فحص

1 فَحَصَتِ القَطَاةُ ذ , aor. فَحَصَ , inf. n. فَحْصٌ, (Msb,) and مَفْحَصٌ is the same as فَحْصٌ, being used transitively, and not only as a n. of place, (TA,) The قطاة [i. e. sand-grouse ] dug, or hollowed out, in the ground, a place wherein to lay her eggs: (Msb:) and فَحَصَتِ التُّرَابَ, aor. as above, she (a قطاة) made for herself an أُفْحُوص [q. v.] (A, K) in the earth, or dust. (K.) ― -b2- Hence you say, (Msb,) فَحَصَ عَنْهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. فَحَصَ , (A, K,) inf. n. فَحْصٌ; (S;) and ↓ تفحّص; (S, A, Msb, K;) and ↓ افتحص; (S, A, K;) He searched, or sought, for, or after, it; inquired respecting it; sought for information respecting it; searched into, inquired into, investigated, scrutinized, or examined, it: (S, A, K:) or did so to the utmost: (Msb:) or فَحْصٌ signifies vigorous searching in the interstices of anything. (TA.) You say also, عَلَيْكَ بِالفَحْصِ عَنْ سِرِّ هٰذَا الحَدِيثِ (tropical:) [ Keep thou to searching for, or after, or into, the secret of this story ]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- Hence also, the saying of Aboo-Bekr, سَتَجِدُ قَوْمًا فَحَصُوا عَنْ أَوْسَاطِ رُؤُوسِهِمُ الشَّعَرَ, (Az, TA,) or فَحَصُوا عَنْ رُؤُوسِهِمْ [alone], (S,) Thou wilt find a people who have made their heads like the nests (أَفَاحِيص) of [ the birds called ] قَطًا: (Az, TA:) or, app., who have shaven the middle of their heads and left them like the أَفَاحِيص of قَطًا. (S, TA.) [See also أُفْحُوصٌ.] ― -b4- فَحْصٌ also signifies The digging, or hollowing out [the ground &c., in any manner]. (TA.) It is said in a trad., فُحِصَتِ الأَرْضُ أَفَاحِيصَ The earth was dug into hollows. (Nh, L.) And you say, فَحَصَ لِلْخُبْزَةِ, aor. فَحَصَ , inf. n. فَحْصٌ, He made, for the cake of bread, or lump of dough, a place in the fire; (TA;) or a place in the hot ashes, or in the fire, to put it therein [ for the purpose of baking, or toasting, it ]. (L in art. فأد.) [فَحَصَ is often used intransitively as meaning He made, or scraped, a hollow in the ground, &c.; and so ↓ تفحّص.] And sometimes they said, (S,) فَحَصَ المَطَرُ التُّرَابَ The rain turned over the dust, or earth, (S, A, K,) and removed one part thereof from another, (A, TA,) making it like the أُفْحُوص: (TA:) and in like manner, الحَصَى the pebbles: (A:) this is when it falls vehemently. (TA.) ― -b5- فَحَصَ also signifies He (a gazelle) ran vehemently [app. so as to dig up the ground with his feet ]; but the word more known is مَحَصَ: (TA:) and he (a man) hastened, or went quickly. (K.) You say, مَرَّ فُلَانٌ يَفْحَصُ Such a one passed along hastening, or going quickly. (TA.) And it is said in a trad. of Kuss, وَلَا سَمِعْتُ فَحْصًا Nor did I hear the falling of a foot, or the sound of walking. (TA.) ― -b6- You say also, فَحَصَ الصَّبِىُّ, meaning, (assumed tropical:) The child had his central incisors in a wabbling state: (K:) [nearly syn. with حَفَرَ, and still more so with أَحْفَرَ.] ― -b7- And فَحْصٌ also signifies The spreading [a thing] out or open; laying [it] open; exposing or uncovering or discovering [it]. (TA.)