فرت

فُرَاتٌ ذ , applied to water, (T, S, M, &c.,) and فُرَاهٌ, both chaste forms, and well known, like تَابُوتٌ and تَابُوهٌ, (Towsheeh, MF, TA,) Sweet: (S, O:) or very sweet: (K:) or of the sweetest kind: (T, M, L:) or that subdues thirst by its excessive sweetness: (Bd in xxv. 55:) so called, accord. to Z, because it breaks the vehemence of thirst, and allays it; as though from رَفَتَ, and formed by transposition: (TA:) you say مَاآءٌ فُرَاتٌ, (S, M, O, K,) and in a copy of the K فِرَاتٌ also, (TA,) and مِيَاهٌ فُرَاتٌ, (S, M, O, K,) and فِرْتَانٌ, (M, Msb, in copies of the K فُرْتَانٌ, and in the CK فَرْتَانٌ,) like غِرْبَانٌ [pl. of غُرَابٌ], when فُرَاتٌ is pluralized, but this is rarely the case. (Msb.) ― -b2- الفُرَاتُ signifies also [ The Euphrates; ] the river of ElKoofeh; (S, Mgh, O, * K; *) a great, celebrated river, which issues from the limits of Er-Room, then passes by the borders of Syria &c., and, after meeting with the Tigris, forms therewith one river, and pours forth into the Sea [or Gulf ] of Persia. (Msb, TA.) And الفُرَاتَانِ is an appellation applied to [ The Euphrates and Tigris; i. e.] الفُرَاتُ and دِجْلَةُ: or, accord. to the S [and O] الفُرَاتُ and دُجَيْلٌ [ The Euphrates and Dujeyl, which latter is a branch of the Tigris]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also The sea: (M, K:) so in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb describing pearls as found therein. (M.)