فرّس
Root: فرس
Form: 2
Full Definition
def.2 فرّسه الشَّىْءَ, He exposed to him the thing, [meaning the animal,] that he might seize it, and break, or crush so as to break, its neck: and إَيَّاهُ the threw, or cast, it to him, that he might do so to it: and الرَّجُلُ الأَسَدَ حِمَارَهُ the man left his ass to the lion, that he might break his neck, or kill him, or make him his prey, while he himself should escape. El-'Ajjáj uses the former verb in relation to the kind of flies called نُعَر, saying,
[A beating which, when it falls upon the tops of heads, digs, in the pates, hollows that afford prey to the blue stinging flies]; meaning, that these wounds are wide, and enable the نعر to obtainضَرْبًا إِذَا صَابَ اليَآفِيخَ ٱحْتَفَرْ فِى الهَامِ دُحْلَانًا يُفَرِّسْنَ النُّعَرْ
[They had sent me among the girls with swelling breasts, as a guardian; and, by my father, while guardian of the girls with swelling breasts, or by the father of the guardian of the girls with swelling breasts, I was made a prey: there came thither wolves not caring for a guardian, and those females were pasturing camels eagerly desiring to be given as prey]: he likens these women to pasturing camels, although differing from them inasmuch as the latter do not eagerly desire to be given as prey, since this would be a cause of their death, whereas women do eagerly desire it, since فَرْسُ الرِّجَالِ لِلنِّسَآءِ [lit. men's making women their prey] is in this caseقَدْ أَرْسَلُونِى قِى الكَوَاعِبِ رَاعِيًا فَقَدْ وَأَبِى رَاعِى الكَوَاعِبِ أَتَتْهُ ذِئَابٌ لَا يُبَالِينَ رَاعِيًا وَكُنُّ سَوَامًا تَشْتَهِى أَنْ تُفَرَّسَا
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