washy
embroidery, colorful ornamentation
وَشْي
Word
Noun · pattern فَعْلRoot
و ش يIn the library
واختصت بذلك للوطن، كصناعة الوشي والعصب وما يستجاد من حوك الثياب والحرير فيها.
The Muqaddimah, page 238 →From the same root
- وَشَىَembellish, denounce
- وَشَّىَembellish, embroider
- واشِيslanderer, denunciator
- أُوشِيَّةprayer, oration
- وِشايَةdefamation, slander
- تَوْشِيَةembellishment, embroidery
Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 6 entries-
وَشَى Form I He variegated, or figured
, inf. n. وَشْىٌ, He variegated, or figured, a piece of cloth, or a garment; (Mgh, Msb, * K;) and embellished it. (K.) ― -b2- وَشَى بِهِ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ, (S, K,) or عِنْدَ السُّلْطَانِ, (Msb,) He calumniated, or misrepresented, him to the Sultán. (S, Msb, K.) -
شِيَةٌ Any colour differing from the main colour
Any colour differing from the main colour of a horse, &c.; a colour differing from the rest, (S,) or from that which generally pervades a thing. ― -b2- لَا شِيَةَ فِيهِ It is of one generally pervading colour, in which is no other colour. ― -b3- شِيَةٌ [also] A mark, sign, symptom, or token, by which a thing is known; syn. عَلَامَةٌ; (Msb;) and مَخِيلَةٌ, which see. -
وَشْىٌ A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth, or garment
, originally an inf. n., A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth, or garment. (Mgh, Msb. *) ― -b2- وَشْىٌ The variegation, figured work, or figuring, of a garment; making it partycoloured. ― -b3- وَشى sometimes signifies A natural diversity of colours: see رُمْلَةٌ. ― -b4- وَشْىٌ of a sword: see فِرِنْدٌ. -
شِيَوِىٌّ Open entry
: see what next follows. -
وَشَوِىٌّ Open entry
rel. n. of شِيَةٌ, the rad. و being restored; (S in the present art.;) and so ↓ شِيَوِىٌّ, like عِدَوِىٌّ [of عِدَةٌ]. (S in art. وعد.) -
قَوْلٌ مَوْشِىٌّ بِهِ A saying misrepresented
[A saying misrepresented]. (TA in art. قت, in an explanation of قَوْلٌ مَقْتُوتٌ.) ― -b2- مَوْشِىٌّ is used by Aboo-Dhu-eyb to signify A musical reed-pipe. (TA, art. نوب.)
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