عر

1 عَرَّتِ الإِبِلُ, aor. ـِ (S, O, K) and عَرُّ, (K,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (S;) The camels were, or became, mangy, or scabby, or affected with the mange or scab; (S, O, K; *) as also ↓ تَعَرْعَرَت; (O, K; *) and عُرَّت: (K: *) or this last verb signifies they (the camels) had purulent pustules, like the [cutaneous eruption called] قُوَبَآء [q. v.], coming forth dispersedly in their lips (S, O) and their legs, (S,) and discharging a fluid resembling yellow water; in consequence of which the healthy camels are cauterized, in order that the diseased may not communicate to them the malady: (S, O:) or the same verb signifies, (IKtt, K, * TA,) and so the first, and ↓ the second, (K, *) said of young, or unweaned, camels, they had purulent pustules in their necks: (IKtt, K, * TA:) and all the three verbs, said of camels, signify they had a disease which caused their fur to fall off, (K, TA,) so that the skin appeared and shone. (TA.) b2: عَرَّ البَدَنَ, said of the mange, or scab, signifies اِعْتَرَضَهُ [app. meaning It attacked the body]. (B, TA.) A2: عَرَّ, aor. ـُ inf. n. عُرَّةٌ, said of a bird, It muted, or dunged. (S, O.) b2: عَرَّ, (S, Mgh, TA,) aor. ـُ (S, TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (O;) and ↓ عرّر, inf. n. تَعْرِيرٌ; (S, O;) He manured land: he dunged it: (Mgh, TA:) he manured it with human ordure. (TA.) b3: And [hence] عَرَّهُ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. ـُ (Msb,) He defiled, or besmeared, him, or it, (Mgh, Msb,) with عُرَّة, i. e. dung such as is called سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) or with a thing. (Msb.) b4: And عَرَّهُ بِشَرٍّ (assumed tropical:) He sullied, or bespattered, him with evil, by charging him therewith; aspersed him; or charged, or upbraided, him with evil: (S, O, K, TA:) from عَرَّ signifying “ he dunged ” land; or, accord. to A'Obeyd, it may be from عَرٌّ signifying

“ mange,” or “ scab: ” and (assumed tropical:) he wronged him, or treated him unjustly or injuriously; and reviled him; and took his property. (TA.) b5: And [in like manner] هُوَ يَعُرُّ قَوْمَهُ (assumed tropical:) He brings against his people, or party, an abominable, or evil, charge, (يُدْخِلُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَكْرُوهًا,) aspersing them with it. (S, O.) (assumed tropical:) He disgraces, or dishonours, his people, or party. (TA.) b6: And عَرَّهُ, aor. ـُ (assumed tropical:) He applied to him a surname, or nickname, that disgraced him, or dishonoured him: and عُرَّ (assumed tropical:) He received, or became called by, such a surname or nickname. (TA.) b7: And عَرَّهُ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He did to him an abominable, or evil, thing: (K:) he displeased him; grieved, or vexed, him; did to him what he disliked, or hated; did evil to him. (S, O, K.) b8: And عَرَّهُ also signifies It (a thing that he disliked, or hated, and that distressed him,) befell him; syn. عَرَاهُ, meaning دَهَاهُ. (Ksh in xlviii. 25. [In Bd, اغراه; app. a mistranscription for عَرَاهُ.]) b9: Also, (O, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (O, TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (O, K;) and ↓ اعترّهُ, (Msb, K,) and اعترّ بِهِ; (K;) and عَرَاهُ and اعتراهُ likewise; (Msb, TA; [see art. عرو;]) He addressed, or applied, himself to obtain favour, or bounty, of him, without asking; (Msb, K;) he came to him, and sought his favour, or bounty; or seeking his favour, or bounty: (O, TA:) or he went round about him, seeking to obtain what he had, whether asking him or not asking him. (TA, as implied in an explanation of مُعْتَرٌّ.) b10: And عَرَّهُ He alighted at his abode as a visiter and guest. (IKtt, TA.) A3: See also 3.2 عَرَّّ see the preceding paragraph, former half.3 عارّ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـَ (S,) inf. n. عِرَارٌ (S, O, K) and مُعَارَّةٌ; (K;) and, (S, O, K,) as some say, (S, O,) ↓ عَرَّ, aor. ـِ (S, O, K,) or ـُ (thus in the L,) inf. n. عِرَارٌ, (S, O, K,) with kesr; (K; [in one of my copies of the S عَرَارٌ; but عُرَارق, which would be agreeable with analogy, I do not find;]) He (an ostrich [said of the male only]) cried; uttered a cry or cries: (S, O, K:) like as they say of a female ostrich زَمَرَتْ: (S, O: *) IKtt cites an assertion that it is عَارَ, aor. ـُ (TA.) 4 اعرّت الدَّارُ The house had in it عُرَّة [i. e. dung, or human ordure], (S, * O, K, *) or much thereof; like أَعْذَرَت. (TA.) 6 تعارّ He awoke from his sleep, (S, A, O,) in the night, with a sound, or cry, (S, O,) or speaking, or talking: (A:) he was sleepless, and turned over upon the bed, by night, speaking, or talking, (A, K,) and with a sound, or cry, and, as some say, stretching. (TA.) A'Obeyd says that some derive it [as Z does] from عِرَارٌ, signifying the “ crying ” of a male ostrich; but that he knows not whether it be so or not. (TA.) 8 إِعْتَرَ3َ see 1, near the end of the paragraph.10 اِسْتَعَرَّهُمُ الجَرَبُ The mange, or scab, appeared and spread among them. (S, O, * K.) [See also 8 in art. سعر.] R. Q. 2 تَعَرْعَرَت: see 1, first quarter, in two places.

