Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

ثُرَيَّا ثري ثريا : see ثَرِىٌّ. ― -b2- الثُّرَيَّا [ The Pleiades; the Third Mansion of the Moon: it is believed to be the most beneficial, in its influences on the weather, of all the Mansions of the Moon, on account of the period of its auroral setting, which, in central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, began on the 12th of Nov., O. S.: (see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل; and see also نَوْءٌ:) hence what is said of it in Job xxxviii. 31; and hence, as being the most excellent of all asterisms, it is called by the Arabs] النَّجْمُ [ the Asterism ]: (S, K:) the former appellation is given to it because it comprises, in appearance, many stars in a small space; (M, K; *) for it is said that amid its conspicuous stars are many obscure stars; (IAth, TA;) the number altogether being said to be four and twenty, agreeably with an assertion of the Prophet: some say that it is so called because of the abundance [of the rain] of its نَوٌء [here meaning auroral setting]: (TA:) the word is thus applied only in the dim. form, which is used in this instance to denote magnification. (M, TA.) ― -b3- [ثُرَيَّا also signifies (tropical:) A cluster of lamps, generally resting in holes in the bottom of a lantern: see an engraving in my “Modern Egyptians,” ch. vi.] The ثُرَيَّا of lamps is so called as being likened to the asterism above mentioned. (M.)

أَثْرَى ذ : see ثَرِىُّ: -A2- and see also art. ثرى.

مُثْرٍ مثر : see ثَرِىُّ: -A2- and see also art. ثرى.

مُثْرَاةٌ مثراه مثراة A cause of multiplying, or rendering abundant; syn. مَكْثَرَةٌ: so in the saying, هٰذَا مَثْرَاةٌ لِلْمَالِ [ This is a cause of multiplying, or rendering abundant, cattle, or other property ]. (S, K.)

أَنَا مَثْرِىُّ بِهِ ذ I am rejoiced in him. (ISk, TA in art. ثرى.) -A2- See also art. ثرى.

1 ثَرِيَتِ الأَرْضُ ذ , aor. ثَرَىَ , inf. n. ثَرٌى, The earth, or land, became moist and soft, after drought and dryness: (M, K:) or became watered by rain that penetrated to its moistness. (Msb.) -A2- See also the same form of the verb in the first paragraph of art. ثرو, in six places.

2 ثرّى ثر ثرى ثري ثريي , (T, S, M, K,) inf. n. تَثْرِيَةٌ, (S, K,) He moistened (T, S, M, K) a place, (T,) or earth, or the ground, or dust, (M, K,) and سَوِيق [or meal of parched barley or wheat], (S, TA,) and any other thing: (TA:) he sprinkled a place: (S, K:) he poured water upon, and then stirred about, and mixed up, [the preparation of milk termed] أَقِط, (M, K,) and سَوِيق. (M.) -A2- He made his hands to cleave to the ground (T, K) between the two prostrations in prayer, not separating them therefrom until he performed the second prostration. (T.)

4 اثرى أثر أثرى أثري أثريي اـثر اـثري اثرى اثري ثري It (rain) moistened the earth. (S.) ― -b2- أَثْرَتِ الأَرْضُ The land, or earth, had much moisture; became abundant in moisture: (S, M, Msb, K:) or it became compact with moisture. (AHn, M.) [See also مُثْرٍ.]

