Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

فحّى

Root: فحو

Form: 2

Full Definition

فحّىII , Verbal.Noun تَفْحِيَةٌ, He made the cooking-pot to have a large quantity of أَبَازِير [or seeds used in cooking, for seasoning the food: from فَحًا, q. v.]: or, accord. to Aboo- 'Alee El-Kálee, he put, or threw, into the cookingpot, أَبَازِير, i. e. تَوَابِل. It is said, by Z, [but with hardly any reason that I can see,] to be formed by transposition from the letters فوح thus combined.

def.2 See also 1, in two places.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more