عَرٌّ The mange, or scab; (S, A, Mgh, O, K;) as also ↓ عُرٌّ (K) and ↓ عُرَّةٌ (IF, Msb, K) and ↓ عَرَّةٌ: (IF, Msb, and so in a copy of the A:) see also عَرَرٌ: or عَرٌّ has this signification; but ↓ عُرٌّ, with damm, signifies purulent pustules in the necks of young, or unweaned, camels: and a certain disease, in consequence of which the fur of the camel falls off, (K, TA,) so that the skin appears and shines; as some say: (TA:) or purulent pustules, like the [cutaneous eruption called] قُوَبَآء

[q. v.], which comes forth in camels, dispersedly, in their lips (S, O) and their legs, (S,) discharging a fluid which resembles yellow water; in consequence of which the healthy camels are cauterized, in order that the diseased may not communicate to them the malady. (S, O.) En-Nábighah says, (addressing En-Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir, O,) فَحَمَّلْتَنِى ذَنْبَ امْرِئٍ وَتَرَكْتَهُ يُكْوَى غَيْرُهُ وَهْوَ رَاتِعُ ↓ كَذِى العُرِّ [And thou hast charged me with the crime, or offence, of a man other than myself, and left him like that which has the disease called عُرّ, another than which is cauterized while he is pasturing at pleasure]: he who says العَرّ, in relating this verse, errs; for cauterization is not practised as a preservative from the mange, or scab. (IDrd, S, O.) b2: [Hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) A vice, or fault, or the like. (Har p. 366.) [See also عُرَّة.] b3: And (assumed tropical:) Evil, or mischief. (Har ibid.) One says, لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ شَرًّا وَعَرًّا (assumed tropical:) [I experienced from him, or it, evil and mischief: the two nouns being synonymous: and the latter of them also an inf. n. of عَرَّهُ, q. v.]. (TA: but written without any syll. signs.) [See also an instance of the use of the phrase شَرٌّ وَعَرٌّ voce دَفِينٌ.] b4: See also عَارٌّ.

عُرٌّ: see عَرٌّ, in three places: b2: and see عُرَّةٌ.

عَرَّةٌ: see عَرٌّ.

عُرَّةٌ: see عَرٌّ. b2: Also Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man: You say, بِهِ عُرَّةٌ In him is madness, &c. (S, O.) b3: Dung, such as is called بَعَر, and سِرْجِين, (S, O,) or سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, and of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like,] and that of birds; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ عُرٌّ: (O, K:) and human ordure. (O, K.) It is said in a trad., لَعَنَ اللّٰهُ بَائِعَ العُرَّةِ وَمُشْتَرِيَهَا i. e. [God has cursed, or may God curse, the seller of] سرقين [or perhaps the meaning may be human ordure, and the buyer thereof], (Mgh.) b4: Dirt, or filth. (Msb.) b5: (assumed tropical:) Filthiness in the natural dispositions. (O.) b6: (tropical:) A thing that exposes its author to disgrace; a vice, or fault, or the like. (O, Msb, TA.) See also مَعَرَّةٌ. [And see عُرٌّ, voce عَرٌّ. Hence,] عُرَّةُ النِّسَآءِ (tropical:) That which disgraces women; their evil conversation or behaviour, with others. (TA.) b7: As an epithet applied to a man, (S, O, Msb,) (assumed tropical:) Dirty, or filthy; as also ↓ عَارُورٌ and ↓ عَارُورَةٌ: (S, O:) [or] having an intensive signification [as though meaning “ dirt,” or “ filth,” itself]: (Msb:) (assumed tropical:) a man who is the disgrace of the people [to whom he belongs]: (K:) a man sullied, or bespattered, with evil. (IDrd, O.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عُرَّةُ أَهْلِهِ meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is the worst of his family. (TA.) b8: Also (assumed tropical:) The act of doing an abominable, or evil, thing, to another. (K.) عَرَرٌ and ↓ عُرُورٌ Manginess, or scabbiness: (K:) or, accord. to some, mange, or scab, itself; like ↓ عَرٌّ. (TA.) عَرَارٌ A certain plant, of sweet odour, (S, O,) intensely yellow and wide in the blossom; (O;) i. q. بَهَارُ البَرِّ [q. v., i. e. buphthalmum, or ox-eye; which is called by both of these names in the present day]: (S, O, K:) accord. to IB, the wild narcissus (النَّــرْجِسُ البَرِّىُّ): (TA:) and said by some to be a sort of tree [or plant] to which the complexion of a woman is likened: (Ham p. 548:) n. un. with ة: (S, O, K:) IAar says that the عَرَارَة is like the بَهَار; having wood, [or arborescent, app. meaning that it is the buphthalmum arborescens, the flower of which is intensely yellow, agreeably with what is said of it in the O,] having a sweet odour, and growing only in plain land. (O.) A2: Also, i. e. like سَحَابٌ [in measure], Retaliation of slaughter or of wounding or of mutilation; syn. قَوَدٌ: and anything that is slain in retaliation for another (كُلُّ شَىْءٍ بَآءَ بِشَىْءٍ): (K, TA:) of any such thing one says, هُوَ لَهُ عَرَارٌ [It is one slain in retaliation for it]. (TA.) [This latter meaning is app. taken from the prov.

بَآءَتْ عَرَارِ بِكَحْلٍ, relating to two cows; mentioned in art. بوأ.]

عُرُورٌ: see عَرَرٌ.

عَرِيرٌ A stranger (Az, S, Z, O, K) among a people: (O, K:) occurring, in the accus. case, in a trad., in which some read غَرِيرًا, with the pointed غ; and some say that the right reading is غَرِيًّا, i. e. مُلْصَقًا [here meaning “ an adherent ”]: but Hr and IAth agree with Az [and the S] and Z and the [O and] K. (TA.) عَرْعَرٌ The tree called سَرْو [which is the common, or evergreen, cypress; but the former name is generally applied in the present day to the juniper-tree]; (S, O, K;) a Pers\. word: (K:) it is a kind of great tree, of the trees of the mountains: (O:) some say that it is the [tree called] سَاسَم, and also [said to be] called شِيزَى: others, that it is a great kind of mountain-tree, evergreen, called by the Persians سَرْو: (TA:) AHn says that he had been informed by an Arab of the desert, of the people of the Saráh (السَّرَاة), who are possessors of the عَرْعَر, that it is the أَبْهَل [q. v., a name now applied to the juniper-tree, like عَرْعَر; and particularly to the species thereof called the savin]; and he adds that he knew it in his own country, and afterwards saw it in the province of Kazween, cut for firewood from the mountains thereof, in the borders of Ed-Deylem; whence he knew that his informant was well acquainted with it, for those mountains are places of growth of the ابهل: (O:) he says that it has a fruit like the نَبِق [or fruit of the lote-tree called سِدْر], first green, then becoming white, then becoming black until it is like حُمَم [or charcoal, &c.], and sweet, when it is eaten: (TA:) n. un. with ة. (O, TA.) عَرْعَارٌ: see عَرْعَارٌ, in art. رع.