ثَرًى ثر ثرى ثري ثريي Moisture; humidity; (S, M, K;) of the earth: (S, Msb:) and moist earth; (S, M, Msb, K;) تُرَاب that is not moist is not called ثَرًى; (Msb;) or such as, when moistened, does not become cohesive mud or clay; (M, K;) as also ↓ ثَرْيَاآءُ [an epithet used as a subst.]: (AO, T, * K, TA: [in the CK, erroneously, ثَرَياء:]) and the earth; ; (M, K) مَا تَحْتَ الثَّرَي, in the Kur [xx. 5], being explained as meaning what is beneath the earth: (M:) الثَّرَى and * أَثْرَى both signify the earth; and the latter, being thus used as a proper name, is imperfectly decl.: (Ham p. 351:) dual ثَرَيَانِ (S, M, K) and ثَرَوَانِ: (Lh, M, K: [but the sing. of the latter should be written ثَرًا:]) pl. أَثْرَاآْ. (M, K.) اِلْتَقَى الثَّرَيَانِ [ The two moistures met, or have met, ] is said when the rain has sunk into the ground so that it has met the moisture of the earth. (S, M, K.) Accord. to IAar, it was also said by a man, (M,) or by an Arab of the desert, (K,) who, (M, K,) being naked, (K,) clad himself with a fur-garment, (M, K,) without a shirt; (M;) meaning the hair of the pubes and the soft hair of the fur-garment. (M, K.) And the Arabs say, شَهْرٌ ثَرَى وَشَهْرٌ تَرَى وَشَهْرٌ مَرْعَى وَشَهْرٌ ا@سْتَوَى, meaning A month [ of moisture ] in which the rain begins, and sinks into the ground, and moistens and softens the earth; for شَهْرٌ ذُو ثَرًى: and a month in which thou seest the heads of the herbage grown forth; for شَهْرٌ تَرَى فِيهِ رُؤُوسَ النَّبَاتِ: and a month in which the herbage is tall enough to be pastured upon by the cattle: (As, S, * M:) and a month in which it is full-grown and erect. (As, M.) One says also, بَدَا ثَرَى المَاآءِ مِنَ الفَرَسِ, meaning The sweat of the horse appeared. (S, * M.) And اـِنِّى لَأَرَي ثَرَى الغَضَبِ فِى وَجْهِ فُلَانٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily I see the effect of anger in the face of such a one. (T.) And هُوَا@بْنُ ثَرَاهَا (assumed tropical:) He is the knowing with respect to it. (T in art. بنى.) ― -b2- [Hence, as being likened to moist earth,] i. q. خَيْرٌ (assumed tropical:) [ Good; anything good; &c.]. (M, K. [For خَيْر, Golius appears to have found, in a copy of the K, حَيْز; and this, which he has rendered “Terræ tractus,” he has given as a signification, not of ثَرًى, but of ثَرَاآءٌ, which, like ثَرًى, he also explains as meaning “ terra. ” ]) So in the saying, فُلَانٌ قَرِيبُ الثَّرَى [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is a person from whom good is easy of attainment: or it may mean, a person from whom good seems to be easy of attainment: in either case likened to land of which the moist earth is near the surface: that the phrase may have the latter meaning appears from what here follows]. (M.) You say, اـِنَّ فُلَانًا لَقَرِيبُ الثَّرِى بَعِيدُ النَّبَطِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily such a one is a person who promises but who does not fulfil. (IAar, T.) ― -b3- [Hence also, (assumed tropical:) Fresh and vigorous friendship. ] You say, لَمْ يَبْبَسِ الثَّرَى بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ (assumed tropical:) [ The fresh and vigorous friendship between me and him has not withered ]: whence the phrase, مَا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَ فُلَانٍ * مُثْرٍ (assumed tropical:) [ That friendship which is between me and such a one is fresh and vigorous ]; i. e., it has not ceased, or become severed. (S, * M.) Jereer says, فَلَا تُوبِسُوا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكُمُ الثَّرَى ↓ فَاـِنَّ الَّذَي بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكُمُ مُثْرِى [ And wither not the fresh and vigorous friendship between me and you; for that which is between me and you is fresh and vigorous ]. (S, M.)

[ ثَرٍ ثر , fem. ثَرِيَةٌ, Moist; humid. ] You say أَرْضٌ ثَرِيَةٌ, (M, Msb,) like عَمِيَةٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ ثَرِيَّةٌ, like غَنِيَّةٌ, (K, [but this is anomalous, as part. n. of ثَرِيَت,]) and ↓ ثَرْيَاآءُ, (Msb, K,) Earth, or land, that has become moist and soft, after drought and dryness: (M, K:) or watered by rain that has penetrated to its moistness: (Msb:) or the last, land of just, or moderate, moisture: (AHn, M:) or moist land; (T, S, M;) and so the first. (M.) And ↓ مَكَانٌ ثَرْيَانُ A place of which the earth has in it moisture. (TA.) And ↓ يَوْمٌ ثَرِىٌّ A humid day. (TA.) -A2- See also art. ثرو.

ثَرِىٌّ ثر ثرى ثري ثريي , fem. ثَرِيَّةٌ: see ثَرٍ, in two places: -A2- and see also art. ثرو.

