جرو

4 أَجْرَتْ [in its primary sense app. signifies She (a bitch, and any female beast of prey,) whelped; or had a whelp, or whelps: see مُجْرٍ. (Accord. to Golius, as on the authority of J, Cum fœtu abiit vel asportavit eum fera: but I have not found it in any copy of the S, nor in any other lexicon.) b2: And hence,] said of a tree (شَجَرَةٌ), It had upon it [fruits such as are termed] جِرَآء [pl. of جِرْوٌ]; (As, TA;) said [ for instance] of a مَوْزَة [or banana-tree]: (AHn, TA in art. موز:) and [in like manner] said of a herb, or leguminous plant, (بَقْلَةٌ,) it had جِرَآء; (K in art. جرى; [in the CK, erroneously, جَراء;]) belonging to the present art., not to art. جرى. (TA.) جِرْوٌ and جُرْوٌ and جَرْوٌ (of which the first is the most chaste, Msb) The whelp, or young one, of the dog, (S, Msb, K,) [and so, app., ↓ جِرْوَةٌ, q. v.,] and of the lion, (K,) and of any beast of prey: (S, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْرٍ, (S, K,) originally أَجْرُوٌ, (S,) and أَجْرِيَةٌ (Lh, K) and أَجْرَآءٌ (K) and [of mult.] جِرَآءٌ; (S, K;) أَجْرِيَةٌ, as pl. of جرو, being anomalous; (TA;) or it is pl. of جِرَآءٌ [and therefore not anomalous]. (S, TA.) b2: And the same, (K,) or the first of these, (S, El-Bári', Msb, TA,) only, (TA,) (tropical:) The small of anything, (El-Bári', Msb, K, TA,) as also ↓ جِرْوَةٌ; (TA;) even, (K,) of the colocynth, (As, S, K,) and of the melon, and the like; (K;) as, for instance, (TA,) of the pomegranate, (S, TA,) and of the poppy, (AHn, TA in art. عتر,) and of the بَاذَنْجَان, (TA,) and of the cucumber, (S, TA,) as also ↓ جِرْوَةٌ, (S, Msb,) likened to the whelps of dogs, because of their softness and smoothness: (Msb:) or what is round of the fruits of trees; as the colocynth and the like: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أجْرٍ (Msb, K, TA [in the CK, erroneously, اَجْرُؤٌ]) and [of mult.] جِرَآءٌ. (As, Msb, K.) b3: (assumed tropical:) Fruit when it first grows forth, (AHn, K,) in its fresh, juicy, state. (AHn, TA.) b4: (assumed tropical:) The seeds, (M, TA,) or envelope, or receptacle, of the seeds, (K,) of the كَعَابِير [app. meaning the round and compact pericarps (in some of the copies of the K, erroneously, as is observed in the TA, عكابير,)] that are at the heads of branches. (M, K.) b5: (tropical:) A tumour in a camel's hump; and in the withers; so called by way of comparison [to a whelp]: (TA:) and in the fauces. (K.) b6: See also what next follows, last sentence.

جِرْوَةٌ: see جِرْوٌ, in three places. A huntsman beat, or disciplined, or trained, his dog for the purpose of the chase (ضَرَبَهُ عَلَى الصَّيْدِ); and thereupon it was said, ضَرَبَ جِرْوَتَهُ [app. meaning He beat, or disciplined, or trained, his whelp]: and hence this phrase became proverbially used, in instances here following. (Z, TA.) b2: I. q.

نَفْسٌ [as meaning Self]. (TA.) You say, ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ جِرْوَتَهُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He disposed and subjected himself to it; (S, TA;) namely, a thing, an affair, or a case: and he endured it with patience: and in like manner, ضَرَبَ جِرْوَةَ نَفْسِهِ: (TA:) and أَلْقَى فُلَانٌ جرْوَتَهُ he endured the thing with patience. (S, TA.) Also ضَرَبْتُ جِرْوَتِى عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) I endured with patience the want, or loss, of it: (TA:) or my mind became at ease [respecting it]. (AA, IB, TA.) A2: Also (K, TA, [in the CK ↓ جِرْوٌ,]) (tropical:) A short she-camel. (K, TA.) مُجْرٍ and مُجْرِيَةٌ applied to a bitch, (S, K,) and a female beast of prey, (TA,) Having a whelp, or young one: (K:) or having with her her whelps, or young ones. (S.) El-Aalam says, لَحْمِى إِلَى أَجْرٍ حَوَاشِبْ وَتَجُرُّ مُجْرِيَةٌ لَهَا And a hyena having young ones shall drag for her my flesh to young ones with swollen bellies, and short. (Skr p. 57.)