عَارٌّ A camel having the mange, or scab; as also ↓ أَعَرُّ; (A'Obeyd, S, O;) which latter [in some of the copies of the K written ↓ عَرٌّ] is applied in this sense to a man; and ↓ مَعْرُورٌ to a camel: (K:) or this last signifies having, or affected with, the disease called عُرّ. (S, O, K.) b2: See also مُعْتَرٌّ.

عَارُورٌ and عَارُورَةٌ: see عُرَّةٌ.

أَعَرُّ: see عَارٌّ. b2: One says also, أَنْتَ شَرٌّ مِنْهُ وَأَعَرُّ [meaning (assumed tropical:) Thou art worse than he, and more evil: the two nouns being synonymous, like شَرٌّ and عَرٌّ]. (TA.) مَعَرَّةٌ A place of عَرّ, i. e. mange, or scab: this is the primary signification. (TA.) b2: Hence, المَعَرَّةُ The region of the sky that is beyond the Milky Way (المَجَرَّة) in the direction of the North Pole; so called because of the multitude of the stars therein; (O, * TA;) like as the sky is called الجَرْبَآءُ because of its numerous stars; these being compared to scabs on the body of a man: (TA:) and to this and the مَجَرَّة a man alluded, when, being asked respecting the place where he alighted and abode, he informed the inquirer that he alighted and abode between two tribes, (O, TA,) great and numerous; (O;) saying, نَزَلْتُ بَيْنَ المَعَرَّةِ وَالمَجَرَّةِ [I have alighted between the مَعَرَّة and the مَجَرَّة]: (O, TA:) or, as some say, (O,) المَعَرَّةُ is the name of a certain star, or asterism, [which is] below the مَجَرَّة [or Milky Way, app. meaning when the latter, as viewed from Arabia, is seen stretching across the sky above the North Pole]. (O, K.) b3: [Hence likewise, app.,] مَعَرَّةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) A cause of reviling, or of being reviled; syn. مَسَبَّةٌ: (TA:) a crime, or sin; syn. إِثْمٌ; (S, O, Msb, K;) and جِنَايَةٌ; (TS, L, TA; in the copies of the K خِيَانَة; [and thus in the O;] but this is a mistake; TA;) and جُرْمٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ عُرَّةٌ: (K:) or a crime, or sin, [that is noxious] like the mange, or scab: (L, TA:) a foul, or an abominable, thing: (O, TA:) a cause of grief or vexation: (Mgh, Msb:) annoyance, or hurt; or a thing by which one is annoyed or hurt; syn. أَذًى; (Sh, Mgh, K;) or أَذِيَّةٌ: (O:) displeasing, grieving, or vexing, conduct: (Mgh, Msb:) and i. q. شِدَّةٌ [app. as meaning violence, or the like]. (O: there mentioned between the significations of إِثْمٌ and أَذِيَّةٌ.) Also (assumed tropical:) The slaying unexpectedly, (S,) or the fighting, (O, K,) of an army, without the permission of the commander: (S, O, K: [omitted in one of my copies of the S:]) or the alighting of an army among a people, and eating of the produce of their fields without knowledge (Sh, O, TA) of the commander: (O:) or an army's oppressing, or assaulting, those by whom they pass, whether Muslims, or unbelievers with whom terms of peace have been made, and afflicting them in respect of their women under covert and their possessions by conduct not permitted to them. (TA.) b4: And (assumed tropical:) A debt, fine, or mulct, which one is obliged to pay: and a fine for homicide: (K, TA:) thus expl. by Mohammad Ibn-Is-hák Ibn-Yesár: (TA:) or a thing that one dislikes, or hates, relating to fines for homicide; of the measure مَفْعَلَةٌ from عَرٌّ signifying “ mange,” or “ scab. ” (Th, TA.) b5: And (assumed tropical:) The changing of the face in colour by reason of anger: (O, K, TA:) Az says that it is thus mentioned by Abu-l-'Abbás with teshdeed to the ر: but if it be from تَمَعَّرَ وَجْهُهُ, not from العَرُّ, it is without teshdeed. (O, TA.) مَعْرُورٌ: see عَارٌّ. b2: Also, with ة, applied to a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ), [and to land (أَرْضٌ),] Dunged with عُرَّة [q. v.]. (TA.) b3: And, without ة, (assumed tropical:) A man sullied, or bespattered, with evil; or aspersed: (S, Msb:) and wronged, or treated unjustly or injuriously; and reviled; and deprived of his property. (TA.) مُعْتَرٌّ One who addresses, or applies, himself to obtain favour, or bounty, without asking; (I'Ab, S, O, * Msb, K;) one who comes to another, and seeks his favour, or bounty; or seeking his favour, or bounty; as also ↓ عَارٌّ: or one who goes round about another, seeking to obtain what the latter has, whether asking him or not asking. (TA.) And A guest visiting. (Msb.) And A poor man. (K, TA.) It occurs in the Kur xxii. 37: accord. to some, having the last of these meanings: accord. to others, the first thereof. (TA.)

هش

1 هَشَّ, aor. ـِ (JK, TA;) or ـّ secpers. هَشِشْتَ, aor. ـَ (Msb;) inf. n. هَشَاشَةٌ (JK, A, Msb, TA) [and هُشُوشَةٌ and هُشُوشٌ and هَشٌّ, as appears from what follows]; It, (a thing) was, or became, soft, yielding, flaccid, flabby, lax, slack, uncompact, crummy, fragile, frangible, brittle, friable, easily or quickly broken; (JK, A, Msb, TA;) syn. كَانَ فِيهِ رَخَاوَةٌ, (JK,) or كَانَ رِخْوًا لَيِّنًا, (A, * TA,) or لَانَ وَاسْتَرْخَى. (Msb.) You say, هَشَّ الخُبْزُ, aor. ـِ (S, K,) inf. n. هُشُوشَةٌ (K) and هَشٌّ, (TA,) meaning, صار هَشًّا; (S, K;) i. e., The bread became [soft, &c., or] easy to break. (TA.) And هَشَّ العُودُ, (IAar, Msb,) aor. ـِ or]

