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ف س ح

6 verbs · 6 nouns and adjectives

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 17 entries
  • فَسُحَ Form I It (a place) was, or became, spacious, roomy, wide, or ample
    , (MA, Msb, K, [in the CK فَسَحَ, a misprint,]) with damm, (Msb,) like كَرُمَ, (K,) [aor. ,] inf. n. فُسَاحَةٌ, (L,) or فَسَاحَةٌ [for which the former is app. a mistranscription] and فُسْحَةٌ, (MA,) It (a place) was, or became, spacious, roomy, wide, or ample; (MA, Msb, K;) as also ↓ افسح, (Msb, K,) and ↓ تفسّح, and ↓ انفسح. (K.) -A2- فَسَحَ لَهُ, (S, MA, Msb, K,) aor. , (Msb, K,) inf. n. فَسْحٌ (MA, Msb, TA) and فُسُوحٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ تفسّح, (A, K,) and ↓ افسح; (A;) He made room, or ample room, for him, (S, MA, Msb, K,) فِى المَجْلِسِ (S, MA, Msb) in the sitting-place, or in the assembly. (MA.) You say, فِى المَجْلِسِ ↓ تَفَسَّحُوا, (S, Msb, *) and ↓ تَفَا سَحُوا, (S, K,) Make ye room, or ample space, [in the sitting-place, or in the assembly,] syn. تَوَسَّعُوا: (S, K:) both of these verbs have nearly the same signification: [each may be rendered, but the latter more properly, make ye room, or ample space, one for another:] the latter occurs, accord. to the reading of El-Hasan, and the former accord. to that of others, in the Kur lviii. 12. (Fr, TA.) ― -b2- And اِفْسَحْ عَنِّى Remove thou, withdraw, or retire to a distance, from me. (Ksh and Bd in lviii. 12.) ― -b3- فَسْحٌ [as inf. n. of فَسَحَ] also signifies The making wide steps; and so فَيْسَحَى. (K.) [Hence,] اِفْسَحِ الخُطَى, said by an Arab of the Desert, of the Benoo-'Okeyl, to one who was sewing for him a water-skin, and mentioned in the T, as heard by its author, meaning (assumed tropical:) Make wide the spaces between each two punctures of the needle, lest the punctures should rend. (L.) ― -b4- And فَسَحَ لَهُ الأَمِيرُ فِى السَّفَرِ means The commander, or governor, wrote for him a فَسْح [q. v.]. (K.)
  • فسّح Form II He made
    He made a place spacious, roomy, wide, or ample. (Msb.)
  • أَفْسَحَ Form IV Open entry
    see 1, first and second sentences.
  • تَفَسَّحَ Form V He expatiated, or ranged at large: and he had ample room or scope
    see 1, in three places. ― -b2- [تفسّح also signifies He expatiated, or ranged at large: and he had ample room or scope: see مُتَفَسَّحٌ.]
  • تَفَاْسَحَ Form VI Open entry
    see 1, third sentence.
  • إِنْفَسَحَ Form VII The nightly resting-place of their camels was, or became, spacious
    see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- [Hence,] انفسح مُرَاحُهُمْ [lit. The nightly resting-place of their camels was, or became, spacious,] means (assumed tropical:) their camels became numerous. (TA.) ― -b3- And انفسح صَدْرُهُ (assumed tropical:) His bosom became dilated [with joy]. (S, A.) ― -b4- And انفسح طَرْفُهُ (assumed tropical:) His eye had an unobstructed view, nothing hindering its seeing far. (L.)
  • تَفَيْسَحَ Open entry
    : see تَفَيْحَسَ, in art. فحس.
  • فَسْحٌ A writing like a جَوَاز
    A writing like a جَوَاز [or traveller's pass]. (K.) [See 1, last sentence.]
  • فُسُحٌ Open entry
    : see فَسِيحٌ, in three places.
  • فُسْحَةٌ Spaciousness, roominess, width, or ampleness
    Spaciousness, roominess, width, or ampleness; (S, A, L, K;) [particularly, or generally,] with respect to the ground. (L.) [In the MA it is mentioned as an inf. n. of فَسُحَ.] ― -b2- And [Ample scope for action &c.] in an affair. (Msb in art. رخو.) [And A state in which is ample scope for acting &c.: see نَفَسٌ.] ― -b3- الفُسْحَتَانِ signifies The two spaces without hair on the two sides of the hair that grows immediately beneath the middle of the lower lip. (L.)
  • فُسْحُمٌ glans of the penis
    : see فَسِيحٌ, in two places. ― -b2- فُلَانٌ ٱبْنُ فُسْحُمٍ is a phrase mentioned by Lh, thought by him to be from الفُسْحَةُ and الاِنْفِسَاحُ, but the meaning is unknown. (L.) -A2- Also The glans of the penis. (K in art. فسحم; where the word is mentioned again in the S likewise.)
  • فُسَاحٌ Open entry
    : see the paragraph here following.
  • فَسِيحٌ Spacious, roomy, wide, or ample
    (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ فُسَاحٌ, (K,) like طَوِيلٌ and طُوَالٌ, (TA,) Spacious, roomy, wide, or ample; applied to a place; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ فُسُحٌ and ↓ فُسْحُمٌ: (K:) or ↓ فُسُحٌ signifies thus applied to a sitting-place: (S:) and ↓ فُسْحُمٌ, (S, K,) in which the م is augmentative, (S,) signifies (S, K) also (K) وَاسِعُ الصَّدْرِ [meaning free from distress of mind or from narrowness of mind], (S, K,) as does also ↓ فُسُحٌ [in the CK in this sense written فُسْحٌ]; both being applied in this sense to a man. (K.) ― -b2- سَيْرٌ فَسِيحٌ [means A pace in which the steps are wide: see 1, latter half].
  • جَمَلٌ مَفْسُوحُ الضُّلُوعِ A camel wide in the ribs
    i. q. مَسْفُوح [i. e. A camel wide in the ribs]. (TA.)
  • مَا لَكَ فِى هٰذَا مُتَفَسَّحٌ There is not for thee ample scope
    [There is not for thee ample scope (lit. a place in which one has ample scope) in this]. (A.)
  • مُنْفَسَحٌ وَادٍ The place of expanding of a valley
    [The place of expanding of a valley]. (JK and K in art. خرق, &c.)
  • مُرَاحٌ مُنْفَسِحٌ A nightly resting-place of camels, or of camels and other cattle, in which they are numerous
    (assumed tropical:) A nightly resting-place of camels, or of camels and other cattle, in which they are numerous. (As, K.)

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