ظر

1 ظَرَّ He cut [or split off] a مِظَرَّة [i. e. a fragment of hard stone, with a sharp edge, to be used as a knife]. (Lth, T, M, K. [In some copies of the K, مَظرّة; and in one place, in a copy of the M, مَظِرّة: but correctly مِظَرَّة, as is said in the TA.]) This the pastor does for the purpose of cutting off therewith a thing resembling a wart within the belly of a she-camel, (Lth, T, M,) at the orifice of the womb, when she is affected by a disease occasioned by lusting for the male. (Lth, TA.) b2: And He slaughtered a she-camel, (K, TA,) or, as in the “ Tekmileh,” an animal, with the [stone called] ظُرَر. (TA.) 4 أَظِرِّى فَإِنَّكِ نَاعِلَةُ (M, K) is a prov., meaning Tread thou upon the ظُرَر [for thou art furnished with leathern shoes or sandals]: (M:) but the phrase commonly known is with the unpointed ط [i. e. أَطِرِّى: see 4 in art. طر]. (M, K.) ظِرٌّ: see the next paragraph.

ظُرَرٌ A sharp-edged hard stone: (As, T, Mgh, TA:) a stone having an edge like that of the knife: (S:) or a [kind of] smooth and broad stone which a man breaks and with which he slaughters a camel; (ISh, T, Mgh, * TA;) and it is of any colour; and is also thus called before it is broken: (ISh, T, TA:) and the n. un. is ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ: (T:) or, as also ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ and ↓ ظِرٌّ, a stone, (M, K,) in a general sense: (M:) or a round stone: (TA:) or a round sharp-edged stone: (M, K:) or a piece of stone having a sharp edge: (M:) the pl. is ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّانٌ; (As, T, S, Mgh;) or the pl. is ظِرَّانٌ and ظُرَّانٌ; (Th, M, and so in the K accord. to the TA; [in the CK ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّارٌ;]) and Th says that the former of these is pl. of ظُرَرٌ, or both may be pls. of ظِرٌّ; (M;) and another pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ, (T, TA,) [a pl. of pauc.,] occurring in a trad.; (TA;) or, accord. to ISh, ↓ ظِرَارٌ [mentioned above as a pl.] is a sing., and أَظِرَّةٌ is its pl.: (Mgh:) and ↓ أُظْرُورٌ and ↓ ظُرْظُورٌ and ↓ مُظْرُورٌ, of which last the pl. is مَظَارِيرُ, (Sgh, K, TA,) and all of which are with damm, thus in the handwriting of Sgh, (TA,) signify the same [as ظُرَرٌ &c.]. (Sgh, K, TA.) ظُرَرَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

ظِرَارٌ: see ظُرَرٌ: and see also مِظَرَّةٌ.

ظَرِيرٌ: see مَظَرَّةٌ. b2: Also A sign set up whereby one is guided to the right way: pl. أَظِرَّةٌ (M, K) and ظُرَّانٌ: (TA, and so in the CK: [in some copies of the K ظِرَارٌ, which is said in the TA to be wrong:]) أَظِرَّةٌ signifies signs set up whereby one is guided to the right way, like the امرّة [thus in a copy of the T, a mistranscription for أَمَرَة]; some of which are extended and hard, and millstones are made from them. (T.) ظِرَارَةٌ: see مِظَرَّةٌ.

ظُرْظُورٌ: see ظُرَرٌ.

أُظْرُورٌ: see ظُرَرٌ.

أَرْضٌ مَظَرَّةٌ, (S, M, K,) thought to be thus by AAF; (M;) or مَظِرَّةٌ, (T, M,) with kesr to the ظ, accord. to Th; (M;) Land containing, (T, S,) or abounding with, (K,) stones of the kind called ظُرَر: (T, S, K:) or stony land: (Th, M:) and ↓ ظَرِيرٌ also has the former meaning: (K:) or this latter is an epithet applied to a place as meaning rugged, or rugged and hard: (S:) or meaning a place abounding with stones: (M:) and its pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ and ظُرَّانٌ. (S.) b2: See also the next paragraph.

مِظَرَّةٌ A stone with which one strikes fire. (TS, K.) b2: And also, (TS, TA,) or, accord. to the K, with fet-h, [i. e. ↓ مَظَرَّةٌ,] but this requires consideration, (TA,) Fragments [or a fragment, agreeably with an explanation in the Mgh, in my copy of which مَظِرَّةٌ is erroneously put for مِظَرَّةٌ,] of sharp-edged stone: (TS, K, TA:) pl. مَظَارٌّ: (TS, TA:) or مِظَرَّةٌ signifies a piece split off from ظِرَّان [pl. of ظُرَرٌ or ظِرٌّ], (Sh, TA,) or [simply] a stone, (M, TA,) with which one cuts: (Sh, M, TA:) as also ↓ ظِرَارٌ, (M,) or ↓ ظِرَارَةٌ. (TA.) مُظْرُورٌ: see ظُرَرٌ.

رد

1 رَدَّهُ, (S, M, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. ـَ (S, M, L,) inf. n. رَدٌّ (S, M, Msb, K, &c.) and مَرَدٌّ (S, M, L, K) and مَرْدُودٌ, (S, L, K,) this last an inf. n. like مَحْلُوفٌ and مَعْقُولٌ, (S, L,) and رِدَّةٌ (S [there said to be an inf. n., like رَدٌّ of رَدَّهُ, aor. ـُ and رِدِّيدَى, (S, L, K, [but in the S and L merely said to be syn. with رَدٌّ,]) an intensive form, (Mgh, TA,) and تَرْدَادٌ, which is [also] an intensive or a frequentative inf. n. of رَدَّهُ, (Sb, M, L,) and likewise an inf. n. of ردّدهُ; (Sb, S, M, L;) and ↓ ارتدّهُ; (M, L;) He made, or caused, him, or it, to return, go back, come back, or revert; sent, turned, or put, him, or it, back, or away; returned, rejected, repelled, or averted, him, or it; syn. رَجَعَهُ, (S, M, L, Msb,) and صَرَفَهُ, (S, M, L, K) and دَفَعَهُ; (Msb in art. دفع, &c.;) عَنْ وَجْهِهِ [from his, or its, course]. (S, M.) Hence, in the Kur [xxx. 42 and xlii. 46], يَوْمٌ لَا مَرَدَّ لَهُ [A day which there shall be no repelling, or averting], meaning the day of resurrection. (Th, M, L.) One says, أَمْرُ اللّٰهِ لَا مَرَدَّ لَهُ The command of God, there is no repelling, or averting it. (L.) and لَيْسَ لِأَمْرِ اللّٰهِ مَرْدُودٌ i. e. رَدٌّ [There is no repelling, or averting, the command of God.] (A.) and رَدَّهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ He made him to return or revert, or turned him back or away, with gentleness, from the thing, or affair; as also لَدَّهُ. (T, L.) b2: Accord. to some, رَدَّ is made doubly trans. with إِلَى to the second objective complement when honour is intended to be shown, and with عَلَى

when dishonour is intended; and they adduce as evidence of the correctness of their assertion the sayings in the Kur [xxviii. 12] فَرَدَدْنَاهُ إِلَى أُمِّهِ [So we returned, or restored, him to his mother] and [iii. 142] يَرُدُّوكُمْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ [They will turn you back, or cause you to return, to your former condition]: but instances may be found at variance with this assertion. (MF.) [Such instances are of frequent occurrence; though in others, the distinction pointed out above is observed, as may be seen in what here follows.] You say, رَدَّهُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ He sent him back to his abode. (S, L, Msb.) and رَدَّ إِلَيْهِ جَوَابًا He returned, or rendered, to him a reply, or an answer; (S, A, * L, Msb;) he sent to him a reply, or an answer. (Msb.) and رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ He replied to him, or answered him, in an absolute sense; (L;) and also, by way of refutation or objection, i. e. he replied against him; فَقَالَ and said, or بِقَوْلِهِ by his saying. (TA &c., passim.) And رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ He returned to him the salutation. (The Trads. &c., passim.) And رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ الوَدِيعَةَ He returned, rendered, restored, or sent [back], to him the deposite; (Msb;) and المَنِيحَةَ [the she-camel, or sheep, or goat, lent to him for him to milk her]. (S in art. منح.) and رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ الشَّىْءَ, (S, Mgh, L, K,) inf. n. رَدٌّ and مَرَدٌّ, (Mgh,) He rejected the thing, (such as a gift, A, and bad money, L,) refusing to receive it, or accept it, from him; [as though he cast it back at him;] and so الشَّىْءَ ↓ رَادَّهُ. (S, L, K. *) and in like manner, He rejected the thing in reply to him, charging him with error in respect of it. (S, L, K.) And رَدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ قَوْلَهُ [I rebutted, rejected, or repudiated, in reply to him, his saying, charging him with error therein; I refused him my assent to it]. (A, Msb.) [And رَدَدْتُ قَوْلَهُ I rebutted, rejected, or repudiated, in reply, or replication, his saying, as wrong, or erroneous; refuted it, or refelled it; refused assent to it; controverted it, or contradicted it. And رَدَّ الأَمْرَ He refused assent, or consent, to the thing, or affair. And رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرَ He refused him his assent, or consent, to the thing, or affair.] and رَدَّ السَّائِلَ He turned back, or away, the beggar, or asker, from the object of his want: (A:) [he rebuffed him:] or he sent away, or dismissed, the beggar, or asker, either with refusal or with a gift: occurring in trads. with both of these meanings. (L.) b3: رَدَّ البَابَ He shut, or closed, the door. (Mgh. [See مَرْدُودٌ.]) b4: [رَدَّ يَدَهُ إِلَى سَيْفِهِ is a phrase of frequent occurrence, meaning He put back his hand to his sword; it being hung behind him: (see 4 in art. خلف:) and hence, simply, he put his hand to his sword.] فَرَدُّوا

