فرش

فَرَاشٌ ذ [ Moths, and the like, that fly into the flame of a lamp &c.;] the flying things (S, TA) that fall one after another into the lamp, or lighted wick, (S, K, TA,) to burn themselves: (TA:) [and accord. to modern usage, butterflies also:] a pl., [or rather a coll. gen. n.,] of which the sing. [or n. un.] is ↓ with ة: (S, K:) the former mentioned in the Kur ci. 3: (TA:) or the former signifies what one sees, resembling small gnats, falling, one after another, into the fire: (Zj:) or young locusts, when their wings grow, (Fr, Mgh, Jel,) and they spread them forth, (Mgh,) and mount, one upon another: (Fr, Mgh:) and silk-worms; app. so called because they become like these when they come forth from the cocoon. (Mgh.) It is said in a prov., ↓ أَطْيَشُ مِنْ فَرَاشَةٍ [ More light, or unsteady, or light-witted, than a moth that flies into the flame of the lamp ]. (S.) And ↓ فَرَاشَةٌ is used to signify (tropical:) A man who is light (A, K) in head; (A, TA;) light-witted, or unsteady; (TA;) such being likened to the فراشة of the lamp, in respect of lightness, or unsteadiness, and contemptibleness. (A, * TA.) -A2- Also Thin pieces of bone, such as fly off from any bone when it is struck: or any crusts, or coverings, that are upon bone, exclusive of the flesh: or the bone of the eyebrow: or what is thin, of the bone of the head: or the bones that come forth from the head of a man when it is broken: (TA:) or فَرَاشُ الرَّأْسِ signifies certain thin bones that are next to the bone that covers the brain: (S, TA:) and ↓ فَرَاشَةٌ, any thin bone: (S, K:) and الرَّأْسِ ↓ فَرَاشَةُ, the thin bones, or pieces of bone, of the head, such as fly off in consequence of a blow. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, فَرَاشُ الظَّهْرِ The place where the upper parts of the ribs are infixed in [ the spine of ] the back. (TA.) ― -b3- And الفَرَاشَانِ The two extremities of the haunches, in [or at ] the نُقْرَة, q. v. (TA.) ― -b4- And The parts of the upper portions (فُرُوع) of the two shoulder-blades that rise towards the base of the neck and the even part of the back. (AO, O.) ― -b5- And Two veins, green, or of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (أَخْضَرَانِ,) beneath the tongue. (En-Nadr, O, K. * [In the last of these, this signification and the next are erroneously assigned to the sing. word. See also الفِرَاشُ.]) ― -b6- Also, (TA,) or فَرَاشَا اللِّجَامِ (En-Nadr, O,) or ↓ فَرَاشَتَاهُ, (IDrd in his Book on the Saddle and Bridle,) The two iron things with which are made fast the check-straps of the headstall. (En-Nadr, O, K.) ― -b7- And فَرَاشٌ and ↓ فَرَاشَةٌ also signify The edge of anything. (Aboo-Sa'eed, in TA, art. نسر.) -A3- And The former, Mud that has dried, after the water, upon the ground. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- And it is said to signify A little water in pools left by torrents: n. un. ↓ فَرَاشَةٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b3- And [ Little ] bubbles (حَبَب) upon the surface of [the beverage called] نَبِيذ: (S, O, K:) and likewise of the water of sweat: (S, * L:) or a little sweat: so says IAar. (L.) -A4- فَرَاشُ قُفْلٍ signifies The مَنَاشِب [or catches ] of a lock; [app. meaning the little pins which fall into corresponding holes in the bolt of the Arabian wooden lock of a door, (which see figured and described in the Introduction to my work on the Modern Egyptians,) when it is pushed into the hole or staple of the door-post, preventing its being drawn back until they are raised by the key, which has small pins, made to correspond with the holes, so that, being introduced into these, they push up the catching pins: ] n. un. ↓ with ة: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) or قُفْلٍ ↓ فَرَاشَةُ signifies what catches, or sticks fast, in a lock; (S, K;) [or, as expl. in the Arabic Dictionary of Farhát, what enters into a lock and makes it fast; ] meaning its teeth; (TK;) [which are the little pins described above: ] the word is thought by IDrd to be not Arabic: or, thus applied, it is from the same word as signifying “ a thin bone, ” because of the thinness of the فراشة of the lock. (TA.)