فَرْشٌ

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فَرْشٌ [an Verbal.Noun of 1, q. v. passim.
2 Also, used in the sense of a pass. part. n. in which the quality of a subst. is predominant,] What is spread, of household furniture, [such as carpets and mattresses and the like. See also فِرَاشٌ.]
3 Seed-produce when it spreads itself upon the ground: in [some of] the copies of the K, instead of إِذَا فَرَّشَ, which is the right reading, we find اذا فُرِشَ: accord. to some, the word signifies seed-produce when it has become three-leaved, or four-leaved.
4 A place abounding with plants or herbage.
5 A wide, or spacious, plain, or tract of land, or place: or land that is plain, or even, and soft, and unobstructed by mountains: or a depressed tract of land in which are trees of the kinds called عُرْفُط and سَلَم, which cause the mouths of the camels that eat them to become relaxed. [Hence, app., the saying,] مِنَ العَرْشِ إِلَى الفَرْشِ, meaning, [From the highest sphere, or the empyrean, to] the earth. (A in art. عرش.)
6 A collection of trees of the kind called عِضَاه: and a round plot of trees of the kind called طَلْح.
7 Shrubs, or small trees: and small fire-wood.
8 Young camels; or the young of camels; and فَرِيشٌ is said to have this meaning; but accord. to Aboo-Bekr, erroneously: so the former signifies in the Kur vi. 143: Fr says, I have heard no pl. of it: and he adds, that it may here be an Verbal.Noun used as a subst., from the saying, فَرَشَهَا ٱللّٰهُ فَرْشًا, meaning, بَثَّهَا بَثًّا: [see 1:] but it is said in the K that in all of the above-mentioned senses that are assigned to it in that work, it has no sing.; meaning that it is used alike as sing. and pl.: and bulls or cows: and sheep or goats: so accord. to some of the expositors of the Kur: and such as are fit for nothing but slaughter, of camels, and of bulls or cows, and of sheep or goats; as some say: or such as is thrown down (يُفْرَشُ, i. e., يُلْقَى,) for slaughter, of the young of camels, and bulls or cows, and sheep or goats; used alike as sing. and pl.: and فَرْشُ الإِبِلِ also signifies old camels.

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