رجو

1 رَجَوْتُهُ, aor. ـْ (S, Msb,) inf. n. رَجْوٌ, (S, M, K,) or رُجُوٌّ, (Msb,) and رَجَآءٌ, (S, K, TA, &c., [in the CK erroneously written with the short ا i. e., without the meddeh and ء,]) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb,) and رَجَاوَةٌ (S, K) and رَجَاةٌ, or رَجَآءَةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) or both, (CK,) and مَرْجَاةٌ; (K;) and ↓ رَجَّيْتُهُ, (S,) inf. n. تَرْجِيَةٌ; (K;) and ↓ تَرَجَّيْتُهُ, (S, K, *) and ↓ اِرْتَجَيْتُهُ; (S, Msb, K; *) I hoped for him [or it; relating only to what is possible; syn. with أَمَلْتُهُ; see رَجَآءٌ, below]; all signify the same: (S:) and رَجَيْتُهُ, aor. ـْ is a dial. var. of رَجَوْتُهُ: (Msb:) and رَجِيَهُ, aor. ـْ like رَضِيَهُ, is a dial. var. of رَجَاهُ, aor. ـْ accord. to Lth: it is disapproved by Az, because heard by him on no other authority than that of Lth; but it is mentioned also by ISd. (TA.) One says, مَا أَتَيْتُكَ إِلَّا رَجَاوَةَ الخَيْرِ [I did not, or have not, come to thee except hoping for that which is good]. (S.) No regard is to be paid to the assertion of Lth, that the saying فَعَلْتُ رَجَاةَ كَذَا [I did a thing hoping for such a thing] is a mistake, and that the correct word is only رَجَآءَ; for رَجَاةٌ occurs in a trad., and in the poetry of the Arabs. (TA.) b2: Sometimes رَجْوٌ, (S,) or رُجُوٌّ, (Msb,) has the meaning of خَوْفٌ; (S, Msb;) because the hoper fears that he may not attain the thing for which he hopes; (Msb;) and so رَجَآءٌ; (T, S;) but only when there is with it a negative particle: (Fr, T, TA:) you say, مَا رَجَوْتُكَ (assumed tropical:) I feared not thee: but you do not say, رَجَوْتُكَ, meaning I feared thee: (TA:) the saying in the Kur [lxxi. 12], مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلّٰهِ وَقَارًا means (assumed tropical:) [What aileth you] that ye will not fear the greatness, or majesty, of God? (S:) or the meaning is, that ye will not hope for God's magnifying of him who serves Him and obeys Him? or that ye will not believe in greatness, or majesty, belonging to God, so that ye may fear disobeying Him? (Bd:) another instance occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, cited in art. خلف, conj. 3: (S:) and ↓ ارتجاهُ, also, signifies (tropical:) he feared him, or it; [but app. only when preceded by a negative particle, as in exs. cited in the TA;] (K, TA;) in which sense it is tropical. (TA.) Accord. to Lth, رَجْوٌ is also syn. with مُبَالَاةٌ; and مَا أَرْجُو means مَا أُبَالِى [I do not care, mind, or heed]: but this is disapproved by Az. (TA.) A2: رَجِىَ He broke off, or ceased, [app. by reason of inability,] from speaking: (K:) or, accord. to Az, he became confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course: or, as Fr says, he desired to speak, and was unable to do so: (TA:) and رُجِىَ عَلَيْهِ, like عُنِىَ, he became unable to speak. (K.) 2 رَجَّوَ see 1, first sentence.4 أَرْجَتْ She (a camel, S, or a pregnant female [of any kind], TA) was, or became, near to bringing forth; (S, K, TA;) so that her bringing forth was hoped for: accord. to Er-Rághib, the proper signification is she made her owner to have hope in himself that her bringing forth was near: (TA:) and أَرْجَأَتْ means the same. (S.) b2: ارجى الصَّيْدَ He failed of getting any game; (K;) [as though he made the game to have hope;] and ارجأهُ signifies the same: (TA:) or so ارجى [alone], and ارجأ [alone]. (K and TA in art. رجأ.) A2: And أَرْجَيْتُهُ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. إِرْجَآءٌ, (K,) I postponed it, put it off, deferred it, or delayed it; (S, Msb, K; *) namely, an affair [&c.]; (S;) as also ارجأتهُ. (S, Msb.) [See the latter verb: and see also an ex. in the Kur vii.108 and xxvi. 35; and the various readings mentioned by Bd in the former instance.]

A3: ارجى البِئْرَ He made a side (رَجًا) to the well. (S, K.) 5 تَرَجَّوَ see 1, first sentence. b2: [In the present day, ترجّى is often used as meaning He besought, entreated, petitioned, or prayed.]8 إِرْتَجَوَ see 1, first sentence: b2: and again in the latter part of the paragraph.

رَجًا The side, (K,) in a general sense: (TA:) or the side of a well, (S, Msb, K,) and of the sky, (Er-Rághib, TA,) and of anything; (S, Msb; *) and ↓ رَجَآءٌ signifies the same: (K:) the side of a well from its top to its bottom; (TA;) and the two sides thereof: which last is also [or properly] the meaning of the dual; which is رَجَوَانِ: (S:) pl. أَرْجَآءٌ. (S, Msb, K.) Hence, in the Kur [lxix. 17], وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَى أَرْجَائِهَا [The angels being at the sides thereof]. (S, TA.) They said, رُمِىَ بِهِ الرَّجَوَانِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He was cast into places of destruction: (S:) or it is said of one who is held in mean estimation: (M, TA:) اِسْتِهْزَآءٌ in the K is a mistake for اُسْتُهِينَ بِهِ, the reading in the M: (TA:) as though the two [opposite] sides of the well were cast at with him. (K.) And one says of him who will not be deceived so as to be turned away from one course to another, لَا تُرْمَى بِهِ الرَّجَوَانِ (assumed tropical:) [lit. The two sides of the well will not be cast at with him]; in allusion to the well's two [opposite] sides' being cast at with the bucket. (Z, TA.) رَجَآءٌ [accord. to most an inf. n., (see 1, in two senses,) but accord. to the Msb a simple subst.,] Hope; syn. أَمَلٌ; (S and M and K in art امل;) contr. of يَأْسٌ; (K;) an opinion requiring the happening of an event in which will be a cause of happiness; (Er-Rághib, TA;) expectation of deriving advantage from an event of which a cause has already occurred: (El-Harállee, TA:) or, as Ibn-El-Kemál says, properly, i. q. أَمَلٌ: and conventionally, the clinging of the heart to the happening of a future loved event: (TA:) or hope, or eager desire, for a thing that may possibly happen; differing from تَمَنٍّ, which relates to what is possible and to what is impossible. (MF, TA.) A2: See also رَجًا.

رَجِيَّةٌ [A thing hoped for]: you say, مَالَى فِى

فُلَانٍ رَجِيَّةٌ There is nothing for me to hope for in such a one. (S.) رَاجٍ [Hoping: b2: and Fearing]. (Msb.) أُرْجِيَّةٌ A thing postponed, put off, deferred, or delayed. (ISd, K.) أُرْجُوَانٌ Redness: (Msb, K:) a certain red dye: (K:) or a certain dye, intensely red: (S:) accord. to A'Obeyd, (S,) what is called نَشَاسْتَج; (S, K;) and he says that the بَهْــرَمَان is inferior to it (دُونَهُ [but this often has the contr. meaning]): it is said also that ارجوان is an arabicized word, from the Pers\. أَرْغَوَان, which means a sort of trees having a red blossom, of the most beautiful kind; and that every colour resembling it is termed ارجوان. (S.) Also Red: (K:) and red garments or clothes. (IAar, K.) And one says أَحْمَرُ

أُرْجُوَانٌ, mentioned by Seer has having an intensive meaning; (M, TA;) in the K, ↓ أَحْمَرُ أُرْجُوَانِىٌّ; but this is wrong; (TA;) i. e. Intensely red. (K, TA.) And قَطِيفَةٌ حَمْرَآءُ أُرْجُوَانٌ [A villous, or nappy, outer, or wrapping, garment, intensely red]: (S, M, A:) but IAth says that the most common practice is to prefix the word ثَوْب or قَطِيفَة to أُرْجُوَان so as to govern the latter in the gen. case; [saying ثَوْبُ أُرْجُوَانٍ or قَطِيفَةُ أُرْجُوَانٍ;] and that the word [ارجوان] is said by some to be Arabic, the ا and ن being augmentative. (TA.) أُرْجُوَانِىٌّ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مُرْجًى Postponed, put off, deferred, or delayed; as also مُرْجَأٌ.] Some read [in the Kur ix. 107]

وَآخَرُونَ مُرْجَوْنَ لِأَمْرِ اللّٰهِ. (S: see مرجأ, in art. رجأ.) مُرْجٍ and مُرْجِيَةٌ and] مُرْجِىءٌ and مُرْجِءَةٌ A female near to bringing forth. (K, * TA.) A2: مُرْجٍ also signifies A man who is one of the people [or sect] called the مُرْجِيَة; (S;) or one of the مُرْجِئَة, mentioned in art. رجأ; as also مُرْجِىءٌ; and so ↓ مُرْجِىٌّ; (K;) or this is [properly speaking] a rel. n. from مُرْجٍ; (S;) and مُرْجِئِىٌّ also; (K;) or rather this is another rel. n., like مُرْجِىٌّ. (IB and TA in art. رجأ, q. v.) مُرْجِى: see what next precedes. You say رَجُلٌ مُرْجِىٌّ [A man of, or belonging to, the sect called the مُرْجِيَة]. (S.)