هَشَ3َ, (Msb,) inf. n. هُشُوشٌ, (IAar, Msb,) The wood, or stick, broke in pieces: (IAar:) or became easily or quickly broken. (Msb.) and هَشَّتِ الشَّجَرَةُ, inf. n. هَشٌّ, The tree dropped its leaves, one after another. (Msb [in which it seems to be indicated that the aor. of the verb in this sense is هَشُّ; but this is contr. to rule in an intrans. verb of this class; and I think it improbable.]) b2: هَشَّ, inf. n. هُشُوشَةٌ, (assumed tropical:) He (a man) became weak; unable to endure difficulty or distress. (TA.) And هَشَّ, aor. ـِ (assumed tropical:) He affected languor, or languidness; syn. تَكَسَّرَ: and he became old, or aged. (TA.) A2: هَشَّ, (Msb, K,) first Pers\. هَشِشْتُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) and هَشَّ, first Pers\. هَشَشْتُ, aor. ـِ (Msb, K;) inf. n. هَشَاشَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and هَشَاشٌ; (A, K;) (tropical:) He was, or became, cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly: (S, K:) or he smiled, and was, or became cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly. (Msb.) You say, هَشِشْتُ بِفُلَانٍ, (S, TA,) and هَشَشْتُ بِهِ, (TA,) (tropical:) I was, or became, cheerful, &c. in behaviour towards such a one: (S:) or I was, or became cheerful in countenance, or joyful, or pleased, at meeting with such a one. (TA.) and هُوَ يَهَشُّ إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِ, (tropical:) He is cheerful, &c., towards his brethren]. (A.) And بِى ↓ دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَاهْتَشَّ (tropical:) [I went in to him, and he was cheerful, &c., in his behaviour towards me]; like إِهْتَزَّ لى. (A, * TA.) And هَشِشْتُ لِلْمَعْرُوفِ, (JK, TA, *) and هَشَشْتُ, (TA,) inf. n. هَشَاشَةٌ (S) and هَشَاشٌ, (A,) (tropical:) I was, or became, cheerful, brisk, &c., to do what was kind, or beneficent: (S, * TA:) or I desired to do it: (JK:) and إِهْتَشَشْتُ ↓ للمعروف I was, or became, cheerful, &c., and desirous, to do what was kind, or beneficent. (TA.) And هُوَ ذُو هَشَاشٍ إِلَى الخَيْرِ (tropical:) [He possesses cheerfulness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, of disposition to do good]. (A.) Accord. to Sh, هَشِشْتُ signifies (assumed tropical:) He rejoiced, and desired; or was, or became, joyful, and desirous. (TA.) And the phrase هَشِشْتُ إِلَى امْرَأَتِى, if correct, means either (assumed tropical:) I inclined towards my wife, or I was, or became, brisk, or sprightly, in disposition towards her. (Mgh.) And accord to ISd, هَشَاشُ القَوْمِ [so in the TA, but accord. to the JK هَشَاهِشُ,] (assumed tropical:) The people's being in a state of commotion, or agitation. (TA.) A3: هَشَّ الوَرَقَ, aor. ـُ (S, A, K,) and هَشِّ, (Sgh, K,) inf. n. هَشٌّ, (S,) He beat the leaves with a staff, or stick, in order that they might fall; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ هَشْهَشَهُ. (Z, TA.) It is said in the Kur, [xx. 19,] (S,) وَأَهُشُّ بِهَا عَلَى غَنَمِى [And I beat the leaves with it in order that they may fall upon my sheep, or goats]: (S, A:) or, accord. to Fr, and I beat the dry trees with it in order that their leaves may fall so that my sheep, or goats, may feed upon them; and so says As: (TA:) Lth says, that الهَشُّ signifies thy drawing towards thee a branch of a tree: and also, thy scattering its leaves towards thee with a staff, or stick: (JK, * TA:) but Az says, that the correct ex-planation is that given by Fr and As; not the former of the two explanations given by Lth. (TA.) [The verb also seems to have a similar application in a more extended sense; for it is said that] هَشَّ, aor. ـُ inf. n. هَشٌّ, signifies He (a man) assaulted (صَالَ) with his staff, or stick. (Msb.) You say also, هَشَّ الهَشِيمَ He broke in pieces the dry herbage or the like. (TA.) 2 هشّشهُ, (JK, K,) inf. n. تَهْشِيشٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He deemed him, or reckoned him, weak, or feeble, (JK, K, *) and soft, or gentle. (TA.) A2: (tropical:) He, or it, rendered him brisk, lively, or sprightly; and joyful, glad, or happy: (K:) and ↓ استهشّهُ (tropical:) it (a thing, JK, TA) incited him, or excited him, to briskness, liveliness or sprightliness; syn. إِسْتَخَفَّهُ. (JK, K, TA.) You say, ↓ فُلَانٌ مَا يَسْتَهِشُّهُ النَّعِيمُ (tropical:) [Such a one, weal, or welfare, does not excite him to briskness, &c.] (A, TA.) 8 اهتشّ He was, or became, cheerful, &c.: see 1, in two places.10 إِسْتَهْشَ3َ see 2, in two places. R. Q. 1 هَشْهَشَهُ: see 1, latter part. b2: He moved, or put in motion, or into a state of commotion, him, or it. (IDrd, K.) هَشٌّ A thing, (S, Msb,) or anything, (JK,) soft, yielding, flaccid, flabby, lax, slack, uncompact, crummy, fragile, frangible, brittle, friable, easily or quickly broken; (JK, * S, * A, * Msb, K, * TA;) syn. رِخْوٌ لَيِّنٌ; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ هَشِيشٌ. (JK, S, K.) You say, خُبْزٌ هَشٌّ, (S, K,) and ↓ هَشَاشٌ, (K,) Bread that is [soft, &c., or] easy to break. (TA.) And خُبْزَةٌ هَشَّةٌ A lump of dough, baked in a fire in the ground, that is dry, or hard: asserted by IKtt to have two contr. significations. (TA.) [But to this assertion it may be replied, that dry bread is easy to break.] And in like manner, أُتْرُجَّةٌ هَشَّةٌ A citron easy to break: or dry, or hard. (TA.) And عُودٌ هَشٌّ Wood, or a stick, that is easily, or quickly broken. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] هُوَ هَشٌّ المَكْسِرِ, (JK, S, A, K,) or المَكْسَرِ, (TA, [but this is contr. to all the other authorities that I know,]) and المُكَسَّرِ, (TA,) (tropical:) He is easy, or compliant, when asked: (A:) or he is of easy nature, or disposition, (JK, S, K,) with respect to what is sought, or demanded, of him, of things needed: (S:) said in praise of a man (S, TA) when it means [lit.] that he is not one whose wood gives only a sound when one endeavours to produce fire from it; but said in dispraise of a man when it means [lit.] that he is one whose wood is weak. (TA.) [And in like manner] ↓ هَشِيشٌ (K) and ↓ هَاشٌّ (TA) signify (tropical:) One who rejoices, or is glad, when asked. (K, TA.) You say, هُوَ هَاشٌ ↓ عِنْدَ السُّؤَالِ, and ↓ هَشِيشٌ, (tropical:) He is one who rejoices, or is glad, at being asked. (TA.) b3: [Hence also,] رَجُلٌ هَشٌّ, (TA,) or رَجُلٌ هَشٌّ إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِ, and ↓ هَاشٌّ, (JK,) (tropical:) A man who is cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly, in his behaviour towards his brethren. (JK, TA.) And رَجُلٌ هَشٌّ بَشٌّ (tropical:) A man who is cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly: (S:) or cheerful in countenance; pleasant [therein]. (S, TA in art. بش.) And أَنَا بِهِ هَشٌّ بَشٌّ (tropical:) I am cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly, in behaviour towards him; (K;) joyful; happy. (TA.) And رَجُلٌ هَشٌّ فُؤَادُهُ (tropical:) A man quick, or prompt, to do good. (As.) And فَرَشٌ هَشُّ العِنَانِ (assumed tropical:) [A horse that is brisk, lively, or sprightly; lit.,] light of rein. (TA.) And فَرَسٌ هَشٌّ (tropical:) A horse that sweats much; (JK, IF, K;) contr. of صَلُودٌ; (S;) or not صلود. (A.) هَشُاشٌ: see هَشٌّ, second sentence.

