فرط

فَرَطٌ ذ A person who goes before, or in advance of, others, to the water, (S, Mgh, K,) or who is sent before, or in advance, to seek water, (Msb,) and who prepares for them the ropes and buckets, (S, O, Msb,) and plasters with mud [in one copy of the S and fills ] the watering-troughs, and draws water for them; (S, TA;) as also ↓ فَارِطٌ; (S, Mgh, O, Msb, TA;) being of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) like تَبَعٌ in the sense of تَابِعٌ: (S, TA:) and a number of persons who perform that office; (S, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ فُرَّاطٌ, (S, Msb, K, TA,) pl. of فَارِطٌ: (Msb, TA:) you say رَجُلٌ فَرَطٌ and قَوْمٌ فَرَطٌ. (S, Msb.) It is said in a trad., أَنَا فَرَطُكُمْ عَلَى الحَوْضِ [ I shall be your preceder to the pool of Paradise ]. (S, O.) ― -b2- See also فَارِطٌ. ― -b3- [Hence,] (tropical:) A child [ that dies ] not having attained to puberty: (K, TA:) [whence the phrase اِفْتَرَطَ فَرَطًا: see 4:] pl. أَفْرَاطٌ: or فَرَطٌ is both sing. and pl. [in this sense]. (TA.) ― -b4- Hence also, (S, Msb,) (tropical:) A reward, or recompense, prepared in advance, or beforehand: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and a work, or an action, of the same kind. (K.) You say, of an infant that has died, (S, Msb,) اَللّٰهُمَّ ا@جْعَلْهُ لَنَا فَرَطًا O God, make him to be a [ cause of ] reward, or recompense, prepared in advance, or beforehand, for us. (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b5- [Hence also,] (tropical:) Water [ at which one arrives ] in advance of other waters. (K, TA.) ― -b6- [Hence also,] أَفْرَاطُ الصُّبْحِ, (S, O,) or الصَّبَاحِ, (K,) (tropical:) The annunciations, or foretokens, (K,) or the beginnings of the annunciations or foretokens, (S, O,) of the daybreak: (S, O, K:) sing. فَرَطٌ. (Lth, TA.) ― -b7- See also فَرْطٌ, last sentence. -A2- Also Haste. (TA.) ― -b2- See also the next paragraph.