Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

4 اغسل ذ [said of a stallion, and intrans.,] (assumed tropical:) He covered much, or often; syn. أَكْثَرَ الضِّرَابَ (Fr, O, K.) [See also 1, last explanation but one.]

7 انغسل ذ said of a thing is quasi-pass. of غَسَلَهُ [i. e. it signifies It became washed, or washed off ]. (O, TA.) [See غِسْلِينٌ.]

8 اغتسل ذ (S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) He washed [ himself, i. e.] his whole person, (Mgh,) بِالمَاآءِ [ with water ]. (S, Mgh, O, K.) And اغتسل لِلْجُمْعَةِ [ He washed himself for the prayers of Friday ]. (IAmb, O.) ― -b2- And اغتسل بِالطِّيبِ He daubed, or smeared, himself, or did so copiously, so as to cause a dripping, (تَضَمَّخَ, Lh, TA,) or he sprinkled himself, (تَنَضَّخَ, K,) with perfume. (Lh, K.) ― -b3- اغتسل said of a horse: see 1.

10 اـِسْتَغْسَلَ It is said in a trad., العَيْنُ حَقٌّ فَاـِذَا ا@سْتُغْسِلْتُمْ ↓ فَا@غْسِلُوا [ The evil eye is a truth; so when ye are asked to wash, wash ye ]: i. e., when he who was smitten by the eye of any one demanded [the performance of what is here meant], he brought to the smiter therewith a bowl in which was water, and he [the latter] would put his hand into it, and rinse his mouth [with some of it], then spit it out into the bowl; then he would wash his face in it; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right hand; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left hand; [then he would put in his left hand (a clause omitted in my original),] and pour upon his right elbow; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left elbow; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right foot; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left foot; then he would put in his left hand, and pour upon his right knee; then he would put in his right hand, and pour upon his left knee; then he would wash what is termed دَاخِلَةُ الاـِزَارِ [expl. in art. دخل]: and he would not put the bowl upon the ground: then he would pour that used water upon the head of the person smitten with the eye, from behind him, with one pouring; and he would be cured, with the permission of God. (TA.)

غَسْلٌ ذ inf. n. of غَسَلَهُ: (S, MA, Mgh, O, Msb, K:) or, accord. to some, this and ↓ غُسْلٌ have one and the same meaning; and the saying that this is the case is ascribed to Sb: (Msb:) or, as some say, the latter is the inf. n., and the former is the subst. (MF, TA.) See also the next paragraph.

غُسْلٌ ذ the subst. from غَسَلَهُ [i. e. a subst. signifying A washing ]: (S, Msb:) or a subst. (IKoot, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) from الاغتسال, (IKoot, Mgh, Msb, TA,) and [as such] signifying a complete washing [ of oneself, i. e.] of the whole person: (IKoot, T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) it is in consequence of جَنَابَة [q. v.], and of childbirth, and for [the prayers of] Friday, and is the washing of the dead; but in other cases, the word ↓ غَسْلٌ, with fet-h, is used: (Ham p. 30:) and one says ↓ غُسُلٌ as well as غُسْلٌ, (S, O,) the former being a dial. var. of the latter: (TA:) El-Kumeyt says, describing a wild ass, تَحْتَ الأَلَاآءَةِ فِى نَوْعَيْنِ مِنْ غُسُلٍ بَاتَا عَلَيْهِ بِتَسْجَالٍ وَتَقْطَارِ [ Beneath the (tree called) أَلَاآءَة, in two sorts of washing that continued during the night upon him with much pouring and much dropping ]; meaning that the water that was upon the tree poured upon him at one time; and at one time, that of the rain: (S, TA:) the pl. of غُسْلٌ is أَغْسَالٌ. (Msb.) See also غَسْلٌ. ― -b2- And see غَسُولٌ.

