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peacock

طاؤُوس

Word

Noun · pattern فاؤُعل

Root

ط و س

Forms

Plural
طَواوِيس

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ومن الموصوف بالحمق من الحيوان: الحبارى، والنعجة، والبعير، والطاووس، والزرافة.

Tales of Fools and Simpletons, page 76 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries
  • طَاسَ Form I He was, or became, beautiful
    , aor. يَطُوسُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. طَوْسٌ, (S, A, K, TA,) He was, or became, beautiful, (S, A, K, TA,) and bright, or fresh, (K, TA,) in face, (S, A, K, TA,) after illness: (K, TA:) from الطَّوْسُ signifying “ the moon: ” so in the T: ascribed by Sgh to AA. (TA.) [In one copy of the S, this verb is omitted.] -A2- طاس الشَّىْءَ, (M, O,) aor. as above, (O,) inf. n. طَوْسٌ, (M, A, O, K,) He trod, or trod upon, the thing; (M, A, * O, K; *) [like دَاسَهُ;] and broke it: (M, O:) so says IDrd: (O:) and الوَطْسُ is like الطَّوْسُ. (TA.)
  • مَا أَدْرِى أَيْنَ طَوَّسَ Form II I know not whither he has gone
    I know not whither he has gone (T, O, K) بِهِ [with him, or it]. (K.)
  • تَطَوَّسَتْ Form V adorned herself
    She (a woman, A, K, or a girl, M) adorned herself: (M, A, Sgh, K:) [as though she made herself like a طَاوأُوس, or peacock.] ― -b2- تطوّس He (a pigeon) shook, or ruffled, his feathers: you say, الحَمَامُ يَكْسَحُ بِذَنَبِهِ حَوْلَ الحَمَامَةِ وَيَتَطَوَّسُ لَهَا The male pigeon sweeps with his tail around the female pigeon, and shakes, or ruffles, his feathers to her. (A, TA.)
  • طَاسٌ A drinking-cup
    [A drinking-cup; also vulgarly called طَاسَة;] a certain thing in which one drinks; (S, K;) or with which one drinks; accord. to AHn, also called قَاقُزَّةٌ. (M.)
  • طَوْسٌ moon
    The moon: (IAar, T, S, K: but omitted in one copy of the S:) or the moon a little after, or before, the change; i. q. هِلَالٌ: pl. أَطْوَاسٌ. (M.)
  • طُوَاسٌ One of the nights of the last part of the
    , (M, TA,) thus correctly, as written by El-Urmawee, with damm; not with fet-h, as in the K and as written by Sgh; (TA;) [in the O, طَوَاسُ;] One of the nights of the last part of the [lunar] month; (M;) one of the nights called لَيَالِى المُحَاقِ. (O, K.)
  • طَاوأُوسٌ peacock
    , (S, M, A, &c.,) of the measure فَاعُولٌ, (Msb,) the hemzeh being a substitute for و, (M,) [The peacock;] a certain bird, (S, M, A, O, K,) beautiful, (M, TA,) and well known: (O, Msb, K:) dim. طُوَيْسٌ, formed after the rejection of the augmentative letters: (S, O, Msb, K:) pl. طَوَاوِيسُ (M, A, K) and (sometimes, M) أَطْوَاسٌ, (M, O, K,) by the rejection of what is augmentative: (M:) the former pl. is the more known. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A goodly, or beautiful, man; (ElMuärrij, O, K;) in the dial. of Syria. (ElMuärrij, O.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Silver; (A, O, K;) in the dial. of El-Yemen. (A, O.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) Verdant land, wherein, (O, K,) or whereon, (T, O,) is every kind of plant, (O, K,) or of flowers, in the days of spring. (T, O.)
  • مُطَوَّسٌ Goodly, or beautiful
    Goodly, or beautiful; (M, A, Msb, K;) applied to a face, (A, TA,) or other thing. (Msb, K.)

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