وَيْسٌ

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وَيْسٌ a word used to. denote compassion, or pity, and admiration of one's beauty; the object being a child; as when one says of a child, وَيْسَهُ مَا أَمْلَحَهُ [Merry on him! or the like: how beautiful is he!]: or وَيْسٌ and وَيْحٌ are used in the place of وَيْلٌ; and وَيْسٌ لَهُ signifies وَيْلٌ لَهُ [Woe to him!]: or, as some say, وَيْسٌ is a word denoting contempt; and has no verb; analogy forbidding that it should have one: Aboo-Turáb says, I heard Abu-sSemeyda' say, وَيْسٌ and وَيْحٌ and وَيْلٌ have one meaning: or وَيْسَكَ is not said except to children; and وَيْلَكَ is an expression in which is roughness and reproach; and ويح is a gentle and good expression. See ويْحٌ and وَيْلٌ and وَيْبٌ.
2 It also signifies Poverty. And one may say, if it be right to say so to one, وَيْسٌ لَهُ as meaning Poverty be to him.
3 Also, What a man desires. So in the phrase لَقِىَ وَيْسًا He found, or met with, or experienced, what he desired; accord. to an explanation given by IAar; so that it means much: but in one place he says that this phrase signifies he found, &c., what he did not desire.

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