تفرّس
Root: فرس
Form: 5
Full Definition
def.2 He acted deliberately, and considered, or examined, a thing, or did so repeatedly, in order to know it, or to obtain a clear knowledge of it.
2 تفرّس فِيهِ الشَّىْءِ [He perceived in him the thing intuitively; or by a kind of thaumaturgic faculty, and by right opinion and conjecture: or by means of indications, or evidences, and experiments, and the make and dispositions: (see فِرَاسَةٌ, below:) or] he perceived in him the thing by forming a correct opinion from its outward signs; syn. تَوَسَّمَهُ. You say, تَفَرَّسْتُ فِيهِ خَيْرًا, or الخَيْرَ, [I perceived in him good, or goodness, intuitively; &c.: or] I discovered (تَعَرَّفْتُ) in him good, or goodness, by right opinion. [ بِالنَّظَرِ, and بِنَظَرِهِ, and بِعَيْنِهِ, Verbal.Noun فِرَاسَةٌ and فَرَاسَةٌ, signifies the same as تفرّس; i. e., He perceived, or discerned, the internal, inward, or intrinsic, state, condition, character, or circumstances, by examination of outward indications, &c., and by his eye. And so فِى النَّاسِ He saw into the internal, inward, or intrinsic, states, &c., of men. See فِرَاسَةٌ, below.]
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