فرو

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

The root 'فرو' primarily relates to covering, fur, and outer layers. It extends to meanings of abundance, land, and even specific garments or accessories. Several proper nouns and place names are also derived from this root.

Derived headwords

الفَرْوَةnoun

1.
Fur coatboth
A well-known garment made of fur, possibly with or without the final 'ta marbuta'. It is collected from the skins of animals, tanned, sewn, and worn for protection against the cold.
2.
Scalpboth
The skin of the head, including the hair, for humans and other beings.
3.
White landclassical
Dry, white land that has no vegetation or grass.
4.
Wealthclassical
Abundance and riches, used as a substitute for 'tharwah'.
5.
Plant clumpclassical
A dried, gathered clump of vegetation.
6.
A type of robeclassical
A robe similar to a 'jubbah' made of camel hair.
7.
Half a cloakclassical
Half of a cloak made from camel hair, now known as a 'jubbah'.
8.
Pouch for charityclassical
A leather pouch, similar to a 'khareetah', used to hold alms.
9.
Crownclassical
A crown, often made of leather, hence the name.
10.
Woman's headscarfclassical
A woman's veil or head covering.

فِرَاءnoun

1.
Fursboth
Plural of 'farwah', referring to fur garments or the skins themselves. It can also refer to a collection of wild donkey hides.

أَفْرnoun

1.
Fur piecesclassical
Individual pieces of fur, which become 'firaa' when numerous.

فَرْوَةname

1.
Faruwah ibn Musaykclassical
A Companion of the Prophet, from whom Al-Sha'bi and others narrated.
2.
Faruwah ibn Qaysclassical
A narrator mentioned in relation to 'Ata'.
3.
Faruwah ibn Mujahidclassical
A shaykh of Ibrahim ibn Adham.
4.
Faruwah ibn Abi al-Maghra'classical
A shaykh of Al-Bukhari and Al-Darimi.
5.
Faruwah ibn Nawfalclassical
A narrator from Ali.
6.
Faruwah ibn Yunusclassical
A narrator from Hilal ibn Jubayr.

مِفْرَاةadjective

1.
Wearing furclassical
Describing a garment that has fur on it, with the 'fa' being stressed.

اِفْتَرَى فَرْوًاverb

1.
To wear furclassical
To put on a fur garment.

المُفْتَرِيnoun

1.
One wearing furclassical
Someone who is wearing a fur coat, implying they are protected from the cold.

ذُو الفَرْوَةnoun

1.
The wealthy oneclassical
Refers to someone who is wealthy, or a person carrying a 'farwah' (pouch for charity).

ذُو الفَرْوَيْنname

1.
Dhu al-Farwainclassical
A mountain in Syria, or mountains in Syria.

سَاقُ الفَرْوَيْنname

1.
Saq al-Farwainclassical
A mountain in Najd, in the lands of Banu Asad.

ذُو الفِرْيَةname

1.
Dhu al-Fariyahclassical
A Persian warrior who would mark himself with a 'farwah' (possibly a diminutive) before battle.
2.
Wahb ibn al-Harithclassical
A poet from the Quraysh Zuhri family.

فَرْوَانname

1.
Farwanclassical
A man's name.
2.
Farwanclassical
A town in Persia.

فَارِيَانَانname

1.
Fariyananclassical
A place in Merv, also possibly spelled 'Firyanan'.

فَرَاوَةname

1.
Farawahclassical
A town in Khurasan, near Khwarazm, also known as 'Farawuh' in Persian.

الفَرَّاءname

1.
Fur maker/sellerboth
One who makes or sells fur garments. Many hadith narrators were known by this nisba.
2.
Al-Farra'classical
A linguist, Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Ziyad al-Kufi, so named because he 'cut' or 'analyzed' speech.