هَشُوشٌ (assumed tropical:) A ewe, or she-goat, abounding with milk. (S, K.) هَشِيشٌ Dry herbage, syn. هَشِيمٌ, (K, TA,) for the horses of the people of الأَسْيَاف [app. meaning the shores of 'Omán] in particular. (TA.) A2: See also هَشٌّ, in three places. b2: Also, (assumed tropical:) A man who is niggardly towards his family, or others, with respect to food; syn. مُحْتِرٌ. (TA.) [Thus it bears two contr. significations.]

هَشِيشَةٌ is thought by ISd to signify Leaves [app. beaten from a tree]. (TA.) قِرْبَةٌ هَشَّاشَةٌ A water-skin from which the water flows by reason of its thinness. (K.) هَشْهَشَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Motion; or commotion. (JK.) [هَشَاهِشُ is app. its pl.: see 1, next before هَشَّ الوَرَقَ.]

هَشْهَاشٌ (tropical:) Good in disposition; liberal, or bountiful. (IAar, K.) هَاشٌّ: see هَشٌّ, in three places.

مُهَشْهِشَةٌ, in the copies of the K erroneously written مُتَهَشْهِشَة, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) A woman who manifests love to her husband, and rejoices in him. (K, * TA.)

غب

1 غَبَّتِ الإِبِلُ, (S,) or المَاشِيَةُ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. غَبٌّ (S, Msb, K) and غُبُوبٌ, (Msb, K,) The camels, (S,) or cattle, (Msb, K,) came to water, (S,) or drank, (Msb, K,) on alternate days; one day and not the next day. (S, Msb, K.) b2: Hence, (IAth, TA,) غَبَّ said of a man means He came visiting at intervals of some days, or after some days. (AA, IAth, TA.) [See also غِبٌّ: and see غُبَيْسٌ.] b3: And غَبَّ عَنِ القَوْمِ, (Ks, S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ the verb in this case being of the class of قَتَلَ, [but this is contr. to analogy, as well as to the derivation,] inf. n. غِبٌّ, with kesr, He came to the people, or party, day after day: (Msb:) or, as also القَوْمَ ↓ اغبّ, he came to the people, or party, on alternate days, coming one day and not the next: (Ks, S, K:) or he came to them once in two days or more. (TA.) It is said in a trad., فِى عِيَادَةِ المَرِيضِ ↓ أَغِبُّوا وَأَرْبِعُوا Visit ye the sick on alternate days and after intervals of two days: (S, TA:) not every day, lest he find your visits to be troublesome. (TA. [See also art. ربع.]) And you say, ↓ أَغْبَبْتُهُ, inf. n. إِغْبَابٌ, meaning I visited him [once] in every week. (A.) b4: And hence غَبَّتْ said of a fever. (Msb.) غَبَّتِ الحُمَّى and ↓ أَغَبَّت signify the same: (S:) you say, غَبَّتْ عَلَيْهِ الحُمَّى, The fever came upon him, (Msb,) or attacked him, (K,) one day and intermitted one day; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَغَبَّتْهُ and ↓ أَغَبَّتْ عَلَيْهِ. (K.) [See also غِبٌّ.] b5: You say also, غَبَّ عِنْدَنَا, (S, L, K,) and ↓ اغبّ, (L, K,) He passed the night, or a night, at our abode. (S, L, K.) Hence the saying, رُوَيْدَ الشِّعْرَ يَغِبَّ [so accord. to the TA, حَتَّى being understood, accord. to the explanation of Meyd, but in the CK, and in one of my copies of the S, and in Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 522, يَغِبُّ,] (S, K,) i. e. Leave thou the poetry until some days shall have passed, that thou mayest see what will be its result, whether it will be praised or dispraised: (Meyd, TA:) or it may be from غَبَّت said of a fever, and may thus mean, leave thou the poetry to be kept back from people, [or to be intermitted,] i. e. do not repeat it to people in an uninterrupted manner, lest they become weary. (Meyd. [See also art. رود.]) b6: And [hence] غَبَّ, (T, S, L, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (L, Msb,) inf. n. غَبٌّ and غِبٌّ and غُبُوبٌ and غُبُوبَةٌ, (L,) said of food, (L, Msb,) and of dates, or especially of flesh-meat as some say, (L,) It remained throughout a night, whether it became corrupt or not: (L, Msb:) and, said of food, it became altered [for the worse] in its odour: (L:) or, said of flesh-meat, it became stinking: (T, S, K;) as also ↓ اغبّ: (T, K:) and it (a thing) became corrupt. (TA. [See also 2.]) b7: غَبَّتِ الأُمُورُ means The affairs, or events, came to, or arrived at, their ends, conclusions, latter or last parts or states, issues, or results. (S, TA.) b8: And غَبَّ الشَّئْ فِى نَفْسِهِ, aor. ـِ inf. n. غَبٌّ, [app. meaning The thing came into his mind,] is a phrase mentioned by Th. (TA.) 2 غبّب فِى الحَاجَةِ, (S, O,) inf. n. تَغْبِيبٌ, (K,) He was remiss; or did not exert himself, or act vigorously or strenuously; (S, O, K;) in the needful affair: (S, O:) [and] so فِيهَا ↓ تغبّب [if not a mistranscription]. (Thus in a copy of the A.) [Hence,] كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يُغَبِّبُ مِنْ هُلْكِ المُسْلِمِينَ, (TA,) or عَنْ هَلَاكِ المسلمين, (thus in the O,) (tropical:) He wrote to him not acquainting him with the great number that had perished of the Muslims: (O, TA:) a metaphorical mode of expression; as though he were remiss, or fell short, in making known the essential state of the case. (TA, from a trad.) b2: And غبّب signifies also It (a thing) became very corrupt. (TA. [See also 1, last sentence but two.]) A2: غبّب الشَّاةَ, (O, L, *) inf. n. as above, (L, K,) He (a wolf) seized the sheep, or goat, by its throat, (O, K,) and fixed his canine teeth in it: (O:) or attacked the sheep, or goat, and broke its neck: and also left it with some remains of life in it. (L.) And غبّب الذِّئْبُ فِى الغَنَمِ The wolf made, or did, mischief among the sheep, or goats. (TA.) b2: And [hence, app.,] غبّب عَنِ القَوْمِ, (S, O,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He repelled from, or defended, the people, or party: (S, O, K:) so say Ks and Th. (TA.) 4 أَغْبَ3َ see 1, in seven places. b2: You say also, لَا يُغِبُّنَا عَطَاؤُهُ His gift will not come to us on alternate days, but will come every day. (S, O, K. *) b3: And اغبّت الحَلُوبَةُ The milch camel yielded milk on alternate days. (A.) And اغبّت الإِبِلُ The camels did not yield milk every day. (TA.) b4: See again 1, last sentence but two.

