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فَصَعَ

Root: فصع

Form: 1

Full Definition

فَصَعَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun فَصْعٌ, He squeezed, or pressed, a fresh ripe date, with his two fingers [or his thumb and a finger], so that it should become divested of its skin; and in like manner, a fig: or he made it to come forth from its skin, [to which SM adds, as from A' Obeyd,] in order that it might ripen quickly. The act thus explained is forbidden in a trad.; [but I have not found for what reason.]
2 And He rubbed a thing with his two fingers, in order that it might become soft, and open so as to disclose what was in it.
3 And He pulled or stripped, or put off, [a garment or the like]. You say, فَصَعَ عِمَامَتَهُ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ He removed, or took off, his turban from his head.
4 Said of a boy [not yet circumcised], He withdrew his prepuce from his glans; and so .
5 فَصَعَتْ said of a mare; She disclosed and concealed alternately her vulva on the occasion of staling.
6 فَصَعَ لِى بِكَذَا, Verbal.Noun فَصْعٌ, He gave to me such a thing: [or] فصّع لِى بِحَقِّى, Verbal.Noun تَفْصِيعٌ, he gave to me my right, or due: and فَصَعَ لَهُ بِٱلْمَالِ he gave to him the property; as also فصّع .
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