أَيْدِيَهُمْ فِى أَفْوَاهِهِمْ, in the Kur xiv. 10, means And they put their hands to their mouths by reason of vehement anger or wrath or rage. (Jel.) b5: رَدَّهُ فِى أَمْرٍ [He made him to enter again into an affair, or a state]. (ISh, TA in art. نكس.) b6: رَدَّ الشَّىْءَ He repeated the thing; did it again; syn. أَعَادَهُ. (M in art. عود.) You say, رَدَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَيْمَانَ He repeated to them the oaths. (L in art. جلد.) [In this sense, رِدِّيدَى is one of the inf. ns. in use; as in the following ex.] It is said in a trad., لَا رِدِّيدَى فِى الصَّدَقَةِ [There shall be no repeating in the case of the poor-rate]; (T, S, L;) meaning that the poor-rate shall not be taken twice (T, L) in one year. (L.) [See also 2, which has a similar signification.] b7: هٰذَا لَا يَرُدُّ عَلَيْكَ, originally لَا يَرُدُّ عَلَيْكَ شَيْئًا (assumed tropical:) [This will not return anything to thee], means [this will not bring any return to thee, or] this will not profit thee: (Har p. 483:) and مَا يَرُدُّ عَلَيْكَ هٰذَا (tropical:) This does not profit thee. (A.) b8: رَدَّ إِلَيْهِ الأَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) [He referred the affair, or case, to him for management or decision: or] he committed to him the affair, or case; syn. فَوَّضَهُ إِلَيْهِ. (S and A and K in art. فوض.) b9: [رَدَّ الشَّىْءَ إِلَى أَصْلِهِ, a phrase of frequent occurrence, He reduced the thing to its original state.] And رَدَّ الرُّبْعَ خُمْسًا [He reduced the fourth part to a fifth part]. (K in art. ربع.) b10: رَدَّ اللّٰهُ نَفْسِى إِلَى وَقْتِ انْتِهَآءِ مُدَّتِى [God brought my soul to the time of the end of my duration]. (IB, TA in art. امر.) b11: رَدَّهُ إِلَى الأَمْرِ [He reduced him to the thing, or affair]: (M and K in art. قصر, in explanation of قَصَرَهُ عَلَى

الأَمْرِ:) or he appropriated him [or it, restrictively,] to the thing, or affair. (TK in that art.) b12: رَدَّ آخِرَ الشَّىْءِ إِلَى أَوَّلِهِ, (S and K in art. عكس, &c,) and رَدَّ أَوَّلَهُ عَلَى آخِرِهِ, (Msb in the same art., &c.,) [He reversed the thing; made the last part of it to be first, and the first part of it to be last; turned it hind part before, and fore part behind.] And رَدَّ بَعْضَ الأَمْرِ عَلَى بَعْضِ [He reversed the order of part, or of the parts, of the affair, or case]. (TA in art. رك.) And رَدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ أَمْرَهُ i. q. عَكَسْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ [I reversed to him his affair, or case; I made his affair, or case, to become the contrary of what it was to him]. (Msb in art. عكس.) [Hence,] ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَا لَكُمُ الكَرَّةَ عَلَيْهِمْ, in the Kur xvii. 6, means [Then we gave to you] the turn to prevail against them, or the victory over them. (Bd, Jel.) b13: [Hence, also, رَدَّهُ sometimes signifies He, or it, rendered him, or it; or caused him, or it, to become; (like صَيَّرَهُ;) when it has a second objective complement the contrary in meaning to the first; as in the following ex.; and it may have this meaning likewise when it has a second objective complement differing in meaning from the first in a less degree.] A poet says, رَمَى الحَدَثَانُ نِسْوَةَ آلِ حَرْبٍ

بِأَمْرٍ قَدْ سَمَدْنَ لَهُ سُمُودَا فَرَدَّ شُعُورَهُنَّ السُّودَ بِيضًا وَرَدَّ وُجُوهَهُنَّ البِيضَ سُودَا

[The casualties of fortune smote the women of the family of Harb with an event whereat they became confounded with great confoundedness; and it rendered their black hairs white, and rendered their white faces black]. (L in art. سمد.) 2 ردّدهُ, inf. n. تَرْدِيدٌ and تَرْدَادٌ, (S, L,) [the latter of which ns. is merely said in the K to be syn. with the former, and is said in the M and L to be also an inf. n. of رَدَّ in an intensive or a frequentative sense,] means more than رَدَّهُ; [i. e. He made, or caused, him, or it, to return, go back, come back, or revert; sent, turned, or put, him, or it, back, or away; returned, rejected, repelled, or averted, him, or it; much, frequently, again and again, or time after time;] having an intensive, or a frequentative, signification. (L.) b2: [Also He, or it, made, or caused, him, or it, to go, or move, repeatedly, to and fro; to go and come; to reciprocate: see its quasi-pass., 5. b3: Hence, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, made him, or caused him, to waver, or vacillate, in an affair, or between two affairs: see, again, 5. And hence, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, confounded, or perplexed, him, so that he was unable to see his right course: see, again, 5; and see also مُرَدَّدٌ.] And ردّد الأَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) [He agitated the thing, or affair, to and fro in his mind]. (TA in art. نج, &c.) b4: And He repeated it; iterated it: [or rather] he repeated it time after time; reiterated it: he reproduced it: he renewed it: syn. أَعَادَهُ, (W p. 15,) and كَرَّرَهُ, (A, and W ibid.,) and رَجَّعَهُ. (Mgh in art. رجع. [See also 1.]) You say, ردّد القَوْلَ He repeated the saying time after time; reiterated it; syn. كَرَّرَهُ. (A.) [and ردّد عَلَيْهِ الكَلَامَ He repeated to him the speech, or sentence, time after time; reiterated it to him.] And ردّد صَوْتَهُ فِى حَلْقِهِ He reiterated his voice in his throat, or fauces; syn. رَجَّعَهُ; (S and K in art. رجع, &c.;) [as camels and other animals do in braying; (the Lexicons passim;) and he quavered, or trilled, rapidly repeating many times one very short note, or each note of a piece;] like [as is done in] chanting, [for so the Arabs generally do in chanting, and in singing and piping, often throughout the whole performance,] (S in that art.,) or in reading or reciting, or in singing, or piping, or other performances, of such as are accompanied with quavering, or trilling. (TA in that art.) 3 رادّهُ, (L and TA in art. رود,) inf. n. مُرَادَدَةٌ, (TA in that art.,) or مُرَادَّةٌ, (TK in the present art.,) He endeavoured to turn him [from, or to, a thing]; syn. رَاجَعَهُ and رَاوَدَهُ. (L in art. رود.) b2: رادّهُ الشَّىْءَ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph. [Hence,] رادّهُ القَوْلَ [and رادّهُ فِى

القَوْلِ (occurring in the TA in art. عت)] He disputed with him, rebutting, or rejecting, or repudiating, in reply to him, what he said; he bandied words with him; syn. رَاجَعَهُ. (A.) and رادّهُ البَيْعَ He dissolved, or annulled, with him the sale; syn. قَايَلَهُ. (A.) 4 اردّت She (a sheep or goat or other animal) secreted milk in her udder a little before her bringing forth; syn. أَضْرَعَتْ: (S:) [or,] said of a camel, her udder became shining, and infused with milk. (M, L.) And She (a camel) had her udder and vulva inflated, or swollen, in consequence of her lying upon moist ground: or had her vulva swollen in consequence of lust for the stallion: or had her أَرْفَاغ [or groins, or inguinal creases, or the like], or her udder, and her vulva, swollen in consequence of drinking much water. (M, L.) [See also مُردٌّ.] b2: And اردّ [said of a man, app. from the verb as explained in the first sentence of this paragraph, His seminal fluid returned into his back, or he secreted much seminal fluid, in consequence of his having been long without a wife, or absent from his home: see مُرِدٌّ: and see also 6. And hence, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, very libidinous: see, again, مُرِدٌّ. And] (assumed tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, swollen with anger. (M. [In the L and TA, erroneously written, in this sense, ارادّ: see, again, مُرِدٌّ.]) b3: Also It (the sea) was, or became, tumultuous, with many waves. (M, L.) 5 تردّد quasi-pass. of 2; (S, L;) He, or it, was made, or caused, to return, go back, come back, or revert; &c.; or he, or it, returned, went back, came back, or reverted; much, frequently, again and again, or time after time. (L.) Yousay, تَرَدَّدْتُ إِلَى فُلَانٍ I returned time after time to such a one (Msb.) And هُوَ يَتَرَدَّدُ إِلَى مَجَالِسِ العِلْمِ He repairs frequently to, or frequents, the assemblies of science; syn. يَخْتَلِفُ. (A.) See also 6. b2: [And as the returning repeatedly involves the going repeatedly, it signifies also, like اختلف, He, or it, went, or moved, repeatedly, to and fro; so went and came; or reciprocated. Thus,] تَرَدُّدُ الشَّىْءِ المُعَلَّقِ فِى الهَوَآءِ [means The moving to and fro of a thing suspended in the air]. (K in art. ذب.) You say, تردّدت الرُّوحُ The soul, or spirit, went and came. (W p. 5.) b3: [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He wavered, or vacillated, فِى الرَّأْىِ [in opinion]: (MA:) and فِى الأَمْرِ [in the affair], (S and K in art. لث, &c.,) and بَيْنَ أَمْرَيْنِ [between two things, or affairs]. (S and K in art. ذب, &c.) And تردّد فِى صَدْرِى كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [Such a thing became agitated to and fro in my mind, or bosom]. (TA in art. رجع.) And تردّد said of a man, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, so that he was unable to see his right course. (Bd and Jel in ix. 45.) [And (assumed tropical:) He laboured, or exerted himself, as though going to and fro, or making repeated efforts, in an affair: a meaning well known.] b4: [And It was, or became, repeated time after time, or reiterated: it was, or became, reproduced: it was, or became, renewed.] Yousay, تردّد صَوْتُهُ فِى حَلْقِهِ His voice was, or became, reiterated in his throat, or fauces. (The Lexicons passim.) And تردّدفِى الفَآءِ [He reiterated in uttering the letter ف; or, as the meaning is shown to be in the K in art. فأ, he reiterated the letter ف (رَدَّدَ الفَآءَ)]. (S in art. فأ.) And تردّإ

فِى الجَوَابِ وَتَعَثَّرَ لِسَانُهُ [He reiterated, or stam-mered, or stuttered, in uttering the reply, and his tongue halted, faltered, or hesitated]. (A.) 6 ترادّ and ↓ تردّإ are both syn. with تَرَاجَعَ: (M, L:) [or nearly so; inasmuch as each implies repetition in returning:] you say, ترادّوا فِى مَسِيرٍ, meaning تَرَاجَعُوا [i. e. They returned, retired, or retreated, by degrees, or by little and little, in a journey, or march]. (TA in art. ثبجر.) and ترادّ المَآءُ The water reverted (↓ اِرْتَدّ [app. by repeated refluxes]) from its channel, on account of some obstacle in its way. (A.) And ترادّ المَآءُ فِى ظَهْرِهِ The seminal fluid returned [by degrees] into his back, in consequence of his having been long without a wife. (L. [See also 4.]) A2: تَرَادَّا القَوْلَ [or الكَلَامَ, and فِى القَوْلِ or فى الكَلَامِ, They two disputed together, each rebutting, or rejecting, or repudiating, in reply, what the other said; they bandied words, each with the other]. (A: there immediately following the phrase رَادَّهُ القَوْلَ [q. v.].) And ترادّا البَيْعَ They two rejected, (S, Msb,) or dissolved, or annulled, (S,) [by mutual consent,] the sale. (S, Msb.) 8 ارتدّ quasi-pass. of 1 as expl. in the first sentence of this art.; (Msb;) He, or it, returned, went back, came back, or reverted; &c.; (S, L, Msb, * K;) [عَنْ وَجْهِهِ from his, or its, course; and] عَنْ سَعْدِهِ وَدِينِهِ [from his state of prosperity and his religion]; (A;) and إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ [to his abode]: (Msb:) or he turned, or shifted; عَنْهُ [from it]; and عَنْ دِينِهِ [from his religion]. (M.) [Hence, He apostatized; or revolted from his religion: and particularly] he returned from El-Islám to disbelief; (Msb;) or so ارتدّ عِنِ الإِسْلَامِ. (L.) And يَرْتَدُّ البَصَرُ عَنْهُ مِنْ قُبْحِهِ [The eye reverts from him by reason of his unseemliness, or ugliness]. (TA.) See also 6. b2: [Hence also,] اِرْتَدَّتْ نَفْسِى إِلَى وَقْتِ انْتِهَآءِ مُدَّتِى

[My soul was brought, or came, to the time of the end of my duration]. (IB, TA in art. امر.