A2: اغبّ الإِبِلَ He watered the camels on alternate days: (S, O, Msb: *) from غِبٌّ [q. v.]. (S, O.) A3: And أَغَبَّنِى is said by Th to signify وَقَعَ بِى

[app. meaning He fell upon me in fight]. (TA.) 5 تَغبّب is app. from الغِبُّ in the sense of العَاقِبَةُ, and thus syn. with تَعَقَّبَ signifying He looked to the consequence, end, issue, or result, of an affair: see its part. n. مُتَغَبِّبْ, below.] b2: See [also] 2, first sentence.8 اغتبّت الخَيْلُ see اغتثّت.

R. Q. 1 غَبْغَبَ He acted dishonestly in buying and selling. (AA, TA.) غُبٌّ A sea dashing so that it goes far, or runs, upon the land: (JK, K, TA:) pl. غُبَّانٌ. (TA.) b2: And Depressed land: pl. [of pauc.] أَغْبَابٌ and [of mult.] غُبُوبٌ (K, TA) and غُبَّانٌ. (TA.) غِبٌّ [a subst., like ظِمْءٌ,] A coming (of camels, S, O) to water on alternate days; coming to the water one day and not the next day: (S, O, K:) or after [being kept from it] a day and two nights: or pasturing one day and coming to the water the next day; and this is the غِبّ of the ass. (TA.) [And وِرْدُ الغِبِّ signifies The coming of camels to the water in the second of two nights (as is shown by the context of a passage in which it occurs in the S and O and K voce طَلَقٌ), or in the second of two days.] But the saying of a rájiz, وَحُمَّرَاتٌ شُرْبُهُنَّ غِبُّ means And hummarahs [a species of birds] whose drinking is every hour or every little while (كُلَّ سَاعَةٍ). (S, O.) b2: Also [for سَيْرُ غِبٍّ] A journey of two days [whereof one is without any watering of the camels; i. e. in the case of which they are watered only on the first and third of three days]. (TA in art. نبج.) b3: And A visiting once in every week: (S, O, K:) so says El-Hasan: (S, O:) or at intervals of some days: after some days: (AA, IAth: [see also its verb:]) from the same word used in relation to camels. (IAth.) One says, زُرْ غِبًّا تَزْدَدْ حُبًّا [or, accord. to common usage, حِبًّا, to assimilate it to غِبًّا, Visit once a week, or at intervals of some days; not frequently, or not every day: so thou shalt have more love: a prov., respecting which see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 587; where غُبًّا is put for غِبًّا]. (S, O.) [See another ex. voce تَرَجَّلَ, last sentence.] The saying of Zeyd-el-Fawáris يَرَانِى العَدُوُّ بَعْدَ غِبِّ لِقَائِهِ means [The enemy will see me] after the day of meeting with him by a day. (Ham p. 732.) b4: And The coming, or attacking, of a fever one day and intermitting one day: from the same word used in relation to camels. (S, O, Msb.) b5: and A tertian fever; that attacks one day and intermits one day: (K, TA:) you say حُمَّى غِبٌّ [a tertian fever]; using it as an epithet: (TA:) and حُمَّى الغِبِّ. (Msb in art. ثلث.) b6: And The end; conclusion; latter, or last, part or state; issue; or result; syn. عَاقِبَةٌ, (S, A, MA, O, Msb, K,) and آخِرٌ; (S, * O, * TA;) of an affair, (S, A, O, Msb,) of any kind, (S, O,) or of a thing; (K;) as also ↓ مَغَبَّةٌ, (MA, O, Msb, K,) and ↓ مِغَبٌّ. (MA.) And [hence] غِبَّ means After; syn. بَعْدَ: thus in the phrases غِبَّ الأَذَانِ [After the call to prayer] and غِبَّ السَّلَامِ [After salutation or the salutation]: and one says, غِبَّ الصَّبَاحِ يَحْمَدُ القَوْمُ السُّرَى

