فصح

فَصِيحٌ ذ Milk divested of the froth, (S, A,) and clear of its biestings; (A:) or milk that has come after the ceasing of the biestings; as also ↓ فِصْحٌ. (Lh, TA.) ― -b2- [And hence,] (tropical:) Chaste, as meaning free from barbarousness: applied in this sense to a word, or an expression, and to language in general, and to a speaker, or writer: i. e.,] as applied to a word, or an expression, it means [ free from an incongruous combination of letters and from strangeness and from contrariety to analogy not sanctioned by frequency of usage among the Arabs of pure speech; (see فَصَاحَةٌ, below:) or] of which the beauty is perceived by hearing: (K:) and as applied to language in general, [ free from weakness of construction and from incongruity of works, with فَصَاحَة (which see again) in the words themselves: ] as used by the vulgar, it means in which the rules of desinential syntax are observed: syn. مُعْرَبٌ: (L;) [and sometimes it means] eloquent; syn. بَلِيغٌ. [from which it is properly distinct]: (S:) and as applied to a man, [ possessing a faculty whereby he is enabled to express what he desires, with فَصَاحَة (which see again) in languages or] clear, perspicuous, or distinct, in speech, or language; as also ↓ فَصْحٌ; (K;) but this latter is an intensive epithet, [being originally an inf. n.,] like عَدْلٌ: (TA:) [and sometimes it signifies] eloquent; syn. بَلَيغٌ [respecting which see what precedes]: (S, A:) or مُنْطَلِقُ اللِّسَانِ [i. e. free from impediment of the tongue, or eloquent, or chaste, ] in speech, who knows how to distinguish what is good in language from what is bad: (TA;) the pl. as applied to men is فُصَحَاآءِ and فِصَاحٌ and فُصُحٌ, (K, TA,) the last formed in the manner of the broken pl. of a subst., like قُضُبٌ pl. of قَضِيبٌ: (Sb, TA:) the fem. is فَصِيحَةٌ; of which the pl. is فِصَاحٌ and فَصَائِحُ. (K, TA.) And you say رَجُلٌ فَصِيحُ اللِّسَانِ (assumed tropical:) A man whose tongue speaks Arabic correctly. (Msb.) And لِسَانٌ فَصِيحٌ i. q. طَلْقٌ (assumed tropical:) [ A tongue free from impediment, or eloquent, or chaste in speech ]: (S:) or (tropical:) an eloquent tongue. (A.) And فَصِيحٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Any one having the faculty of speech; (S;) [i. e.] a human being; (TA:) أَعْجَمُ meaning that which is “ destitute of the faculty of speech; ” (S;) [i. e.] “ a beast; ” as also صَامتٌ: whence the saying, لَهُ مَالٌ فَصِيحٌ وَصَامِتٌ (tropical:) [as though meaning He has property consisting of human beings and of beasts: but see صَامِتٌ]. (TA.) And it also occurs in poetry as meaning (assumed tropical:) Clear, applied to the cry of an ass. (L.)