[See a verse of El-'Ajjáj cited voce أَمَارٌ.]) b3: And اِرْتَدَّتْ عَلَى فُلَانٍ بِغْيَتُهُ [The thing that he sought was refused, or denied, to such a one]: said of one who finds not what he seeks. (TA in art. بغى.) A2: ارتدّهُ is syn. with رَدَّهُ as expl. in the first sentence of this art., q. v. (M, L.) b2: See also 10, (with which it is likewise syn.,) in two places.10 استردّ الشَّىْءَ, and ↓ ارتدّهُ, He desired, or sought, or demanded, that the thing should be returned, or restored, to him; revoked, recalled, or retracted, it. (M, L.) You say, هِبَتَهُ ↓ ارتدّ [and استردّها He revoked, recalled, or retracted, his gift: or the former signifies] he took back his gift; repossessed himself of it; restored it to his possession; syn. اِرْتَجَعَهَا. (A.) And استردّهُ الشَّىْءَ He asked him, (S, A, L, K,) and desired, or sought, of him, (K,) that he should return, or restore, the thing. (S, A, L, K.) رَدٌّ an inf. n. of رَدَّهُ. (S, M, Msb, K, &c.) b2: [Hence,] ضَيْعَةٌ كَثِيرَةُ الرَّدِّ, and ↓ المَرَدِّ, [this being also an inf. n. of the same, (tropical:) An estate] yielding much revenue. (A.) [See also رَادَّةٌ.] b3: [Hence also, app.,] فِى لِسَانِهِ رَدٌّ In his tongue, or speech, is a difficulty of utterance, or a hesitation, (S, K, * TA,) [probably meaning such as occasions the repetition of certain letters.]

A2: It is also an inf. n. used as an epithet, signifying, (L, Msb,) and so ↓ مَرْدُودٌ, (M, L, Msb,) and ↓ رَدِيدٌ, (M, L,) Made, or caused, to return, go back, come back, or revert; sent, turned, or put, back, or away; returned, rejected, repelled, or averted: (M, L, Msb: *) rejected as meaning not received or accepted: rejected as wrong or erroneous; [as] contrary to the precepts, or ordinances, of the Sunneh: (L:) رَدٌّ signifies anything returned after it has been taken. (M.) b2: [Hence,] (tropical:) A dirhem that will not pass; that is not current; (A, Mgh, L;) that is returned to him who offers it in payment: (M, L:) pl. رُدُودٌ. (M, A, L, K.) b3: And hence, (Mgh,) (tropical:) A thing (S, A) that is bad, corrupt, disapproved, or abominable. (S, A, K.) b4: Also, (TA passim,) and ↓ مَرْدُودٌ, (S in art. رجع, and A, *) and ↓ رَدِيدٌ, (A, * [where it is evidently mentioned in this sense, a sense in which it is still often used,] A reply; an answer; syn. مَرْجُوعٌ, and جَوَابٌ. (S in art. رجع.) Yousay, قَوْلِكَ ↓ هٰذَا مَرْدُودُ and ↓ رَدِيدُهُ [This is the reply, or answer, to thy saying]. (A: there immediately following the phrase رَدَّ إِلَيْهَ جَوَابًا.) b5: And A camel used for riding or carriage: so called because brought back from the pasture to the dwelling on the day of journeying. (T.) رِدٌّ A support, or stay, of a thing: (M, K:) a refuge; an asylum. (Kr, M.) A poet says, فَكُنْ لَهُ مِنَ البَلَايَا رِدَّا يارَبِّ أَدْعُوكَ إِلَاهًا فَرْدَا meaning [O my Lord, I call Thee one God; then be Thou to him] a refuge from trials: and رِدَّا occurs in a reading of verse 34 of ch. xxviii. of the Kur; meaning as above; or thus written and pronounced for رِدْءًا, on account of the pause, after suppressing the ء. (M.) رَدَّةٌ, (T, S, A, K,) or ↓ ردَّةٌ, (so in a copy of the M,) (tropical:) [A quality that repels the eye:] unseemliness, or ugliness, (IAar, IDrd, S, M, K,) with somewhat of comeliness, in the face: (S:) or somewhat of unseemliness or ugliness (T, A) in the face of a woman who has some comeliness, (T,) or in the face of a comely woman: (A:) or unseemliness, or ugliness, from which the eye reverts: (Aboo-Leylà:) and a fault, or defect, (IAar, IDrd, M,) in a man, (IAar,) or in the face. (IDrd, M.) b2: And the former, (accord. to a copy of the M,) or ↓ the latter, (A, K,) (tropical:) A receding (تَقَاعَسٌ) in the chin, (M, A, K) when there is in the face somewhat of unseemliness, or ugliness, and somewhat of comeliness. (M.) b3: And the former, (accord. to a copy of the A,) or ↓ the latter, (K,) (tropical:) The returned sound of the echo; as in the phrase, سَمِعْتُ رَدَّةَ الصَّدَى [I heard the returned sound of the echo]: (A:) or the echo of a mountain. (K.) b4: Also the former, A gift, or stipend; syn. عَطِيَّةٌ. (L, from a trad.) b5: And Affection, and desire: so in the phrase, لَهُ رَدَّةٌ فِينَا [He has affection, and desire, for us], in a verse of 'Orweh Ibn-El-Ward. (Sh.) رِدَّةٌ a subst. from اِرْتَدَّ, (S, M, L, K,) signifying [An apostacy: and particularly] a returning from El-Islám to unbelief; (L, Msb;) or so رِدَّةٌ عَنِ الإِسْلَامِ. (M.) b2: See also رَدَّةٌ, in three places. b3: Also Camels' drinking water a second time (M, L, K) and so causing the milk to return into their udders; as also ↓ رَدَدٌ. (M, L.) b4: and A swelling of the teats of a she-camel: or their swelling by reason of the collecting of the milk: as also ↓ رَدَدٌ, in either sense: and the former, a camel's udder's becoming shining, and infused with milk: (M, L:) or the udder's becoming filled with milk before bringing forth. (As, S, K.) b5: And A remain, remainder, or anything remaining. (M, L.) رَدَدٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

رُدُدٌ: see رَادٌّ رَدَادٌ and رِدَادٌ substs. from استردّ الشَّىْءَ and ارتدّهُ; [accord. to the K, of رَدَّهُ as expl. in the first sentence of this art., but this is a mistake, for the meaning evidently is Desire for the return, or restoration, of a thing;] as in the saying of El-Akhtal, وَمَا كُلُّ مَغْبُونٍ وَلَوْ سَلْفَ صَفْقُهُ يُرَاجِعُ مَا قَدْ فَاتَهُ بِرَِدَادِ

[And not every one who has been cheated in a sale, his striking of the bargain having passed, will restore, or bring back, what has escaped him, by a desire for its restoration]. (M, L. [In the M, in art. سلف, this verse is differently related; with مُبْتَاعٍ, for مَغْبُونٍ, and بِرَاجِعِ for يُرَاجِعُ: and it is there said that سَلْفَ is here used by poetic license for سَلَفَ.]) رَدِيدٌ: see رَدٌّ, in three places. b2: Also Clouds (سَحَابٌ) of which the water has been poured forth. (K.) b3: And A compact limb, or member. (M, L. [See also مُتَرَدِّدٌ.]) رُدَّى: see مَرْدُودٌ.

رَدَّادٌ, (as in the T and in some copies of the K,) or ↓ رَدَّادِىٌّ, (as in other copies of the K and in the TA,) A setter of broken bones: from رَدَّادٌ as the name of a certain well-known bone-setter. (T, K.) رَدَّادىٌّ: see what next precedes.

رَادٌّ sing. of ↓ رُدُدٌ, (TA,) which signifies Unseemly, or ugly; [or having a quality that repels the eye; (see رَدَّةٌ;)] applied to men. (IAar, K, TA.) b2: See also what next follows.

رَادَّةٌ [the act. part. n. رَادٌّ converted by the affix ة into a subst.]. You say, هٰذَا الأَمْرُ لَا رَادَّةَ لَهُ, (S, L,) or فِيهِ, (K,) or فيه ↓ لا رَادَّ, (so in a copy of the A, [but probably a mistranscription,]) and ↓ لا مَرَدَّةَ, (K,) (tropical:) This affair has, or will have, or there is in it, or will be in it, no profit, (S, A, L, K,) or no return. (S, L.) [See also رَدٌّ.]

A2: Also The piece of wood, in the fore part of the عَجَلَة [or cart], that is put across between the نَبْعَانِ [or two shafts, thus called because they were commonly made of wood of the tree called نَبْع; which piece rests upon the neck of the bull that draws the cart]. (K.) أَرَدُّ (tropical:) More, and most, profitable [or productive of a return]. (S, L, K.) So in the saying, هٰذَا الأَمْرُ أَرَدُّ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) [This affair is, or will be, more, or most, profitable to him]. (S, L.) مَرَدٌّ: see رَدٌّ, second sentence.

مُرِدٌّ A ewe or she-goat (S, K) or other animal (S) secreting milk in her udder before bringing forth: (S, K:) or a she-camel having her udder shining, and infused with milk; (Ks, M, L;) as also مُرْمِدٌ: (Ks, L:) and any female near to bringing forth, and having her belly and udder large. (M, L.) And A she-camel having her udder and vulva inflated, or swollen, in consequence of her lying upon moist ground: or whose vulva is swollen in consequence of lust for the stallion: or having her أَرْفَاغ [or groins, or inguinal creases, or the like], or her udder, and her vulva, swollen in consequence of drinking much water: (M, L:) and a he-camel, (T, K,) and a she-camel, (T, L,) heavy from drinking much water: pl. مَرَادُّ. (T, L, K.) b2: Also, [app. from the first of the meanings explained in this paragraph,] A man who has been long without a wife, or absent from his home, (T, * L, * K,) and whose seminal fluid has in consequence returned into his back; (T, L;) as also ↓ مَرْدُودٌ. (K.) And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) Very libidinous; (S, K;) applied to a man. (S.) and (assumed tropical:) [Swollen with anger; see 4: or] angry. (K.) One says, جَآءَ فُلَانٌ مُرِدَّ الوَجْهِ Such a one came angry [in countenance]. (S.) b3: Also A sea (T, S) tumultuous with waves; syn. مَوَّاجٌ: (K:) having many waves: (S:) or having much water. (T.) مِرَدٌّ A man who repels much, and often wheels away and then returns to the fight; or who repels and returns much. (M, L.) مَرَدَّةٌ: see رَادَّةٌ.