دست

دَسْتٌ i. q. دَشْتٌ, (K,) A [desert, or such as is termed] صَحْرَآء: an arabicized word [from the Pers\. دَشْتْ]: (Msb, K:) or it is either a dial. var. of دشت or an arabicized word from this latter. (TA.) A2: The upper end of a chamber, which is the most honourable place therein: (A, K, TA:) in this sense an arabicized word [from the Pers\. دَسْتْ]. (K.) b2: Hence, [A place, or seat, of honour: a seat of office: used in these senses in the present day:] used by the later writers to signify a court, or council; syn. دِيوَانٌ: and the court, or council, (مَجْلِس,) of a wezeer or governor. (TA.) b3: A thing against, or upon, which one leans, or stays himself: (Har p. 261:) a pillow, or cushion. (Id. p. 276.) A3: Headship, rule, dominion, government, or superiority. (MF.) A4: A game; a single act of a game or play: pl. دُسُوتٌ. (TA.) You say, الدَّسْتُ لِى The game is mine: and الدَّسْتُ عَلَىَّ The game is against me. (Har p. 130.) And تَمَّ عَلَيْهِ الدَّسْتُ [The game ended, or has ended, against him]: this is said of one who is overcome: the Arabs in the Time of Ignorance used to say so when a man's arrow [in the game called المَيْسِر] was unsuccessful, and he did not attain his desire. (TA.) [In the contrary case, one says, تَمَّ لَهُ الدَّسْتُ The game ended, or has ended, in his favour.] فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ الدَّسْتِ [Such a one is a good player] is said of a skilful chess-player. (A.) And a poet says, تَفَرْزَنُ فِى أُخْرَى الدُّسُوتِ البَيَاذِقُ [The pawns become queens in the ends of the games: تَفَرْزَنَ being for تَتَفَرْزَنَ]. (TA.) b2: [It is also used in the present day to signify A trick of cards.] b3: And An evasion, a shift, a wile, or an artifice; or art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill: (MF, and Har p. 130:) and deceit, delusion, guile, or circumvention. (Har ibid.) A5: Also, (TA,) or دَسْتٌ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ, (Msb, K, TA,) as also دَشْتٌ من الثياب, (TA in art. دشت,) [A suit, or complete set, of clothes;] the clothes which a man wears and which suffice him for his going to and fro in the transaction of his affairs: pl. as above: (Msb:) in this sense, also, an arabicized word [from the Pers\. دَسْتْ]. (K.) El-Hareeree has mentioned together instances of this word in three different senses, in the 23rd Makámeh, where he says, نَاشَد تُّكَ اللّٰهَ أَلَسْتَ الَّذِى أَعَارَهُ الدَّسْتْ فَقُلْتُ لَا وَالَّذِى أَجْلَسَكَ فِى هٰذَا الدَّسْتْ مَا أَنَا بِصَاحِبِ ذٰلِكَ الدَّسْتْ بَلْ أَنْتَ الَّذِى

تَمَّ عَلَيْهِ الدَّسْتْ I conjure thee by God [to tell me], art thou not he who lent him the suit of clothes? And I said, No, by Him who seated thee in this place of honour, I am not the owner of that suit of clothes: but thou art he against whom the game hath ended. (TA.) b2: and دَسْتٌ مِنَ الوَرَقِ, (K,) as also دَشْتٌ من الورق, (TA in art. دشت,) [A quire, or twenty-five sheets folded together, of paper: still used in this sense: pl. as above:] in this sense, also, an arabicized word [from the Pers\. دَسْتْ]. (K.) b3: [دَسْتٌ is also used in the present day in a similar, but more extensive, sense; as signifying A lot, or parcel, of things: of some things, ten; of others, twelve; &c.]

A6: Also an appellation applied, as mentioned by El-Khafájee in the “ Shifá el-Ghaleel,” by the common people of Egypt and of other countries of the East, to A copper cooking-pot: (MF:) [it is still used in this sense; applied in Egypt to a copper cookingpot wide at the bottom, contracted at the mouth, and more contracted a little below the mouth. And دَسْتُ خَشَبٍ is applied to A shallow wooden tub.]

