Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

لَحِسَهُ, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or لَحِسَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ, (A,) aor. ـَ {يَلْحَسُ}, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. لَحْسٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) and مَلْحَسٌ (A Ḳ) and لَحْسَةٌ and لُحْسَةٌ, (Yaạḳoob, Ṣ, Ḳ,) the last mentioned by ISk, (TA,) He licked it; (Ṣ, A, Ḳ, TA;) namely, a bowl, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and a vessel: (Ṣ:) اللَّحْسُ is with the tongue: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or لَحسَهُ signifies he took what was upon it, (Mgh,) or what adhered to its sides, (Mṣb,) with his tongue or his finger; (Mgh, Mṣb;) the suffixed pronoun referring to a bowl (Mgh, Mṣb) or some other thing: (Mgh:) and he took it (a thing) with his tongue. (TA.) It is said in a proverb, أَسْرَعُ مِنْ لَحْسِ الكَلْبِ أَنْفَهُ [Quicker than the dog's licking his nose]. (Ṣ, A.) See also مَلْحَسٌ, below.

لَحِسَ الدُّودُ الصُّوفَ, (A, Mgh, Mṣb,) in measure like لَبِسَ, (Mgh,) or لَحَسَ, like مَنَعَ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. لَحْسٌ, (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) The worms ate the wool: (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ:) and in like manner, لحس الجَرَادُ الخُضَرَ (A, Ḳ) and الشَّجَرَ, (TA,) the locusts ate the green plants (Ḳ) and the trees. (TA.)

الحست الأَرْضُ ‡ The land produced plants, or herbage: (Ṣ:) or began to produce leguminous plants: (Ḳ:) or produced the first of the herbage, so that the beasts saw it and desired it and licked it, not being able to eat of it anything: (TA:) or produced what the beasts of carriage might lick or eat (مَا تَلْحَسُهُ): (A, TA:) or [became in such a state that] the beasts of carriage licked or ate (لَحَسَتْ) its plants, or herbage. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

الحس المَاشِيَةَ ‡ He pastured the camels or sheep or goats with the least pasturing. (Ḳ.)

التحس مِنْهُ حَقَّهُ ‡ He took from him his (the former's, A) right, or due. (A, Ḳ.)

لَحْسَةٌ: see 1. [Accord. to analogy, it is an inf. n. of un.]

لُحْسَةٌ [The quantity that one takes by one lick with the tongue. Hence the saying,] مَا لَكَ عِنْدِى لُحْسَةٌ I have not anything for thee, or belonging to thee. (TA.)

See also 1.

لَحَّاسٌ A man who licks much what comes to him. (TA.)

لَحَّاسَةٌ A moth-worm, that eats wool; syn. عُثَّةٌ. (TA.)

A lioness. (Ḳ.)

سَنَةٌ لَاحِسَةٌ ‡ A distressful, or calamitous, year; (Ḳ;) a year that consumes all the herbage: (A, TA:) and لَوَاحِسُ, [the pl., سِنُونٌ, being understood,] distressful, or calamitous, years. (A, TA.)

مَلْحَسٌ is a noun of place; [signifying A place of licking;, &c.;] as well as an inf. n.: and in both cases it has مَلَاحِسُ for pl. (IJ.) You say, تَرَكْتُهُ بِمَلَا حِسِ البَقَرِ, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) or بِمَلَاحِسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, (TA,) meaning, ‡ I left him in the places where the wild cows lick their young ones (Ṣ, ISd, A, Ḳ) from the membranes in which they are born: (ISd, TA:) or in a desert place, (Ṣ,) or in a desert, or waterless desert, (ISd, A, TA,) so that it was not known where he was; (Ṣ;) because the wild cows bring forth only in the deserts: (ISd, TA:) the former is like the saying بِمَبَاحِثِ البَقَرِ; (Ṣ;) and is that which ISd holds to be the right: (TA:) in the latter, ملاحس is an inf. n., in the pl. form, which is strange; because it governs اولاد in the accus. case; and a prefixed noun [مَوَاضِع] is understood before it: (IJ:) some relate the saying differently, thus, بِمَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, meaning, بِمَوْضِعِ مَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا [in the place of the cows' licking their young ones]; (Ḳ;) because [some hold that] an inf. n. of the measure مَفْعَلٌ has no pl. (TA.)

مِلْحَسٌ ‡ Greedy; as alsoلَحْوَس↓ (Ḳ) andلَاحُوسٌ↓ andمُلْحِسٌ↓: (TA:) and one who takes everything that he can. (Ḳ:) or a greedy man, who takes everything that he can: (A:) one who takes everything that appears to him: (TA:) [originally, a lick-dish:] and [in like manner] لَحُوسٌ↓ ‡ a man who seeks after sweets, like the fly. (A, Ḳ.)

Also, † Courageous: (Ḳ:) as though an eater of everything that rose up to him. (TA.)