مُرَدَّدٌ: see the next paragraph. b2: Also, [and ↓ مُتَرَدِّدٌ, (see 5,)] (tropical:) A man (S, A) confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course. (S, A, K.) مَرْدُودٌ: see رَدٌّ, in three places. b2: You say also, ↓ لَا خَيْرَ فِى قَوْلٍ مَرْدُودٍ وَمُرَدَّدٍ [There is no good in a saying rebutted and reiterated]. (A.) b3: And بَابٌ مَرْدُودٌ A door shut, or closed; not opened. (Mgh.) b4: And اِمْرَأَةٌ مَرْدُودَةٌ (tropical:) A woman divorced; (T, S, * M, A, K; *) as also ↓ رُدَّى: (AA, K:) because she is sent back to the house of her parents. (A.) [In the present day, also applied to A woman taken back after divorce.]

b5: See also مُرِدٌّ.

A2: Also an inf. n. [of an unusual form] of رَدَّهُ. (S, L, K.) مَرْدُودَةٌ [the part. n. مَرْدُودٌ converted by the affix ة into a subst.,] (tropical:) A razor: [so called] because it is turned back into its handle. (S, A, K.) مُرْتَدٌّ, from اِرْتِدادٌ meaning “ a returning; ” (S;) [An apostate: and particularly] one who returns from El-Islám to disbelief. (L.) مُتَرَدِّدٌ: see مُرَدَّدٌ. b2: Also A man compact and short, not lank in make: (M, L:) or extremely short. (L.) [See also رَدِيدٌ.]

فر

1 فَرَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. فِرَارً (T, S, M, K, &c.) and فَرٌ (M, K) and مَفَرٌ (S, M, K) and مَفِرٌ, (K,) or the last is a n. of place [and of time], (S, M,) He (a man, T) fled: (T, S:) or he turned away or aside, to elude, and fled, (M, K, TA,) from a thing that he feared. (TA.) أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ [in the Kur lxxv. 10] means Whither is the [fleeing or] turning away &c.? (M, TA:) or it may mean when is the time thereof? (TA:) and اين المَفِرُّ, another reading, where is the place of fleeing &c.? (I'Ab, Zj, S, M, TA,) as also المِفَرُّ, (Zj, K, TA,) which is an instrumental noun used as a noun of place: (K, TA:) but the first is the common reading. (TA.) b2: فَرَّ مِنْ عَدُوِهِ, aor. as above, inf. n. فَرٌّ, He wheeled about widely from his enemy, to turn again. (Msb.) b3: And فَرَّ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ He went, or betook himself, to the thing. (Msb.) b4: And [hence]

فَرَّتْ يَدُهُ His arm, or hand, fell off; like طَرَّتْ and تَرَّتْ. (O.) A2: فَرَّ الفَرَسَ, (S, O,) or الدَّابَّةَ, (M, K,) aor. ـُ (S, M, O,) i. e. with damm, (O,) [in copies of the K فَرِّ, but afterwards in those copies فَرُ3َ, which is the regular and correct form,] inf. n. فَرٌّ (S, M, O, K) and فُرَارٌ and فِرَارٌ and فَرَارٌ, (K,) or فُرَارٌ is a simple subst., and فِرَارٌ is an inf. n., (Meyd, in explanation of the prov. which here follows,) He looked at, or examined, the teeth of the horse, (S, O,) or he exposed to view the teeth of the beast that he might see what was its age. (M, K.) Hence, (TA,) إِنَّ الجَوَادَ عَيْنُهُ فُرَارُهُ (S, M, * Meyd, K, *) and فِرَارُهُ, (M, Meyd, K,) and فَرَارُهُ, (S, K,) sometimes thus pronounced with fet-h, (S,) (tropical:) [Verily the fleet and excellent horse, his aspect (see عَيْنٌ) is (equivalent to) the examination of his teeth, i. e. he is known by his aspect], is a prov., applied to him whose external state indicates his internal qualities; (Meyd, O, K;) meaning that one knows his excellence from his عَيْن [i. e. aspect] like as one knows the age of a beast by examining his teeth; (TA;) his external appearance rendering it needless for thee to test him, (S, Meyd, O, K,) and to examine (أَنْ تَفُرَّ) his teeth: (S, O, K:) and [with the same meaning] one says, فَرُّ الجَوَادِ عَيْنُهُ: (A, TA:) and [in like manner] الخَبِيثُ عَينُهُ فُرِاَرُهُ [The bad, his aspect &c.]; (Meyd, O, TA;) i. e. thou knowest his badness by his عَيْن when thou seest him. (TA.) And one says also, فَرَرْتُ فَمَ الفَرَسِ I opened the mouth of the horse that I might know his age. (Har p. 28.) And فَرَّ عَنْ أَسْنَانِ الدَّابَّةِ, aor. ـِ He examined the teeth of the beast. (Har p. 233.) b2: [Hence the saying of El-Hajjáj, فُرِرْتُ عَنْ ذَكَآءٍ, expl. in art. ذكو.] And [hence also] one says, فَرَّهُ عَنْ أَشْيَآءِ (tropical:) He examined him respecting things (O, * TA.) And فَرَّ الأَمْرَ, (M, TA,) and فَرَّ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (S, M, O, K, TA,) (tropical:) He examined, looked into, scrutinized, or investigated, the affair; searched into it; inquired, or sought information, respecting it. (S, M, O, K, TA.) and فَرَّ فُلَانٌ عَمَّا فِى نَفْسِى (tropical:) Such a one interrogated me in order that he might know, from what I should say, what was in my mind. (TA.) b3: And فُرَّ الأَمْرُ جَذَعًا (assumed tropical:) The thing returned to its first state; it recommenced. (M, O, K.) And فُرَّ الأَمْرَ جَذَعًا (assumed tropical:) Commence thou the affair from the first thereof. (M, in the TT. [But the MS. has in this case, as in that here immediately preceding, الامرُ: the right reading is evidently الامرَ; as in a similar phrase voce جَذَعٌ, q. v.]) A3: فَرَّ, aor. ـِ or يَفَرُّ, (accord. to different copies of the T,) He became intelligent after being weak [in mind]. (IAar, T, TA.) 3 فَارَرْتُهُ, inf. n. مُفَارَّةٌ, (tropical:) I investigated his state, or condition, he investigating mine. (TA.) 4 افرّهُ He, or it, made him to flee; (S, O;) or made him to turn away or aside, for the purpose of eluding, and to flee: (M, K:) or (O) he did to him a deed that made him to flee; (Fr, AO, T, M, O, K;) as also افرّبِهِ. (TA.) It is related in a trad. that the Prophet said to 'Adee the son of Hátim, مَا يُفِرُّكَ عَنِ الإِسْلَامِ إِلّا أَنْ يُقَالَ لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللّٰهُ (T, M, O, TA) i. e. Nothing induces thee to flee from El-Islám except the saying “ There is no deity but God: ” many of the relaters say يَفُرُّكَ; but Az says that the former is the right. (TA.) b2: Hence the saying, افرّاللّٰهُ يَدَهُ God made, or may God make, his arm, or hand, to fall off; like أَطَرَّهَا and أَتَرَّهَا. (O.) b3: and أَفْرَرْتُ رَأْسَهُ I split, or clave, his head, with a sword; like أَفْرَيْتُهُ. (Yz, T, O, K.) A2: أَفَرَّتْ لِلْإِثْنَآءِ, said of camels, (S, M, O, K,) and of horses, (M, K,) They shed their milk-teeth and had others come forth. (S, M, O, K.) 5 تَفَرَّرَ بِى i. q. ضَحِكَ [He laughed at me, derided me, or ridiculed me]; (K, TA;) mentioned by Sgh. (TA.) 6 تفارّوا They fled, one from another. (S, O, K.) 8 افترّ He laughed in a beautiful manner, (M, K,) beyond what is termed اِنْكِلَال [inf. n. of اِنْكَلَّ, q. v.]. (M.) One says, افترَّ ضَاحِكًا He showed his teeth laughing; (S;) as also افتر عَنْ ثَغْرِهِ. (T.) It is said of the Prophet, الغَمَامِ وَ يَفْتَرُّ عَنْ مِثْلِ حَبِّ meaning And he used to smile so as to show teeth the like of hail-stones, without a reiterated, or a loud, laughing. (T.) b2: Hence, (TA,) افترّ البَرْقُ (assumed tropical:) The lightning glistened. (M, K.) And hence the saying, الصَّرْفَهُ نَابُ الدَّهْرِ الَّذِى يَفْتَرُّ عَنْهُ [Es-Sarfeh is the dog-tooth of time, or fortune, which it shows smiling]: for when Es-Sarfeh [which is the Twelfth Mansion of the Moon] rises, [but it should be, when it sets, aurorally, for it so set, in Central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, on the 9th of March, O. S.,] the blossoms come forth and the herbage attains its full height. (M, L. [See more in art. صرف.]) b3: See also فُرٌّ.

