that which is green; their arm-pits and similar parts, and their lips and fur, becoming yellow; but [ISd says,] I have not found this to be known. (M.) صُفْرِيَّةٌ A sort of dates of El-Yemen, which are dried in the state in which they are termed بُسْر, (AHn, M, K,) being then yellow; and when they become dry, and are rubbed with the hand, they crumble, and سَوِيق is sweetened with them, and they surpass sugar; (AHn, M;) [or] they supply the place of sugar in سَوِيق. (K.) A2: الصُّفْرِيَّةُ, (S, M, K,) and, (K,) or as some say, (S, M,) ↓ الصِّفْرِيَّةُ, (M, K,) A sect of the خَوَارِج, (S,) a party of the حَرُورِيَّة; (M, K;) so called in relation to Sufrah (صُفْرَةُ [which is the name of a place in El-Yemámeh]): (M:) or in relation to Ziyád Ibn-El-Asfar, (S, K,) their head, or chief; (S;) or to 'Abd-Allah (S, M, K) Ibn-Es-Saffár, (S,) or Ibn-Saffár, (K,) or Ibn-Safár, (so in a copy of the M,) in which case it is extr. in form; (M;) or on account of the yellowness of their complexions; or because of their being void of religion; (K;) accord. to which last derivation, it is ↓ الصِّفْرِيَّةُ, with kesr; and As holds this to be the right opinion. (TA.) b2: And the former (الصُّفْرِيَّةُ) The مَهَالِبَة, (M, K,) who were celebrated for bounty and generosity; (TA;) so called in relation to Aboo-Sufrah, (M, K,) who was [surnamed] Abu-l-Mohelleb. (M.) الصِّفْرِيَّةُ: see the next preceding paragraph in two places.

صَفَرِيَّةٌ: see صَفَرِىٌّ, in five places.

صِفْرِيتٌ is the sing. of صَفَارِيتُ, (S,) which signifies Poor men: (S, K:) the ت is augmentative. (S.) صَفَارٌ, (S, M,) with fet-h, (S,) or ↓ صُفَارٌ, like غُرَابٌ, (K,) What is dry, of [the species of barleygrass called] بُهْمَى: (S, M, K:) app. because of its yellowness: (M:) it has prickles that cling to the lips of the horses. (TA in art. شفه.) b2: and the former, accord. to ISk, A certain plant. (TA.) صُفَارٌ: see 1, in two places.

A2: Also A certain disease, in consequence of which one becomes yellow: (A:) the yellow water that collects in the belly; (M, K;) i. q. سِقْىٌ: (M:) or a collecting of yellow water in the belly, which is cured by cutting the نَائِط, a vein in the صُلْبِ [i. e. backbone, or back]. (S.) b2: See also صَفَرٌ. b3: and see صَفَارٌ. b4: Also A yellowness that takes place in wheat before the grain has become full. (A, TA.) b5: And Remains of straw and of other fodder, at the roots of the teeth of beasts; as also ↓ صِفَارٌ. (M, K.) b6: And The tick, or ticks: (M, K:) and, (K,) or as some say, (M,) an insect, or animalcule, (دُوَيْبَّةٌ,) that is found in the solid hoofs, and in the toes, or soles, of camels, (M, K,) in the hinder parts thereof. (M.) صِفَارٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

صَفِيرٌ inf. n. of صَفَرَ [q. v.]. (S, M, K.) A2: [In the present day it signifies also The sapphire.]

صُفَارَةٌ What has withered, (M, K,) and become altered to yellow, (M,) of plants, or herbage. (M, K.) صَفِيرَةٌ A dam (ضَفِيرَةٌ) between two tracts of land. (Sgh, K.) صُفَارَى A species of bird, that whistles (يَصْفِرُ). (M. [See also what next follows.]) صُفَارِيَّةٌ A certain bird; (IAar, S;) as also صُفَارِيَةٌ, without teshdeed; (S;) the bird called تُبَشِّرٌ, (S in art. بشر,) or تُبُشِّرٌ: (K in that art.:) [Golius (who writes the word صَفَارِيَّةٌ) adds, “ut puto, quæ in Syria صُفَيْرا dicitur, flava, duplo major passere, nam et passer luteus, ut reddit Meid. ”:] i. q. صَعْوَةٌ. (IAar.) [See also الأَصْقَعُ.]

صُفُورِيَّةٌ, accord. to the K, A kind of نَبَات [i. e. plant]: but in the Tekmileh, a kind of ثِيَاب [i. e. garments, or cloths]; pl. of ثَوْب; and it bears the mark of correctness. (TA.) صَفَّارٌ: see صَافِرٌ

A2: Also A fabricator of صُفْر [or brass]. (M, K.) صُفَّارٌ, with damm, The entire quill of a feather. (AA, O.) صَفَّارَةٌ [A whistle: so in the present day: and also a fife:] a hollow thing (M, K) of copper, (K,) in which a boy whistles (M, K) to pigeons, (K,) or to an ass, that he may drink. (TS, L, K.) b2: [Hence,] الصَّفَّارَةُ The anus; syn. الاِسْتُ; (M, K;) in the dial. of the Sawád. (TA.) صَافِرٌ Whistling; or a whistler. (TA.) b2: and hence, (TA,) A thief; (K;) as also ↓ صَفَّارٌ: [or this signifies a frequent, or habitual, whistler:] the thief being so called because he whistles in fear of his being suspected: whence, as some explain it, the saying أَجْبَنُ مِنْ صَافِرٍ [More cowardly than a thief]: (TA:) a prov.: accord. to AO, it means in this instance one who whistles to a woman for the purpose of fornication or adultery; because he fears lest he should be seen: or b3: accord. to A'Obeyd, Any bird that whistles; for birds of prey do not whistle, but only ignoble birds, that are preyed upon: (Meyd:) [or] any bird that does not prey: (M, K:) and any bird having a cry: and a certain cowardly bird: (K:) [accord. to Dmr, as stated by Freytag, it is a bird of the passerine kind; also called ↓ صَافِرِيَّةٌ:] accord. to Mohammad Ibn-Habeeb, (Meyd,) a certain bird that suspends itself from trees, hanging down its head, whistling all the night in fear lest it should sleep and be taken; and so in the prov. above mentioned: (Meyd, A: *) or, accord. to IAar, it means بِهِ ↓ مَصْفُورٌ [whistled to]: i. e., when he is whistled to, he flees: and by بِهِ ↓ المَصْفُورُ is meant the bird called التنوّط [i. e. التَّنَوُّطُ or التُّنَوِّطُ &c.], the cowardice of which induces it to weave for itself a nest like a purse, suspended from a tree, narrow in the mouth and wide in the lower part, in which it protects itself, fearing lest a bird of prey should light upon it: (Meyd: [see also art. نوط:]) or any coward. (TA.) b4: مَا بِهَا صَافِرٌ There is not in it (i. e. the house, الدَّار, TA) any one: (S, K:) [lit.] any one who whistles: (M:) or any one to be called by whistling; صَافِرٌ being here an instance of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ followed by بِهِ. (T, TA.) صَافِرِيَّةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