دست: دسْت (اتبع كلما تيسر لي الترتيب الذي في معجم لين لمعاني الكلمة): هذا القسم من الأرائك يكون في صدر الحجرة وهو مجلس الشرف. وقد أطلق على الكتاب اسم كاتب الدست أو موقع الدست لأنهم يجلسون على مصطبة في حضور السلطان في ديوان القضاء حين عرض القضايا وقراءة موجز من صحيفة الدعوى وبيان الطلبات الختامية. انظر لمزيد من التفاصيل مملوك (202: 239) وما يليها.
وتعني كلمة أيضاً العرش أي الكرسي أو الأريكة التي يجلس عليها الملك (مملوك 202: 237).
ودست: بساط، طنفسة. هذا إذا كان دي سلان قد أحسن ترجمة العبارة التي نقلها عن ابن خلكان (3: 126).
ودست: مرادف مجلس بمعنى القاعة التي يلقى فيها الأستاذ دروسه، أو بالأحرى تناقش المسائل الأدبية أو العلمية. ففي كتاب الخطيب (ص30 و): طويل الصمت إلا في دست تعليمه. وفي القلائد (ص59):
فدم هكذا يا فارس الدست والوغى ... لتطعن بالإقلاع فيها وبالقنا
ودست: سلطان، رئاسة، سيادة. انظر مملوك (2، 2: 236). ودست: لعبة، مباراة في اللعب بخاصة مباراة في لعب الشطرنج (ابن الأثير 7: 116، ألف ليلة 1: 375، برسل 1: 246، 12، 140). وأيضاً: دورة مصارعة. ألف ليلة 1: 364، 365).
ودست: رقعة الشطرنج، وقد أطلق كاترمير (مملوك 2، 2: 237) هذا المعنى على كلمة دست التي جاءت في شطر البيت الذي ذكره ابن خلكان (7: 107 طبعة وستنفيلد): وإذا البيادق في الدسوت تفرزفت حيث تعنى بالأحرى لعبة أو مباراة شطرنج، كما هو في الشطر الذي نقله لين.
غير أني أرى أن الكلمة تعني رقعة الشطرنج فيما ما يذكره ابن عبد الملك (ص124 ق): لاعبت الزمان في دست الحدثان فضربني في طرة الحــرمان شاه مات. وكذلك عند المقري (1: 882): وهو شديد الحزن لأن ... الخ وأن بياذيق الجوانب فرزنت ولم يعد رخ الدست بيت بنائه.
ولا بد أن لهذه الكلمة معنى آخر في لعب الشطرنج لأن ما ذكرناه آنفاً لا يتفق مع ما جاء في هذا البيت (ألف ليلة 1: 375).
كأنما الشاه عند الرخ موضعه ... وقد تفقد دستاً بالفرازين
يا دست: اسم لعبة (محيط المحيط).
ودسْت: موكب، حاشية السلطان أو الوزير. (مملوك 2، 2: 236، الفخري ص353)، وكبار الحاشية الذين يصحبون الأمير. (فليشر معجم ص13).
ودست: صحن، وقد أخطأ فليشر حين قال (المعجم ص13) أن الكلمة لا تدل على هذا المعنى، فقد ذكر كاترمير (مملوك 2، 2: 238 - 9) أمثلة عديدة لذلك، ويقول ابن بطوطة (1: 137) أن الصحون تسمى بهذا الاسم في بعلبك. وفي الفخري (ص131): فأكل معه دستاً من الخبز السمبذ. ودست: قدح أو كوب يستعمل للشرب (فليشر معجم ص14، مملوك 2، 2: 239 في التعليق).
ودست: دنين، دن صغير، ودست الغسيل: مركن تغسل فيه الثياب (بوشر).
دَسْنَة: نطلق على عدد من الملاعق دزينة مثلاً (محيط المحيط).
دستة ورق: رزمة أوراق اللعب (بوشر، همبرت ص114).
دَسْتي، يقل دستي (في مخطوطة ب) ويطلق اسم البقول الدستية على البقول البرية كلها وهي التي لا تزرع (ابن البيطار 1: 155).
ويظهر أنها نسبة إلى دست بمعنى صحراء، ودشتي بالفارسية تعني في الحقيقة بري لم يزرع.
وعند ابن العوام (1: 136) قد فسرت دستي بأسباناخ.
دستية، وتجمع على دساتي: مركن تغسل فيه الثياب (معجم الادريسي).

اصل

1 أَصُلَ, (K,) inf. n. أَصَالَةٌ; (TA;) or أَصِلَ; (M;) It (a thing, M) had, or came to have, root, or a foundation; (M, K;) as also ↓ تأصّل: (M:) or it was, or became, firm, or established, and firmly rooted or founded; as also ↓ تأصّل: (K:) and [in like manner] ↓ استأصل it (a thing) was, or became, firm in its root or foundation, and strong. (Msb.) You say, الشَجَرَةُ ↓ اِسْتَأْصَلَتِ The tree [took root; or] grew, and became firm in its root. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] أَصُلَ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. as above, (S, M,) He (a man, S, * M) was, or became, firm, (S, M, K;) or sound, (S,) of judgment; (S, M, K;) intelligent. (M: [and so, probably, in correct copies of the K; but in a MS. copy of the K and in the CK; and TA, instead of عَاقِل, the reading in the M, I find عَاقِب.]) b3: Also, (S, * K,) inf. n. as above, (S, TA,) It (judgment, or opinion,) was, or became, firm, or sound, (S, * TA,) or good. (K.) b4: And, inf. n. as above, It (a thing) was, or became, eminent, noble, or honourable. (Msb.) A2: أَصَلَهُ, [aor. and inf. n. as in what follows next after this sentence,] He hit, or struck, its root, or foundation; that by being which it was what it was, or in being which it consisted; or its ultimate constituent. (A, TA.) b2: And hence, (A, TA,) أَصَلَهُ عِلْمًا, (A, K, TA,) aor. ـُ inf. n. أَصْلٌ: (TA;) or ↓ آصَلَهُ [with medd, (which I think to be a mistake, unless this be a dial. var.,) and without علما]; (so in a copy of the M;) (assumed tropical:) He knew it completely, or thoroughly, or superlatively well, syn. قَتَلَهُ, (K,) [i. e.] قَتَلَهُ عِلْمًا, so that he was acquainted with its أَصْل [or root, or foundation, or its ultimate constituent, as is indicated in the A and TA]: (M:) or this is from أَصَلَةٌ, as meaning “a certain very deadly serpent;” (A, TA;) [whence the phrase,] b3: أَصَلَتْهُ الأَصَلَةُ, (K,) inf. n. أَصْلٌ, (TA,) The [serpent called] اصلة sprang upon him (K, TA) and slew him. (TA.) A3: أَصِلَ, aor. ـَ (M, K,) inf. n. أَصَلٌ, (M,) said of water, i. q. أَسِنَ; (M, K;) i. e. It became altered for the worse (M, TA) in its taste and odour, (TA,) from fetid black mud (K, TA) therein: so says Ibn-'Abbád: (TA:) and said of flesh-meat, it became altered (K, TA) in like manner. (TA.) A4: أَصِلَ فُلَانٌ يَفْعَلُ كَذَا وَ كَذَا Such a one set about, or commenced, doing thus and thus, or such and such things. (TA.) 2 أصلّهُ, inf. n. تَأْصِيلٌ, He made it to have a firm, or fixed, root, or foundation, whereon to build, (Msb, TA,) i. e., whereon another thing might be built. (El-Munáwee, TA.) [Hence,] أصّل مَالَهُ i. q. أَثَّلَهُ [He made his wealth, or property, to have root, or a foundation; or to become firm, or established, and firmly rooted or founded: see, below, أَصْلُ مَالٍ, and مَالٌ لَهُ أَصْلٌ]. (M and K in art. اثل.) b2: أصّل الأُصُولَ [He disposed, arranged, distributed, classified, or set in order, the fundamentals, fundamental articles, principles, elements, or rudiments, of a science, &c.,] is a phrase similar to بَوَّبَ الأَبْوَابَ and رَتَّبَ الرُّتَبَ. (TA.) 4 آصل, (inf. n. إِيصَالٌ, TA,) He entered upon the time called أَصِيل, q. v. (S, M, K.) A2: See also أَصَلَهُ عِلْمًا.5 تأصّل: see 1, first sentence, in two places.10 استأصل: see 1, in two places, first and second sentences.