A2: Also He snuffed up a thing into his nose. (M, K.) R. Q. 1 فَرْفَرَهُ, (S, M, K, &c.,) inf. n. فَرْفَارٌ, (M,) or فِرْفَارٌ, (TA,) He put in a state of motion, commotion, or agitation; shook; or shook about; (S, M, K;) it, (S, K,) or him. (M.) One says of a horse, يُفَرْفِرُ اللِّجَامَ فِى فِيهِ He puts in a state of motion, &c., the bit in his mouth. (M. [See also an explanation of the verb as intrans., in what follows.]) b2: He broke it, i. e. a thing. (M, K.) b3: He cut it. (K.) b4: He clave, split, slit, rent, or tore, it. (TA.) [Thus] فَرْفَرَ signifies He rent, or tore, [skins such as are termed] زِقَاق [pl. of زِقٌّ], and other things; (O, K, TA;) and slit, or rent, them much. (TA. [In two copies of the T, instead of الزِّقَاقَ وَغَيْرَهَا, the reading in the O and K and TA, I find الرُقاقَ وغيره.]) b5: [He mangled it.] One says, الذِّئْبُ يُفَرْفِرُ الشَّاةَ The wolf mangles the sheep, or goat. (O, * TA.) b6: And, (O, K, TA,) hence, (O,) inf. n. فَرْفَرَةٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He defamed him, and mangled his reputation. (O, K, TA.) b7: And (assumed tropical:) He discommended it, [as though] mangling it with discommendation: the verb occurs in this sense in a trad., having for its object الدُّنْيَا [meaning the enjoyments, or good, of the present world]. (TA.) b8: Also, (inf. n. فَرْفَرَةٌ, TA,) He called or cried, or called out or cried out, to him. (M, K.) A2: فَرْفَرَ as intrans., He (a camel) put his body in a state of commotion, or agitation. (M, K.) b2: He (a horse) struck his teeth with the فأْس [q. v.] of his bit, and moved about his head. (S, O, K.) b3: He hastened, or sped, and went with short steps. (M, O, K.) b4: He was light, and unsteady, (S, * M, * O, * K, TA,) in mind; (TA;) inf. n. فَرْفَرَةٌ. (S, M, O, TA.) b5: He hastened, or was hasty, with foolishness, or stupidity. (IAar, T, TA.) b6: and He confounded, or confused, and was profuse, فِى

كَلَامِهِ [in his speaking, or talking, or his speech, or talk]. (M, K.) b7: And [app. He talked; for] الفَرْفَرَةٌ signifies الكَلَامُ [which is often used as a quasi-inf. n. of كلّم]. (M.) A3: فَرْفَرَ also signifies He made the kind of vehicle called فَرْفَار. (T, K.) b2: And He kindled [a fire] with [wood of] the species of tree called فَرفَار. (T, K.) فَرٌّ: see فَارٌّ, in two places.

فُرٌّ [The best, or choice, of men &c.]. One says, هُوَ فُرٌّ قَوْمِهِ, (O,) or فُرٌّ القَوْمِ, (K,) and ↓ فُرَّتُهُمْ, (O, K,) He is of the best, or choice, of his people, or of the people, (O, K,) and of the chief persons thereof, (O, K, *) who show him smiling (اَلَّذِينَ عَنْهُ ↓ يَفْتَرُّونَ, perhaps better rendered who withdraw from him so as to render him conspicuous): (O, K:) or قَوْمِهِ ↓ هُوَفُرَّةٌ he is the best, or choice, of his people: (T:) and مَالِى ↓ هٰذَا فُرَّةٌ, (T,) or مَالِهِ, (O,) this is the best, or choice, of my, or his, property, or camels &c. (T, O.) فُرَّةٌ and ↓ أُفُرَّةٌ and ↓ أَفُرَّةٌ The beginning, or first part, of the heat: (T, S, M, O, K:) or they signify, (T, S, M,) or signify also, (O, K,) the vehemence thereof: (S, M, O, K:) but [Az says,] the second and third are in my opinion from أَفَرَ, the أ being the first radical letter: and Ks states that some change the أ into ع, saying عُفُرَّة and عَفُرَّة. (T.) شَرٍّمِنْ فُلَانٍ ↓ مَا زَالَ فُلَانٌ فِى أُفُرَّةٍ is a saying mentioned by Lth, (T, TA,) meaning [Such a one ceased not to be] in a vehement state of evil or mischief [proceeding from such a one]. (TA.) b2: Also Confusion and difficulty. (M, K.) One says, وَقَعَ القَوْمُ فِى فُرَّةٍ and ↓ أُفُرَّةٍ and ↓ أَفُرَّةٍ

The people, or party, fell into confusion and difficulty. (M.) b3: See also the next preceding paragraph, in three places.

فِرَّةٌ A smiling: [or rather a manner of smiling:] one says, إنَّها لَحَسَنَةُ الفِرَّةِ [Verily she is beautiful in respect of the manner of smiling]. (TA.) فُرُرٌ: see فُرَارٌ.

فُرَرَةٌ: see فَارٌّ.

فُرَارٌ and ↓ فَريرٌ The young one of the ewe, and of the she-goat, (M, K,) and of the cow, (M,) or of the wild cow, (A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, O, K,) as also, in this last sense, (O, K,) and in the first and second senses, (K,) ↓ فُرْفُرٌ and ↓ فُرْفُورٌ (O, K) and ↓ فَرُورٌ and ↓ فُرَافِرٌ: (K:) or they [app. referring to all the foregoing words] signify lambs: (K: [but see what follows:]) the female is termed فُرَارَةٌ: (M:) and فُرَارٌ is pl. also; (T, M, K;) i. e. it is applied to a pl. number as well as to one; (TA;) it is said to be pl. of ↓ فَرِيرٌ; (T, S, M, O;) and is of a rare form of pl.; (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K; *) and it signifies the small in body of the young ones of the goat-kind; (M;) or ↓ فَرِيرٌ, as some say, signifies thus: (TA: [but this I think doubtful:]) this last word is said by IAar to signify the young one of the wild animal, of the gazelle and of the bovine kind and the like; and in one instance he says that it signifies lambs: (M:) and, (T, A,) as Aboo-l-'Abbás [i. e. Th] states on the authority of IAar, (T,) فُرَارٌ (T, M) and فُرَارَةٌ (T) and ↓ فَرِيرٌ (M) and ↓ فُرُرٌ and ↓ فُرْفُورٌ and ↓ فُرَافِرٌ (T, M) signify the lamb when it is weaned, (T, M,) and has become what is termed جَفْرٌ [q. v.], and obtained plenty of herbage, (M,) and has become fat: (T, M:) accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, (O,) the last two signify a lamb (حَمَل, O, TA, in the K جَمَل, a mistranscription, TA) when it eats, and chews the cud: (O, K: [see also فُرْفُورٌ below:]) and [it is also said that] فُرَارٌ signifies great بَهْم [app. as meaning lambs or kids], and one thereof is termed ↓ فُرْفُورٌ. (TA.) It is said in a prov.

نَزْوُ الفُرَارِ اسْتَجْهَلَ الفُرَارَا [The leaping of the wild calf, or with equal propriety الفرار may be here rendered the kid, excited to lightness the other wild calf, or kid]: (T, S, O, K:) A 'Obeyd says, on the authority of El-Mu- ärrij, [and so says Meyd, and the same is implied in the S and O,] that الفرار here means the young one of the wild cow: (T:) i. e., when the فرار attains to youthful vigour it takes to leaping, and when another sees it [do so] it leaps in like manner: (T, S, K:) the prov. is used in relation to him of whose companionship one should be cautious; meaning, if thou become his companion thou wilt do as he does: (T, O, K:) some relate it otherwise, saying نَزْوَ, meaning نَزَا نَزْوَ الفُرَارِ. (O.) [See also a similar prov. in art. سفه, conj. 5.]

فَرُرٌ: see فَارٌّ. It is applied to a woman as meaning Wont to flee from that which induces doubt, or suspicion, or evil opinion. (S.) b2: See also the next preceding paragraph.

فَرِيرٌ: see فُرَارٌ, in four places.

A2: Also The place of the محَسَّة [thus in a copy of the M (app.

مِحَسَّة i. e. currycomb, as though meaning the part that is currycombed), in the K of the مجَسَّة (i. e. مَجَسَّة, q. v.), and in the O of the مجمّ, which last I think to be a mistranscription,] of the مَعْرَفَة [or part, or flesh, upon which grows the mane] of the horse: (M, O, K:) or the base (أَصْل) of the مَعْرَفَة of the horse. (T; and accord. to the TA, mentioned by Sgh, and there said to be tropical.) b2: And The mouth: (O, K, TA:) mentioned by Z in a manner indicating that it is of the horse or the like. (TA.) فَرُورَةٌ: see فَارٌ.

كَتِيبَةٌ فُرَّى [A military force, or troop, &c.,] defeated: (T, O, K:) as also فُلَّى. (T.) فَرَّآءُ, applied to a woman, i. q. غَرَّآءُ, (O, K, TA,) meaning Beautiful in the front teeth. (TA.) فَرَّارٌ: see فَارٌّ. b2: [Hence,] Quicksilver; so called because flowing quickly, and not remaining in a place: thus says Esh-Shereeshee. (Har p. 139.) فُرَّيْرَةٌ, in the dim. form, with tesh-deed, [A spinning-top;] a thing with which children play. (TA.) فَارٌّ (S, M) and ↓ فَرٌّ (T, S, O, K) and ↓ فَرُورٌ (M, O, K) and ↓ فَرُورَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ فَرَّارٌ (M, O, K) and ↓ فُرَرَةٌ (K) are epithets from فَرَّ signifying as expl. in the first sentence of this art.: (S, T, M, O, K:) [the first and second meaning Fleeing; or turning away or aside, to elude, and fleeing: the third, fifth, and sixth, fleeing, &c., much: and the fourth, fleeing, &c., very much:] but ↓ فَرٌّ is applied to one and to two and to more, and to a female; (S, O;) it has no dual nor pl. [nor fem. form]; (T;) the sing. [and dual] and pl. [and mase. and fem.] are alike; (M;) as it is an inf. n. used as an epithet; (M, O;) and it may be a pl. [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] of فَارٌّ, (S, M, O,) like as رَكْبٌ is of رَاكِبٌ, (S, O,) and صَحْبٌ of صَاحِبٌ, (S, O, K, *) or شَرْبٌ of شَارِبٌ: (M:) it is related in the trad. respecting the Flight that Surákah Ibn-Málik, when he saw the Prophet and Aboo-Bekr fleeing to El-Medeeneh, and they passed by him, said, هٰذَانِ فَرٌّ قُرَيشٍ أَفَلَا أَرُدُّ عَلَى

قُرَيْشٍ فَرَّهَا, (T, * S, * O, * TA,) meaning [These two are] the two fugitives [of Kureysh: shall I not turn back to Kureysh their fugitives?]. (A 'Obeyd, T, TA.) فُرْفُرٌ: see فَرْفَارٌ: b2: and فُرَارٌ: b3: and فُرْفُورٌ, in three places.

فِرْفِرٌ: see فُرْفُورٌ, in two places.

فُرَفِرٌ: see the next paragraph.