أَصْفَرُ [a comparative and superlative epithet form صَفَرَ]. One says أَصْفَرُ مِنْ بُلْبُلٍ [A greater whistler, or warbler, than the بلبل]. (S.) A2: See also صِفْرٌ. b2: [Also More, and most, empty, void, or vacant.] It is said in a trad., أَصْفَرُ البُيُوتِ مِنَ الخَيْرِ البَيْتُ الصِّفْرُ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللّٰهِ [That one of houses which is the most void of good is the house that is destitute of the Book of God]. (S.) A3: Also [Yellow;] of the colour termed صُفْرَةٌ: (S, M, K:) fem. صَفْرَآءُ: (Msb, &c.:) pl. صُفْرٌ. (TA.) And Black (A'Obeyd, S, K) is sometimes thus termed: (S:) applied to a camel, as in the Kur lxxvii. 33, because a black camel always has an intermixture of yellow: (TA:) or, applied to a camel, of a colour whereof the ground is black, with some yellow hairs coming through. (M.) Applied to a horse, Of the colour termed in Pers\.

زَرْدَهْ [a kind of sorrel], (S,) but not unless having a yellow [or sorrel] tail and mane. (As, S.) b2: بَنُو الأَصْفَرِ The Greeks (الرُّومُ): (S, A:) or their kings: because the sons of El-Asfar the son of Room the son of 'Eesoo (or 'Eysoon, TA, [i. e. Esau,]) the son of Is-hák [or Isaac] (K) the son of Ibráheem [or Abraham]: (TA:) or El-Asfar was a surname of Room: (TA:) or they were so called because their first ancestor, (A, IAth,) Room the son of 'Eysoon, (IAth,) was of a yellow complexion: (A, IAth:) or because they were conquered by an army of Abyssinians by whom their women had yellow children: (K:) [or] they are the modern Muscovites. (TA.) b3: الأَصْفَرَانِ Gold and saffron; (S, M, K;) which are said to destroy women: (TA:) or the plant called وَرْس and saffron: (S, K:) or the plant called وَرْس and gold: (M:) or saffron and raisins. (ISk, Sgh, K.) b4: And الصَّفْرَآءُ Gold. (M, K. [See also صُفْرٌ.]) Hence the saying of 'Alee, يَا صَفْرَآءُ اصْفَرِّى وَيَا بَيْضَآءُ ابْيَضِّى وَغُرِّى غَيْرِى O gold, [be yellow,] and O silver, [be white, and beguile other than me:] and one says also, مَا لِفُلَانٍ صَفْرَآءُ وَلَا بَيْضَآءُ [There is not belonging to such a one gold nor silver]. (TA.) b5: Also A kind of bile, (M, K,) well-known; (K;) [the yellow bile; one of the four humours of the body; of which the others are the black bile (السَّوْدَآءُ), the blood (الدَّمُ), and the phlegm (البَلْغَمُ):] so called because of its colour. (M.) b6: And The bow that is made of [the tree called] نَبْع. (S, * K, * TA.) b7: and The female locust that is devoid of eggs. (M, K.) b8: And A certain plant, (S, M, K,) of the plain or soft tracts, and of the sands, (M, K,) and sometimes growing in hard level ground: (M:) or a certain herb, that spreads upon the ground, (AHn, M,) the leaves of which are like those of the خَسّ [or lettuce], (AHn, M, K,) and which the camels eat vehemently: (AHn, M:) it is of the kind called ذُكُور. (Aboo-Nasr, M.) مُصْفَرٌ: see its fem., with ة, voce مَصْفُورٌ.

مُصْفِرٌ A poor man. (S.) مُصَفَّرٌ; and its fem., with ة: see مَصْفُورٌ.

هُوَ مَصَفِّرُ اسْتِهِ is from الصَّفِيرُ, [see صَفَرَ,] not from الصُّفْرَةُ, (S,) and means He is a صَرَّاط; (S, K;) as though denoting cowardice: (TA:) or it is from صَفَّرَ “ he dyed yellow; ” (M;) and was applied to Aboo-Jahl; (M, TA;) meaning that he dyed his اِسْت with saffron, and was addicted to [the enormity termed] أُبْنَة: this, accord. to Sgh, is the correct explanation; and he adds that it is said of a luxurious man, whom experience and afflictions have not rendered firm, or sound, in judgment. (TA.) b2: المُصَفِّرَةُ is an appellation applied to Those whose sign [meaning the colour of their ensign] is صُفْرَة; (M, K;) [i. e. whose ensign is yellow;] and is similar to المُحَمِّرَةُ and المُبَيِّضَةُ. (M.) مَصْفُورٌ: see صَافِرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also Hungry; and so ↓ مُصَفَّرٌ. (K.) b2: Of the مَصْفُورَة, (TA,) and ↓ مُصْفَرَة, (Mgh, TA,) or ↓ مُصَفَّرَة, (Mgh,) which one is forbidden to offer in sacrifice, (Mgh, TA,) it is said that the first is Such as has the ear entirely cut off; because its ear-hole is destitute of the ear: and the second, the lean, or emaciated; because devoid of fatness; or, accord. to KT, the first and second have the latter meaning, as though destitute of fat and flesh: (TA:) or the second and third have the latter meaning; or the former meaning: (Mgh:) but accord. to the relation of Sh, what is thus forbidden is termed المَصْغُورَةُ, with غ, having the former of the meanings expl. above; which IAth disapproves: (TA in art. صغر:) or المُصَغَّرَةُ. (Mgh in that art.) A3: Also Having the disease termed صُفَار: (A, TA:) or one from whose belly comes forth yellow water. (TA.)

