ف ح س

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of licking or lapping, often with the tongue, to take something, especially liquid. It also extends to a specific agricultural process of threshing grain and metaphorically to strutting or walking with a swagger.

Derived headwords

فَحَسَverb

1.
to lick/lap upboth
To take something, especially liquid, by licking it with the tongue, often from one's hand.

فَحْسnoun

1.
licking/lappingboth
The act of licking or lapping something with the tongue, as described in the verb.
2.
threshing (barley)classical
A specific process of threshing a type of barley until its husk is removed and flies off.

تَفَحَّسَverb

1.
to strut/swaggerclassical
To walk with a strutting or swaggering gait, displaying pride or affectation.

أَفْحَسَverb

1.
to rub/scrapeclassical
To rub or scrape something, doing it piece by piece or little by little.

Parallel reading

أخذك الشيء عن، كذا نص الصاغاني

Your taking something from...

من يدك بلسانك وفمك من الماء وغيره

...your hand with your tongue and mouth, of water and other things.

الفحس: لحسك الشيء بلسانك عن يدك

Al-Fahs: your licking something with your tongue from your hand.

الفحس: دلك السلت، حتى تقلع وتطاير عنه السفا

Al-Fahs: rubbing the Selt (a type of barley) until it is threshed and its husk flies off.

وتفيحس في مشيته، إذا تبختر

And he walks with a swagger in his gait, if he struts.

وكذلك تفيسح

And likewise, he struts.

أفحس الرجل، إذا سحج شيئا بعد شيء

The man rubbed something, if he scraped something after something.