ثَرْيَاآءُ ثرياآء : see ثَرٍ: ― -b2- and see also ثَرًى.

ثَرْيَانُ ثري ثريان : see ثَرٍ.

ثُرَيَّا ثري ثريا : see art. ثرو.

أَثْرَى ذ : see ثَرًى: -A2- and see also art. ثرو.

[ مُثْرٍ مثر , fem. مُثْرِيَةٌ, part. n. of 4, q. v.] أَرْضٌ مُثْرِيَةٌ [is explained as meaning] Land of which the earth has not become dry. (T, TA.) ― -b2- See also ثَرًى, last two sentences. -A2- And see art. ثرو.

مَثْرِىُّ مثرى مثري a pass. part. n. having no verb; used as an intensive epithet in the phrase ثَرًى مَثْرِىٌّ [ Very moist earth ]. (M.) -A2- See also art. ثرو.

1 ثَطَّ ثط , aor. ثَطَ3َ ; (Lth, TA;) [app. accord. to him who says رَجُلٌ أَثَطُّ; for Lth adds,] and, accord. to him who says رَجُلٌ ثَطٌ, (Lth, TA,) ثَطَّ, aor. ثَطِ3َ and ثَطُ3َ ; (Lth, K;) inf. n. [of ثَطَّ of which the aor. is ثَطَ3َ ,] ثَطَطٌ, (Lth, IDrd, S, K,) and [of the verb of which the aor. is ثَطِ3َ ,] ثَطٌّ, and [of that of which the aor. is ثَطُ3َ , the second pers. of the pret. being app. ثَطُطْتَ,] ثَطَاطَةٌ and ثُطُوطَةٌ; (Lth, K;) or the last two, accord. to IDrd, are simple substs., and ISd approves of this distinction; (TA;) He (a man, Lth, S) was, or became, such as is termed ثَطٌّ and أَثَطُّ [explained below]. (Lth, IDrd, S, K.)

ثَطٌّ ثط and ↓ أَثَطُّ, (Lth, S, K,) but the former is the more correct and the more common, (Lth,) or the former only, (IDrd, and IB on the authority of Ibn-El-Jawáleekee, and K,) the latter being vulgar, (IDrd, K,) but AZ asserted his having heard the latter, (AHát, cited in the Jm,) [and the latter only is mentioned in the Mgh,] A man (S, Mgh) having no hair upon the sides of his face, but only upon his chin; syn. كَوْسَجٌ: (S, Mgh, K:) or having a scanty beard: (IDrd:) or the former signifies having little hair in the beard, and in the eyebrows: (K:) or [when you mean the latter] you say رَجُلٌ ثَطُّ الحَاجِبَيْنِ, (K,) a man having thin, or scanty, eyebrows; as also الحَاجِبَيْنِ ↓ أَثَطُّ; (TA;) the mention of the eyebrows being indispensable; (IAar, K;) and اِمْرَأَةٌ ثَطَّةُ الحَاجِبَيْنِ [ a woman having thin, or scanty, eyebrows ]: (S TA:) pl. (of pauc., TA) أَثْطَاطٌ (Kr, K) and (of mult., TA) ثُطَّانٌ and ثِطَطَةٌ (AZ, K) and ثُطُطٌ, (IAar,) [all of which may be of either sing.,] and ثِطَاطٌ, (AZ, S, K,) which is of the former sing., (S,) and ثُطٌّ, (AZ, S, K,) which is of the latter. (S.) You say also اِمْرَأَةٌ ↓ ثَطَّاآءُ A woman having no اـِسْب, (Lth, TA,) i. e. hair on the pubes; in the copies of the K incorrectly written اِسْت. (TA.) And ↓ عَارِضٌ أَثَطُّ A side of the cheek, or of the face, having the hair falling off. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Also, the former, Heavy in the belly; (K, TA;) slow; applied to a man. (TA.) -A2- The former also signifies Human excrement or ordure; or thin human excrement or ordure; syn. سَلْحٌ. (Sgh, K.) [See also ثَلْطٌ.]

