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)
  • Active participle: مُفَارِص (mufāriṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَارَص (mufāraṣ)
• Form IV: أَفْرَصَ (ʔafraṣa, “the opportunity came upon”)
  • Verbal noun: إِفْرَاص (ʔifrāṣ)
  • 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^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 572–573
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ف ر ص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2372–2373
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ف ر ص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 954