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خُرْسٌ أخرس خرس Food that is prepared on the occasion of the birth of a child; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خِرَاسٌ . (Lh, TA.) IJ seems to assign to it also the sense of خُرْسَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, as also ↓ the second word, A feast, or banquet, that is prepared on that occasion, and to which people are invited: so in a trad. of Hassán, كَانَ إِِذَا دُعِىَ إِِلَى طَعَامٍ قَالَ إِِلَى عُرْسٍ أَمْ خُرْسٍ أَمْ إِِعْذَارٍ [He used, when he was invited to food, to say, To a weddingfeast, or a feast for child-birth, or a circumcisionfeast?]; and if it were for one of these, he consented: but if not, he did not consent. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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