A2: استأصلهُ He uprooted it; unrooted it; eradicated it; extirpated it; pulled it up, or out, or off, from its root, or foundation, or lowest part, (S, TA,) or with its roots, or foundations, or lowest parts;; (TA;) he cut it off (M, Msb) from its root, or lowest part, (M,) or with its roots, or lowest parts. (Msb.) Yousay, اِسْتَأْصَلَ اللّٰهُ شَأْفَتَهُمْ, a precative phrase, meaning May God [extirpate or] remove (from them) their شأفة; which is an ulcer, or a purulent pustule, that comes forth in the foot, and is cauterized, and in consequence goes away: (M:) or استأصل شأفتهم [in general usage] means he extirpated them, or may he extirpate them; or he cut off, or may he cut off, the last remaining of them. (TA. [See also art. شأف.]) and استأصل القَوْمَ, i. e. قَطَعَ أَصْلَهُمْ [He cut off the root, race, or stock, of the people; i. e. he extirpated them]. (M.) And استأصل اللّٰهُ الكُفَّارَ God destroyed altogether or entirely, or may God destroy altogether or entirely, the unbelievers. (Msb.) And استأصل الخِتَانَ He performed the circumcision so as to remove the prepuce utterly. (TA in art. سحت.) أَصْلٌ The lower, or lowest, part of a thing; [i. e. its root, bottom, or foot;] (M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ يَأْصُولٌ: (M, K:) so of a mountain: and of a wall; (TA;) i. e. its foundation, or base: (Msb:) and of a tree [or plant]; (TA;) i. e. [its stem, or trunk, or stock, or] the part from which the branches are broken off: (TA in art. كسر:) [and also its root, or foot; for] the سَاق of a tree is said to be the part between its أَصْل and the place where its branches shoot out: (TA in art. سوق:) [and a stump of a tree: and hence, a block of wood: (see exs. voce نَقِيرٌ:)] pl. أُصُولٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and [pl. of pauc.] آصُلٌ: (AHn, K:) [ISd says that] the former is its only pl.: (M:) [but] the latter pl. occurs in a verse of Lebeed, (which see below,) as cited by AHn. (TA.) You say, قَعَدَ فِى أَصْلِ جَبَلِ He sat upon, or at, the lowest part [&c.] of the mountain; and فِى أَصْلِ الحَائِطِ at the lowest part [&c.] of the wall. (TA.) And قَلَعَهُ مِنْ أَصْلِهِ [He pulled it up, or out, or off, from its root, or foundation, or lowest part]; and بأُصُولِهِ [with its roots, or foundations, or lowest parts; both meaning, utterly, entirely, or altogether]. (TA in explanation of استأصلهُ, q. v.) And قَلَعَ أَصْلَ الشَّجَرَةِ He pulled up, or out, the lowest part, [or stem or stock or root or foot or stump,] of the tree. (TA.) Lebeed says, [of a wild cow,] تَجْتَافُ آصُلَ قَالِصٍ مُتَنَبِّذٍ
بِعُجُوبِ أَنْقَآءٍ يَمِيلُ هَيَامُهَا [She enters into the midst of the stems of trees with high branches, apart from others, i. e. from other trees, in the hinder parts of sand-hills, the fine loose sand thereof inclining upon her]: (AHn, TA:) but as some relate it, أَصْلًا قَالِصًا. (TA. [See EM, p. 161.]) b2: A thing upon which another thing is built or founded [either properly or tropically]: (KT, Kull p. 50, TA:) the foundation, or basis, of a thing, [either properly or tropically,] which being imagined to be taken away, or abstracted, by its being taken away, or abstracted, the rest thereof becomes also taken away, or abstracted: (Er-Rághib, TA:) that upon which the existence of anything rests [or depends]; so the father is اصل to the offspring, and the river is اصل to the streamlet that branches off from it: (Msb:) or a thing upon which another thing depends as a branch; as the father in relation to the son: (Kull:) [i. e. the origin, source, beginning, or commencement, of a thing: the origin, original, root, race, or stock, from which a man springs. Hence شَىْءٌ لَهُ أَصْلٌ A thing having root, or a foundation; and consequently, having rootedness, fixedness, im-mobility, stability, or permanence; rooted, fixed, immoveable, stable, or permanent. Whence,] مَالٌ لَهُ أَصْلٌ, (Mgh voce عَقَارٌ,) and مِلْكٌ ثَابِتٌ لَهُ أَصْلٌ, (Msb in explanation of that word,) and مَا لَهُ أَصْلٌ, (KT in explanation of the same,) [Real, or immoveable, property;] property such as consists in a house or land yielding a revenue; (Mgh;) or such as a house and palm-trees; (Msb;) or such as land and a house. (KT.) [Hence, also, أَصْلٌ مَالٍ signifying A source of wealth or profit; a stock, fund, capital, or principal. You say,] اِتَّخَذْتُهُ لِنَفْسِى أَصْلَ مَالٍلِلنَّسْلِ لَا لِلِتِّجَارَةِ [I took it for myself as a source of wealth or profit, for breeding, not for traffic]. (Mgh in art. قنو.) You say also, بَاعَ أَصْلَ أَرْضِهِ [meaning He sold the fundamental property, i. e. the property itself, of his land]. (S voce عِكْرٌ.) [See also an ex. in conjugation 4 in art. بقَى: and another in the first paragraph of art. حبس.] And أَخَذَهُ بِأَصْلِهِ [He took it as it were with its root, or the like; meaning, entirely]. (K. [See أَصِيلَةٌ.]) and قَطَعَ أَصْلَهُمْ [He cut off their root, race, or stock; i. e. he extirpated them]. (M.) and فُلَانٌ فِى أَصْلِ صِدْقِ, (S and L in art. ضنأ,) and فِى أَصْلِ سُوْءٍ, (L ibid.,) Such a one is of an excel-lent origin, or race, or stock, (S, L,) and of a bad origin, or race, or stock; (L;) اصل being here syn. with ضِنْء (S, L) and مَعْدِن. (S.) and فُلَانٌ فِى أَصْلِ الكَرَمِ Such a one is of [a race] the source of generosity, or nobleness; اصل being here syn. with بُؤْبُؤ. (S in art. بأ.) And لَا أَصْلَ لَهُ وَ لَا فَصْلَ He has no حَسَب [i. e. grounds of pretension to respect or honour; or rank, or nobility, or the like]; nor tongue [i. e. eloquence]: (Ks, S, O, Msb:) or he has no intellect, (IAar, Msb, El-Munáwee,) nor eloquence: (El-Munáwee, TA:) or he has no lineage, nor tongue: (L:) or he has no father, nor child: (Kull p. 53:) [or he has no known stock nor branch; for] فَصْلٌ is the contr. of أَصْلٌ, and in relationship signifies a branch. (Msb in art. فصل.) You say also, مَا فَعَلْتُهُ أَصْلًا, meaning I have not done it ever; and I will not do it ever; the last word being in the accus. case as an adverbial noun; i. e. I have not done it at any time; and I will not do it at any time. (Msb, El-Munáwee, TA.) b3: [It also signifies The original, or elemental, matter, material, substance, or part, of a thing; syn. with عُنْصُرٌ;] that from which a thing is taken [or made]. (KT voce دَاخِلٌ.) b4: [The fundamental, or essential, part of a thing. Hence, sing. of أُصُولٌ as signifying The fundamentals, fundamental articles or dogmas, principles, elements, or rudiments, of a science &c. Whence,] عِلْمُ الأُصُولِ, (TA,) [meaning] عِلْمُ