غِسْلٌ ذ A preparation for washing the head, consisting of خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows ] and other things (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) of a similar kind, (Mgh, Msb, K,) [ with water, ] as [ leaves of ] the [ species of lote-tree called ] سِدْر, (Msb,) and طِين, (TA,) or طِينَةُ الرَّأْسِ, [meaning fullers' earth, which is often used in the bath and elsewhere instead of soap,] (Mgh,) and أُشْنَان [or potash ]: (TA:) [and app. any wash for the head: ] and ↓ غِسْلَةٌ signifies the same: (Mgh, K:) and also (this latter) leaves of the myrtle: and perfume; syn. طِيبٌ: and what a woman puts into her hair on the occasion of combing and dressing it: (K:) غِسْلَةٌ مُطَرَّاةٌ being myrtle [ -leaves ] rendered fragrant with aromatic perfumes, used in combing and dressing one's hair: one should not say غَسْلَةٌ. (S, O.) IAar cites the following verse (S, O) of 'Abd-Er-Rahmán Ibn-Dárah El-Ghatafánee, (O,) فَيَا لَيْلَ اـِنَّ الغِسْلَ مَا دُمْتِ أَيِّمًا عَلَىَّ حَرَامٌ لَا يَمَسُّنِىَ الغِسْلُ [ And, O Leylà, (لَيْلَ being a contraction of لَيْلَى, but in the O it is يا جُمْلُ O Juml, ) verily the wash for the head, as long as thou remainest husbandless, shall be unlawful to me: the wash for the head shall not touch me ]: i. e. I will not need the wash for the head by my جِمَاع of other than her: [he says thus] in eager desire of taking her in marriage. (S, O.) ― -b2- See also غَسُولٌ. -A2- And see also غُسَلَةٌ.

رَجُلٌ غَسِلٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A man who compresses his wife much. (TA.) [See also غُسَلَةٌ.]

غُسَلٌ ذ : see غُسَلَةٌ.

غُسُلٌ ذ : see غُسْلٌ.

غَسْلَةٌ ذ [ A single act of washing: pl. غَسَلَاتٌ]. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, بَنَوْا هٰذِهِ المَدِينَةَ بِغَسَلَاتِ أَيْدِيهِمْ (assumed tropical:) [ They built this city ] by means of their earnings. (TA.)

غِسْلَةٌ ذ : see غَسُولٌ: ― -b2- and see also غِسْلٌ. ― -b3- عَلَى وَجْهِهِ غِسْلَةٌ means His face is beautiful, with no fat, or fatness, upon it. (TA.) ― -b4- أَبُو غِسْلَةَ is an appellation of The wolf: (O, K:) and so ابو عِسْلَةَ, with ع. (TA.)

غُسَلَةٌ ذ (S, Mgh, O, K) and ↓ غُسَلٌ and ↓ غَسِيلٌ and ↓ غِسِّيلٌ and ↓ مِغْسَلٌ (O, K) and ↓ غِسْلٌ, (K,) all, except the last, mentioned by Fr, (O, TA,) applied to a stallion [camel], (tropical:) That covers much: (Fr, Mgh, * O, K, TA:) or that does so much without impregnating: (Ks, S, K, TA:) and in like manner applied to a man. (K.) [See also غَسِلٌ.]

الغِسْلِينُ ذ : see الغُسَالَةُ. ― -b2- الغِسْلِينُ (in the Kur [lxix. 36], TA) What is washed off of the flesh and the blood of the inmates of the fire [ of Hell ]; (Akh, S, O;) [for] what comes forth from any wound, or sore, when it is washed, is termed غِسْلِين: (TA:) what is washed off from the bodies of the unbelievers, in the fire: (Msb:) or what flows from the skins of the inmates of the fire, (K, TA,) such as thick purulent matter &c.; thus expl. by Fr and Seer; (TA;) as though it were washed from them: (Sb, TA:) accord. to Mujáhid, a certain food of the inmates of the fire; and El-Kelbee says that it is what the fire has cooked, of their flesh, and has fallen off, and is eaten by them: (TA:) and, (K,) accord. to Ed-Dahhák, (O, TA,) a species of trees in the fire; (O, K, TA;) and so he says of الضَّرِيعُ: (O, TA:) and, (K,) accord. to Lth, (O, TA,) what is intensely hot: (O, K, TA:) the ى and ن are augmentative. (S, O, Msb.)

غَسُولٌ ذ (S, O, K) and ↓ غَسُّولٌ (O, K) and ↓ غُسْلٌ (Mgh, K) and ↓ غِسْلٌ and ↓ غِسْلَةٌ (IAth, K) Water with which one washes himself; (S, Mgh, O, K;) as also ↓ مُغْتَسَلٌ, occurring [in this sense] in the Kur xxxviii. 41: (S:) or the words preceding this signify water little in quantity, with which one washes himself: (TA:) and خِطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallows ], (K, TA,) and أُشْنَان [or potash (see also غَاسُولٌ)], and the like thereof, and certain of the [ plants termed ] حَمْض: (TA:) or غَسُولٌ signifies a thing [or substance ] with which the hand is washed, such as أُشْنَان &c.: (Har p. 86:) or, accord. to the M, anything with which one washes a head or a garment and the like. (TA.) [See also the pl. غَسُولَاتٌ voce دَلُوكٌ.]

