فطر

تَفَاطِيرُ ذ , a word similar to تَعَاشِيبُ and تَعَاجِيبُ and تَبَاشِيرُ [q. v.], none of which four words has a sing., Pimples that come forth in the face of a boy or young man, and of a girl or young woman; as also ↓ نَفَاطِيرُ: thus correctly, with ت and ن: the author of the K, following Sgh [in the O], says that ↓ أَفَاطِيرُ is the pl. of ↓ أُفْطُورٌ, and signifies a cracking, or chapping, in the nose of a young man, and in his face. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, thus correctly, with ت, The first of [ the herbage of the rain called ] the وَسْمِىّ [q. v.]; and in this sense also it has no sing.: but it is said in the K that ↓ نَفَاطِيرُ is pl. of ↓ نُفْطُورَةٌ, with ن; [in the O, that it is pl. of ↓ نُفْطُورٌ;] and [in both] that it signifies scattered herbage; (TA;) and Lh says, as is stated by AHn, that مِنْ عُشْبٍ ↓ نَفَاطِيرُ means small quantities of herbage in land: (O, TA:) it is also added in the K, in explanation of ↓ نَفَاطِيرُ, or it signifies the first herbage of [the rain called] the وَسْمِىّ: (TA:) [and it is said that] تَفَاطِيرُ نَبَاتٍ signifies what break forth of, or from, plants, or herbage. (TA voce تَبَاشِيرُ.)