فرش

مِفْرَشٌ ذ A thing resembling the شَاذَكُونَة [ a kind of thick quilted stuff made in El-Yemen ]; (O, K;) i. e. a thing that is put upon the صُفَّة [or covering next the saddle ] to sit upon; (TA;) as also ↓ مِفْرَشَةٌ: (A, TA:) or the latter is smaller than the former, (O, K,) and is put upon the صُفَّة of the camel's saddle, (A,) or upon the camel's saddle [ itself ], to sit upon: (O, K:) [pl. مَفَارِشُ.] ― -b2- [Hence,] مَفَارِشُ is applied to signify (tropical:) Women, or wives. (A, TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ كَرِيمُ المَفَارِشِ (tropical:) Such a one is a person who has highborn wives or women; (A;) or who takes as his wives high-born women. (S, O, K.) One says also of a man who has never married, اـِنَّهُ لَهَالِكُ المِفْرَشِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily his life has passed away lost. (TA.) And هُلْكُ المَفَارِشِ is said to mean (assumed tropical:) Persons who will not die upon their beds, and will not die otherwise than by slaughter. (TA.)