الفَرْوِيّname

1.
Al-Farawiclassical
A mawla of Uthman, a reliable narrator.

أم فَرْوَةname

1.
Umm Farwahclassical
The name of three female Companions.

أبو فَرْوَةname

1.
Abu Farwahclassical
Refers to the acorn, named for the hair-like substance inside its shell.

فَزَاوَةname

1.
Fazawahclassical
An ancestor of a narrator, from whom the nisba 'Al-Fazawi' is derived.

Parallel reading

لبس م) معروف، قيل بإثبات الهاء، وقيل بحذفها، والجمع {فراء، كسهم وسهام، وهو على أنواع فمنها: السمور والأزق والقاقون والسنجاب والناقة والفرسق أولاهن أعلاهن؛ وهي جلود حيوانات تدبغ فتخيط ويلبس بها الثياب فيلبسونها اتقاء البرد.

A well-known garment, it is said with the 'ha' affirmed, and it is said with it omitted. The plural is 'firaa', like 'sahm' and 'sihaam'. It comes in types, including: sable, ermine, stoat, squirrel, camel, and ferret; the first are the highest quality. These are skins of animals that are tanned, sewn, and used to make clothes, which they wear to ward off the cold.

والفروة: (جلدة الرأس) بما عليه من الشعر يكون للإنسان وغيره؛

And 'al-farwah': the skin of the head, with the hair on it, for humans and others;

دنس الثياب كأن فروة رأسه غرست فأنبت جانباها فلفلا

Dirty of clothes, as if the scalp of his head was planted and its sides sprouted pepper.

وقد تستعار لجلدة الوجه؛ ومنه الحديث: (أن الكافر إذا قرب المهل من فيه سقطت فروة وجهه).

And it may be used metaphorically for the skin of the face; and from this is the hadith: (When the molten metal is brought near the unbeliever's mouth, the skin of his face will fall off).

والفروة: (الأرض البيضاء) اليابسة، (ليس بها نبات) ولا برش؛

And 'al-farwah': the white, dry land, which has no vegetation or grass;

إن الخضر جلس على فروة بيضاء فاهتزت تحته خضراء

Indeed, Al-Khidr sat on a white patch of land, and it became green beneath him.

والفروة: (الغنى، والثروة) إبدال؛ قال الفراء: إنه لذو فروة من المال وثروة بمعنى؛

And 'al-farwah': wealth and abundance, as a substitute. Al-Farra' said: He possesses great wealth and abundance.

والفراء أيضا جمع فرا لحمار الوحش.

And 'al-firaa' is also the plural of 'fara' for the wild donkey.

إذا التف دون الفتاة الكميع ووحوح ذو الفروة الأرمل

When the cowardly one wraps himself around the maiden, and the one with the fur robe moans.

وهامة} فروتها! كالفروة

And his head! Its fur! Like the fur.

جبة شمر كماها

A robe of 'shamir' (a type of plant) that is its covering.

وهو المعروف الآن بالجبة.

Which is now known as the 'jubbah'.

يجعل السائل فيها صدقته.

The liquid is placed in it for his charity.

هو فقير وإن كنز الإبزيز ولبس فروة أبرويز، أي تاجه، وإنما سميت به لأنه كان متخذا من الجلود.

He is poor even if he hoards treasures and wears the crown of Anushirvan, meaning his crown, and it was so named because it was made of leather.

إن الأمة ألقت فروة رأسها من وراء الجدار

Indeed, the slave girl threw off the covering of her head from behind the wall

أي قناعها أو خمارها، أي تبذلت وخرجت بغير تلفع كالحرة.

Meaning her veil or headscarf, meaning she was immodest and went out without covering herself like a free woman.

وجبة {مفراة) ، بالتشديد: أي (عليها فروة.

And a robe 'mufrah', with emphasis: meaning it has fur on it.

وافترى فروا) حسنا: (لبسه) ؛

And he wore beautiful fur: meaning he put it on;

المفتري لا يجد البرد: أي لابس الفروة؛

The one wearing fur does not feel the cold: meaning the wearer of the fur coat;

يقلب أولاهن لطم الأعسر قلب الخراساني فرو المفتري

He turns the first of them, striking the left-handed one, like the Khurasani wearing the fur of the one who wears fur.

لأنه يأتي مشتملا} بفروته، وهي الوفضة التي تقدم ذكرها.

Because he comes wrapped in his 'farwah', which is the pouch previously mentioned.