غَسِيلٌ ذ i. q. ↓ مَغْسُولٌ [i. e. Washed ]; (S, O, Msb, K;) applied to a thing, (S, O,) and to a dead body; (Lh, Msb, TA;) and the former is also applied as an epithet to a fem. n., as is also غَسِيلَةٌ; (S, O, K;) or this last is used after the manner of substs., like نَطِيحَةٌ and ذَبِيحَةٌ; not as is said in the S [and O] after the manner of epithets: (IB, TA:) the pl. of غَسِيلٌ is غَسْلِى and غُسَلَاآءُ; (Lh, K, TA;) and the pl. of غَسِيلَةٌ [and app. of غَسِيلٌ used a fem. epithet] is غَسَالَى or غُسَالَى. (K accord. to different copies.) Han- dhaleh Ibn-er-Ráhib was called غَسِيلُ المَلَائِكَةِ [ The washed of the angels ], because he died a martyr on the day of Ohod, and the angels washed him, (S, O, Msb,) accord. to the Prophet, who said that he saw them washing him. (O.) ― -b2- See also غُسَلَةٌ. ― -b3- [It is now used as meaning Clothes, or the like, put together to be washed. ]

الغُسَالَةُ ذ , (S, O, Msb,) or غُسَالَةُ الشَّىْءِ, (K,) That with which one has washed the thing: (S, O, Msb:) or the water with which the thing is washed. (K.) [Hence the latter often signifies The infusion of the thing; i. e. the liquid in which the thing has been steeped, and which is impregnated with its virtues. ] ― -b2- Also, the latter, What is extracted from the thing by washing. (K.) ― -b3- And الغُسَالَةُ also signifies What is washed from the garment and the like; and so ↓ الغِسْلِينُ. (K.)

غَسْوِيلٌ ذ A certain plant, growing in places that exude water and produce salt: (O, K:) said by IDrd to be a species of trees. (O.)

غَسَّالٌ ذ [ A washer of clothes, and also of the dead: fem. with ة]. (TA.) [See also غَاسِلٌ.]

غَسُّولٌ ذ : see غَسُولٌ.

غِسِّيلٌ ذ : see غُسَلَةٌ.

غَاسِلٌ ذ A washer of the dead. (Msb.) [See also غَسَّالٌ.] -A2- And A species of trees. (TA.)

غَاسُولٌ ذ i. q. أُشْنَانٌ [i. e. Potash: and the plant from which it is prepared; kali, or glasswort; or mesembryanthemum nodiflorum (Forskål, Flora Ægypt. Arab. pp. lxvii. and 98), a species of glasswort ]. (TA.) [See also غَسُولٌ.]

مَغْسِلٌ ذ (S, O, Msb, K) and مَغْسَلٌ [which is anomalous] (S, O, K) and ↓ مُغْتَسَلٌ (K) A place in which the dead are washed: (S, O, Msb, K) pl. of the first (S, Msb) and second (S) مَغَاسِلُ: (S, Msb:) and one says also مَغْسَِلُ المَوْتَى. (S, O, Msb. *)

مِغْسَلٌ ذ A thing [i. e. vessel ] in which (so in the M, in the K with which, ) a thing is washed. (TA.) -A2- See also غُسَلَةٌ.

مَغْسُولٌ ذ : see غَسِيلٌ. ― -b2- Hence one says, كَلَامُهُ مَغْسُولٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) His speech, or language, is devoid of nice, or subtile, expressions or allusions; as though it were washed from such; or deserving to be washed and obliterated: or it may mean (tropical:) trimmed, or pruned. (TA.)

مُغْتَسَلٌ ذ A place in which one washes himself: (O, Msb, TA: *) dim. ↓ مُغَيْسِلٌ: and pl. مَغَاسِيلُ [which, if correct, is anomalous]. (TA.) ― -b2- And it is said to signify also what is called in Pers. حوض مَسِين [or حَوْض مِسِين app. meaning A tank, or the like, of copper ]. (Mgh.) ― -b3- See also مَغْسِلٌ. ― -b4- And see غَسُولٌ.

مُغَيْسِلٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

1 غَسَمَ ذ It (the night) was, or became, dark; (As, S, K;) as also ↓ اغسم, (JK, K,) like أَغْسَى. (JK.)

4 أَغْسَمَ see what precedes.

غَسَمٌ ذ The darkness (S, ISd, TA) of night; (ISd, TA;) like غَسَقٌ: (S, TA:) or blackness: (Kr, K:) and (K) accord. to En-Nadr, (S,) the confusedness, or blending, of the darkness: (JK, S, K:) and the first rising of the dawn. (JK.) ― -b2- And Dust, or dust rising, or spreading, like smoke; syn. هَبْوَةٌ and غَبَرَةٌ (K) or غُبْرَةٌ [which sometimes signifies the same as غَبَرَهٌ]. (CK.)