أُصُولِ الدِّينِ [The science of the fundamentals, fundamental articles or dogmas, or principles, of religion; the science of theology, or divinity; according to the system of the Muslims, as distinguished from that of the philosophers;] the science of the articles, or tenets, of belief; also called الفِقْهُ الأَكْبَرُ; (Kull. voce فِقْه;) and [more commonly] عِلْمُ الكَلَامِ. (Hájjee Khaleefeh.) [See also 2.] b5: A radical (as opposed to an augmentative) letter; as being an essential element of a word. (The Lexicons passim.) b6: The original form of a word. (The same passim.) b7: The original, or primary, signification of a word. (The same passim.) b8: An original copy of a book: and a copy of a book from which one quotes, or transcribes, any portion. (TA, &c., passim.) b9: [The original, or primary, state, or condition: or] the old state, or condition. (Kull p. 50.) You say, الأَصْلُ فِى الأَشْيَآءِ الإِبَاحَةُ وَ الطَّهَارَةُ The old state, or condition, of things is that of being allowable, or lawful, and that of being pure, or clean. (Kull ubi suprà.) And رَجَعَتْ إِلَى أَصْلِهَا She returned, or reverted, [to her original, or old, state, or condition; or to her natural disposition;] to a natural disposition which she had relinquished. (S voce عِتْرٌ.) b10: [The utmost point, or degree, to which a person, or thing, can go, or be brought or reduced: and, app., the utmost that one can do. Hence the saying,] لَأَضْطَرَّنَّكَ إِلَى أَصْلِكَ [I will assuredly impel thee, or drive thee, against thy will, to the utmost point to which thou canst go, or be brought or reduced: or, constrain thee to do thine utmost]. (IAar in L, art. قح [where it is given in explanation of the phrases لَأَضْطَرَّنَّكَ and قُحَاحِكَ; and so in the T in art. تر in explanation of the former of these two phrases; which is said in the M, in art. تر, to mean I will assuredly make thee to have recourse to thine utmost effort, or endeavour; and in the L in art. قح this is given as another explanation of the latter of the same two phrases. See also the saying, لَأُلْجِئَنَّكَ إِلَى قُرِّ قَرَارِكَ, explained voce قَرَارٌ.]) b11: [That by being which a thing is what it is, or in being which it consists; or its ultimate constituent; syn. حَقِيقَةٌ; a meaning well known; and indicated, in the A and TA, by the coupling of حَقِيقَة with أَصْل, evidently as an explicative adjunct.] b12: [The prime of a thing; the principal, purest, best, or choicest, part thereof; what is, or constitutes, the most essential part thereof; its very essence. Hence,] أَصْلُ دَارٍ [The principal part of a country]; (As, S, Msb, K, voce عَقْرٌ;) [which is] the place where the people dwell, or abide. (As and S ibid. [See عَقْرٌ.]) And أَصْلٌ قَوْمٍ [The principal place of abode of a people]. (S and K voce بَيْضَةٌ. [See this word.]) and هُوَ فِى أَصْلِ قَوْمِهِ He is of the prime, or of the purest in race, the best, or the choicest, of his people; i. q. صُيَّابَتِهِمْ, and صُيَّابِهِمْ. (TA in art. صيب.) b13: What is most fit, or proper: as when one says, الأَصْلُ فِى الإِنْسَانِ العِلْمُ [What is most fit, or proper, in man, is knowledge]; i. e., knowledge is more fit, or proper, than ignorance: and الأَصْلُ فِى المُبْتَدَإِ التَّقْدِيمُ What is [most] fit, or proper, in the case of the inchoative, is the putting [it] before [the enunciative], whenever there is no obstacle. (Kull p.50.) b14: What is preponderant in relation to what is preponderated: as, in language, the word used in its proper sense [in relation to that used in a tropical sense]. (Kull ibid.) b15: What is [essential, or] requisite, or needful: as when one says الأَصْلُ فِى الحَيَوَانِ الغِذَآءُ [What is essential, or requisite, or needful, in the case of the animal, is food]. (Kull ibid.) b16: A [primary, or] universal, or general, rule, or canon. (Kull ibid.) b17: An indication, an evidence, or a proof, in relation to that which is indicated, or evidenced, or proved. (Kull ibid.) أَصَلٌ: see its n. un., أَصَلَةٌ

أَصِلٌ, (K,) or ↓ أَصِيلٌ, (M,) i. q. ↓ مُسْتَأْصِلٌ. (M, K.) You say قَلْعٌ أَصِلٌ Eradicating, or extirpating, evulsion: (TA:) or ↓ قَطْعٌ أَصِيلٌ extirpating excision. (M.) أُصُلٌ, said by some to be a pl., and by others to be a dial. var., of أَصِيلٌ: see the latter word, in two places.

أَصَلَةٌ: see أَصِيلَةٌ.

