faṭsa

flatness

فَطْسَة

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْلَة

Root

ف ط س

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 11 entries
  • فَطَسَ Form I He died
    , (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. (S, Msb, K) and , (Msb,) inf. n. فُطُوسٌ, (S, M, &c.,) He died; (S, M, &c.;) as also طَفَسَ: (TA:) or he died without disease: (M:) or without any apparent disease. (TA.) -A2- فَطَسَ الحَدِيدَ, (A, O, K, TA,) aor. , (K, * TA,) inf. n. فَطْسٌ, (TA,) He made the iron broad (A, O, K) with the great hammer called فِطِّيس: (A:) or he beat the iron. (TA.) ― -b2- And الفَطْسُ signifies The treading vehemently, or the compressing vehemently. (M, TA: the word thus doubly rendered is الوَطْءُ.) ― -b3- And you say, فَطَسْتُهُ عَنْ كَذَا meaning I repelled him in a most evil manner from such a thing: and likewise I beat him [app. away from such a thing]. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b4- And فَطَسَهُ بِالكَلِمَةِ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) and بِالخَبَرِ, (Ibn- 'Abbád, O,) aor. , (K,) He uttered in his face [the word, or sentence, and the tidings, or information]; as also ↓ فطّسهُ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) inf. n. تَفْطِيسٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) -A3- فِطِسَ, aor. , inf. n. فَطَسٌ, (S, M, A, K,) He had the bone of his nose wide and depressed; (M;) or depressed and expanded: (S, A, K:) he had his nose spreading upon his face. (A, K.) [And فَطِيأَ app. signifies the same.]
  • فطّسهُ Form II He killed him
    He killed him. (Msb.) -A2- See also 1.
  • فَطْسٌ berries of the myrtle
    (with fet-h, O, in a copy of the M written فُطْس,) The berries of the myrtle: n. un. with ة. (Lth, M, O, K.)
  • فَطَسٌ Open entry
    : see فَطَسَةٌ.
  • فَطْسَةٌ skin of an animal that has not been slaughtered in the manner prescribed by the law
    The skin of an animal that has not been slaughtered in the manner prescribed by the law. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.) ― -b2- [See also فَطْسٌ.] ― -b3- Also A certain bead used for fascinating and restraining [men]; (Lh, S, M, K;) one of the beads of the Arabs of the desert, with which women are asserted by the Arabs to fascinate and restrain men. (O.) They (i. e. women, O, K) say, " بَالثُّوأَبَا وَاعَطْسَةِ أَخَّذْتُهُ بِالفَطْسَةِ " [I captivated and restrained him by means of the fatseh, by means of yawning and of sneezing]: (S, O, K: [in some copies of the S and K بِالثُّوأَبآءِ:]) they shorten الثوبآء on account of the metre, which is رَجَز with the third foot of each hemistich suppressed. (O.)
  • فَطَسَةٌ A state of depression and expansion of the bone of the nose
    a subst. from فَطِسَ [as such signifying A state of depression and expansion of the bone of the nose; or a spreading of the nose upon the face]: (S, O, K:) or the same word, (M, L,) or ↓ فَطَسٌ, (TA, [but this is the inf. n. of فَطِسَ, and seems to be here a mistranscription,]) the place of a width and depression of the bone of the nose. (M, L, TA.)
  • فِطِّيسٌ A great hammer
    A great hammer, (S, M, A, O, K,) such as is used by a blacksmith: (A, TA:) or, (K,) accord. to IDrd, (O,) it is either Greek or Syriac, (O, K,) not genuine Arabic. (O.) ― -b2- And A great فَأْس [i. e. hoe or adz or axe]. (M, TA.)
  • فِطِّيسَةٌ snout
    The snout of the swine; as also ↓ فِنْطِيسَةٌ: (S, M, * K:) or its nose with what is next thereto: (IDrd, O, K:) and, (K,) accord. to Th, (O,) it [app. meaning the lip] is [called] the شَفَة of man, and of camels the مِشْفَر, and of beasts of prey the خَطْم and the خُرْطُوم, and of the swine the ↓ فِنْطِيسِة, (O, K, * [in the latter of which it is plainly stated that فِطِّيسَةٌ is used in relation to man and to camels and to beasts of prey, whereas Th seems evidently to mean that what is called the شَفَة of man, and of camels the مَشْفَر, &c., is called the فَنْطِيسَة of the swine,]) which word فنطيسة he [thus] mentions, with ن, as of the measure فِنْعِيلَةٌ, the ن being augmentative. (O.)
  • فَاطِسٌ Dying, or dead
    Dying, or dead. (IAar, M.)
  • فِنْطِيسَةٌ Open entry
    : see فِطِّيسِةٌ, in two places: and see also art. فنطس, in two places.
  • أَفْطَسُ having the bone of his nose wide and depressed
    A man (S) having the bone of his nose wide and depressed; (M;) or depressed and ex- panded: (S, K:) having his nose spreading upon his face: (K:) fem. فطْسَآءُ. (M, K.) And it is also applied as an epithet to the nose itself [as meaning Having its bone wide and expanded; &c.]. (A in art. نفس.) ― -b2- تَمْرَةٌ فَطْسَآءُ means A date small in the drupe, having the base cleaving [to it]. (TA.)

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