فحش

فَاحِشٌ ذ Anything, (Msb, TA,) or any evil thing, (S,) excessive, immoderate, enormous, exorbitant, beyond measure, exceeding the proper bounds or limits, (S, O, Msb, TA,) or overmuch: (O, K, TA:) anything not agreeable with truth, and with rule or measure: (TA:) foul, evil, bad, abominable, or unseemly; [ gross, immodest, lewd, or obscene; ] applied to a thing or an affair, (Mgh, Msb,) and to speech or language. (TA.) It is said in a trad., He was asked respecting the blood of fleas, [whether it rendered a garment impure,] and said اـِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فَاحِشًا فَلَا بَأْسَ بِهِ If it is not excessive, or beyond measure, there is no harm in it. (TA.) ― -b2- A man who transgresses the proper bounds or limits [ in anything: and particularly] in speech or language, (TA,) and in reply: (K, * TA:) who is foul, evil, bad, abominable, or unseemly; [ gross, immodest, lewd, or obscene; ] in speech or language, (Mgh, TA,) and in action: (TA:) and ↓ فَحَّاشٌ signifies the same; (S, * A, * Mgh;) or has an intensive signification: (TA:) pl. of the former فُحَشَاآءُ, like as جُهَلَاآءُ is pl. of جَاهِلٌ, since فُحْش is a sort of جَهْل, and contr. of حِلْم. (IJ.) It is said in a trad., لَا تَكُونِى فَاحِشَةً, meaning Be not thou a trangressor of the proper bounds or limits in reply: which words were addressed to 'Áïsheh: (K, TA:) but accord. to one relation, the words were لَا تَقُولِى فَاحِشَةً. (TA.) [See فَاحِشَةٌ, below.] ― -b3- A man evil in disposition. (IB.) ― -b4- A man niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious: (A, TA:) or very niggardly: (K, TA:) or excessively, or inordinately, so. (S.)