شخص

شَخْصٌ ذ The body, or bodily or corporeal form or figure or substance, (سَوَاد,) of a man, (S, A, Msb, K,) or some other object or thing, (S, A, K,) which one sees from a distance: (S, A, Msb, K:) applying in common to what is termed جُثَّةٌ and what is termed طَلَلٌ, in relation to a man; i. e., in relation to a man sitting or sleeping [or lying down ], and in relation to a man standing erect: (Msb, voce جُثَّةٌ:) or it is applied only to a body, or material substance, composed, [ not simple, ] and having height: (El-Khattábee, Msb, TA:) or any body, or material thing or substance, [ that is somewhat high, and conspicuous, or] having height and appearance: (IAth, TA:) pl. (of pauc., S) أَشْخُصٌ (S, K) and (of mult., S) أَشْخَاصٌ [which is properly another pl. of pauc.] and شُخُوصٌ (S, A, K) and شِخَاصٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Then used as signifying (assumed tropical:) A man himself; a man's self, or person; his ذَات; (Msb;) [i. e.,] a person; a being; an individual; syn. نَفْسٌ [also syn. with ذَاتٌ]; (L, TA;) as in the following verse of 'Amr Ibn-Rabee'ah, cited by Sb: فَكَانَ مِجَنِّى دُونَ مَنْ كُنْتُ أَتَّقِى ثَلَاثُ شُخُوصٍ كَاعِبَانِ وَمُعْصِرُ (assumed tropical:) [ And three persons, namely, two girls whose breasts were beginning to swell and one who had attained the age of puberty, were my shield against such as I was fearing ]: meaning ثَلَاثَةُ أَنْفُسٍ: (L:) [the poet making the word in question fem. because it relates here to females: but] Rubeh is related to have said ثَلَاثَةُ أَشْخُصٍ, meaning, of women. (M, voce نَفْسٌ.) A شَخْص [meaning a person ] ceases to be a شخص by its being divided; whereas, when a جِسْم is divided, no part of it ceases to be a جسم. (Er-Rághib, TA in art. جسم.) It is said in a trad., لَا شَخْصَ أَغْيَرُ مِنَ ا@للّٰهِ (tropical:) [ There is not any being more jealous than God ]; شخص being here metaphorically used for ذَات: or the meaning is, a person (شخص) should not be more jealous than God: but accord. to one relation, the words are لَا شَىْءَ أَغْيَرُ مِنَ ا@للّٰهِ [which has the first of the two meanings mentioned above]. (IAth, TA.) [It is also used in a pl. sense: see a verse of Ziyád el-Aajam in art. الى.]