[After daybreak, the party commend nightjourneying: but more commonly, عِنْدَ الصَّبَاحِ: see art. سرى]. (TA.) b7: مَآءٌ غِبٌّ means Distant water: (A, TA:) and مِيَاهٌ أَغْبَابٌ distant waters. (A, K, TA.) غُبَّةٌ A sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (O, K, TA:) and so غُضَّةٌ. (TA.) A2: And غُبَّةُ, (S, O,) without ال, (K,) [and imperfectly decl.,] is the name of An eaglet that belonged to the Benoo-Yeshkur, (S, O, K,) and to which a certain story, or tradition, relates. (S, O,) غَبَبٌ and ↓ غَبْغَبٌ The flesh that hangs down under the part beneath the chin and lower jaw: (K;) or what hangs down beneath that part of an ox or cow [i. e. the dewlap], and beneath the beak of the cock: (S, O:) and the wrinkled skin of the part where the lower hairs of the chin grow: and the former word, what hangs down under the part beneath the lower jaw of the ox or cow and of the sheep or goat: and the غبغب is [what hangs down under the part beneath the lower mandible] of the cock and of the bull [i. e. the wattle of the cock and the dewlap of the bull]: (Lth, TA:) and this is also used in relation to an old woman: (Ks, TA:) and, metaphorically, in relation to the chameleon: and in like manner in relation to the stallion-camel, [as meaning the part below the under jaw,] as the camel has really no غبغب: (TA:) [the pl. of غَبَبٌ is أَغْبَابٌ: see طِمْطِمٌ.]

غَبِيبٌ: see غَابٌّ.

A2: Also A small and narrow water-course, from the hard and elevated part of a mountain, or of a tract of land: or in plain. or level, land: (TA:) and a watercourse that is not deep, and in which are [trees of the species called] طَلْح: pl. [of pauc.] أَغِبَّةٌ and [of mult.]

غُبَّانٌ. (JK.) A3: [And An affair or a business (“ res, negotium ”). (Freytag, from the Deewán of Jereer.)]

غَبِيبَةٌ Milk (S, O, K) of sheep or goats (S, O) drawn in the early morning, upon which other is milked at night, and which is then churned (S, O, K) on the morrow: (S, O:) [and] accord. to IAar, camel's milk such as is termed مُرَوَّب [q. v.]: and the milk that is termed رَائِب [q. v.]: (TA:) A'Obeyd is related on the authority of Sh to have assigned this last meaning to غبيبة (TA, voce غَبِيبَةٌ.) غُبِّيَّةٌ and غِبِّيَّةٌ: see غُبِّيَّةٌ, in art. غب.

غَابٌّ [part. n. of غَبَّ]. You say إِبِلٌ غَابَّةٌ and غَوَابُّ Camels coming to water, or drinking, on alternate days. (As, S, O, K.) b2: And Flesh-meat that has remained throughout a night: (S, O:) or stinking flesh-meat: (TA:) or food, and dates, and, as also ↓ غَبِيبٌ, flesh-meat, that has remained throughout a night, whether it have become corrupt or not: (L:) and applied also to bread. (S and K in art. بيت.) b3: And نَجْمٌ غَابٌّ means A fixed star [app. because of its twinkling, or shining with intermitted light]. (A.) غَبْغَبٌ: see غَبَبٌ.

A2: Also A place where victims are sacrificed: (O, TA:) or الغَبْغَبُ, (S, O, K, TA,) particularly, (TA,) a small mountain, (S, O, K, TA,) which is the place of sacrifice, (S, O,) in Minè: (S, K:) or the place in which was ElLát, at Et-Táïf: or the place where they used there to sacrifice to El-Lát: or غَبْغَبٌ is an appellation of any place of sacrifice in Minè. (TA.) b2: And الغَبْغَبُ is the name of An idol (صَنَمٌ), (O, K, TA,) which they used to worship in the Time of Ignorance, and upon which (عَلَيْهِ) they used to sacrifice; (O, TA; *) and IDrd says that some called it الغَبْغَبُ [q. v.], with the unpointed ع: (O:) or a stone which was set up before the idol, for, or [dedicated] to, Menáf, opposite the corner of the Black Stone [of the Kaabeh]; and there were two [whereof each was] thus called. (TA.) تَغِبَّةٌ False testimony: (K, TA:) of the measure تَفْعِلَةٌ, [being originally تَغْبِبَةٌ,] from غَبَّبَ الذِّئْبُ فِى الغَنَمِ, or from غَبَّبَ signifying “ it became very corrupt. ” (IAth, TA.) رَجُلٌ مَغِبٌّ [A man having a tertian fever, as is indicated in the TA,] is mentioned on the authority of Az, in the form of an act. part. n. (TA.) A2: And المُغِبُّ means The lion. (O, K.) مِغَبٌّ: see غِبٌّ, last sentence but two.

مَغَبَّهٌ: see غِبٌّ, last sentence but two.

مُغَبَّبَةٌ A ewe, or goat, that is milked on alternate days. (IAar, S, K.) A2: And مُغَبَّبٌ A bull having a غَبَب [or dewlap]. (Ham p. 293.) مُتَغَبِّبٌ app. A man looking to the consequence, end, issue, or result, of an affair; like مُتَعَقِّبٌ: see a verse in the Ham p. 154, and the verse next preceding it: and see its verb, above.]