أَثَطُّ ذ , and its fem. ثَطَّاآءُ: see ثَطٌّ, in four places. ― -b2- الثَّطَّاآءُ also signifies The spider: or another creeping thing, that stings, or bites, vehemently: (K:) this is from Lth, as in the O and L: but in the Tekmileh we find الثَّطَّاآءُ, like شَفَّاآء, [app. a mistake for الثِّطَاآءُ, like شِفَاآء,] a certain small creeping thing: or, as some say, it is الثَّطَا, of the measure of قَفًا. (TA.)

1 ثَعَبَهُ ثعب ثعبه ثعبة , (S, A, K,) aor. ثَعَبَ , (K,) inf. n. ثَعْبٌ, (S,) He gave vent to it; or made it to flow forth, run, or stream; namely, water, (S, A, K,) and blood, and the like. (K.) ثعب دَمًا, [thought by MF to be ثَعَبَ, but I see no reason why it should not be ثَعَبَ,] said of a wound, means It flowed, or ran, with blood. (TA.)

7 انثعب انثعب It (water) had vent; or it flowed forth, ran, or streamed; (S, A, K;) in, or through, a مَثْعَب: (S TA:) and in like manner, rain: (TA:) and blood from the nose. (S, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] صَاحَ بِهِ فَا@نْثَعَبَ اـِلَيْهِ (tropical:) He called out to him and he sprang up and ran to him. (A, TA.)

ثَعْبٌ ثعب , applied to water, (K,) and to blood, (TA,) Flowing, running, or streaming; as also ↓ ثَعَبٌ and ↓ أُثْعُوبٌ and ↓ أُثْعُبَانٌ. (K, TA.) You say ↓ سَيْلٌ أُثْعُوبٌ [ A flowing torrent ]. (A.) ― -b2- And [hence,] ↓ شَرٌّ أُثْعُوبٌ (tropical:) [ Evil that takes its course like a stream ]. (A.) ― -b3- See also what next follows.

ثَعَبٌ ثعب , (so in the S, expressly said to be بِالتَّحْرِيكِ,) or ↓ ثَعْبٌ, (so in the K,) in some copies of the K, erroneously, مَثْعَب, (TA,) A water-course of a valley; a channel in which water flows in a valley: (S, K:) accord. to Lth, the rubbish and scum that collect in the channel in which the rainwater flows; but Az disapproves of this explanation of the word, and says that it signifies, in his opinion, the channel itself: (TA:) the pl. is ثْعْبَانٌ. (S, K.) One says, سَالَتِ الثُّعْبَانُ كَمَا سَالَ الثُّعْبَانُ, i. e. The torrent [or rather the torrents ran like the serpent called ثعبان]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- See also ثَعْبٌ.

ثُعْبَانٌ ثعبان A kind of long serpent: (S:) a great serpent; applied to the male and the female: (Msb:) a bulky and long serpent, (Sh, K, TA,) that hunts the rat or mouse, to which latter animal the name is sometimes metaphorically applied, and that is more useful in the house than are cats: (Sh, TA:) or particularly the male [ serpent ], (Ktr, K,) that is yellow, and ruddy: (Ktr:) or the serpent in general, (ISh, K,) male and female, great and small: (ISh:) [also applied to an enormous fabulous serpent; described by Kzw and others:] pl. ثَعَابِينُ. (S, Msb.) ― -b2- [رَئيِسُ الثَّعَابِينِ The basilisk. (Golius, from a Glossary.)] ― -b3- دَمُ الثُّعْبَانِ: see دَمٌ.

فُوهُ يَجْرِى ثَعَابِيبَ فوه يجري ثعابيب , (As, S, K,) or فَمُهُ, (TA,) and سَعَابِيبَ, (S,) His mouth runs with clear water, having an extended [or a ropy ] flow. (As, S, K.)

أُثْعُبَانٌ ذ : see ثَعْبٌ.

أُثْعُوب ذ : see ثَعْبٌ, in three places.