صقل

1 صَقَلَهُ, (S, M, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (M, Msb,) inf. n. صَقْلٌ (S, M, O, Msb) and صِقَالٌ, (S, O, Msb,) or the latter is a simple subst., (M, K,) He polished it: (S, M, O, Msb, K;) i. e. a thing, (M,) or a sword, (S, O, Msb,) and the like: (Msb:) and so سَقَلَهُ. (S.) b2: صَقَلَ النَّاقَةَ (assumed tropical:) He (a man, AA, O) made the she-camel lean, or light of flesh: (AA, O, K:) and in like manner it is said of journeying: (AA, O:) and in like manner also, الفَرَسَ the horse: (Sh, TA:) or this means he tended the horse well, with the coverings for protection from cold, and with fodder, and took good care of him. (TA. [See صِقَالٌ, below.]) b3: صَقَلَهُ بِالعَصَا (tropical:) He struck him, or beat him, with the staff, or stick, (Z, O, K, TA,) and disciplined him. (Z, TA.) b4: And صَقَلَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ (assumed tropical:) He flung him upon the ground (lit. smote the ground with him). (Aboo-Turáb, O, K.) A2: صَقِلِ, aor. ـَ inf. n. صَقَلٌ, It (a thing, such as iron, and copper,) was smooth, solid, and impenetrable to water. (Msb.) A3: And صَقِلَ, inf. n. صَقَلٌ, He (a man) differed, or varied, in his gait, or manner of walking. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) صَقْلٌ, (so in a copy of the M,) or ↓ صُقْلٌ (K,) [the former, if correct, perhaps a contraction, by poetic license, of صَقِلٌ, for which it is not a mistranscription, as is shown by a verse cited as an ex. of it in the M,] Light, or active; applied to a beast (دَابَّة). (M, K.) صُقْلٌ The خَاصِرَة [or flank]; as also ↓ صُقْلَةٌ: (S, M, O, K: [in the CK, erroneously, صَقْلَة:]) the former, in this sense, said by AA to be from صَقَلَ النَّاقَةَ: (TA:) seldom is the صُقْلَة of a horse long except his sides be short, which is a fault: (S, O:) and the صُقْلَانِ are the قُرْبَانِ [by which may be meant either the two flanks or the two portions between the groin and the armpit on each side] of a دَابَّة [i. e. horse or similar beast] &c. (M.) And The جَنْب [or side]. (M, K.) حُمُرٌ زَحَالِفُ الصُّقْلِ means Asses having smooth and fat bellies. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA in art. زحلف.) b2: and i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [meaning A district, quarter, tract, &c]: (O, TA:) so in the saying, أَنْتَ فِى صُقْلٍ

خَالٍ [Thou art in a vacant district &c.]; like صُقْعٍ خَالٍ. (TA.) A2: See also صَقْلٌ.

صَقَلٌ Length of the flanks; in a horse: (S, O:) or depression (اِنْهِضَام) of the flank. (M.) صَقِلٌ A horse long in the flanks: (S, O:) or long in the flanks and short in the sides: (AO, TA: [see صُقْلٌ:]) and (O) having little flesh, (O, K, TA,) whether long or short, (O, K,) or whether long in the flank or short. (TA.) b2: Also, applied to a man, (Ibn-'Abbád, O,) Differing, or varying, in his gait; or manner of walking. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) صُقْلَةٌ: see صُقْلٌ. b2: Also Leanness, or lankness in the belly, and slenderness. (TA.) صِقَالٌ an inf. n. of صَقَلَهُ, (S, O, Msb,) or a simple subst. (M, K.) [See 1, first sentence.] b2: صِقَالُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) The tending of the horse well, taking good care of him, supplying him with fodder and fattening him. (S, * M, O, * K.) One says, الفَرَسُ فِى صِقَالِهِ [The horse is in his state of good tending and feeding]. (S, O.) [See also 1, second sentence].

A2: Also The belly. (K.) صَقِيلٌ A thing, (M,) or a sword, (Msb,) [and the like,] Polished; as also ↓ مَصْقُولٌ. (M, Msb, K.) b2: And A thing, such as iron, and copper, smooth, solid, and impenetrable to water. (Msb.) b3: [Also, as a subst., implying the meaning of an epithet,] A sword. (S, TA.) صَقَّالٌ: see صَيْقَلٌ.

صَاقِلٌ Polishing: pl. صَقَلَةٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) صَيْقَلٌ One who practises the art of polishing (S, M, O, Msb, K) and sharpening (M, K) swords (S, M, O, Msb, K) and the like: (Msb:) [commonly called in the present day ↓ صَقَّال:] pl. صَيَاقِلَةٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and صَيَاقِيلُ: (so in a copy of the M:) the ة in the former pl. is affixed irregularly, as in مَلَائِكَةٌ and قَشَاعِمَةٌ. (M.) مِصْقَلٌ: see the next paragraph.

A2: Also, applied to a speaker, an orator, or a preacher, i. q. مِصْلَقٌ, (M, K,) used by a poet in the sense of the latter word, i. e. as meaning Eloquent. (Th, M.) مِصْقَلَةٌ (S, M, O, K, KL) and ↓ مِصْقَلٌ (KL) An instrument, (S, M, O, KL,) or a خَرَزَة [which may here mean either a bead-shaped stone or a shell], (K,) with which one polishes (S, M, O, K, KL) a sword (S, O, KL, TA) and the like, (S, TA,) a knife, (KL,) a mirror, a garment, or piece of cloth, and paper. (TA.) مَصْقُولٌ: see صَقِيلٌ. b2: مَصْقُولُ الكِسَآءِ means (assumed tropical:) Milk overspread with a pellicle: (O, * TA:) a rájiz says, فَهْوَ إِذَا مَا اهْتَافَ أَوْ تَهَيَّفَا يُبْقِى الدُّوَايَاتِ إِذَا تَرَشَّفَا عَنْ كُلِّ مَصْقُولِ الكِسَآءِ قَدْ صَفَا [And he, when he thirsts, or experiences the hot south-west wind (الهَيْف), leaves only the pellicles when he sucks in with his lips from every quantity of milk overspread with a pellicle, that has become clear]: accord. to As, it means the froth of milk: (TA:) IAar explained it accord. to its apparent signification, as used in a verse of 'Amr Ibn-ElAhtam El-Minkaree, (O, TA,) i. e. as meaning a [glossy] red كِسَآء; [a sense not indicated by that verse, and clearly inconsistent with the ex. cited above;] and when told how As had explained it, replied that, when he had said it, he was ashamed to retract it. (TA.)

سمر

1 سَمَرَ, (S, M, K,) aor. ـُ (S, M,) inf. n. سَمْرٌ and سُمُورٌ, (M, K,) He held a conversation, or discourse, by night: (S:) or he waked; continued awake; did not sleep: (M, K:) and ↓ اسمر may signify the same; or may be of the same class as أَهْزَلَ and أَسْمَنَ, and thus signify he had, or came to have, a سَمَر [or conversation, or discourse, by night]. (M.) [See also 3.] b2: سَمَرَتِ المَاشِيَةُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. سُمُورٌ, (assumed tropical:) The cattle pastured by night without a pastor; or dispersed themselves by night: (M, TA:) [or simply pastured by night; for] one says, إِنَّ إِبِلَنَا تَسْمُرُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily our camels pasture by night: (TA:) and سَمَرَتِ الإِبِلُ لَيْلَتَهَا كُلَّهَا (tropical:) The camels pastured during their night, the whole of it. (A.) and سَمَرَتِ المَاشِيَةُ النَّبَاتَ (assumed tropical:) The cattle pastured upon the herbage; (M, K;) aor. as above: (M:) [or pastured upon the herbage by night: like as one says,] سَمَرَ الخَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) He drank mine, or the mine, (K, TA,) by night: (TA:) and بَاتُوا يَسْمُرُونَ الخَمْرَ (tropical:) They passed, or spent, their night drinking wine, or the wine. (A.) b3: See also سَمِيرٌ, in three places.