قس

1 قَسَّهُ, aor. ـُ (M,) inf. n. قَسٌّ (S, M, A, K) and قُسٌّ and قِسٌّ (A, K) and قَسَسٌ, (M, [in which this and the first only are mentioned, accord. to a copy of a portion in my possession,]) He sought after, or pursued, it: and he did so repeatedly, or by degrees, and leisurely, or repeatedly and by degrees and leisurely: (S, M, A, K:) as also ↓ تقسّسهُ. (A, * K.) [See also قَصَّهُ, which, accord. to the TA, is a dial. form of قَسَّهُ.] You say, الأَخْبَارَ ↓ تقسّس [He sought after, or sought after repeatedly, &c., news, or tidings]. (A.) b2: [Hence, app.,] قَسٌّ signifies Calumniation; or malicious and mischievous misrepresentation; (S, M, K;) as also قُسٌّ and قِسٌّ; (K;) and the spreading, or publishing, of discourse, and speaking evil of men behind their backs, or in their absence: (TA:) [probably inf. ns., of which the verb is قَسَّ; perhaps a trans. verb; for] قَسَّهُمْ signifies He hurt them, or annoyed them, by foul speech; (K;) as though he sought, or sought repeatedly, or by degrees and leisurely, or repeatedly and by degrees and leisurely, after that which would hurt them, or annoy them. (TA.) b3: [Hence also,] قَسَّ مَا عَلَى العَظْمِ, (A, K,) مِنَ اللَّحْمِ, (A,) aor. ـُ inf. n. قَسٌّ; (TA;) and ↓ قَسْقَسَهُ; (K;) or قَسْقَسَ العَظْمَ; of the dial. of El-Yemen; (M;) He sought, or sought repeatedly, or by degrees and leisurely, or repeatedly and by degrees and leisurely, after the meat that was upon the bone, so as not to leave any of it: (A:) or he ate the flesh that was upon the bone, and extracted its marrow: (M, K:) and مَا عَلَى المَائِدَةِ ↓ قَسْقَسَ he ate what was upon the table. (M.) A2: قَسَّ, [of which the sec. Pers\. is app. قَسُسْتَ, and the aor. ـُ (TK,) inf. n. ↓ قُسُوسَةٌ and ↓ قِسِيسَةٌ, accord. to all the copies of the K, [so says SM, in the TA, but in the CK ↓ قُسُّوسَة and ↓ قِسِّيسَة, and in a MS copy of the K I find the latter written ↓ قَسِيسَة,] but correctly ↓ قِسِّيسَّةٌ, as written by Lth, (TA,) He became a قَسّ [or قِسِّيس]: (K, * TK:) or ↓ قَسُوسَةٌ and ↓ قِسِيسَّةٌ [so in a copy of the M, but in a copy of the A ↓ قُسُوسِيَّةٌ and ↓ قِسِّيسِيَّةٌ, which I hold to be the correct forms of these two words, the former from the pl. of قَسٌّ and the latter from قِسِّيسٌ,] are simple substs., (M,) and you say, [using them as such,] لَهُ القُسُوسِيَّةُ and القِسِّيسَّةُ To him belongs the rank, or office, of قَسّ or قِسِّيس. (A.) 5 تَقَسَّّ see قَسَّهُ, in two places. b2: تقسّس أَصْوَاتِهُمْ (S, M, A *) بِاللَّيْلِ, (S, A,) or الصَّوْتَ ↓ تَقَسْقَسَ, (K,) He listened to, or endeavoured to hear, (S, M, A, K,) their voices, (S, M, A, *) or the voice, (K,) by night, or in the night. (S, M, A.) 8 اقس He (a lion) sought what he might eat. (M.) R. Q. 1 قَسْقَسَ, inf. n. قَسْقَسَةٌ, He asked, or inquired, respecting the affairs of others. (M: but only the inf. n. is there mentioned.) b2: See also 1, in two places. R. Q. 2 see 5.

قَسٌّ and ↓ قِسِّيسٌ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and sometimes the latter is without teshdeed in the sing., [i. e., ↓ قِسِيسٌ, vulgo ↓ قَسِيسٌ,] though the pl. is with teshdeed, like as the Arabs sometimes make أَتَاتِينُ pl. of أَتُونٌ, (Fr,) [Syr. 165, a consenuit, (Golius,)] The head, or chief, of the Christians, in knowledge, or science: (A, K:) or one of the heads, or chiefs, of the Christians, (S, M,) in religion and knowledge or science: (S:) or the learned man of the Christians: (Msb:) or an intelligent, an ingenious, or a clever, and a learned, man: (M:) [in the present day applied to a Christian presbyter, or priest: see جَاثَلِيقٌ:] pl. (of the first, Msb) قُسُوسٌ, (Msb, K,) and (of the second, M, Msb) قِسِّيسُونَ (Fr, M, Msb, K) and قَسَاقِسَةٌ, (Fr, and so in some copies of the K,) contr. to rule, (TA,) or قَسَاوِسَةٌ, (M, Sgh, and so in some copies of the K,) contr. to rule, (M,) one of the seens [in the original form, which is قَسَاسِسَةٌ,] being changed into wáw. (CK [but in the copies of the K which have قَسَاقِسَةٌ, we find added “ and the seens being many,” meaning, in the original form قَسَاسِسَةٌ, or in قِسِّيسٌ, “ they change one of them into wáw. ”]) A2: قَسٌّ also signifies Hoar-frost, or rime. (A, K.) See قَسِّىٌّ.

قَسِيسٌ and قِسِيس: see قَسٌّ.

قَسُوسَةٌ and قُسُوسَةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قَسِيسَةٌ and قِسِيسَةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قُسُوسِيَّةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قِسِيسِيَّةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قَسِّىٌّ, (S, A, Mgh,) coll. n. قَسِّيَّةٌ, (M, Mgh, K,) also pronounced with kesr to the ق, [قِسِّىٌّ and قِسِّيَّةٌ,] (K,) in the latter manner by the relaters of traditions, but by the people of Egypt with fet-h, (A'Obeyd, S,) A kind of cloths, or garments, (S, M, A, Mgh, K,) of flax (A, TA) mixed with silk, brought from Egypt, (S, M, A,) and forbidden to be worn [by the Muslims]: (S, M, Mgh:) so called in relation to a district, (A' Obeyd, S,) or place, (M, K,) or town or village, upon the shore of the sea, (A,) called القَسُّ, (A'Obeyd, S, M, K,) or قَسٌّ, (M, A, Mgh,) between El-'Areesh and El-Faramà, (K,) in Egypt, (A'Obeyd, S, Mgh,) seen by A'Obeyd, but not known to As: (S:) or so called in relation to ↓ قَسٌّ, meaning “ hear-frost,” or “ rime; ” because of the pure whiteness thereof: (A:) or [originally] قَزِّىٌّ, (A.) and قَزِّيَّةٌ, (Sh, K,) from قَزٌّ, meaning “ a kind of silk; ” (TA;) the ز being changed into س: (Sh, K:) it was said to 'Alee, What are قَسِّيَّة? and he answered, Cloths, or garments, that come to us from Syria, or from Egypt, ribbed, that is, figured after the form of ribs, and having in them what resemble citrons. (Mgh.) قَسَّاسٌ A calumniator; a slanderer: (M:) or one who inquires respecting news, and then makes it known, divulges it, or tells it, in a malicious or mischievous manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like, (TA, voce قَتَّاتٌ.) قِسِّيسٌ: see قَسٌّ.

قُسُّوسَةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قِسِّيسَةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قِسِّيسِيَّةٌ: see قَسَّ.

قَسْقَسٌ: see قَسْقَاسٌ.

قَسْقَاسٌ A seeker, or one who seeks repeatedly or leisurely, without inadvertence; as also ↓ قَسْقَسٌ. (TA.) b2: One who inquires respecting the affairs of others. (M.)