futuwwa

adolescence, youth

فُتُوَّة

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والأخي عندهم رجل يجتمع أهل صناعته وغيرهم من الشبان الأعزاب والمتجردين، ويقدمونه على أنفسهم، وتلك هي الفتوة أيضاً.

The Travels, page 137 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries
  • فُو Valerian
    , with the و quiescent, [Valerian;] a certain medicine, (K, TA,) a diuretic, (CK,) beneficial as a remedy for pain of the side and for alopecia. (K, TA.) -A2- As a prefixed noun, signifying The mouth, see voce فُوهٌ, in art. فوه.
  • فُوَّةٌ Madder
    , (T, S, M, K,) like قُوَّةٌ [in form], (S, K,) [Madder; the species thereof used by dyers; rubia tinctorum;] certain roots (Lth, T, S, M, K) of a plant (M) which are extracted from the earth, (Lth, T, M,) with which they dye (Lth, T, S, M, K) clothes, or garments: (Lth, T:) AHn says, red roots of a plant which rises slender, having upon its head berries intensely red and having much juice used for writing therewith and variegating: (M:) called in Pers. رُويَن: (PS: [in a copy of the T رُوَين or دُوَين: and in my copies of the S روَينه and رُويَنَهٌ:]) it is [also used as] a medicine, having the property of causing abortion, (K,) producing a flow of the urine and of the men strual discharge, (K, * TA,) aperient, clearing the complexion or skin, clearing the skin from every mark of the ringworm and of the white [species of leprosy termed] يَهَق: (K:) it has been mentioned also in the K as ending with [a radical] ه [i. e. written فُوَّةٌ, in art. فوه]; but, as is said by Lth, [and in the T,] the final letter is that which denotes the fem gender. (TA.)
  • مَفْوَاةٌ Open entry
    ; pl. مَفَاوٍ: see the following paragraph.
  • مُفَوًّى Dyed with
    Dyed with فُوَّة; applied to a garment; (T, S, M, K;) and to a hide. (M.) ― -b2- And مُفَوَّاةٌ A land (أَرْضٌ) abounding with فُوّة: (AHn, M, K:) or having in it فُوّة: (M:) and مُفَبَّاةٌ signifies the same: (TA in art. غبى:) or you say ارض مَفواة من المفاوِى [i. e. ↓ مَفْوَاةٌ. of which the pl., without the article, is مَفَاوٍ]; (T;) المَفَاوِى signifying the lands (الأَرَضُونَ) that give growth to فُوَّة. (TA.)

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