A2: سَمُرَ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (K;) and سَمِرَ, (S, K, in a copy of the M سَمَرَ,) aor. ـَ inf. n. of each سُمْرَةٌ; (K;) and ↓ اسمارّ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. اِسْمِيرَارٌ; (S;) He, or it, was, or became, [tawny, brownish, dusky, or dark in complexion or colour; i. e.,] of the colour termed سُمْرَة [expl. below]. (S, M, Msb, K.) A3: سمَرَهُ: see 2, first signification. b2: [Hence,] سمَرَ عَيْنَهُ i. q. سَمَلَهَا, (M, K,) which signifies He put out, or blinded, (فَقَأَ,) his eye with a heated iron instrument: (S and Msb in art. سمل:) or he put out, or blinded, (كَحَلَ,) his eye with a مِسْمَار [or nail] (Mgh, Msb, TA) of iron (TA) made hot (Mgh, Msb, TA) in fire: (Msb:) or [simply] he put out, or blinded, his eye; syn. فَقَأَهَا. (K.) A4: سَمَرَ اللَّبَنَ: A5: and سَمَرَ سْمَهُ: see 2.2 سمّرهُ, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَسْمِيرٌ; (S;) and ↓ سَمَرَهُ, (S, M, Mgh, &c.,) aor. ـُ (M, Msb, K) and سَمِرَ, (M, K,) inf. n. سَمْرٌ; (M, Msb;) or the former has an intensive signification; (Msb;) [He nailed it; i. e.] he made it fast, firm, or strong, (M, Mgh, K,) with a nail [or nails]; (S, * M, * Mgh, Msb, K; *) namely, a door [&c.]. (Mgh, Msb.) [See also سَرْدٌ.]

A2: سمّر اللَّبَنَ, (M, TA,) inf. n. تَسْمِيرٌ; (S;) and ↓ سَمَرَهُ, (K, TA,) aor. ـُ (TA;) He made the milk thin with water; (S;) made it to be what is termed سَمَار [q. v.]. (M, K.) A3: سمّر, inf. n. as above, is also syn. with شَمَّرَ (S, M, K) and أَرْسَلَ. (M, K.) You say, سمّر سَهْمَهُ He discharged, or shot, his arrow; (M, TA;) as also ↓ سَمَرَهُ: (K, TA:) or the former, he discharged it, or shot it, hastily; (K;) opposed to خَرْقَلَ; for one says, سَمِّرْ فَقَدْ

أَخْطَبَكَ الصَّيْدُ [Discharge, or shoot, thine arrow quickly, for the game has become within thy power], and خَرْقِلْ حَتَّى يُخْطِبَكَ [Discharge, or shoot, deliberately, in order that it may become within thy power]. (IAar, TA.) One says also, سمّر جَارِيَتَهُ He dismissed his female slave, or let her go free. (S and M, from a trad.) A 'Obeyd says that this is the only instance in which سمّر, with س, has been heard [in this sense: but several other instances have been mentioned]. (TA.) You also say, سمّر الإِبِلَ He let the camels go, or left them: and he hastened them; syn. كَمَّشَهَا; as also ↓ أَسْمَرَهَا; originally with ش: (TA:) or he sent them, or left them, to pasture by themselves, without a pastor, by night [which is perhaps the more proper meaning (see 1)] or by day; syn. أَهْمَلَهَا. (M, TA.) And سمّر السَّفِينَةَ He sent off, or launched forth, the ship; let it go; or let it take its course. (M, TA.) 3 سامرهُ, (M,) inf. n. مُسَامَرَةٌ, (S, A,) He held a conversation, or discourse, with him by night. (S, M.) [See also 1, first sentence.]4 أَسْمَرَ see 1: b2: and سَمِيرٌ, in four places: A2: and see also 2.11 اسمارّ: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.

سَمَرٌ Conversation, or discourse, by night; (S, M, K;) as also مُسَامَرَةٌ. (S, A. *) It is said in a trad., السَّمَرُ بَعْدَ العِشَآءِ, or, accord. to one relation, السَّمْرُ, Conversation or discourse by night is after nightfall. (TA.) And you say, لَا أَفْعَلُهُ السَّمَرَ وَالقَمَرَ I will not do it as long as men hold conversation or discourse in a night when the moon shines: (S:) or as long as men hold conversation or discourse by night, and as long as the moon rises: (Lh, M:) or ever. (M.) [See also below. The pl., أَسْمَارٌ, is often used as meaning Tales related in the night, for amusement: but this usage is probably post-classical.] b2: (tropical:) Conversation, or discourse, by day. (TA.) b3: A place in which people hold conversation or discourse by night; or in which they make, or remain awake; (M, K;) as also ↓ سامِرٌ; (S, * M, K;) which latter is expl. by Lth as signifying a place in which people assemble for conversation or discourse by night. (TA.) b4: A people's assembling and holding conversation or discourse in the dark. (TA.) b5: And hence, (TA,) The dark; or darkness. (As, M, K, TA.) So in the saying حَلَفَ بِالسَّمَرِ وَالقَمَرِ He swore by the darkness and the moon. (As.) b6: Night: (M, K:) you say, أَتَيْتُهُ سَمَرًا I came to him in the night. (A.) b7: A night in which there is no moon: hence the saying لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ السَّمَرَ وَالقَمَرَ I will not do that when the moon does not rise nor when it does rise. (Fr.) [See also above.] b8: The shade of the moon. (M, K.) b9: The light of the moon; moonlight; accord. to some, the primary signification; because they used to converse, or discourse, in it. (TA.) b10: The time of daybreak: you say, طُرِقَ القَوْمُ سَمَرًا The people were come to at daybreak. (AHn, M.) b11: See also سَمِيرٌ.