A2: Also A kind of serpent, the most malignant, or noxious, of serpents: (S:) or a serpent, (M, K,) short, (M, [where, in the only copy to which I have access, I find added, كَالرِئَةِ, app. a mistranscription, for كَالرُّمَّةِ, like the fragment of a rope,]) or small, (K,) red, but not intensely red, (M,) very deadly, of the most malignant, or noxious, kind, (TA,) having one leg, upon which it stands, (M, TA,) then turns round, then springs, (TA,) that springs upon a man, and blows, killing everything upon which it blows: (M:) or, as some say, a great serpent, (M, K,) that kills by its blowing: (K:) or one of the very crafty kinds of serpents, short and broad, said to be like the shaft of an arrow, and it springs upon the horseman: (Msb:) pl. ↓ أَصَلٌ, (S, M. Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [pl. of pauc.] آصَالٌ. (Msb.) b2: [Hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) Short and broad: applied to a man and to a woman. (TA.) أَصْلِىٌّ [Radical; fundamental; primitive; original; underived: an epithet of extensive application; and particularly applied to a letter of a word, as opposed to augmentative; and to a signification]. (The Lexicons &c. passim.) أَصْلِيَّةٌ [The quality denoted by the epithet أَصْلِىٌّ; radicalness, &c.:] a term used by IJ [and others] in the place of تَأَصُّلٌ: see 5. (M.) أَصِيلٌ [Having root, or a foundation; and consequently, having rootedness, fixedness, immobility, stability, or permanence; rooted, fixed, immoveable, stable, or permanent]. You say, إِنَّ النَّخْلَ فِى أَرْضِنَا لَأَصِيلٌ Verily the palm-trees in our land remain permanently, not perishing. (A, TA.) b2: A man having أَصْل, (K, TA,) i. e., lincage, or pedigree: (TA:) or established in his أَصْل: (Abu-l-BaKà, TA:) or noble, or generous. (Msb.) b3: A man firm of judgment, and intelligent. (M, K.* [Accord. to the copies of the latter, the signification is عَاقِبٌ ثَابِتُ الرَّأْىِ: but I think that the right reading of the first word is عَاقِلٌ, as in the M, in which this word occupies the last place in the explanation.]) And أَصِيلُ الرَّأْىِ A man firm, or sound, of judgment. (S.) and رَأْىٌ أَصِيلٌ Judgment having أَصْل [i. e. firmness]. (M.) And مَجْدٌ أَصِيلٌ Glory, honour, dignity, or nobility, having a firm root or foundation. (S.) And شَرٌّ أَصِيلٌ Vehement evil or mischief. (Ibn-'Abbád.) A2: See also أَصِلٌ, in two places. b2: [Hence, app.,] الأَصِيلُ Destruction: and death: as also, in both senses, ↓ الأَصِيلَةُ. (K.) A3: [The evening; or] i. q. عَشِىٌّ; (M, K, Msb, TA;) i. e. (Msb, TA) the time from the عَصْر, (S, TA,) from the prayer of the عصر, (Msb,) to sunset; (Sudot;, Msb, TA;) as also ↓ أَصِيلَةٌ: (R, TA:) the pl. is أُصُلٌ, (S, M, R, Msb, K,) or ↓ this is a sing., (TA,) or it may be a sing., (M,) for it is used as such, (M, TA,) and أُصْلَانٌ, (S, M, K,) and آصَالٌ, (S, M, Sgh, K,) [a pl. of pauc.,] or, accord. to Es-Saláh Es-Safadee, this is a pl. of أُصُلٌ, the sing., not the pl., (TA,) or it is pl. of أُصُلٌ, (Zj, M,) which may be a pl. or a sing., (M,) and أَصَائِلُ, (S, M, K,) as though pl. of أَصِيلَةٌ, (S,) or it is pl. of this last word. (R, TA.) You say, لَقِيتُهُ أَصِيلًا and ↓ أُصُلًا, i. e. [I met him in the evening,] عَشِيًّا. (A, TA.) From the pl. أُصْلَانُ is formed the dim.

↓ أُصَيْلَانٌ, (S, M, K,) which is extr., (M, K,) because the dim. of a pl. is [regularly] formed only from a pl. of pauc., which اصلان is not; or, if اصلان be a sing., like رُمَّانٌ and قُرْبَانٌ, this dim. is regular: (M:) sometimes, (K,) one says also ↓ أُصَيْلَالٌ, (S, M, K,) substituting ل for the [final] ن (S, M.*) You say, ↓لَقِيتُهُ أُصَيْلَانًا and ↓ أُصَيْلَالًا, meaning, as above, عَشِيًّا: (A, TA:) and Lh mentions ↓ لقيته أُصَيَّالًا. (So in two copies of the S.) أَصيلَةٌ A man's whole property: (M, K:) or his palm-trees: (K, TA: in the CK his palmtree:) thus in the dial. of El-Hijáz. (O, TA.) b2: أَخَذَهُ بِأَصِيلَتِهِ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ بِأَصَلَتِهِ, (IAar, M, K,) He took it altogether, (S, M, K,) [as it were] with its root, (S, M,) not leaving aught of it. (TA.) And جَاؤُوا بِأَصِيلَتِهِمْ They came altogether; the whole of them. (S, Z.) A2: لِفُلَانٍ أَرْضٌ أَصِيلَةٌ To such a one belongs land long possessed, or inherited from his parents, by means of which he has his living: a phrase of the people of Et-Táïf. (TA.) A3: See also أَصِيلٌ, in two places.

أُصُولِى One skilled in the science termed عِلْمٌ الأُصُولِ: see أَصْلٌ. (TA.) لَقِيتُهُ أُصَيَّالًا: see أَصِيلٌ, last sentence.

أُصَيْلَانٌ and أُصَيلَالٌ: see أَصِيلٌ, in four places, last two sentences.

لَقِيتُهُ مُؤْصِلًا I met him entering upon the time called the أَصِيل. (TA.) And أَتَيْنَا مُؤْصِلِينَ We came entering upon the time so called. (S.) أَصْلٌ مُؤَصَّلٌ [ A root, or foundation, or the like, made firm, or fixed, or established]. (S.) [See also أَصِيلٌ.]

شَاةٌ مُسْتَأْصَلَةٌ A sheep, or goat, whose horn has been taken from its root. (TA.) مُسْتَأْصِلٌ: see أَصِلٌ.

يَأْصُولٌ: see أَصْلٌ, first sentence.

