فَلْسٌ

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فَلْسٌ [A small copper coin;] a thing well known, used in buying and selling; the forty-eighth part of a dirhem: [i. e., about half a farthing of our money:] so in Egypt: pl. أَفْلُسٌ, and فُلُوسٌ. [The dim. of the former of these pls. is أُفَيْلِسٌ : see an ex. below, voce مُفْلِسٌ. The pl. فُلُوس is the common term for Money in Egypt and some other parts in the present day.]
2 [Hence, Anything resembling a small coin: as
3 A counter of metal:
4 and A scale of a fish: as Sgh says,] فُلُوسُ السَّمَكِ signifies what are on the back of the fish, resembling the [coins called] فُلُوس.
5 And The seal of the جِزْيَة [or tax paid by the free non-muslim subject of a Muslim government], which was hung upon the neck, or upon the throat.

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