انحصّ

Root: حص

Form: 7

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انحصّVII quasi-pass. of حَصَّهُ in the first of the senses explained above; It became shaven off; as also , [sec. pers., app., حَصِصْتَ, and Present.T يَحَصُّ,] Verbal.Noun حَصِيصٌ [and app. حَصَصٌ, q. v. infrà]; or, as some say, حص [perhaps a mistake for حَصَصٌ or حَصِيصٌ] signifies the hair's going from the head by shaving or by disease: and the former verb, it went from the head; became removed, or stripped off; fell off, and became scattered, by degrees; as also : the former is also said of the plumage of a bird; and of the foliage of trees; in the last of the senses mentioned above: and [in like manner] تَحَصْحَصَ it became removed, or stripped off. You say also, انحصّت اللِّحْيَةُ The beard became short, its hair breaking off in pieces. And انحصّ الذَّنَبُ The tail became cut off. It is said in a prov., أَفْلَتَ وَ ٱنْحَصَّ الذَّنَبُ [He escaped, but the tail became cut off]: applied to him who has been at the point of destruction, and then escaped: or alluding to the coward's escape from destruction after being at the point thereof: related to have been said by Mo'áwiyeh, on the occasion of the safe return of an ambassador whom he had sent to the King of the Greeks, appointing for him a threefold bloodwit [if he should be slain] on the condition of his proclaiming the call to prayer on entering his court; which he did; whereupon the King's generals, who were with him, sprang forward to slay him; but he forbade them, and sent him back furnished with requisites for his journey. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 201.] You also say, انحصّ رَأْسُهُ [His head shed, or lost, its hair: or part thereof]: and تَحَصْحَصَ الحِمَارُ, and البَعِيرُ, the ass's, and the camel's, hair fell off.

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