فَرْفَارٌ A breaker [or mangler] of everything; as also ↓ فُرَافِرٌ. (M, K.) b2: And The lion; because he mangles his antagonist: (Z, TA:) or the lion that mangles his antagonist (O, K *) and everything; (O;) as also ↓ فِرفَارٌ and ↓ فُرْفُرٌ, (K,) or ↓ فُرَفِرٌ, (O,) and ↓ فُرَافِرٌ and ↓ فُرَافِرَةٌ. (O, K.) b3: And Light and unsteady in mind: (Lth, T, M, O, K:) fem. with ة. (Lth, T, M, O.) b4: And Loquacious; talkative; a great talker; (M, K;) like ثَرْثَارٌ: (M:) fem. with ة. (K.) A2: Also A species of tree, (T, M, O, K,) hard, having much endurance of fire, (T, O,) of which are made [bowls such as are termed] قِصَاع (M, O, K) and عِسَاس: (M, O:) AHn says, it is a great kind of tree; (O;) it becomes tall like the دُلْب [q. v.]; its leaves are like those of the almondtree; it has blossoms like the red rose; (O, TA;) and it becomes thick so that great [bowls such as are termed] عِسَاس, and أَقْدَاح, are turned from it: (O:) when its tree becomes old, its wood becomes black like ebony: (O, TA:) it is a hard wood, that blunts iron; and the bowls thereof are thin and light, and of pleasant odour: small saddles, called مَخَاصِر, pl. of مِخْصَرَةٌ, for excellent she-camels, were also made of it, and the curved pieces of wood (أَحْنَآء) thereof amounted [in price] to two hundred dirhems. (O.) A3: And A sort of vehicle, or saddle, for women (T, O, K) and for pastors, resembling the حَوِيَّة and سَوِيَّة [described in arts. حوى and سوى]. (T.) فِرْفَارٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

فُرْفُورٌ: see فُرَارٌ, in three places. [It is said that] it signifies A fat جَمَل (Thus in copies of the K [an evident mistranscription for حَمَل, i. e. lamb, as is indicated in the TA by the addition such as has become what is termed جَفْرٌ].) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A youth, or young man; (O, K, TA;) as being likened to the lamb (حَمَل) that has obtained plenty of herbage and has become fat; (TA; [see فُرَارٌ;]) and so ↓ فُرَافِرٌ. (O, K, TA.) b3: and A certain bird; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ فُرْفُرٌ (O, K) and ↓ فِرْفِرٌ: (K:) a small عُصفُور [i. e. sparrow, or passerine bird]: (ISh, T, M:) so it is said: (M:) and ↓ فُرْفُرٌ signifies the عُصْفُورٌ [in an absolute sense]; (M, K;) as also فُرْفُورٌ: (K:) accord. to AHát, Et-Táïfee says that ↓ الفُرْفُرُ, of which the pl. is الفَرَافِرُ, signifies the نَقَاقِير; thus he says, [using the pl.,] not the نُقَّار [or نَقَّار? (see عُصْفُورٌ)]; and he adds that sometimes it is said that the فُرْفُور is the صِرّ [q. v.]; and some say ↓ الفِرْفِرُ, with kesr, but he says, I am not confident of its chasteness: (O:) [accord. to Ed-Demeeree, as stated by Freytag, فُرْفُرٌ is the name of a small aquatic bird like the dove or pigeon: SM says, app. relying upon the correctness of a modern application of the word,] I have seen the فُرْفُور in Egypt, and it is smaller than the إوَذّ [which is applied to the goose and sometimes to the duck]. (TA.) A2: Also, and ↓ فُرَافِرٌ, Parched meal (سَوِيق) prepared from the يَنبُوت [a tree described in art. نبت, which see, and see also غَافٌ], (M, O, K,) i. e. from the fruit thereof; (O, K;) as some say, from the ينبوت of 'Omán. (TA.) فِرْفِيرٌ [Purple;] a certain sort of colour. (K.) b2: And The violet: or violet-colour: syn. in Pers\. بنفشه [i. e. بَنَفْشَه, which is said to have both of these significations]. (KL.) b3: [and Purslane, or purslain. (Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Beytár.)]

فِرْفِيرِىٌّ [Of a purple colour]. (TA: there applied as an epithet to the flower of the فَاوَانِيَا [or peony].) فُرَافِرٌ A horse that moves about, or agitates, the bit in his mouth, (M, O, K, TA,) to which Z adds, in order that he may disengage it [therefrom, or] from his head. (TA.) b2: And i. q. أَخْرَقُ [Rough, ungentle, &c.]; (M, O, K;) applied to a man. (O, K.) b3: See also فَرْفَارٌ, in two places: b4: and فُرَارٌ, likewise in two places: b5: and فُرْفُورٌ, also in two places.

فُرَافِرَةٌ: see فَرْفَارٌ, second sentence.

أُفُرَّةٌ and أَفُرَّةٌ: see فُرَّةٌ, in five places.

مَفَرٌّ an inf. n. of فَرَّ. (S, M, K. [See the first and second sentences of this art.]) b2: Also A time [and a place] of fleeing: (TA:) and ↓ مَفِرُّ signifies a place of fleeing: (I'Ab, Zj, S, M, TA:) and so does ↓ مِفَرُّ; (Zj, K, TA,) an instrumental noun used as a noun of place. (K, TA.) [See 1, second sentence.]

مَفِرُّ: see the next preceding paragraph.

مُفِرُّ [Making to flee: &c. See its verb, 4]. b2: [Hence, app.,] الأَيَّامُ المُفِرَّاتُ (assumed tropical:) The days that reveal, or make manifest, [or cause to fly abroad,] news, or tidings. (O, K.) مِفَرُّ [originally an instrumental noun: and hence,] A horse fit for one's fleeing upon him: (S, O, K:) or excellent in fleeing. (K.) One says فَرَسٌ مِكَرٌّ مِفَرٌّ A horse well trained, willing, and active, ready to return to the fight and to flee. (TA in art. كر.) b2: See also مَفَرُّ.

مُفَرَّرُ: see what follows.

مَفْرُورٌ and ↓ مُفَرَّرٌ Examined, looked into, searched into, inquired respecting, or interrogated. (TA. [See 1.])

ا

The first letter of the alphabet [according to the order in which the letters are now commonly disposed; and also according to the original order, which see in art. ابجد]: called أَلِفٌ.

[This name, like most of the other names of Arabic letters, is traceable to the Phœnician language, in which it signifies “an ox;” the ancient Phœnician form of the letter thus called being a rude representation of an ox's head.] It is, of all the letters, that which is most frequent in speech: and some say that, in آلم, in the Kur [ch. ii. &c.], it is a name of God. (TA.) Its name is properly fem., as is also that of every other letter; [and hence its pl. is أَلِفَاتٌ;] but it may be made masc.: so says Ks: Sb says that all the letters of the alphabet are masc. and fem., like as الِّسَانٌ is masc. and fem. (M.) As a letter of the alphabet, it is abbreviated, [or short, and is written ا, as it also is generally when occurring in a word, except at the end, when, in certain cases, it is written ى,] and is pronounced with a pause after it: and it is also prolonged: (S, K, * TA:) [in the latter case, it is written آءٌ; and] this is the case when it is made a subst.: and when it is not called a letter, [i. e. when one does not prefix to it the word حَرْف,] it is [properly] fem. (S.) Its dim. is أُيَيَّةٌ, meaning an اء written small, or obscure, (S, IB,) according to those who make it fem. and who say, زَيَّيَتُ زَايًا and ذَيَّلْتُ ذَالًا; but أُوَيَّةٌ according to those who say, زَوَّيْتُ زَايًا. (IB.) A2: أَلِفٌ [properly so called] is one of the letters of prolongation and of softness and of augmentation; the letters of augmentation being ten, which are comprised in the saying, اليَوْمَ تَنْسَاهُ [“to-day thou wilt forget it”]. (S.) There are two species of الف; namely, لَيِّنَةٌ [or soft], and مُتَحَرِّكَةٌ [or movent]; the former of which is [properly] called أَلِفٌ; and the latter, هَمْزَةٌ; (S, TA;) which is a faucial letter, pronounced in the furthest part of the fauces [by a sudden emission of the voice after a total suppression, so that it resembles in sound a feebly-uttered ع whence the form of the character (ء) whereby it is represented]: but this latter is sometimes tropically called الف; and both [as shown above] are of the letters of augmentation. (S in art. او, and TA.) There are also two other species of الف; namely, أَلِفُ وَصْلٍ [the alif of conjunction or connexion, or the conjunctive or connexive alif]; and أَلِفُ قَطْعٍ [the alif of disjunction, or the disjunctive alif]; every one that is permanent in the connexion of