فرط

فَرْطٌ ذ Excess; extravagance; exorbitance; an exceeding degree; an exceeding of the due bounds, or just limits. (S, O, K, * TA.) You say, اـِيَّاكَ وَالفَرْطَ فِى الأَمْرِ [ Avoid thou, or beware thou of, excess in the affair ]. (S, O.) ― -b2- Mastery, ascendency, prevalence, or predominance: (K, TA:) as, for instance, of eager desire, and of grief. (TA.) -A2- A time, whether long or short; an indefinite time; syn. حِينٌ. (S, O, K.) You say, لَقِيتُهُ فِى الفَرْطِ بَعْدَ الفَرْطِ I met him time after time. (S, O.) And أَنَا اآتِيهِ الفَرْطَ I come to him, or will come to him, at some time. (TA.) ― -b2- It also denotes one's meeting a man, (TA,) or coming to him, (K,) after some days, (K, TA,) accord. to A 'Obeyd; (TA;) not more than fifteen days, (K,) or than fifteen nights, accord. to the same, (S, O,) nor less than three. (K.) You say, أَنَا أَلْقَاهُ فِى الفَرْطِ [ I meet him, or will meet him, or shall meet him, after some days ]. (TA.) [But the above-mentioned restriction does not apply when it is prefixed to a noun signifying a period of time: for] you say also, أَتَيْتُهُ فَرْطَ يَوْمٍ أَوْ يَوْمَيْنِ [app. meaning I came to him after a day or two days ]. (S, O.) [It is said in the TA that, accord. to ISk, it is used in the saying اآتِيكَ فَرْطَ يَوْمٍ أَوْ يَوْمَيْنِ, and that it is a day between two days; but this seems to me to be a mistake for between a day and two days: it is afterwards said in the TA that فَرْطَ يَوْمٍ أَوْ يَوْمَيْنِ means after two days; but the complete explanation should doubtless be after a day or two days. ] Lebeed says, هَلِ النَّفْسُ اـِلَّا مُتْعَةٌ مُسْتَعَارَةٌ تُعَارُ فَتَأْتِى رَبَّهَا فَرْطَ أَشْهُرِ [ Is the soul aught but a borrowed thing to be enjoyed, which is lent, and goes to its Lord after some months? ]. (S.) And an Arab said, مَضَيْتُ فَرْطَ سَاعَةٍ وَلَمْ أُومِنْ أَنْ أَنْفَلِتَ; and being asked “ What is فرط ساعة? ” he answered, “ Like since thou begannest to speak: ” he meant [ I went away after a little while, or a little while ago, and ] by لم and what follows it, I did not feel sure of my escaping. (TA.) -A3- Also A small mountain; (K;) pl., accord. to Kr, فُرُطٌ [q. v.]: (TA:) or the head of an [ eminence such as is termed ] أَكَمَة. (K.) ― -b2- And the same, (K,) or ↓ فَرَطٌ, (thus as written in the O,) An erect way-mark, or thing set up for guidance to the right way: (O, K:) pl. أَفْرُطٌ and أَفْرَاطٌ: (K:) [but] it is said in the A that بَدَتْ لَنَا أَفْرَاطُ المَفَازَةِ is a tropical saying, signifying مَا ا@سْتَقْدَمَ مِنْ أَعْلَامِهَا [as though meaning (tropical:) The foremost of the way-marks of the desert, or waterless desert, appeared to us ]. (TA.)