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فِطِّيسَةٌ ذ The snout of the swine; as also ↓ فِنْطِيسَةٌ : (S, M, * K:) or its nose with what is next thereto: (IDrd, O, K:) and, (K,) accord. to Th, (O,) it [app. meaning the lip] is [called] the شَفَة of man, and of camels the مِشْفَر, and of beasts of prey the خَطْم and the خُرْطُوم, and of the swine the ↓ فِنْطِيسِة , (O, K, * [in the latter of which it is plainly stated that فِطِّيسَةٌ is used in relation to man and to camels and to beasts of prey, whereas Th seems evidently to mean that what is called the شَفَة of man, and of camels the مَشْفَر, &c., is called the فَنْطِيسَة of the swine,]) which word فنطيسة he [thus] mentions, with ن, as of the measure فِنْعِيلَةٌ, the ن being augmentative. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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