فلس

فَلْسٌ ذ [ A small copper coin; ] a thing well known, (M, A, K,) used in buying and selling; (Msb;) the forty-eighth part of a dirhem: [i. e., about half a farthing of our money: ] so in Egypt: (Ibn-Fadl-Allah, cited by Es-Suyootee in his Husn el-Mohádarah:) pl. (of pauc., S, O) أَفْلُسٌ, and (of mult., S, O) فُلُوسٌ. (S, M, O, Msb, K.) [The dim. of the former of these pls. is ↓ أُفَيْلِسٌ: see an ex. below, voce مُفْلِسٌ. The pl. فُلُوس is the common term for Money in Egypt and some other parts in the present day.] ― -b2- [Hence, Anything resembling a small coin: as ― -b3- A counter of metal: ― -b4- and A scale of a fish: as Sgh says,] فُلُوسُ السَّمَكِ signifies what are on the back of the fish, resembling the [ coins called ] فُلُوس. (O.) ― -b5- And The seal of the جِزْيَة [or tax paid by the free non-muslim subject of a Muslim government ], (T, S, K,) which was hung upon the neck, (T, S, TA,) or upon the throat. (O, K.)