مَثْعَبٌ مثعب [The outlet, or place of outpouring, of the water of a watering-trough &c.;] the place of passage for the water, in the side of a wateringtrough or tank: and a channel, or conduit, for water: (KL:) pl. مَثَاعِبُ. (S, A.) You say مَثْعَبُ الحَوةَ [ The outlet for the water of the watering-trough or tank ]: (S, A:) and مَثْعَبُ السَّطْحِ [ the outlet for the water of the house-top ]: (A:) and مَثْعَبُ المَطَرِ [ the outlet, or channel, for the rain-water ]: (TA:) from ثَعَبَ المَاآءَ “he gave vent to the water,” or, “made it to flow forth,” &c. (A, TA.) And مَثَاعِبُ المَدِينَةِ, meaning The channels, or places of flowing, of the water of the city: (K, TA:) whence it appears that MF has erred in saying that مَثْعَبٌ signifies [only] a مِزْرَاب [or spout for conveying away water from a housetop &c.]: not a channel, or place of flowing. (TA.) [See also صُنْبُورٌ, and لَوْلَبْ.]

ثَعْدٌ ثعد , as an epithet applied to a leguminous plant, or to an herb, Fresh, juicy, or sappy; (S, A, K;) soft, or tender. (S, A.) You say ثَعْدٌ مَعْدٌ in this sense; (S, A;) the latter word being an imitative sequent, not [generally] used alone; but some use it alone: (S:) and it is said to be syn. with the former. (TA.) You say also رُطَبَةٌ ثَعْدَةٌ مَعْدَةٌ, meaning A fresh, juicy, ripe date. (IAar, TA.) And ثَرًى ثَعْدٌ Soft, moist earth; (S, K;) as also جَعْدٌ. (Sudot;.) ― -b2- [As a coll. gen. n.,] Fresh ripe dates: or dates for the most part in a state of ripeness: (K:) or ripening dates when they have become soft: n. un. with ة: (As, S:) that which is ripening, but as yet hard and indigestible, is termed جُمْسَةٌ. (As, TA.) [See بُسْرٌ.] ― -b3- Fresh butter: so accord. to Is-hák Ibn-Ibrá- heem El-Kurashee, in a trad. related by him. (IAth, TA.) ― -b4- مَا لَهُ ثَعْدٌ وَلَا مَعْدٌ He possesses not little nor much. (K.) [Here, again,] the last word is an imitative sequent. (TA.)

1 ثَعِلَ ثعل , aor. ثَعَلَ , inf. n. ثَعَلٌ, His teeth were irregular in their places of growth, and overlying one another: (Msb:) [or he had a tooth, or teeth, in excess, or exceeding the usual number, and growing behind the others: see what follows.] And ثَعِلَتِ السِّنُّ The tooth exceeded the usual number, (Msb, K,) being behind the other teeth: or entered beneath another, being irregular in the place of growth. (K.) [See also ثُعْلٌ.]

4 اثعلوا اثعلوا , said of guests, They were, or became, numerous, or many, (K, TA,) and straitened, or crowded, one another: (TA:) so, too, said of men coming to water. (K, TA.) ― -b2- اثعلوا عَلَيْنَا They acted contrarily, or adversely, to us; they opposed us. (Lth, S, K.) ― -b3- اثعل said of a recompense, or reward, It was, or became, great. (K.) ― -b4- And said of an affair, It was so great that one knew not how to apply himself to it: (K:) it implies incongruity. (TA.)

ثَعْلٌ ثعل : see ثُعْلٌ.

ثُعْلٌ ثعل (K, and Ham p. 647) and ↓ ثَعَلٌ and ↓ ثُعْلُولٌ, (K,) the last from Ibn-'Abbád, (TA,) A tooth in excess, or exceeding the usual number, (K, and Ham ubi suprà,) behind the other teeth: (K:) or the entering of a tooth beneath another, with irregularity in the place of its growth: (K:) or ↓ ثَعَلٌ signifies superfluities in the teeth, and irregularity in their places of growth, so that they overlie one another: (S:) or the teeth's overlying one another, and the excess of a tooth among them [ beyond the usual number ]. (Har p. 243.) ― -b2- And ثُعْلٌ (S, K, and Ham ubi suprà) and ↓ ثَعْلٌ and ↓ ثَعَلٌ (K) An excess, or a redundance, (K and Ham,) [i. e.] a small teat in excess, [ in addition to the usual number, ] (S,) in, or among, the teats of a sheep or goat, (S, K, Ham,) and of a she-camel, (S, K,) and of a cow: (K:) it does not yield milk, though hyperbolically described as doing so. (S. [But see ثَعُولٌ.]) ― -b3- Also ثُعْلٌ, [not ثُعَالٌ as in Freytag's Lex.,] A certain animalcule that appears in a skin used for holding water or milk when its odour has become bad. (Ibn-'Abbad, K. *)

ثَعَلٌ ثعل : see ثُعْلٌ, in three places.

