فُرَاتٌ

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فُرَاتٌ , applied to water, and فُرَاهٌ, both chaste forms, and well known, like تَابُوتٌ and تَابُوهٌ, Sweet: or very sweet: or of the sweetest kind: or that subdues thirst by its excessive sweetness: so called, accord. to Z, because it breaks the vehemence of thirst, and allays it; as though from رَفَتَ, and formed by transposition: you say مَآءٌ فُرَاتٌ, and in a copy of the K فِرَاتٌ also, and مِيَاهٌ فُرَاتٌ, and فِرْتَانٌ, (M, Msb, in copies of the K فُرْتَانٌ, and in the CK فَرْتَانٌ,) like غِرْبَانٌ [pl. of غُرَابٌ], when فُرَاتٌ is pluralized, but this is rarely the case.
2 الفُرَاتُ signifies also [The Euphrates;] the river of ElKoofeh; a great, celebrated river, which issues from the limits of Er-Room, then passes by the borders of Syria &c., and, after meeting with the Tigris, forms therewith one river, and pours forth into the Sea [or Gulf] of Persia. And الفُرَاتَانِ is an appellation applied to [The Euphrates and Tigris; i. e.] الفُرَاتُ and دِجْلَةُ: or, accord. to the S [and O] الفُرَاتُ and دُجَيْلٌ [The Euphrates and Dujeyl, which latter is a branch of the Tigris].
3 Also The sea: so in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb describing pearls as found therein.

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