سَمُرٌ A certain kind of tree, (M, K,) well known; (K;) i. q. طَلْحٌ [the gum-acacia-tree; acacia, or mimosa, gummifera]; (Msb;) or [a species] of the طَلْح, (S,) of the kind called عِضَاه, (Mgh, Msb,) having small leaves, short thorns, and a yellow fruit (بَرَمَة) which men eat: there is no kind of عضاه better in wood: it is transported to the towns and villages, and houses are covered with it: (M:) its produce is [a pod] termed حُبْلَةٌ [q. v.]: (TA in art. حبل:) [the mimosa unguis cati of Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. cxxiii. and 176:)] n. un. سَمُرَةٌ: (M, Mgh, Msb, K:) [in the S, سَمُرٌ is said to be pl. of سَمُرَةٌ: but it is a coll. gen. n.:] the pl. of سَمُرَةٌ is سَمُرَاتٌ, and أَسْمُرٌ, a pl. of pauc., of which the dim. is ↓ أُسَيْمِرٌ. (S.) It is said in a prov., أَشْبَهَ شَرْجٌ

↓ شَرْجًا لَوْ أَنَّ أُسَيْمِرًا [Sharj would resemble Sharj if a few gum-acacia-trees were found there: Sharj is a certain valley of El-Yemen: for the origin of this prov., see Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 662]. (S.) يَا أَصْحَابَ السَّمُرَةِ [O people of the gumacacia-tree], in a saying of the Prophet, was addressed to the persons meant in the Kur xlviii. 18. (Mgh.) سُمرَةٌ [A tawny, or brownish, colour, of various shades, like the various hues of wheat; (see أَسْمَرُ;) duskiness; darkness of complexion or colour;] a certain colour, (S, Msb,) well known, (Msb,) between white and black, (M, K,) in men and in camels and in other things that admit of having it, but in camels the term أُدْمَةٌ is more common, and accord. to IAar it is in water also; (M;) in men, the same as وُرْقَةٌ [in camels]; (IAar, TA;) a colour inclining to a faint blackness; (T, TA;) the colour of what is exposed to the sun, of a person of whom what is concealed by the clothes is white: (IAth:) from سَمَرٌ signifying the “ shade of the moon. ” (TA.) السَّمَرَةُ: see السَّامِرَةُ.

إِبِلٌ سَمُرِيَّةٌ Camels that eat the tree called سَمُر. (AHn, M, K.) سَمَرْمَرَةٌ The [demon called] غُول. (Sgh, K.) سَمَارٌ Thin milk: (S:) milk containing much water: (Th, M, K:) or [diluted] milk of which water composes two thirds: n. un. with ة, signifying some thereof. (M.) b2: [See also a tropical usage of this word in a prov. cited voce رَبَضٌ.]

A2: [In the present day it is also applied to A species of rush, growing in the deserts of Lower and Upper Egypt, of which mats are made for covering the floors of rooms; the juncus spinosus of Forskål, (Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. 75,) who writes its Arabic name “ sammar; ” the juncus acutus

β of Linn.]

سَمُورٌ, applied to a she-camel, (K, TA,) Swift: (K:) or generous, excellent, or strong and light, and swift. (TA.) سَمِيرٌ i. q. ↓ مُسَامِرٌ; (M, A, K;) i. e. A partner in conversation, or discourse, by night. (TA.) You say, أَنَا سَمِيرُهُ and ↓ مُسَامِرُهُ [I am his partner &c.]. (A.) b2: Afterwards used unrestrictedly [as signifying (assumed tropical:) A partner in conversation, or discourse, at any time]. (TA.) b3: [Golius and Freytag add the meaning of A place of nocturnal confabulation; as from the K; a sense in which this word is not there found.] b4: اِبْنُ سَمِيرٍ The night in which is no moon: [contr. of اِبْنُ ثَمِيرٍ:] a poet uses the phrase ابْنُ سَمِيرٍ ↓ مَا أَسْمَرَ, meaning As long as the moonless night allows the holding conversation, or discourse, in it. (M. [See also another explanation of this phrase in what follows.]) b5: سَمِيرٌ is also syn. with دَهْرٌ [as meaning Unlimited time, or time without end]; (Lh, S, M, K;) as also ↓ سَمَرٌ, (Fr, M, K,) whence the saying فُلَانٌ عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ السَّمَرَ Such a one is with, or at the abode of, such a one ever, or always. (M.) Hence, or because people hold conversation, or discourse, in them, (S,) اِبْنَا سَمِيرٍ meansThe night and the day. (S, M, K.) You say, ابْنَا سَمِيرٍ ↓ لَا أَفْعَلُهُ مَا سَمَرَ, (S, K,) and لَا آتِيكَ الخ, (M,) and ابْنُ سَمِيرٍ ↓ مَا سَمَرَ, and السَّمِيرُ ↓ مَا سَمَرَ, (M, K,) and ابْنَا سَمِيرٍ ↓ مَا أَسْمَرَ, and ابْنُ ↓ مَا أَسْمَرَ سَمِيرٍ, (Lh, M, K,) and السَّمِيرُ ↓ مَا أَسْمَرَ, (K,) i. e. [I will not do it, and I will not come to thee,] ever, (S,) or in all time, (M,) or while night and day alternate. (K.) And لَا أَفْعَلُهُ سَمِيرَ اللَّيَالِى (S, M) [I will not do it] to the end of the nights. (M.) b6: اِبْنَا جَالِسٍ وَسَمِيرٍ is expl. by AHeyth, in his handwriting, as meaning Two roads that differ, each from the other. (Az, TA.) سُمَيْرِيَّةٌ A certain kind of ships. (S.) [سُمَيْرِىٌّ signifies the same, (Golius on the authority of Meyd.,) applied to A single ship of that kind.]

b2: IAar mentions the saying, أَعْطَيْتُهُ سُمَيْرِيَّةً مِنْ دَرَاهِمَ كَأَنَّ الدُّخَانَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا, without explaining it: [ISd says,] I think he meant, [I gave him]

دَرَاهِم سُمْر, i. e. dusky dirhems, as though smoke were issuing from them by reason of their duskiness: or dirhems of which the whiteness was fresh. (M.) سَمُّورٌ [The sable; mustela zibellina, or viverra zibellina;] a certain beast, (Mgh, K,) or animal, (Msb,) well known, (Mgh,) found in Russia, beyond the country of the Turks, resembling the ichneumon; in some instances of a glossy black; and in some, of the [reddish] colour termed شُقْرَة: (Msb, TA:) costly furred garments are made of its skin: (K, TA:) pl. سَمَامِيرُ. (Msb.) b2: Also A جُبَّة [or any garment] made with its fur. (TA.) سِمِّيرٌ A companion of [or one who habitually indulges in] conversation, or discourse, by night. (M, K.) سَامِرٌ A man holding, or who holds, a conversation, or discourse, by night: (S:) pl. سُمَّارٌ (S, M, K) and سُمَّرٌ. (TA.) It is also a quasi-pl. n., (M, K,) [as such occurring in a verse cited voce مُرِمٌّ, in art. رم,] and is syn. [as such] with سُمَّارٌ, signifying persons holding, or who hold, conversation, or discourse, by night: (S, M:) or persons waking, continuing awake, not sleeping; as also ↓ سَامِرَةٌ [a fem. sing., and therefore applicable as an epithet to a broken pl. and to a quasi-pl. n. and to a coll. gen. n.]: (M, K:) سَامِرٌ is a pl. [or rather quasi-pl. n.] applicable to males and to females: (T, TA:) or it is a sing., and, like other sings., is used as a qualificative of a pl. only when the latter is determinate; as in the phrase تَرَكْتُهُمْ سَامِرًا [I left them holding a conversation & c.]. (Lh, M.) b2: Also A camel pasturing by night. (TA.) b3: See also سَمَرٌ.