غُسَمٌ ذ ; see أَغْسَامٌ.

لَيْلٌ غَاسِمٌ ذ Dark night. (TA.)

فِى السَّمَاآءِ أَغْسَامٌ ذ and ↓ غُسَمٌ In the sky are portions of clouds. (K.)

1 غَسَا اللَّيْلُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. يَغْسُو, (S,) inf. n. غُسُوٌّ; (S, K; accord. to some copies of the K غَسْوٌ;) and غَسَى, aor. يَغْسِى; (IJ, TA;) and غَسِىَ, aor. يَغْسَى, (S, K, TA,) inf. n. غَسًا; of which last form, غَشِىَ is a dial. var.; (TA;) The night was, or became, dark; as also ↓ اغسى. (S, K.) [See also عَسَا.]

4 أَ1ْ2َ3َ see what precedes. ― -b2- اغسى also signifies He (a man) entered upon the time of, or a little after, sunset. (TA.) ― -b3- And أَغْسِ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ Journey thou not in the first part of the night, until its darkness depart. (TA.) -A2- And اغساهُ اللَّيْلُ The night enveloped him in its darkness. (Sgh, K.)

1 غَشَّهُ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. غَشُ3َ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. غَشٌّ, (Msb, TA,) or غِشٌّ, with kesr, (S,) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb, K,) He acted towards him, or advised or counselled him, dishonestly, or insincerely: (A. Msb, K:) and he dressed up to him an affair [ in false colours ]: (Msb:) or he acted towards him with dissimulation: pretended to him the contrary of what he conceived in his mind : (A, K:) but this is a needless addition, for it is the same as the first explanation (TA:) as also ↓ غشّشهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَغْشِيشٌ: (TA) or this latter has an intensive signification: it is said to be derived from غَشَشٌ, signifying “ a turbid drinking-place, ” (TA:) It is said in the story of Umm-Zara, accord. to one relation, ↓ لَا تَمْلَأُ بَيْتَنَا تَغْشِيشًا, said by some to be from الغِشُّ, and by others to be from [a usage of] التغشيش as signifying النَّمِيمَةُ [app. here meaning the embellishing speech with falsehood ]: but accord. to the approved relation, it is [تَغْشِيشًا] with the unpointed letter. (IAth.) [See art. عش.] ― -b2- [Also He made it to seem what it was not; falsified it; counterfeited it; adulterated it: so as used often by post-classical authors; and so, probably, in classical times also; see its pass. part n., below.] -A2- غَشَّ صَدْرُهُ, aor. غَشِ3َ , [inf. n., probably. غِشٌّ, q. v.,] His bosom concealed enmity and violent hatred; or bore rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, (TA,)

2 غَشَّ3َ see the preceding paragraph, in two places.

4 اغشّهُ ذ , inf. n. اـِغْشَاشٌ, He made him to fall into dishonest, or insincere, conduct, or advice or counsel; into dissimulation; or the pretending the contrary of what he conceived in his mind. (TA.) ― -b2- And أَغْشَشْتُهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ I prevented him from obtaining the object of his want; syn. أَعْجَلْتُهُ. (IKtt, K.)

8 اـِغْتَشَ3َ see the next paragraph, in two places.

10 استغشّهُ ذ (S, K) and ↓ اغتشّهُ (K, TA) He reckoned him, or deemed him, dishonest, or insincere, in action, or advice or counsel; contr. of اِسْتَنْصَحَهُ (S, K) and اِنْتَصَحَهُ; (K;) or, [which means the same,] i. q. عَدَّهُ غَاشًّا: (TA:) or he imagined in him dishonest, or insincere, conduct, or advice or counsel; dissimulation; or the pretending the contrary of what he conceived in his mind. (K.) A poet says, لَكَ نَاصِحٌ ↓ أَيَا رُبَّ مَنْ تَغْتَشُّهُ وَمُسْتَنْصَحٍ بِالْغَيْبِ غَيْرُ أَمِينِ [ O man, many a one whom thou reckonest dishonest in action, or advice, is honest therein to thee; and ( many a ) one who is reckoned honest in action, or advice, in that which is beyond the reach of perception, is not faithful ]. (TA)

