فَأْرٌ
Root: فأر
Full Definition
فَأْرٌ
[A kind of animal,] well known, [the genus mus; the rat; the mouse; and the like]; with ء, and without ء; [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: [in the S and O and Msb, فَأْرٌ is said to be pl. of فَأْرَةٌ, but in the last is added, like تَمْرَةٌ and تَمْرٌ, showing that by pl. is meant coll. gen. n.:] the pl. of فأر, or of فأرة, is فِئْرَانٌ and فِئِرَةٌ: accord. to IAar, فُؤَرٌ , like صُرَدٌ, is applied to the male: but this last word occurs in the phrase الفَأْر الفُؤَر, [in which الفأر is evidently used in a sense mentioned below, namely, “ the muscles, ” as is indicated in the T and O,] and, accord. to some, [الفُؤَر is a corroborative epithet, for they say that] this phrase is like لَيْلٌ لَائِلٌ and يَوْمٌ أَيْوَمُ: فَأْرَةٌ is applied [accord. to some] to the female; or [more correctly] to the male and the female, like as حَمَامَةٌ is applied to the male and the female of the [genus] حَمَام.
2 Also Musk: this is sometimes called فَأْرٌ because it is from the [animal, or from a kind of animal, called] فَأْر, as some say.
3 And فَأْرَةُ المِسْكِ signifies The bag, follicle, or vesicle, (نَافِجَة, S, M, O, K, or نَافِقَة, T,) of musk: and is also without ء; or it should correctly be mentioned in art. فور, [as being called فَارَةٌ] because of the spreading (فَوَرَان) of its odour: or it may be with ء because it has the appearance, or form, of the [animal called] فَأْرَة. It was said to an Arab of the desert أَتَهْمِزُ الفَأْرَةَ, (K, TA, in the CK أَتُهْمَزُ الفَأْرُ,) [meaning Dost thou pronounce فارة with hemz?], and he replied, [understanding the animal so called to be meant,] الهِرَّةُ تَهْمِزُهَا, meaning, [The cat] bites it.
4 [Hence, app., by a synecdoche, فَأْرَةُ المِسْكِ is applied to The mush-animal, or Tibet-musk; moschus moschiferus:] El-Jáhidh says, I asked a perfumer, of [the sect of] the Moatezileh, respecting [the animal called] فأرة المسك, and he said, it is not a mouse, or rat, (فأرة,) but is more like a young gazelle: it is found in the region of Tubbat [or Tibet]; and is hunted; and the man who catches it binds tightly its navel, [or rather its umbilical follicle,] which being pendent, the blood collects in it; then it is slaughtered; and when it is quiet, he cuts out the bound navel, and buries it in barley (شعير) until the congealed blood becomes converted into strong-scented musk.
5 And فَأْرَةُ الإِبِلِ signifies The sweet odour of the camels, [likened to that of the vesicle of musk,] which diffuses itself from them when they have pastured upon the herbs and their blossoms, or, as some say, upon the [plant called] خُزَامَى [q. v.], and then drunk, and returned from the water, with their skins moist: so says Yaakoob. Thus in a verse cited voce ذَفِرٌ. (S, O. [Therefore فَأْرَةٌ ذَفْرَآءُ should there be rendered A pungent sweet odour like that of a vesicle of musk. But see فَارَة, in art. فور.])
def.2 الفَأْرُ signifies also
def.3 And A species of trees; with and without ء: and فَأْرَةٌ [as its n. un.] a tree [of that species].
def.4 Also A certain well-known measure, or quantity, of wheat: in this sense an adventitious word.
2 Also Musk: this is sometimes called فَأْرٌ because it is from the [animal, or from a kind of animal, called] فَأْر, as some say.
3 And فَأْرَةُ المِسْكِ signifies The bag, follicle, or vesicle, (نَافِجَة, S, M, O, K, or نَافِقَة, T,) of musk: and is also without ء; or it should correctly be mentioned in art. فور, [as being called فَارَةٌ] because of the spreading (فَوَرَان) of its odour: or it may be with ء because it has the appearance, or form, of the [animal called] فَأْرَة. It was said to an Arab of the desert أَتَهْمِزُ الفَأْرَةَ, (K, TA, in the CK أَتُهْمَزُ الفَأْرُ,) [meaning Dost thou pronounce فارة with hemz?], and he replied, [understanding the animal so called to be meant,] الهِرَّةُ تَهْمِزُهَا, meaning, [The cat] bites it.
4 [Hence, app., by a synecdoche, فَأْرَةُ المِسْكِ is applied to The mush-animal, or Tibet-musk; moschus moschiferus:] El-Jáhidh says, I asked a perfumer, of [the sect of] the Moatezileh, respecting [the animal called] فأرة المسك, and he said, it is not a mouse, or rat, (فأرة,) but is more like a young gazelle: it is found in the region of Tubbat [or Tibet]; and is hunted; and the man who catches it binds tightly its navel, [or rather its umbilical follicle,] which being pendent, the blood collects in it; then it is slaughtered; and when it is quiet, he cuts out the bound navel, and buries it in barley (شعير) until the congealed blood becomes converted into strong-scented musk.
5 And فَأْرَةُ الإِبِلِ signifies The sweet odour of the camels, [likened to that of the vesicle of musk,] which diffuses itself from them when they have pastured upon the herbs and their blossoms, or, as some say, upon the [plant called] خُزَامَى [q. v.], and then drunk, and returned from the water, with their skins moist: so says Yaakoob. Thus in a verse cited voce ذَفِرٌ. (S, O. [Therefore فَأْرَةٌ ذَفْرَآءُ should there be rendered A pungent sweet odour like that of a vesicle of musk. But see فَارَة, in art. فور.])
def.2 الفَأْرُ signifies also
def.3 And A species of trees; with and without ء: and فَأْرَةٌ [as its n. un.] a tree [of that species].
def.4 Also A certain well-known measure, or quantity, of wheat: in this sense an adventitious word.
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