جبل بالشام

A mountain in Syria

جبال بالشام.

Mountains in Syria.

جبل بنجد

A mountain in Najd

كان إذا أراد القتال أعلم} بفروة، كأنه مصغر فروة.

When he wanted to fight, he would mark himself with a 'fariyah', as if it were a diminutive of 'farwah'.

ة) بمرو، (منها: محمد بن تميم؛

A town in Merv, from it: Muhammad ibn Tamim;

فراوة: د بخراسان

Farawah: a town in Khurasan

وهي بليدة بثغر خراسان مما يلي خوارزم وتعرف في العجم} بفراووه بواوين أولاهما مضمومة، وبها رباط بناه عبد الله بن طاهر في خلافة المأمون،

It is a small town in the border region of Khurasan, adjacent to Khwarazm, and known in Persian as 'Farawuh' with two 'waws', the first of which is dammah. It has a ribat built by Abdullah ibn Tahir during the caliphate of Al-Ma'mun,

الفراوي صاحب رباطها عن حميد بن زنجويه وغيره؛

Al-Farawi, the master of its ribat, from Hamid ibn Zanjawayh and others;

ومنها أبو الفضل محمد بن الفضل الفراوي الإمام المشهور ذو الكنى راوية صحيح مسلم

And from it is Abu Al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Al-Fadl Al-Farawi, the famous Imam with kunyas, the narrator of Sahih Muslim

وفيه يقولون ألفراوي ألف راوي، وترجمته واسعة مشهورة.

And about him they say: 'Al-Farawi, Al-Rawi' (the narrator), and his biography is extensive and famous.

وبه فسر قول الراعي السابق.

And by this, the previous verse of Al-Ra'i is explained.

وضربه على أم فروته: أي هامته.

And striking him on his 'umm farwatih': meaning his crown of the head.

والفراء: من يصنع} الفراء؛ وأيضا من يبيعها، وقد نسب كذلك جماعة من المحدثين،

And 'Al-Farra'': one who makes fur; also one who sells it. A group of hadith narrators have also been attributed to this nisba,

وأما أبو زكريا يحيى بن زياد بن عبد الله الكوفي اللغوي فإنه قيل له الفراء لأنه كان يفري الكلام فهو إذا من فرى يفري محله في التركيب الذي بعده؛

As for Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Ziyad ibn Abdullah Al-Kufi, the linguist, he was called Al-Farra' because he would dissect speech, meaning he would analyze it, and his place is in the subsequent composition;

وإسحاق بن محمد بن إسماعيل بن عبد الله بن أبي فروة القرشي {الفروي مولى عثمان ثقة عن مالك؛

And Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Farwah Al-Qurashi, Al-Farawi, the freed slave of Uthman, is reliable, narrating from Malik;

وفروان: بلد بفارس، منها: أبو وهب منبه بن محمد الواعظ مات في حدود سنة خمسمائة.

And Farwan: a town in Persia, from it: Abu Wahb Munabbih ibn Muhammad the preacher, who died around the year 500.

وفروة، محركة: قرية بسرخس، منها: أبو علي لقمان بن علي الفروي حدث عنه أبو أحمد بن عدي.

And Farwah, with harakah: a village in Sarakhs, from it: Abu Ali Luqman ibn Ali Al-Farawi, narrated from by Abu Ahmad ibn Adi.

فزاوة، بالفتح: جد أبي بكر محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن يوسف بن النضر بن فزاوة الفزاوي النسفي من أهل أفران نسب إلى جده، سمع إبراهيم بن سعد النسفي، وعنه حفيده أبو الأزهر أحمد بن أحمد بن عمر الإفراني مات سنة 320.

Fazawah, with Fath: the grandfather of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Al-Husayn ibn Yusuf ibn Al-Nadr ibn Fazawah Al-Fazawi Al-Nisaburi, from the people of Afran, attributed to his grandfather. He heard from Ibrahim ibn Sa'd Al-Nisaburi, and his grandson Abu Al-Azhar Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Umar Al-Ifrani narrated from him, dying in the year 320.