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تَيْسٌ تيس A he-goat; the male of the مَعْز: (S,* M, A, K:) and the male of the mountain-goat: (A, K) and of the gazelle: (S, M, A, K:) the female of the last [as well as of the first and second] is called عَنْزٌ: (S, M:) or that has completed a year: (A, K:) or a yearling he-goat: before the year it is called جَدْىBٌ: (AZ, * Msb, TA:) pl. (of pauc., M) أَتْيَاسٌ (S, M, K) and أَتْيُسٌ, (M, TA,) and (of mult., M) تُيُوسٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and تِيَسَةٌ and ↓ مَتْيُوسَآءُ [like مَشْيُوخَآءُ, q. v.]: (K:) the last [which is properly a quasi-pl. n.] signifies the same as تُيُوسٌ, (S,) or a herd of تُيُوس. (M.) You say of the نَكَّاح, [i. e. of him who marries often, or the like,] بَنِى فُلَانٍ ↓ هُوَ مِنْ مُتْيُوسَآءِ (tropical:) [lit. He is of the he-goats of the sons of such a one]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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