وجس

وَجْسٌ ذ A fright of the heart: (S:) or fright that falls into the heart, or into the ear, from a sound or some other thing; (Lth, A, K;) as also ↓ وَجَسَانٌ. (K.) [See 1, of which each is an inf. n.] ― -b2- A low, faint, gentle, or soft, sound. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.) [And particularly The sound denoted in the words here following, and explained in a former art., voce فَهَرَ.] It is said in a trad., نَهَى عَنِ الوَجْسِ, meaning, He forbade a man's being with his slave-girl, or his wife, when another female would hear their low sound. (K, * TA.) And in another it is said, respecting the same case, that they used to dislike [what is termed] الوَجْس. (S.) -A2- See also أَوْجَسُ.