ثُعَلٌ ثعل : see ثُعَالَةُ. ― -b2- One says in reviling a man, هٰذِا الثُّعَلُ وَالكُعَلُ, meaning This ignoble fellow, that is naught. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)

ثُعْلُولٌ ثعلول : see ثُعْلٌ. ― -b2- Also A ewe, or she-goat, that may be milked from three places, or four, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) by reason of an excess in the [ number of ] teats. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA. [See also ثَعُولٌ.]) -A2- Angry. (Lth, K.)

ثَعَالٍ ثعال : pl. of ثَعْلَبُ [q. v.]. (K in art. ثعلب.)

ثُعَالٌ ثعال : see ثُعَالَةُ.

ثَعُولُ ثعول , applied to a she-camel, a cow, and a sheep or goat, Having an excess, or a redundance, in the [ number of ] teats: or having, above her teat, a small teat: or having a nipple in excess: (K:) or a ewe, or she-goat, having a ثُعْل [q. v.]: or, accord. to some of the lexicologists, a ewe, or she goat, that may be milked from her ثُعْل. (Ham p. 647. [See also ثُعْلُولٌ.]) ― -b2- طَعْنَةٌ ثَعُولٌ A wound made with a spear or the like from which the blood is scattered, or sprinkled. (TA.) ― -b3- جَيْشٌ ثَعُولٌ A numerous army. (TA.) And كَتِيبَةٌ An army, or a collected portion thereof, having with it much rabble and many followers: (K:) regard is had in it to multitude and crowding. (TA.)

ثُعَالَةُ ثعال ثعاله ثعالة , a determinate noun, The ثَعْلَب [or fox ]; (S, O;) as also ↓ ثُعَلٌ: (IDrd, TA:) or the female ثعلب; as also ↓ ثُعَالٌ. (K.) -A2- ثُعَالَةُ Dry herbage: or ثُعَالَةُ is [ the plant commonly called ] عِنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ [see art. ثعلب]: (K:) this is from AHn. (TA.)

أَثْعَلُ ذ A man whose teeth are irregular in their places of growth, and overlying one another: (Msb:) or having superfluities in his teeth, and irregularity in their places of growth, so that they overlie one another: (S:) or having a tooth in excess, (Mgh, K,) behind the other teeth: (K:) or having a tooth entering beneath another, being irregular in the place of growth: (K:) fem. ثَعْلَاآءُ, applied to a woman; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and also to a gum (لِثَةٌ): (K:) pl. ثُعْلٌ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- A portly, or corpulent, personage, or chief, characterized by superabundances of benificence, or bounty. (Lth, K.)

مُثْعِلٌ مثعل Spread, scattered, or sprinkled. (TA.) ― -b2- ورْدٌمُثْعلٌ [ A company of men coming to water ] straitening, or crowding, one another. (K.) ― -b3- جَاآءَ القَوْمُ مُثْعِلِينَ The people, or company of men, came in a connected, or continnous, body. (TA.)

أَرْضٌ مَثْعَلَةٌ ذ A land in which are many ثَعَالِب [or foxes ]; (S, K;) like مَعْقَرَةٌ meaning “ a land in which are many عَقَارِب [or scorpions]; ” (S;) as also مُثَعْلِبَةٌ. (K in art. ثعلب. [But see this last word.])

Q. 1 ثَعْلَبَ ثعلب He (a man) was cowardly, and eluded, or turned away, or went this way and that, or to the right and left, quickly, and deceitfully, or guilefully; as also ↓ تَثَعْلَبَ: his doing so being thus likened to the running of the ثَعْلَب. (TA.) And ثعلب مِنْهُ فَرَقًا [ He was cowardly, and eluded him, or turned away from him, &c., through fear ]; i. e., from another man. (TA.)