words being of the latter species; and that which is not permanent, [i. e. which is not pronounced, unless it is an alif of prolongation,] of the former species; and this is without exception augmentative; [but it is sometimes a substitute for a suppressed radical letter, as in ابْنٌ, originally بَنَىٌ or بَنَوٌ;] whereas the alif of disjunction is sometimes augmentative, as in the case of the interrogative alif [to be mentioned below, and in other cases]; and sometimes radical, as in أَخَذَ and أَمَرَ: (S, TA:) or, according to Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà and Mohammad Ibn-Yezeed, (T, TA,) the primary أَلِفَات are three; the rest being subordinate to these: namely, أَلِفٌ أَصْلِيَّةٌ [radical alif], (T, K, TA,) as in إِلْفٌ and أَكَلَ (T) and أَخَذَ; (K;) and أَلِفٌ قَطْعِيَةٌ [disjunctive alif], as in أَحْمَدُ (T, K) and أَحْمَرُ (T) and أَحْسَنَ; (T, K;) and أَلِفٌ وَصْلِيَّةٌ [conjunctive or connexive alif], (T, K,) as in اسْتَخْرَاجٌ (T) and اسْتَخْرَجَ. (T, K.) b2: The أَلِف which is one of the letters of prolongation and of softness is called الأَلِفُ الهَادِئَةُ [the quiescent alif, and الأَلِفُ السَّاكِنَةُ, which signifies the same]: (MF, TA:) it is an aerial letter, (Mughnee, MF, TA,) merely a sound of prolongation after a fet-hah; (T, TA;) and cannot have a vowel, (IB, Mughnee, MF,) wherefore it cannot commence a word: (Mughnee:) when they desire to make it movent, if it is converted from و or ى, they restore it to its original, as in عَصَوَانِ and رَحَيَانِ; and if it is not converted from و or ى, they substitute for it hemzeh, as in رَسَائِلُ, in which the hemzeh is a substitute for the ا in [the sing.] رَسَالَةٌ. (IB.) IJ holds that the name of this letter is لَا, [pronounced lá or lé, without, or with, imáleh, like the similar names of other letters, as بَا and تا and ثَا &c.,] and that it is the letter which is mentioned [next] before ى in reckoning the letters; the ل being prefixed to it because it cannot be pronounced at the beginning of its name, as other letters can, as, for instance, ص and ج; and he adds that the teachers [in schools] err in pronouncing its name لَامَ الِفْ. (Mughnee.) b3: The grammarians have other particular appellations for alifs, which will be here mentioned. (T, TA.) b4: الأَلِفُ المَجْهُولَةُ [The unknown alif] is such as that in فَاعِلٌ [or فَاعَلَ] and فَاعُولٌ; i. e., every ا, (T, K,) of those having no original [from which they are converted, not being originally أ nor و nor ى, but being merely a formative letter, and hence, app., termed “unknown”], (T,) inserted for the purpose of giving fulness of sound to the fet-hah in a verb and in a noun; (T, K;) and this, when it becomes movent, becomes و, as in the case of خَاتَمٌ and خَوَاتِمُ, becoming و in this case because it is movent, and followed by a quiescent ا, which ا is the ا of the pl., and is also مجهولة. (T.) b5: أَلِفَاتُ المَدَّاتِ [The alifs of prolongations] are such as those [which are inserted for the same purpose of giving fulness of sound to the fet-hah] in كَلْكَالٌ, for كَلْكَلٌ, and خَاتَامٌ, for خَاتَمٌ, and دَانَاقٌ, for دَانَقٌ. (T, K.) In like manner, و is inserted after a dammeh, as in أَنْظُورُ; and ى after a kesreh, as in شِيمَالٌ. (TA.) An alif of this species is also called أَلِفُ الإِشْبَاعِ [The alif added to give fulness of sound to a fet-hah preceding it]: and so is the alif in مَنَا used in imitation [of a noun in the accus. case; as when one says, رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا (pronounced رَجُلَا) “I saw a man,” and the person to whom these words are addressed says, مَنَا Whom?]. (Mughnee.) b6: أَلِفُ الصِّلَةِ [The alif of annexation, or the annexed alif,] is that which is an annex to the fet-hah of a rhyme, (T, K,) and to that of the fem. pronoun هَا: in the former case as in بَانَتْ سُعَادُ وَأَمْسَى حَبْلُهَا انْقَطَعَا in which ا is made an annex to the fet-hah of the ع [of the rhyme]; and in the saying in the Kur [xxxiii. 10], وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللّٰهِ الظُّنُونَا, in which the ا after the last ن is an annex to the fet-hah of that ن; and in other instances in the final words of verses of the Kur-án, as قَوَارِيرَ and سَلْسَبِيلَا [in lxxvi. 15 and 18]: in the other case as in ضَرَبْتُهَا and مَرَرْتُ بِهَا. (T.) The difference between it and أَلِفُ الوَصْلِ is, that the latter is in the beginnings of nouns and verbs, and the former is in the endings of nouns [and verbs]. (T, K.) It is also called أَلِفُ الإِطْلَاقِ [The alif of unbinding, because the vowel ending a rhyme prevents its being مُقَيّد, i. e. “bound” by the preceding consonant]: (Mughnee;) and أَلِفُ الفَاصِلَةِ [the alif of the final word of a verse of poetry or of a verse of the Kur-án or of a clause of rhyming prose]. (TA.) [This last appellation must not be confounded with that which here next follows.] b7: الأَلِفُ الفَاصِلَةِ [The separating alif] is the ا which is written after the و of the pl. to make a separation between that و and what follows it, as in شَكَرُوا (T, K) and كَفَرُوا, and in the like of يَغْزُوا and يَدْعُوا [and يَرْضَوْا]; but when a pronoun is affixed to the verb, this ا, being needless, does not remain: (T:) also the ا which makes a separation between the ن which is a sign of the fem. gender and the heavy [or doubled] ن [in the corroborated form of the aor. and imperative], (T, K,) because a triple combination of ن is disliked, (T,) as in [يَفْعَلْنَانِّ and تَفْعَلْنَانِّ and] اِفْعَلْنَانِّ (T, K) and لَا تَفْعَلْنَانِّ. (T.) b8: أَلِفُ النُّونِ الخَفِيفَةِ [The alif of the light, or single, noon in the contracted corroborated form of the aor. and imperative], as in the phrase in the Kur [xcvi. 15], لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ [explained in art. سفع], (T, K,) and the phrase [in xii. 32], وَلَيَكُونًا مِنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ [And he shall assuredly be of those in a state of vileness, or ignominy], in both of which instances the pause is made with ا [only, without tenween, so that one says لَنَسْفَعَا and لَيَكُونَا, and this seems to be indicated in Expositions of the Kur-án as the proper pronunciation of these two words in the phrases here cited, the former of which, and the first word of the latter, I find thus written in an excellent copy of the Mughnee, with a fet-hah only instead of tenween, though I find them written in copies of the Kur-án and of the K with tenween, and for this reason only I have written them therewith in the first places above], this ا being a substitute for the light ن, which is originally the heavy ن: and among examples of the same is the saying of El-Aashà, وَلَاتَحْمِدَ المُثْرِينَ وَاللّٰهَ فَاحْمَدَا [And praise not thou the opulent, but God do thou praise], the poet meaning فَاحْمَدَنْ, but pausing with an ا: (T:) and accord. to 'Ikrimeh Ed-Dabbee, in the saying of Imra-el-Keys, قَفَا نَبْكِ مِنْ ذِكَري حَبِيبٍ وَمَنْزِلِ [what is meant is, Do thou pause that we may weep by reason of the remembrance of an object of love, and of a place of abode, for] the poet means قِفَنْ, but substitutes ا for the light ن; (TA;) or, accord. to some, قفا is in this case [a dual] addressed to the poet's two companions. (EM p. 4.) b9: أَلِفُ العِوَضِ [The alif of exchange] is that which is substituted for the tenween (T, K) of the accus. case when one pauses upon it, (T,) as in رَأَيْتُ زَيْدَا (T, K [and so in the copy of the Mughnee mentioned above, but in the copies of the T I find زَيْدًا,]) and فَعَلْتُ خَيْرَا and the like. (T.) b10: أَلِفُ التَّعَايِى [The alif of inability to express what one desires to say], (T,) or أَلِفَ التَغَابِى

