rashshāsha

machine gun

رَشّاشَة

Word

Noun

Root

ر ش ش

Forms

Plural
رَشّاش

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • رَشَّ Form I He sprinkled, or scattered in drops
    , (A, Msb,) aor. , (MS,) inf. n. رَشٌّ (S, A, Msb, K) and تَرْشَاشٌ, (A, K,) He sprinkled, or scattered in drops, (A, K, TK,) water, (S, A, Msb, K,) and blood, (S, A, K,) and tears, (S, K,) &c. (A.) ― -b2- رَشَّ المَكَانَ, (S, TA,) or المَوْضِعَ, (Msb,) and البَيْتَ, (A,) inf. n. رَشٌّ, (S, TA,) He sprinkled, or wetted by sprinkling, (TA,) the place, (S, Msb, TA,) and the house, or chamber, or tent, (A,) بِمَاء ٍ with water. (Msb, TA.) And رَشَّ الحَايأِكُ النَّسِيجَ بِالْمِرَشَّةِ [The weaver sprinkled the web with the مرشّة]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence,] رَشَّتِ السَّمَآءُ, and ↓ أَرَشَّت, (S, A, Msb, K,) The shy rained: (A, Msb:) or let fall a little rain, such as is termed رَشٌّ. (S. [After the former of these verbs, الأَرْضَ, or the like, seems to be understood.]) [And hence,] الطَّعْنَةُ ↓ أَرَشَّتِ [The spear-wound, or the like, sprinkled forth blood: a signification implied, but not expressed, in the S and A: or] became wide, so that its blood became scattered about: (K:) or passed through, and made the blood to flow, or to appear and flow, or to flow copiously, or with force. (Msb.) ― -b4- [Hence also,] رَشَّهُ بِثَآء ٍ حَسَن ٍ (assumed tropical:) He eulogized him. (TA voce خَمَّ.) ― -b5- And رَشَّهُ He washed him, or it. (MF, from the Expositions of the “ Muwatta. ”)
  • رَشَّ3َ Form II The pen spirtled the ink
    [رشّش القَلَمُ الحِبْرَ The pen spirtled the ink.]
  • أَرْشَ3َ Form IV He made the horse to sweat by urging him with his feet
    see 1, in two places. -A2- ارشّ الفَرَسَ, (A, K,) inf. n. إِرْشَاشٌ, (A,) He made the horse to sweat by urging him with his feet. (A, K.)
  • ترشّش عَلَيْهِ المَآءُ Form V The water became sprinkled, or scattered in drops, upon him or it
    , (S,) and عليه ↓ تَرَشْرَشَ, (A,) [The water became sprinkled, or scattered in drops, upon him or it.] And ترشّشت نُقْطَةٌ مِنَ القَلَمِ [A drop of ink became spirtled from the pen]. (S and K in art. مج)
  • تَرَشْرَشَ It (roasted meat) dripped with gravy; or was succulent, and dripping with juice
    : see 5. ― -b2- Also It (roasted meat) dripped with gravy; or was succulent, and dripping with juice; or was fat. (TA.) ― -b3- And It flowed. (TA.)
  • رَشٌّ A little
    , (S, K,) or رَشٌّ مِنْ مَطَر ٍ, (A, TA,) A little [sprinkling] rain: (S, K:) [and so ↓ رَشَّةٌ in the present day:] or the first [or lightest and weakest] of rain: (IAar: [see رَكٌّ:] pl. رِشَاشٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also the former, (assumed tropical:) A painful beating. (Sgh, K.)
  • رَشَّةٌ Open entry
    : see the next preceding paragraph.
  • رَشَاشٌ What is sprinkled
    What is sprinkled, (S, A, * K,) or scattered, (Msb,) of water, (A, Msb,) and the like, (Msb,) or of blood, (S, A, K,) and of tears, (S, K,) and the like, (K,) and of rain; (TA in art. طش;) what is scattered, or flies about, of blood. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] لَمْ يَدْخُلْ فِى الشَّرِّ وَأَصَابَهُ مِنْ رَشَاشِهِ (tropical:) [He did not enter into evil, or mischief, and yet somewhat thereof, or of its effects, befell him]. (A, TA.) And أَلَحَّ بِنَا العُطَاشُ وَمَا نَالَنَا مِنْكَ إِلَّا الرَّشَاشُ [app. meaning Insatiable thirst, or desire, to hear from thee, or the like, remained in us, and there did not reach us from thee aught save a mere sprinkling; or perhaps, what was scattered abroad, of rumours, or the like]. (A, TA. *) [See also an ex. voce رَذَاذٌ.]
  • رَشِيشٌ Open entry
    : see مَرْشُوشٌ.
  • رَشْرَاشٌ dripping with its gravy
    Roasted meat (Aboo-Sa'eed, A, K) dripping with its gravy; (Aboo-Sa'eed, A, TA;) or succulent, and dripping with its juice; (TA;) or fat: (K:) and ↓ مُرِشٌّ signifies the same. (TA.)
  • مُرِشٌّ Open entry
    : see what next precedes.
  • مِرَشَّةٌ A thing with which one sprinkles
    A thing with which one sprinkles: (Ibn- 'Abbád:) a thing with which the weaver sprinkles the web: (A, TA:) [in the present day, applied to a long-necked bottle, with a stopper pierced with a hole or holes, for sprinkling scented water.]

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