فرش

فِرَاشٌ ذ A thing that is spread (Mgh, K) upon the ground: (Mgh:) a thing that is spread for one to sit or lie upon; in which sense it is used in the Kur ii. 20: (TA:) and particularly, a bed, upon which one sleeps: (AA, Mgh:) pl. [of pauc.] أَفْرِشَةٌ (TA) and [of mult.] فُرُشٌ, (S, K,) for which one may say, in the dial. of the Benoo-Temeem, فُرْشٌ. (Sb.) [See also فَرْشٌ: and see what is quoted below from a trad.] ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (tropical:) A man's wife; (AA, S, O, K;) as also اـِزَارٌ and لِحَافٌ: (O, TA:) pl. فُرُشٌ; so used, accord. to some, in the Kur lvi. 33. (K.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) A woman's husband: (AA, Er-Rághib:) and a female slave's master, or owner. (TA.) So, accord. to some, in the words of a trad., الوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ وَلِلعَاهِرِ الحَجَرُ, meaning The child is for the husband; (Er-Rághib, TA;) or for the master of the bed, who is the husband, or the owner of the woman; (Mgh, TA;) or for the bed, so that there is no ellipsis; (TA;) and for the adulterer, or fornicator, shall be stones, like as you say he shall have dust, meaning, nothing; i. e., he shall have no right of relationship; or, accord. to some, stoning. (Mgh.) [See also عَاهِرٌ.] ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The nest of a bird. (O, K, * TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A house, or tent. (AA.) ― -b6- And الفِرَاشُ signifies The place against which the tongue goes in the furthest, or innermost, part of the mouth; (AA, O, K, TA;) or, as some say, in the lower part of the حَنَك [which word app. here, as it often does, means the palate ]: or فِرَاشُ اللِّسَانِ signifies the portion of skin (الجِلْدَةُ [to which is here added الشَّنَّاآء, app. a mistranscription which I am unable to rectify,] that covers the bases of the upper teeth. (TA. [In the TA voce مَحَارَةُ, in art. حور, q. v., q. v., it is written الفِرَاشَةُ.])