[the alif of feigning negligence or heedlessness], (K,) [but the former is evidently, in my opinion, the right appellation,] is that which is added when one says إِنَّ عُمَرَ, and then, being unable to finish his saying, pauses, saying إِنَّ عُمَرَا, [in the CK عُمَرَآ,] prolonging it, desiring to be helped to the speech that should reveal itself to him, (T, K,) and at length saying مُنْطَلِقٌ, meaning to say, if he were not unable to express it, إِنَّ عُمَرَ مُنْطِلَقٌ [Verily 'Omar is going away]. (T.) The ا in a case of this kind is [also] said to be لِلتَّذَكُّرِ [ for the purpose of endeavouring to remember]; and in like manner, و, when one desires to say, يَقُومُ زَيْدٌ, and, forgetting زيد, prolongs the sound in endeavouring to remember, and says يَقُومُو. (Mughnee in the sections on ا and و.) It is also added to a curtailed proper name of a person called to, or hailed, as in يَا عُمَا for يَا عُمَرُ [which is an ex. contrary to rule, as عُمَرُ is masc. and consists of only three letters]. (T.) b11: أَلِفُ النُّدْبَةِ [The alif of lamentation], as in وَا زَيْدَاهْ [Alas, Zeyd!], (T, K,) i. e. the ا after the د; (T;) and one may say وَا زَيْدَا, without the ه of pausation. (Alfeeyeh of Ibn-Málik, and I 'Ak p. 272.) b12: أَلِفُ الاِسْتِنْكَارِ [The alif of disapproval], (T,) or الأَلِفُ لِلْإِنْكَارِ [which means the same], (Mughnee,) is similar to that next preceding, as in أَأَبُو عُمَرَاهّ [What! Aboo-'Omar?] in reply to one who says, “Aboo-'Omar came;” the ه being added in this case after the letter of prolongation like as it is in وَا فُلَانَاهْ said in lamentation. (T.) [The ex. given in the Mughnee is آ عَمْرَاهْ, as said in reply to one who says, “I met 'Amr;” and thus I find it written, with آ; but this is a mistranscription of the interrogative أَ, which see below.] In this case it is only added to give fulness of sound to the vowel; for you say, أَلرَّجُلُوهْ [What! the man? for أَالرَّجُلُوهْ,] after one has said “The man stood;” and أَلرَّجُلَاهْ in the accus. case; and أَلرَّجُلِيهْ in the gen. case. (Mughnee in the section on و. [But in my copy of that work, in these instances, the incipient ا, which is an ا of interrogation, is written آ.]) b13: الأَلِفُ المُنْقَلِبَةُ عَنْ يَآءِ الإِضَافَةِ [The alif that is converted from the affixed pronoun ى], as in يَا غُلَامَا أَقْبِلْ [O my boy, advance thou,] for يَا غُلَامِى; (TA in art. حرز;) [and يَاعَجَبَا لِزَيْدٍ (I 'Ak p. 271) O my wonder at Zeyd! for يا عَجَبِى لزيد;] and in يَا أَبَتَا for يَا أَبَتِى, and يَا وَيْلَتَا for يَا وَيْلَتِى, and يَابِأَبَا and يَا بِأَبَاهْ for يَا بِأَبِى (T and TA in art. بأ.) [This is sometimes written ى, but preceded by a fet-hah.] b14: الأَلِفُ المُحَوَّلَةُ [The transmuted alif, in some copies of the K أَلِفُ المُحَوَّلَةِ, which, as MF observes, is put for the former,] is every ا that is originally و or ى (T, K) movent, (T,) as in قَالَ [originally قَوَلَ], and بَاعَ [originally بَيَعَ], (T, K,) and غَزَا [originally غَزَوَ], and قَضَى [originally قَضَى], and the like of these. (T.) b15: أَلِفُ التَثْنِيَةِ [The alif of the dual, or rather, of dualization], (T, K,) in verbs, (TA,) as in يَجْلِسَانِ and يَذْهَبَانِ, (T, K,) and in nouns, (T,) as in الزَّيْدَانِ (T, K) and العَمْرَانِ; (T;) [i. e.] the ا which in verbs is a dual pronoun, as in فَعَلَا and يَفُعَلَانِ, and in nouns a sign of the dual and an indication of the nom. case, as in رَجُلَانِ. (S.) b16: It is also indicative of the accus. case, as in رَأَيْتُ فَاهُ [I saw his mouth]. (S.) b17: أَلِفُ الجَمْعِ [The alif of the plural, or of pluralization], as in مَسَاجِدُ and جِبَالٌ (T, K) and فُرْسَانٌ and فَوَاعِلُ. (T.) b18: أَلِفُ التَّأْنِيثِ [The alif denoting the fem. gender], as in حُبْلَى (Mughnee, K) and سَكْرَى [in which it is termed مَقْصُورَة shortened], and the meddeh in حَمْرَآءُ (K) and بَيْضَآءُ and نُفَسَآءُ [in which it is termed مَمْدُودَة lengthened]. (TA.) b19: أَلِفُ الإِلْحَاقِ [The alif of adjunction, or quasi-coordination; that which renders a word an adjunct to a particular class, i. e. quasi-coordinate to another word, of which the radical letters are more in number than those of the former word, (see the sentence next following,)], (Mughnee, TA,) as in أَرْطًا (Mughnee) [or أَرْطًى; and the meddeh in عِلْبَآءٌ &c.]. b20: أَلِفُ التَكْثِيرِ [The alif of multiplication, i. e. that merely augments the number of the letters of a word without making it either fem. or quasi-coordinate to another, unaugmented, word], as in قَبَعْثَرَى (Mughnee, TA) [correctly قَبَعْثَرًى], in which the ا [here written ى] is not to denote the fem. gender, (S and K in art. قبعثر,) because its fem. is قَبَعْثَرَاةٌ, as Mbr. says; (S and TA in that art.;) nor to render it quasi-coordinate to another word, (K and TA in that art.,) as is said in the Lubáb, because there is no noun of six radical letters to which it can be made to be so; but accord. to Ibn-Málik, a word is sometimes made quasi-coordinate to one comprising augmentative letters, as اِقْعَنْسَسَ is to اِحْرَنْجَمَ. (TA in that art.) A3: أَلِفَاتُ الوَصْلِ [The alifs of conjunction or connexion, or the conjunctive or connexive alifs], (T, K,) which are in the beginnings of nouns, (T,) [as well as in certain well-known cases in verbs,] occur in ابْنٌ (T, K) and ابْنُمٌ (K) and ابْنَةٌ and اثْنَانِ and اثْنَتَانِ and امْرُؤٌ and امْرَأَةٌ and اسْمٌ and اسْتٌ, (T, K,) which have a kesreh to the ا when they commence a sentence, [or occur alone, i. e., when immediately preceded by a quiescence,] but it is elided when they are connected with a preceding word, (T,) [by which term “word” is included a particle consisting of a single letter with its vowel,] and ايْمُنٌ and ايْمُ [and variations thereof, which have either a fet-hah or a kesreh to the ا when they commence a sentence, or occur alone], (K,) and in the article الْ, the ا of which has a fet-hah when it commences a sentence. (T.) A4: أَلِفُ القَطْعِ [The alif of disjunction, or the disjunctive alif,] is in the beginnings of sing. nouns and of pl. nouns: it may be known by its permanence in the dim., and by its not being a radical letter: thus it occurs in أَحْسَنُ, of which the dim. is أُحَيْسِنُ: (I Amb, T:) in pls. it occurs in أَلْوَانٌ and أَزْوَاجٌ (I Amb, T, K) and أَلْسِنَةٌ [&c.]: (I Amb, T:) [it also occurs in verbs of the measure أَفْعَلَ, as أَكْرَمَ; in which cases it is sometimes لِلسَّلْبِ, i. e. privative, (like the Greek alpha,) as in أَقْسَطَ “he did away with injustice,” which is termed قُسُوطٌ and قَسْطٌ, inf. ns. of قَسَطَ:] it is distinguished from the radical ا, as shown above: (I Amb, T:) or it is sometimes augmentative, as the interrogative أَ [to be mentioned below]; and sometimes radical, as in أَخَذَ and أَمَرَ; and is thus distinguished from the conjunctive ا, which is never other than augmentative. (S.) b2: أَلِفُ التَّفْضِيلِ وَ التَّقْصِيرِ [The alif denoting excess and deficiency, i. e., denoting the comparative and superlative degrees], as in فُلَانٌ أَكْرَمُ مِنْكَ [Such a one is more generous, or noble, than thou], (T, K, *) and أَلْأَمُ مِنْكَ [more ungenerous, or ignoble, than thou], (T,) and أَجْهَلُ النَّاسِ [the most ignorant of men]. (T, K. *) b3: أَلِفُ العِبَارَةِ [The alif of signification], (T, K,) as though, (T,) or because, (TA,) significant of the speaker, (T, TA,) also called العَامِلَةِ [the operative], as in أَنَا أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللّٰهَ [I beg forgiveness of God], (T, K,) and أَنَا أَفْعَلُ كَذَا [I do thus]. (T.) b4: أَلِفُ الاِسْتِفْهَامِ [The alif of interrogation, or the interrogative alif], (T, S, Msb in art. همز, Mughnee,) as in أَزَيْدٌ قَائِمٌ [Is Zeyd standing?], (Mughnee,) and أَزَيْدٌ عِنْدَكَ أَمْ عَمْرٌو [Is Zeyd with thee, or at thine abode, or 'Amr?], (S,) and أَقَامَ زَيْدٌ [Did Zeyd stand?], said when the asker is in ignorance, and to which the answer is لَا or نَعَمْ; (Msb;) and in a negative phrase, as أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ [Did we not dilate, or enlarge? in the Kur xciv. 1]. (Mughnee.) When this is followed by another hemzeh, an ا is interposed between the two hemzehs, [so that you say أَاأَنْتَ, also written آأَنْتَ,] as in the saying of Dhu-r-Rummeh, أَيَا ظَبْيَةَ الوَعْسَآءَ بَيْنَ جَلَاجِلٍ وَبَيْنَ النَّقَا أَاأَنْتِ أَمْ أُمُّ سَالِمِ [O thou doe-gazelle of El-Waasà between Jelájil and the oblong gibbous hill of sand, is it thou, or Umm-Sálim?]; (T, S;) but some do not this. (T.) [It is often conjoined with إِنَّ, as in the Kur xii. 90, أَئِنَّكَ لَأَنْتَ يُوسُفُ Art thou indeed Joseph?] It is sometimes used to make a person acknowledge, or confess, a thing, (T, Msb in art. همز, Mughnee,) and to establish it, (Msb,) as in the phrase in the Kur [v. 116], أَأَنْتَ قُلْتَ لِلنَّاسِ or آأَنْتَ [Didst thou say to men?], (T,) and أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ [explained above], (Msb in art. همز,] and in أَضَرَبْتَ زَيْدًا or أَأَنْتَ ضَرَبْتَ [Didst thou beat Zeyd?], and أَزَيْدًا ضَرَبْتَ [Zeyd didst thou beat?]. (Mughnee.) And for reproving, (T, Mughnee,) as in the phrase in the Kur [xxxvii. 153], أصْطَفَى الْبَنَاتِ عَلَى الْبَنِينَ [Hath He chosen daughters in preference to sons?], (T,) [but see the next sentence,] and [in the same ch., verse 93,] أَتَعْبُدُونَ مَا تَنْحِتُونَ [Do ye worship what ye hew out?]. (Mughnee.) And to express a nullifying denial, as in [the words of the Kur xvii. 42,] أَفَأَصْفَاكُمْ رَبَّكُمْ بِالْبَنِينَ وَاتَّخَذَ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنَاثًا [Hath then your Lord preferred to give unto you sons, and gotten for himself, of the angels, daughters?]. (Mughnee.) And to denote irony, as in [the Kur xi. 89,] أَصَلَوَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ نَتْرُكَ مَا يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُنَا [Do thy prayers enjoin thee that we should leave what our fathers worshipped?]. (Mughnee.) And to denote wonder, as in [the Kur xxv.47,] أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ الظِّلَّ [Hast thou not considered the work of thy Lord, how He hath extended the shade?]. (Mughnee.) And to denote the deeming a thing slow, or tardy, as in [the Kur lvii., 15,] أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلّذِينَ آمَنُوا [Hath not the time yet come for those who have believed?]. (Mughnee.) and to denote a command, as in [the Kur iii. 19,] أَأَسْلَمْتُمْ, meaning أَسْلِمُوا [Enter ye into the religion of El-Islám]. (Mughnee, and so Jel.) and to denote equality, occurring after سَوَآءٌ and مَا أُبَالِى and مَا أَدْرِى and لَيْتَ شِعْرِى, and the like, as in [the Kur lxiii.6,] سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَسْتَغْفَرْتَ لَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تَسْتَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ [It will be equal to them whether thou beg forgiveness for them or do not beg forgiveness for them], and in ,َا أُبَالِى أَقُمْتَ أَمْ قَعَدْتَ [I care not whether thou stand or sit]: and the general rule is this, that it is the hemzeh advening to a phrase, or proposition, of which the place may be supplied by the inf. n. of its verb; for one may say, سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْهِمُ الاِسْتِغْفَارُ وَعَدَمُهُ [Equal to them will be the begging of forgiveness and the not doing so], and مَا أَبَالِى بِقِيَامِكَ وَعَدَمِهِ [I care not for thy standing and thy not doing so]: (Mughnee.) b5: أَلِفُ النِّدَآءِ [The alif of calling, or vocative alif], (T, S,* Mughnee,* K,) as in أَزَيْدُ, meaning يَا زَيْدُ [O Zeyd], (T, K,) and in أَزَيْدُ أَقْبِلْ [O Zeyd, advance], (S,) used in calling him who is near, (S, Mughnee,) to the exclusion of him who is distant, because it is abbreviated. (S.) آ with medd, is a particle used in calling to him who is distant, (Mughnee, K,) as in آَزَيْدُ أَقْبِلْ [Ho there, or soho, or holla, Zeyd, advance]. (TA.) Az says, Yousay to a man, in calling him, آفُلَانُ and أَفُلَانُ and آيَا فُلَانُ (TA) or أَيَا. (S and K in art. ايا.) b6: إِاللّٰهِ, for إِىْ وَاللّٰهِ: see إِى. b7: In a dial. of some of the Arabs, hemzeh is used in a case of pausing at the end of a verb, as in their saying to a woman, قُولِئْ [Say thou], and to two men, قُولَأْ [Say ye two], and to a pl. number, قُولُؤْ [Say ye]; but not when the verb is connected with a word following it: and they say also لَأْ, with a hemzeh, [for لَا,] in a case of pausation. (T.) But Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says, All men say that when a hemzeh occurs at the end of a word, [i. e. in a case of pausation,] and has a quiescent letter before it, it is elided in the nom. and gen. case, though retained in the accus. case [because followed by a quiescent ا], except Ks alone, who retains it in all cases: when it occurs in the middle of a word, all agree that it should not be dropped. (T.) Az [however] says that the people of El-Hijáz, and Hudheyl, and the people of Mekkeh and ElMedeeneh, do not pronounce hemzeh [at all]: and 'Eesà Ibn-'Omar says, Temeem pronounce hemzeh, and the people of El-Hijáz, in cases of necessity, [in poetry,] do so. (T.) b8: Ks cites, [as exhibiting two instances of a rare usage of أَا, or آ, in a case of pausing, in the place of a suppressed word,] دَعَا فُلَانٌ رَبَّهُ فَأَسْــمَعَا الخَيْرُ خَيْرَانِ وَ إِنْ شَرٌّ فَأَا وَلَا أُرِيدُ الشَّرَّ إِلَّا أَنْ تَأَا [written without the syll. signs in the MS. from which I transcribe this citation, but the reading seems to be plain, and the meaning, Such a one supplicated his Lord, and made his words to be heard, saying, Good is double good; and if evil be my lot, then evil; but I desire not evil unless Thou will that it should befall me]: and he says, he means, إِلَّا أَنْ تَشَآءَ; this being of the dial. of Benoo-Saad, except that it is [with them] تَا, with a soft ا [only]: also, in replying to a person who says, “Wilt thou not come?” one says, فَأْ, meaning فَاذْهَبْ [Then go thou with us]: and in like manner, by فأا, in the saying above, is meant فَشَّرٌّ. (TA.) A5: Hemzeh also sometimes occurs as a verb; إِه, i. e.! with the إِ of pausation added, being the imperative of وَأَى as syn. with وَعَدَ. (Mughnee.) A6: [As a numeral, 1 denotes One.]