غَشٌّ ذ , (K, TA,) of the measure فَعْلٌ, or it may be originally of the measure فَعِلٌ, (TA,) applied to a man, (K, TA,) i. q. عَظِيمُ الشَّرَهِ [i. e. Very greedy ]; not عظيم السُّرَّةِ, as in some copies of the K; nor عظيم الشِّرَّةِ, as in other copies: a rájiz says, لَيْسَ بِغَشٍّ هَمُّهُ فِيمَا أَكَلْ [ He is not one who is very greedy; whose care, or solicitude, is in respect of what he has eaten ]. (TA)

غِشٌّ ذ Dishonest, or insincere, conduct, or advice or counsel: (Msb, K:) and the embellishment of an affair [ with false colours ]: (Msb:) or dissimulation; pretence of the contrary of what one conceives in his mind. (K.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- And Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite. (K.) ― -b3- [Also Adulterating alloy in coin (See حُمْلَانٌ.) ― -b4- And Adulterated, or counterfeit, coin. (See زَغَلٌ.)]

غَشَشٌ ذ A turbid drinking-place: (Az, IAmb, Sgh, TA:) الكَدِرُ المَشُوبُ in the K is a mistake: the right explanation of الغَشَشُ being المَشْرَبُ الكَدِرُ, which is that given by Az and IAmb and Sgh. (TA.)

غَشَاشٌ ذ : see the next paragraph.

غِشَاشٌ ذ , applied to a drinking (شُرْبٌ), Little in quantity, (K, TA,) because of turbidness: (TA: [in which it is said to be applied in like manner to a day, يوم; but I think that this is a mistranscription for نَوْمٌ, i. e. sleep:]) or hasty. or not wholesome; (K, TA;) because the water is not clear. (TA.) -A2- And The beginning of the darkness: and the end thereof. (K.) -A3- نَقِيتُهُ غِشَاشًا, (T, S, K,) and ↓ غَشَاشًا, (K,) I met, or found, him, or it, in haste; (T, S, K:) and so على غشاش: (T, TA:) or at sunset; (Lth, K;) but Az disallows this: (TA:) or in the night; (K;) which is nearly the same as what Lth says. (TA.)

غَاشٌّ ذ Acting, or advising or counselling, dishonestly, or insincerely; or acting with dissimulation; pretending the contrary of what one conceives in his mind: [see its verb;] pl. غِشَشَةٌ and [quasipl. n., like as صَحَابَةٌ is of صَاحِبٌ,] غَشَاشَةٌ (TA.)

شَىْءٌ مَغْشُوشٌ ذ [ A thing made to seem what it is not; falsified; counterfeited; adulterated ]; (S, K;) a thing that is not pure; not genuine; or not unadulterated. (K.) You say, طَعَامُ فُلَانٍ مَغْشُوشٌ أَعْلَاهُ يَابِسٌ وَأَسْفَلُهُ مَرْشُوشٌ [ The wheat of such a one is made to seem what it is not: it upper part is dry, and its lower part is sprinkled ]. (A.) And لَبَنٌ مَغْشُوشٌ Milk mixed with water. (Mgh, Msb.) And فِضَّةٌ مَغْشُوشَةٌ Silver mixed with copper or brass. (TA.)

1 غَشْمٌ ذ signifies The acting, or treating, wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically: (S, K:) or the taking another's property wrongfully, &c., or by force: and the taking a course, in journeying [&c.], at random, without direction and without knowledge. (JK.) One says of a governor, غَشَمَ الرَّعِيَّةَ, aor. غَشِمَ , [accord. to the TK, the aor. of the verb in the sense here following is غَشُمَ , but this I think a mistake,] inf. n. غَشْمٌ, He struck, or beat, with vehemence, the people under his government, wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically, and took [ from them ] what he could. (TA.) And غَشَمَ النَّاسَ He asked whom he could of the people. (Z, TA.) And غَشَمَ الأُمُورَ He performed affairs, or the affairs, [ in a random manner, ] confusedly, without discrimination. (Ham p. 37: by implication.) ― -b2- And غَشَمَهُ, aor. غَشِمَ , He smeared him [i. e. a camel] with tar so that he left nothing [or no part of him ] without tar, pouring it upon what was sound thereof and what was diseased thereof: and ↓ غَشَمٌ [perhaps as an inf. n., but accord. to the TK it is a simple subst., and the inf. n. is غَشْمٌ,] signifies the act of so smearing. (K.) ― -b3- And غَشَمَ (tropical:) He collected firewood by night, cutting whatever he could get, without consideration, (K, TA,) or, as in the A, without discrimination. (TA.)

غَشَمٌ ذ : see the preceding paragraph. -A2- Also Blackness [of night: app. a dial. var. of غَسَمٌ; or, perhaps, a mistranscription]. (Ham p. 163.)