سَامِرَةٌ: see سَامِرٌ.

A2: السَّامِرَةُ (M, Msb, K) and ↓ السَّمَرَةُ (TA) [The Samaritans; a people said to be] one of the tribes of the Children of Israel; (M;) or a sect, (Msb,) or people, (K,) of the Jews, differing from them (Msb, K) in most, (Msb,) or in some, (K,) of their institutes: (Msb, K:) Zj says, they remain to this time in Syria, and are known by the appellation of ↓ السَّامِرِيُّونَ: (M:) most of them are in the mountain of n-Nábulus: (TA:) ↓ سَامِرِىٌّ is the rel. n. of السَّامِرَةُ. (M, Msb, K.) سَامِرِىٌّ, and its pl.: see the next preceding paragraph.

أَسْمَرُ [Tawny, or brownish; dusky; dark-complexioned or dark-coloured;] of the colour termed سُمْرَةٌ [q. v.]: (S, M, K, & c.:) fem سَمْرَآءُ: (Msb, & c.:) and pl. سُمْرٌ. (A.) You say بَعِيرٌ أَسْمَرُ A camel of a white colour inclining to شُهْبَة [which is a hue wherein whiteness predominates over blackness]. (M.) And قَنَاةٌ سَمْرَآءُ [A tawny spearshaft]. (M.) And حِنْطَةٌ سَمْرَآءُ [Tawny wheat]. (M.) b2: [Hence,] السَّمْرَآءُ Wheat: (S, Msb, K:) because of its colour. (Msb.) And الأَسْمَرَانِ Wheat and water: (AO, S, K:) or water and the spear. (S, K.) b3: الأَسْمَرُ, also, signifies Milk: (M:) or milk of the gazelle: (IAar, M, K:) app. because of its colour. (M.) b4: And [for the same reason] السَّمْرَآءُ signifies also Coarse flour, or flour of the third quality, full of bran; syn. خُشْكَارٌ. (K.) You say السَّمْرَآءُ Bread made of such flour. (L in art. خُبْزُ السَّمْرَآءِ.) b5: And The [kind of milking-vessel called] خرج. (Sgh, K.) b6: and عَامٌ أَسْمَرُ (assumed tropical:) A year of drought, in which is no rain. (M.) أُسَيْمِرٌ dim. of أَسْمُرٌ: see سَمُرٌ, in two places.

مِسْمَارٌ A nail; a pin, or peg, of iron; (Mgh;) a certain thing of iron; (S, K) a thing with which one makes fast, firm, or strong: (M, K:) pl. مَسَامِيرُ. (S, Msb, K.) b2: Also, (K, TA,) or مِسَْمارُإِبِلٍ, (A, O,) (tropical:) A good manager of camels; (A, O, K, TA;) a skilful, good pastor thereof. (A.) مَسْمُورٌ Nailed; made fast, firm, or strong, with a nail [or nails]. (S, * Mgh.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A man, (TA,) having little flesh, strongly knit in the bones and sinews. (K, TA.) b3: And, with ة, (tropical:) A woman, (M,) or girl, or young woman, (A, O, K,) compact, or firm, in body, (M, A, O, K,) not flabby in flesh. (M, O, K.) A2: عَيْشٌ مَسْمُورٌ (tropical:) A turbid life: (M, O, * K, * TA:) from سَمَارٌ applied to milk. (M, TA.) مُسَامِرٌ: see سَمِيرٌ, in two places.

غذو

1 غَذَوْتُهُ, (S, Msb, K, TA,) aor. ـْ (Msb,) inf. n. غَذْوٌ, (K,) I fed him, or nourished him, (S, Msb, K, TA,) [for instance,] a child, (S, TA,) with milk; (S, Msb, TA;) and غَذَيْتُهُ signifies the same, unknown by J, and therefore disallowed by him, (K and TA in art. غذى,) but known by ISd: (TA in that art.;) and so ↓ غَذَّيْتُهُ, (S, * Msb, K, TA,) inf. n. تَغْذِيَةٌ, (S, TA,) [but, accord. to SM.] in an intensive sense. (TA.) And غَذَاهُ الطَّعَامُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, The food [nourished him, or] had an agreeable, a wholesome, or a beneficial, effect upon him, and sufficed him; namely, a child. (Msb.) b2: And [hence,] غُذُو بِلِبَانِ الكَرَمِ (tropical:) [They were fed, or nourished, by sucking the milk of generosity; meaning they derived generosity from their parents]. (TA.) A2: غَذَا بَوْلَهُ, and غَذَا بِهِ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He (a camel) interrupted his urine; (K, TA;) as also ↓ غذّاهُ, (S, K, TA,) inf. n. تَغْذِيَةٌ. (S, TA.) And غَذَا الكَلْبُ بِغَذًى [or بِغَذًا] The dog emitted urine in repeated discharges. (TA.) A3: غَذَا, said of urine, It became interrupted: (S, K, TA:) the verb being intrans. as well as trans. (TA.) b2: And, (S, M, K, TA,) aor. ـْ inf. n. غَذْوٌ and غَذَوَانٌ, (M, TA,) It flowed; (S, M, K, TA;) said of water, (S,) or, as some say, of anything, [or] of water or blood or sweat. (TA.) [Thus,] as IKtt says, the verb has two contr. significations. (TA.) It flowed with blood; (S, K;) aor. as above, inf. n. غَذْوٌ; (S;) said of a vein; as also ↓ غذّى, inf. n. تَغْذِيَةٌ. (S, K.) And It flowed continually; aor. as above; said of a wound. (TA.) b3: And (assumed tropical:) He went quickly. or swiftly; (S, M, K, TA,) aor. as above, inf. n. غَذْوٌ and غَذَوَانٌ; said of a horse. (TA.) 2 غَذَّوَ see the preceding paragraph, first sentence. b2: [Hence,] النَّارُ تُغَذَّى بِالحَطَبِ (tropical:) [The fire is fed with firewood]. (TA.) b3: And التَّغْذِيَةُ signifies also التَّرْبِيَةُ [app. as meaning The rearing a child &c. though it also means “ the feeding, or nourishing ”]: (S, K:) or in an intensive sense. (TA.) A2: See, again, 1, in two places.5 تغذّى quasi-pass. of 2: (Msb, K: *) see 8. b2: [Hence,] one says of a man, خَيْرُهُ يَتَغَذَّى كُلَّ يَوْمٍ (tropical:) His goodness increases every day. (TA.) 8 اغتذى He was, or became, fed, or nourished; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تغذّى. (Msb, K.) Yousay, اغتذى بِهِ He was, or became, fed, or nourished, with it; (S, Msb;) namely, food, and beverage, (S,) or milk. (Msb.) 10 استغذاهُ He threw him down on the ground with vehemence. (K.) غَذًا or غَذًى [accord. to different copies of the K, the former agreeable with a general rule, though the latter is said in the TA to be the right,] The urine of the camel, (K, TA,) and of the dog. (TA. [See 1.]) غَذَوَانٌ [an inf. n. of غَذَا said of water, and of a horse, and hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) Swift: (TA:) or brisk, lively, or sprightly, and swift; applied to a horse: (S, K, TA: [see also غَذَوَانٌ:]) or that interrupts his urine, or emits it in repeated discharges, (يَغْذُو بِبَوْلِهِ,) when he runs. (TA.) b2: And (applied to a man, TA) (assumed tropical:) Long-tongued, or clamorous and foul-tongued; foul, unseemly, or obscene [in speech]: fem. with ة: (K, TA:) the latter, applied to a woman, expl. by Fr as signifying فَاحِشَةٌ [i. e. foul, &c., as above]. (TA.) غَذَوِىٌّ: see غَذِيٌّ, in four places: b2: and see also عَدَوِيَّةٌ, in art. عدو.