القُفْسُ:
بالضم ثم السكون، والسين المهملة، وأكثر ما يتلفّظ به غير أهله بالصاد، وهو اسم عجميّ، وهو بالعربية جمع أقفس، وهو اللئيم مثل أشهل وشهل، قال الليث: القفس جيل بكــرمان في حيالها كالأكراد يقال لهم القفس والبلوص، قال الراجز يذكره والمشتقّ منه:
وكم قطعنا من عدوّ شرس ... زطّ وأكراد وقفس قفس
قال الرّهني: القفس جبل من جبال كــرمان مما يلي البحر وسكانه من اليمانية ثم من الأزد بن الغوث ثم من ولد سليمة بن مالك بن فهم، وولده لم يكونوا في جزيرة العرب على دين العرب للاعتراف بالمعاد والإقرار بالبعث ولا كانوا مع ذلك على دينهم في عبادة طواغيتهم التي كانوا يعبدونها من الأوثان والأصنام ثم انتقلوا إلى عبادة النيران فلم يعبدوها أيضا عندهم وفي قدرتهم، ثم فتحت كــرمان على عهد عثمان بن عفان، رضي الله عنه، فلم يظهر لأحد منهم من ذلك الزمان إلى هذا الزمان ما يوجب لهم اسم نحلة وعقد ولا اسم ذمة وعهد، ولم يكن في جبالهم التي هي مأواهم بيت نار ولا فهر يهود ولا بيعة نصارى ولا مصلّى مسلم إلا ما عساه بناه في جبالهم الغزاة لهم، وأخبرني مخبر أنه أخرج من جبالهم الأصنام الكثيرة ولم أتحققه، قال الرّهني: وإني وجدت الرحمة في الإنسان وإن تفاوت أهلها فيها فليس أحد منهم يعرى من شيء منها فكأنها خارجة من الحدود التي يميز بها الإنسان من جميع الحيوان كالعقل والنطق اللذين جعلا سببا للأمر والزجر ولأن الرحمة وإن كانت من نتائج قلب ذي الرحمة ولذلك في هذه الخلة التي كأنها في الإنسان صفة لازمة كالضحك فلم أجد في القفس منها قليلا ولا كثيرا، فلو أخرجناهم بذلك عن حد من حدود الإنسان لكان جائزا ولو جعلناهم من جنس ما يصاد ويرمى لا من جنس ما يغزى ويدعى ويؤمر وينهى إذا ما كان على ما بان لنا وظهر وانكشف وشهر أنه لم يصلح إلى سياسة سائس ولا دعوة داع وهداية هاد ولم يعلق بقلوبهم ما يعلق بقلوب من هو مختار للخير والشر والإيمان والكفر كأن السبع الذي يقتل في الحرم والحلّ وفي السرق والأمن ولا يستبقى للاستصلاح
والاستحياء للإصلاح أشبه منه بالإنسان الذي يرجى منه الارعواء عن الجهالة والنزوع من البطالة والانتقال من حالة إلى حالة، قال: وولد مالك بن فهم ثمانية:
فراهيد والخمام والهناءة ونوى والحارث ومعن وسليمة وجذيمة الأبرش بنو مالك بن فهم بن غنم بن دوس بن عدثان بن عبد الله بن زهران بن كعب بن الحارث بن كعب بن عبد الله بن مالك بن نصر بن الأزد، قال:
والمتمرد من ولد عمرو بن عامر بوادي سبا هو جد القفس، وذلك أن سليمة بن مالك هو قاتل أبيه مالك بن فهم وهو الفار من إخوته بولده وأهله من ساحل العرب إلى ساحل العجم مما يلي مكران والقاطن بعد في تلك الجبال، قال الرّهني: وأردنا بذكر هذه الأمور التي بينّاها من القفس لندل على أنهم لم يكن لهم قط في جاهلية ولا إسلام ديانة يعتمدونها، وليعلم الناس أنهم مع هذه الأحوال يعظمون من بين جميع الناس عليّ بن أبي طالب، رضي الله عنه، لا لعقد ديانة ولكن لأمر غلب على فطرتهم من تعظيم قدره واستبشارهم عند وصفه، قال البشاري: الجبال المذكورة بكــرمان جبال القفص والبلوص والقارن ومعدن الفضة، وجبال القفص شمالي البحر من خلفها جروم جيرفت والروذبار وشرقيها الاخواس ومفازة بين القفص ومكران وغربيها البلوص ونواحي هرمز، ويقال إنها سبعة أجبل وإن بها نخلا كثيرا وخصبا ومزارع وإنها منيعة جدّا والغالب عليهم النحافة والسمرة وتمام الخلقة يزعمون أنهم عرب، وهم مفسدون في الأرض، وبين أقاليم الأعاجم مفازة وجبال ليس بها نهر يجري ولا رستاق ولا مدينة مشهورة يسكنها الذّعّار صعبة المسلك، وفيها طرق تسلك من بعض النواحي إلى بعض فلذلك قد عمل فيها حياض ومصانع أكثرها من خراسان وبعضها من كــرمان وفارس والجبال والسند وسجستان، والذعّار بها كثير لأنهم إذا قطعوا في عمل هربوا إلى الآخر وكمنوا في كركس كوه وسياه كوه حيث لا يقدر عليهم وليس بها من المدن المعروفة إلا سفند، وهي من حدود سجستان، ويحيط بهذه الجبال والمفاوز الموحشة من المدن المعروفة من كــرمان خبيص ونرماسير، ومن فارس يزد وزرند، ومن أصبهان إلى أردستان والجبال قمّ وقاشان، ومن قوهستان طبس وقائن، ومن قومس بيار، قال: ومثلها مثل البحر كيف ما شئت فسر إذا عرفت السمت لأن طرقها مشتهرة مطروقة، قال: وقد خرجنا من طبس نريد فارس فمكثنا فيها سبعين يوما نعدل من ناحية إلى ناحية نقع مرة في طريق كــرمان وتارة نقرب من أصبهان فرأيت من الطرق والمعارج ما لا أحصيه، وفي هذه الجبال صرود وجروم ونخيل وزروع، ورأيت أسهلها وأعمرها طريق الرّيّ وأصعبها طريق فارس وأقربها طريق كــرمانــ، وكلها مخيفة من قوم يقال لهم القفص يسيرون إليها من جبال لهم بكــرمانــ، وهم قوم لا خلاق لهم وجوههم وحشة وقلوبهم قاسية وفيهم بأس وجلادة لا يبقون على أحد ولا يقنعون بأخذ المال وإنما يقتلون صاحبه، وكل من ظفروا به قتلوه بالأحجار كما تقتل الحيات، يمسكون رأس الرجل ويضعونه على بلاطة ويضربونه بالحجارة حتى يتفدّغ، وسألتهم: لم تفعلون ذلك؟ فقالوا: حتى لا تفسد سيوفنا، فلا يفلت منهم أحد إلا نادرا، ولهم مكامن وجبال يمتنعون بها، وقتالهم بالنشاب ومعهم سيوف، وكان البلوص شرّا منهم فتتبعهم عضد الدولة حتى أفناهم وصمد لهؤلاء فقتل منهم كثيرا وشرّدهم ولا يزال أبدا عند المتملك على فارس رهائن منهم كلما ذهب قوم استعاد قوما، وهم أصبر خلق الله على
الجوع والعطش وأكثر زادهم شيء يتخذونه من النّبق ويجعلونه مثل الجوز يتقوتون به، ويدّعون الإسلام وهم أشد على المسلمين من الروم والترك، ومن رسمهم أنهم إذا أسروا رجلا حملوه على العدو معهم عشرين فرسخا حافي القدم جائع الكبد، وهم مع ذلك رجّالة لا رغبة لهم في الدواب والركوب وربما ركبوا الجمّازات، وحدثني رجل من أهل القرآن وقع في أيديهم قال: أخذوا مرة فيما أخذوا من المسلمين كتبا فطلبوا في الأسارى رجلا يقرأ لهم فقلت أنا، فحملوني إلى رئيسهم فلما قرأت الكتب قرّبني وجعل يسألني عن أشياء إلى أن قال لي: ما تقول فيما نحن فيه من قطع الطريق وقتل النفس؟ فقلت: من فعل ذلك استوجب من الله المقت والعذاب الأليم في الآخرة، فتنفس نفسا عاليا وانقلب إلى الأرض واصفرّ وجهه ثم أعتقني مع جماعة، وسمعت بعض التجار يقول:
إنهم إنما يستحلون أخذ ما يأخذونه بتأويل أنها أموال غير مزكاة وأنهم محتاجون إليه فأخذها واجب عليهم وحقّ لهم.