wāshī

slanderer, denunciator

واشِي

Word

Noun · pattern فاعِل

Root

و ش ي

Forms

Plural: وُشاَة

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قال دبشليم الملك لبيدبا الفيلسوف: قد حدثتني عن الواشي الماهر المحتال، كيف يفسد بالنميمة المودة الثابتة بين المتحابين.

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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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