غِذَآءٌ Aliment, or nutriment; consisting of food and of drink; (S, Msb;) the means of the growth, or increase, and of the sustenance, or support, of the body: (K:) pl. أَغْذِيَةٌ. (KL.) [One says رَجُلٌ حَسَنُ الغِذَآءِ A man good in respect of food: i. e., who feeds on good food: and سَيِّئُ الغِذَآءِ bad in respect of food: who feeds: a bad food.] b2: It is also applied, by the poet Eiyoob Ibn-'Abáyeh. to (assumed tropical:) The water for irrigation of palm-trees. (TA.) A2: Also pl. of غَذِىٌّ. (S, &c.) غَذِىٌّ A lamb, or kid; syn. سَخْلَةٌ; (S, Msb, K;) or, as some say, a lamb (حَمَل); (Msb:) and the pl. is غِذَآءٌ: (S, Msb, K:) and syn. with غَدَوِىٌّ in senses expl. in art. غدو: as also غَذَوِىٌّ: (K:) or غَذِىُّ المَالِ and ↓ غَذَوِيُّهُ signify the younglings of cattle, such as lambs or kids and the like; (S, Msb;) accord. to Khalaf El-Ahmar, (S,) or IF; so that they are of camels and of him and of sheep or goats: (Msb:) accord. to IAar, ↓ غَذَوِىٌّ is syn. with بهيم [an evident mistranscription for بَهْم, q. v.]: and signifies such as is fed: (TA:) and he was told, he says, by an Arab of the desert, of Belhujeym, that the ↓ غَذَوِىّ is the lamb (حَمَل), or the kid, that is (??) with the milk of its mother, but with another's milk; accord. to which explanation it is different from the غَذِيّ; and so it is accord. to A(??) as IF says, some imagine الغَذَوِىُّ to be from الغَذِىُّ, which signifies the سَخْلَة [as expl. in the beginning of this paragraph]. (Msb, TA.) The dim. of غَذِىٌّ is ↓ غُذَىٌّ. (S.) b2: See also عَدَوِيَّةٌ, in art. عدو.

غُذَىٌّ dim. of غَذِىٌّ, q. v. (S.) غَاذِى مَالٍ (assumed tropical:) A good manager or tender [of cattle]: (K, TA:) as though he fed them. or reared them. (TA.) A2: And الغَاذِى signifies also Teh wound that will not cease to bleed. (TA.) الغَاذِيَةُ A certain vein; (K, TA;) so called because of its flowing with blood. (TA.) b2: and The part that is in a state of commotion, [or that pulses,] of the top of the head of a [young] child. as long as it continues soft; for when it becomes hard, and becomes bone, it is termed يَأْفُوخ: pl. الغَوَاذِى: mentioned by Az: (TA:) also called الغَاذَّةُ. (IAar, K in art. غذ.) الغَيْذَا, of the measure فَيْعَلٌ [when indeterminate], from غَذَا “ it flowed,” occurring in a trad. as meaning The clouds, is said by Z to be the only word of this measure having the final radical letter infirm except الكَيْهَا, [which I do not find in its proper art.,] meaning “ the large, or bulky,” she-camel [like كَهَاةٌ and كَيْهَاةٌ]. (TA.)

سب

ى1 سَبَى العَدُوَّ, (S, M, Msb, K,) وَ غَيْرَهُ, (M,) aor. ـْ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. سَبْىٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and سِبَآءٌ, (S, M, K,) or ↓ the latter is a simple subst., as also ↓ سِبًا or سِبًى, (Msb,) He made captive, captived, or took prisoner, [the enemy, and other than an enemy;] (S, K;) as also ↓ اِسْتَــبَاهُ. (S, Msb, K.) b2: [Hence,] تَسْبِى قَلْبَ الرَّجُلِ (assumed tropical:) [She captivates the heart of the man], said of a woman. (S.) b3: And سَبَيْتُ قَلْبَهُ and ↓ اِسْتَبَيْتُهُ (assumed tropical:) I captivated his heart. (M.) And قَلْبَ ↓ اِسْتَبَتْ الفَتَى, said of a girl, or young woman, i. q. سَبَتْهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) She captivated the heart of the youth, or young man.] (TA.) b4: One says also, إِنَّ اللَّيْلَ طَوِيلٌ وَ لَا أُسْبَ لَهُ and لا أُسْبَى له, the latter on the authority of Lh, who says that it means a prayer, (M, TA,) for which reason the verb [in the former instance] is in the mejzoom form, (TA,) i. e. [Verily the night is long, and] may I not be made as the captive [to it]. (M, TA.) b5: سَبَى الخَمْرَ, (S, M, K,) aor. as above, (M,) inf. n. سَبْىٌ and سِبَآءٌ, (T, M, K,) though J says only the latter, (K,) He conveyed wine from one town, or country, to another; (S, K;) or he brought wine from one land to another; as also ↓ اِسْتَــبَاهَــا: (M:) [and] so سَبَأَهَا, with hemz: (Msb:) or سَبَأْتُ, with hemz, means “ I bought ” (S, M) wine, to drink it. (S. [See art. سبأ.]) b6: سَــبَاهُ اللّٰهُ, (ISk, S, M, K,) aor. as above, (S,) inf. n. سَبْىٌ, (S, M,) God estranged him; (ISk, S, M, K;) removed him far away; (S, K;) and cursed him: (M:) or it is like the saying لَعَنَهُ اللّٰهُ: (S:) [or may God estrange him; &c.:] one says, مَا لَهُ سَــبَاهُ اللّٰهُ [What ails him? May God estrange him; &c.]. (TA.) b7: سَبَى المَآءَ, (M, K,) aor. as above, (M,) inf. n. سَبْىٌ, (TA,) He dug until he reached the water. (M, K.) 5 تسبّى لَهُ (assumed tropical:) He manifested, or showed, love, or affection, to him; and became inclined to him. (TA.) 6 تسابوا They made one another captive. (Az, K.) 8 إِسْتَبَىَ see 1, in four places.

