فِرَاشٌ
Root: فرش
Full Definition
فِرَاشٌ
A thing that is spread upon the ground: a thing that is spread for one to sit or lie upon; in which sense it is used in the Kur ii. 20: and particularly, a bed, upon which one sleeps: pl. [of pauc.] أَفْرِشَةٌ and [of mult.] فُرُشٌ, for which one may say, in the dial. of the Benoo-Temeem, فُرْشٌ. [See also فَرْشٌ: and see what is quoted below from a trad.]
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6 And الفِرَاشُ signifies The place against which the tongue goes in the furthest, or innermost, part of the mouth; or, as some say, in the lower part of the حَنَك [which word app. here, as it often does, means the palate]: or فِرَاشُ اللِّسَانِ signifies the portion of skin (الجِلْدَةُ [to which is here added الشَّنَّآء, app. a mistranscription which I am unable to rectify,] that covers the bases of the upper teeth. (TA. [In the TA voce مَحَارَةُ, in art. حور, q. v., q. v., it is written الفِرَاشَةُ.])
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3 Also
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6 And الفِرَاشُ signifies The place against which the tongue goes in the furthest, or innermost, part of the mouth; or, as some say, in the lower part of the حَنَك [which word app. here, as it often does, means the palate]: or فِرَاشُ اللِّسَانِ signifies the portion of skin (الجِلْدَةُ [to which is here added الشَّنَّآء, app. a mistranscription which I am unable to rectify,] that covers the bases of the upper teeth. (TA. [In the TA voce مَحَارَةُ, in art. حور, q. v., q. v., it is written الفِرَاشَةُ.])
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