Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

تَرَسَ البَابَ, aor. ـُ {يَتْرُسُ}, inf. n. تَرْسٌ, He fastened, or closed, the door [with a bar or] in any manner. (TA.)

ترّس, inf. n. تَتْرِيسٌ, He made a person to arm himself with a shield. (KL.)

See also 5.

تترّس, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) or تترّس بِتُرْسٍ, (M,) He defended himself with a تُرْس [or shield]; (Ṣ, M, A,* Ḳ;) as alsoترّس↓, inf. n. تَتْرِيسٌ; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) andاِتَّرَسَ↓, (Sb, M, A, TA,) inf. n. اِتِّرَاسٌ, of the measure اِفْتِعَالٌ: (TA:) and تترّس بِشَىْءٍ he made a thing to be as a تُرْس; he defended, or protected, himself with it. (Mṣb.) You say also, تَسَتَّرْتُ بِكَ مِنَ الحَدَثَانِ فَتَتَرَّسْتُ مِنْ نِبَالِ الزَّمَانِ ‡ [I protected myself by thee from calamities, and so shielded myself from the arrows of fortune]. (A.) And أَخَذَتٌ إِبِلِى سِلَاحَهَا وَتَتَرَّسَتْ بِتُرْسِهَا, meaning ‡ My camels became fat and goodly, and prevented their owner from slaughtering them. (A, TA.) [See سِلَاحٌ.]

تُرْسٌ [A shield;] a certain piece of defensive armour; (M, TA;) a thing well known: (A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) pl. تِرَسَةٌ and تِرَاسٌ (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ) and تِرَاسَةٌ (Ṣ) and تُرُوسٌ, [all pls. of mult.,] and أَتْرَاسٌ, [a pl. of pauc.,] (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) but not أَتْرِسَةٌ. (ISk, Ṣ, Mṣb.) A تُرْس that is made of skins, without wood and without sinews in it, is called حَجَفَةٌ and دَرَقَةٌ. (Mṣb.)

Also ‡ The disk of the sun. (A,* TA.)

And ‡ A smooth, round, level piece of ground: (A, TA:) or a rugged piece of hard, or hard and level, ground. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, Ḳ.)

See also مَتَرْسٌ.

تِرَاسَةٌ The art of making shields. (Ḳ.)

تَرَّاسٌ A man having a shield; (Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ;) as alsoتَارِسٌ↓. (Ṣ, A.)

And A maker of shields. (Ḳ.)

مَتَرْسٌ; so accord. to El-Háfidh Ibn-Hajar, and this is the correct form; written in the T and the Towsheeh مَتَّرْسٌ; and by some, مَتْرَسٌ [as in the CK]; and by some, مَتْرَسٌ [as I find it in two copies of the Ṣ and in a copy of the Ḳ]; (TA;) [A wooden door-bar;] a piece of wood that is put behind the door; (Ṣ, Ḳ) the شِجَار [or wooden bar] that is put against the door as a stay: (T, L, TA:) [مَتَرْسْ is] a Persian word, [having the above-mentioned signification, but originally a contraction of مَهْ تَرْسْ, and] meaning “fear not thou,” with it [being here understood]: (T, Ḳ, TA:) or the name of this piece of wood in Arabic is تُرْسٌ↓: (M, TA:) which also signifies a piece of wood with which a couch-frame (سَرِير) is repaired, by its being affixed as a ضَبَّة: (M:) [and the Arabic word شِجَارٌ has this latter signification also:] the Persian word is مَتَرْسْ. (M, TA.)

Their saying مَتَرْس, with fet-ḥ to the م and ت, and sukoon to the ر means [also] Security [is given] to thee, therefore fear thou not: it is said to be Persian. (Mṣb.)

مَتْرَسَةٌ, (M, A,) or متْرَسَةٌ, (Ḳ, accord. to the TA, [and so I find in a MṢ. copy of that work, and in the CK, but the former is probably the correct form, being agreeable with analogy, like مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ, &c.,]) Anything by which one is defended, or protected. (M, Mṣb, Ḳ.) You say also هُوَ مَتْرَسَةٌ لَكَ ‡ [He is a cause of defence, or protection, to thee]. (A.)

بَابٌ مَتْرُوسٌ A door fastened, or closed, [with a bar, or] in any manner. (TA.)