سَبْىٌ i. q. ↓ مَسْبِىٌّ [i. e. Made captive]; (M;) or السَّبْىُ signifies مَا يُسْبَى [i.e. what is made captive; but I rather think that the right explanation is مَنْ يُسْبَى i. e the person who is made captive; agreeably with what follows]: pl. سُبِىٌّ: (M, K:) one says قَوْمٌ سَبْىٌ [a company, or party, of men made captive]; the latter word in this case being an inf. n. used as an epithet; [therefore, as such, it is applicable to a single person, male or female, as well as to a pl. number;] and accord. to As, one says not otherwise than thus in speaking of a company, or party, of men: (Msb, TA:) [but] ↓ سَبِىٌّ is [also] applied to a single person, to the male and the female, (M, K,) i. e. to the latter, as to the former, without ة, (M,) as meaning made captive: (K:) or سَبِىٌّ is applied to a boy, or young man, or male slave, as also ↓ مَسْبِىٌّ; and سَبِيَّةٌ to a girl, or young woman, or female slave, as also ↓ مَسْبِيَّةٌ; (Msb;) or to a woman, in this sense: (S:) and the pl. of ↓ سَبِىٌّ, (M, K,) or of سَبِيَّةٌ, (Msb,) is سَبَايَا, (M, Msb, K,) applied to women. (M.) b2: Also Women, (IAar, M, K,) universally; (IAar, M;) because they captivate the hearts; or because they are made captive, and possessed as property. (M, K.) سَبًا: see سَبِىٌّ.

A2: Also A tribe of El-Yemen; regarded as a حَىّ, perfectly decl.; and regarded as a قَبِيلَة, [and therefore a fem. proper name,] imperfectly decl. [and written سَبَا]: (M, TA:) or, as is said in the Msb, it is the name of a town, or province, in El-Yemen; masc., and therefore perfectly decl.; and fem., and therefore imperfectly decl.; called by the name of its builder: (TA:) [hence,] one says, ذَهَبُوا أَيْدِى سَبَا and أَيَادِى سَبَا, [making the last word to be without tenween either as a fem. proper name or because of pausing after it,] i. e. They went away scattered, or dispersed: (S, M, K:) J says, (TA,) they are two nouns made one, like مَعْدِى كَرِبَ, perfectly decl. because not occurring otherwise than as a denotative of state, [and therefore indeterminate,] whether you make the former to be a prefixed noun governing the latter in the gen. case, or do not so. (S, TA. [See also art. سبأ.]) A3: In a verse of 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh, the phrase بِسَبَا الكَتَّانِ is used for بِسَبَائِبِ الكَتَّانِ. (M in art. سب: see سِبٌّ.) سِبًا or سِبًى: see 1, first sentence.

سَبَآءٌ: see سَبِىٌّ.

سِبَآءٌ: see 1, first sentence.

سَبِىٌّ: see سَبْىٌ, in two places. b2: Also, (K,) or عُودٌ سَبِىٌّ, (M,) A branch, or piece of stick or wood, brought by a torrent from one tract, or region, to another, (M, K,) or from a distant place; (M;) and ↓ سَبَآءٌ and ↓ سَبًا signify the same. (K.) b3: سَبِىُّ الحَيَّةِ The slough of the serpent; (M, * K;) as also سَبِيؤُهَا. (K in art. سبأ.

[Accord. to different copies of the K in the present art., سَبْءٌ or سِبْءٌ or سَبْىٌ, all of which are wrong.]) b4: سَبِيَّةٌ [or دُرَّةٌ سَبِيَّةٌ] A pearl, or large pearl, brought out by the diver (K, TA,) from the sea. (TA.) b5: Also, [or خَمْرٌ سَبِيَّةٌ,] Wine brought from one town, or country, to another: (S, M, K:) if bought to be drunk, it is termed سَبِيْئَةٌ, with ء: (S, M:) or, perhaps, the former may be an instance of the alleviation of ء. (M. [See also سَبِيْئَةٌ in art. سبأ.]) سَابِيَآءُ The مَشِيمَة [or membrane enclosing the fœtus in the womb], which come forth with the young: (S, K:) or a thin pellicle over the nose of the fœtus, which dies if it be not removed from it at the birth: (K:) or the water that comes forth upon the head of the fœtus, (T, M,) [i. e.] at the birth: (T:) pl. سَوَابِى [or سَوَابٍ]. (S.) b2: Hence, as being likened thereto, because of its fineness, (M,) (assumed tropical:) The dust of the burrows, or holes, of the jerboa; (K;) or fine dust which the jerboa extracts from its burrow, or hole: said by Abu-l-'Abbás to be [one] of the burrows, or holes, of the jerboa; but this saying of his has been rebutted. (M.) b3: Hence also, (M,) (tropical:) Increase or offspring [of camels or the like]; (S, M, K, TA;) called by the name of that from which they come: (M, TA:) or (so accord. to the M, but accord. to the K “ and ”) camels for breeding: and numerous cattle: (M, K:) or also sheep, or goats, having numerous offspring: (T, S, K:) and it is also applied to denote a large number [app. of animals &c.]. (TA.) One says, لِآلِ فُلَانٍ سَابِيَآءُ, meaning (tropical:) [To such a one belong] numerous cattle. (TA.) إِسْبَآءَةٌ A streak of blood; (AO, S, M, K;) as also ↓أُسْبِيَّةٌ: (M, TA:) pl. أَسَابِىُّ. (AO, S, M, K.) b2: And An extended thread or string of [goats'] hair. (TA.) b3: And [the pl.] أَسَابِىُّ signifies The conspicuous tracks of a road. (TA.) أُسْبِيَّةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مَسْبِىٌّ; and its fem., with ة: see سَبْىٌ, in three places.