حَاسَّةٌ

Root: حس

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حَاسَّةٌ sing. of حَوَاسُّ, which signifies The five senses; the hearing, the sight, the smell, the taste, and the touch: these are the external: the internal are also five; but authors disagree respecting the seats thereof. [See also حِسٌّ.]
2 [A feeling; as in the saying,] أَطَّتْ لَهُ مِنِّى حَاسَّةُ رَحِمٍ [A feel-ling of relationship, or consanguinity, pleaded for him on my part].
3 [An organ of sense; as when you say,] العَيْنُ حَاسَّةُ الرُّؤْيَةِ [العين is the organ of the sense of sight]. (S in art. عين.)

def.2 [حَاسَّةٌ also signifies A thing that destroys, consumes, or injures, herbage or the like. Hence,] حَوَاسٌ الأَرْضِ Cold and hail [in one copy of the S heat] and wind and locusts and the beasts [that pasture]: these also being five. You say, أَصَابَتِ الأَرْضَ حَاسَّةٌ Cold smote the land: the ة is to denote intensiveness. [See also حِسٌّ, last signification.] And أَصَابَتْهُمْ حَاسَّةٌ Injury befell them from cold or some other cause. حَاسَّةٌ also signifies Wind that removes the dust into the pools of water left by torrents, and fills them, so that the moist earth dries up. And Locusts eating the herbage of the land. You say also, مَرَّتْ بِالقَوْمِ حَوَاسُّ, meaning Severe years passed over the people.

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