ف ر ص

ف ر ص

Arabic

Root

ف ر ص • (f-r-ṣ)

1. related to slitting, ripping

Derived terms

• Form I: فَرَصَ‎ (faraṣa, “to slit, to make a lengthwise cut in, to rip”)
  • Active participle: فَارِص‎ (fāriṣ)
  • Passive participle: مَفْرُوص‎ (mafrūṣ)
• Form II: فَرَّصَ‎ (farraṣa, “to engrave, to ornament by cutting into it”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْرِيص‎ (tafrīṣ)
  • Active participle: مُفَرِّص‎ (mufarriṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَرَّص‎ (mufarraṣ)
• Form III: فَارَصَ‎ (fāraṣa, “to take in turn with; to surprise”)
  • Verbal noun: مُفَارَصَة‎ (mufāraṣa), فِرَاص‎ (firāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُفَارِص‎ (mufāriṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَارَص‎ (mufāraṣ)
• Form IV: أَفْرَصَ‎ (ʾafraṣa, “the opportunity came upon”)
  • Verbal noun: إِفْرَاص‎ (ʾifrāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُفْرِص‎ (mufriṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُفْرَص‎ (mufraṣ)
• Form VI: تَفَارَصَ‎ (tafāraṣa, “to share amongst each other in turns”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفَارُص‎ (tafāruṣ)
  • Active participle: مُتَفَارِص‎ (mutafāriṣ)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَرَصَ‎ (iftaraṣa, “to take the opportunity”)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِرَاص‎ (iftirāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَرِص‎ (muftariṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَرَص‎ (muftaraṣ)

• فَرِيص‎ (farīṣ, “who shares the water with another”)
• فُرْصَة‎ (furṣa, “opportunity to get to the water, turn, opportunity”)
• فِرْصَة‎ (firṣa, “a rag to wipe the catamenia”)
• فَرِيصَة‎ (farīṣa, “a muscle at the side under the shoulder near the heart which trembles in fright”)
• مِفْرَاص‎ (mifrāṣ, “an instrument to cut silver”)
• فِرْصَاد‎ (firṣād, “mulberry”) ?

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ف ر ص”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 254
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ف ر ص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 334
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ف ر ص”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 572–573
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ف ر ص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2372–2373
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ف ر ص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 954