silence, gag

, (Msb, K,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. خَرَسٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) He (a man) was dumb; was naturally, by conformation, prevented from speaking; (Msb;) [he was destitute of the faculty of speech, by natural conformation, like the beast: see أَخْرَسُ:] or he was, or became, tonguetied, or withheld from speech, (A, K,) either from inability to find words to express what he would say, or by natural conformation [of the organs of speech]. (TA.) You say also خَرِسَ المَجْلِسُ The assembly was, or became, mute, or speechless. (A.) -A2- خَرَسَ المَرْأَةَ, (Lh, IAth,) aor. , (Lh,) [inf. n., app., خَرْسٌ,] He fed the woman with what is termed خُرْسَة; (Lh, IAth;) He fed her on the occasion of child-birth; (Lh;) as also ↓ خرّس عَليهَا, inf. n. تَخْرِيسٌ (S, K) and تَخْرِسَةٌ. (TA.) In like manner you say, ↓ خرّسهَا, inf. n. تَخْرِيسٌ; and خرس عَنْهَا; [so in the TA, without any syll. signs to the verb;] He made for her what is termed خُرْسَة. (TA.) And ↓ خُرِسَتْ, (S, L,) or خُرِسَتْ, (so in a copy of the A,) She was fed with what is so termed: (A:) or a feast on the occasion of her having given birth to a child was made for her. (S, L.) -A3- خَرِسَ, aor. , He drank from the [kind of wine-jar called] خَرْس, (Sgh, K,) i. e. the دَنّ. (TA.)

see خَرَسَ, in three places.

[God made him to be dumb: see خَرِسَ]: (S:) God made him to be tonguetied, or speechless, (A, K,) either from inability to find words to express what he would say, or by natural conformation [of the organs of speech]. (TA.)

She made for herself the food for the occasion of child-birth, (A, * K,) i. e., what is called خُرْسَة. (TA.) Hence the prov. تَخَرَّسِى يَانَفْسُ لَا مُخَرِّسَةَ لَكِ (A, * TA) Make thou the food for child-birth for thyself, O self: there is no maker of it for thee: said by a woman who had given birth to a child and had not any one to care for her: alluding to a man's taking care for himself: (K, TA:) and also related [in the A] without the words يا نفس. (TA.)

[He feigned himself dumb, or speechless,] is from خَرِسَ المَجْلِسُ: hence إِذَا شَهِدْتَ مَنْ لَا يَفْهَمُ عَنْكَ فَتَخَارَسٌ [When thou art present with, or beholdest, him who will not understand what thou sayest, then feign thyself dumb, or speechless]. (A.)

A [wine-jar such as is called] دَنّ; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ خِرْسٌ, (Kr, K,) and خِرْصٌ: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْرَاسٌ (JK) and [of mult.] خُرُوسٌ. (K.)

Food that is prepared on the occasion of the birth of a child; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خِرَاسٌ. (Lh, TA.) IJ seems to assign to it also the sense of خُرْسَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, as also ↓ the second word, A feast, or banquet, that is prepared on that occasion, and to which people are invited: so in a trad. of Hassán, كَانَ إِذَا دُعِىَ إِلَى طَعَامٍ قَالَ إِلَى عُرْسٍ أَمْ خُرْسٍ أَمْ إِعْذَارٍ [He used, when he was invited to food, to say, To a weddingfeast, or a feast for child-birth, or a circumcisionfeast?]; and if it were for one of these, he consented: but if not, he did not consent. (TA.)

: see خَرْسٌ.

Food for a woman who has given birth to a child; (S, A, K;) what is made for her, such as فَرِيقَة and the like; as also [خُرْصَةٌ,] with ص. (TA.) خُرْسَةُ مَرْيَمَ [The child-birth-food of Maryam], applied to dates, and occurring in a trad., alludes to verse 25 of chap. xix. of the Kur, وَهُزِّى إِلَيْكِ الخ: and Khálid Ibn-Safwán uses in the same manner the phrase ↓ تَخْرِسَةُ مَرْيَمَ; in which تخرسة is an inf. n. used as a subst.; or it may be a subst., like تَوْرِيَةٌ. (TA.)

A she-camel that does not utter the cry termed رُغَآء. (Ibn-' Abbád, Sgh, K.)

: see خُرْسٌ, in two places.

A بِكْر [or female that has not yet brought forth] in the first period of her pregnancy: and (some say, S) one for whom خُرْسَة is made: (S, K:) and one having a scanty flow of milk. (Sgh, K.)