بَلَاسٌ

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بَلَاسٌ , like سَلَامٌ, and سَحَابٌ, [in a copy of the M written بِلَاسٌ,] A [garment, or piece of stuff, of the kind called] مِسْح [i. e. of hair-cloth]: used in this sense by the people of El-Medeeneh: a Persian word; originally بَلَاسٌ, without ال: arabicized: also called by the Arabs پَلَاس, with the ب termed مُشَبَّع: pl. بُلُسٌ. [The pl.] بُلُسٌ is also applied to Large sacks of مُسُوح [i. e. hair-cloths], in which figs are put, [or, more probably, in which straw is put, for التِّين, which I find in two copies of the S and in the TA, can hardly be doubted to be a mistranscription of التِّبْن], and upon which is paraded he who is made a public example that others may take warning from him, and the subject of a proclamation [acquainting the spectators with his offence]: whence the imprecation, أَرَانِيكَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَىالبُلُسِ [May God show me thee upon the large haircloth-sacks].

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