Q. 2 تَثَعْلَبَ تثعلب : see above.

ثَعْلَبٌ ثعلب [The fox; canis vulpes of Linn.: but in the dial. of Egypt, the jackal; canis aureus of Linn.: the former animal being there called أَبُو الحُصَيْنِ, as it often is by the Arabs of other countries:] a certain beast of prey; (TA;) well known: (S, K:) applied to the male and the female; so that one says ثَعْلَبٌ ذَكَرٌ and ثَعْلَبٌ أُنْثَى; but if one would designate the male by a single word applying to it only, he says ↓ ثُعْلُبَانٌ, with damm to the ث and ل: (IAmb, Msb:) or the former applies to the female: (K:) or the female is called ↓ ثَعْلَبَةٌ; (Ks, S, Msb, K;) and the male, ↓ ثُعْلُبَانٌ (Ks, S, K) and ثَعْلَبٌ, (K,) [accord. to some,] like as one says عَقْرَبَةٌ [and عُقْرُبَانٌ] and عَقْرَبٌ: (Msb:) or ثَعْلَبٌ is the male; and the female is called ↓ ثُعَالَةُ: (Az, TA: [but see this word is art. ثعل:]) the pl. of ثعلب is ثَعَالِبُ and ثَعَالٍ, (K,) accord. to Lh: but ISd disapproves of this [latter pl.]; and Sb does not allow it except in poetry. (TA.) F charges J with error in citing, as a proof that ↓ ثُعْلُبَانٌ signifies the male, the following verse: أَرَبٌّ يَبُولُ الثُّعْلُبَانُ بِرَأْسِهِ لَقَدْ ذَلَّ مَنْ بَالَتْ عَلَيْهِ الثَّعَالِبُ [ Is he a Lord, upon whose head the he-fox makes water? (the ب in برأسه being syn. with عَلَى: so in the Mughnee, in art. ب:) Vile indeed is he upon whom the foxes make water! ] said by a man who was keeper of an idol, on seeing a he-fox make water upon it: but in this, F opposes also Ks and others; and it is asserted by several authorities that the correct reading of the word ثعلبان in a trad. whereby F attempts to establish his charge against J is not ثَعْلَبَانِ, dual. of ثَعْلَبٌ, as he pronounces it to be, but ثُعْلَبَانِ, which is said to be the masc. of ثَعْلَبٌ, like as أُفْعُوَانٌ and عُقْرُبَانٌ are mascs. of أَفْعًى and عَقْرَبٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- دَاآءُ الثَّعْلَبِ [for which Golius seems to have found in a copy of the K دَوَاآءُ الثَّعْلَبِ] A well-known disease, [namely, alopecia, ] (S, K,) in consequence of which the hair falls off. (S.) ― -b3- عِنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ [ Fox-grape: rendered by Golius “ uvæ vulpinæ, i. e. solanum: ” but now applied by some to the gooseberry: and the solanum nigrum, or gardennightshade, is now commonly called عِنَبُ الذِّئْبِ:] a certain astringent, cooling plant: seven (or, as in one copy of the K, nine ) حَبَّات [which here seems to mean berries] thereof, swallowed, are a cure for the jaundice (اليَرَقَان), and stop pregnancy, (K, TA,) like the berries of the خِرْوَع [or castor-oil-plant], for the year, or, as some say, absolutely. (TA.) -A2- A hole, or aperture, (جُحْر,) whence rain-water flows. (TA.) [And particularly,] The outlet, hole, or aperture, (مَخْرَج, S and Msb, or جُحْر, K, or ثَقْب, TA,) whence the rain-water flows from the place where dates are dried. (S, Msb, K, TA.) And The place whence the water flows forth (L, K) from, (L, TA,) or to, (K, [probably a mistake,]) a watering-trough or tank. (L, K.) -A3- The upper extremity of a spear-shaft that enters into the head thereof. (S, K.) ― -b2- The lowest part of a palm-shoot when it is cut from [the root of] the mother-tree: or the lowest part of a [shoot such as is termed ] راكُوب, on the trunk of a palm-tree. (AA, K.)

ثَعْلَبَةٌ ثعلب ثعلبه ثعلبة : see ثَعْلَبٌ. -A2- Also The os coccygis, or tail-bone; syn. عُصْعُصٌ. (K.) ― -b2- And The podex, or the anus; syn. اِسْتٌ. (K.)

ثُعْلُبَانٌ ثعلب ثعلبان : see ثَعْلَبٌ, in three places.

ثَعْلَبِيَّةٌ ثعلب ثعلبي ثعلبيه ثعلبية A running of the horse like the running of the dog. (K.)