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1 غَسَلَهُ ذ , (S, MA, O, Msb, K,) aor. غَسِلَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. غَسْلٌ, (S, MA, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) and غُسْلٌ is the subst, (S, Msb,) or a subst. (Mgh, K, TA) from الاِغْتِسَالُ, (Mgh, TA,) or, as some say. the latter is the inf. n. and the former is the subst., (MF, TA,) He washed it; with water (بِالمَآءِ): (MA:) غَسْلُ الشّىْءِ signifies the removing of dirt, or filth, and the like thereof, from the thing, by making water to run over it. (Mgh.) You say, غَسَلَ الجِلْدَ كُلَّهُ [He washed the skin, all of it], and المَيِّتَ [the dead body]: and ↓ غسّل has the like, but an intensive, meaning. (Msb.) See also 10. ― -b2- وَا@غْسِلْنِى بِمَآءِ الثَّلْجِ وَالبَرَدِ [lit. And wash Thou me with the water of snow and of hail], in a trad. relating to [forms of] prayer, means (assumed tropical:) and cleanse Thou me from sins. (TA.) And one says, غَسَلَ ا@للّٰهُ حَوْبَتَكَ i. e. (assumed tropical:) May God cleanse thee from thy sin. (TA.) ― -b3- مَا غَسَلُوا رُؤُوسَهُمْ مِنْ يَوْمِ الجَمَلِ [lit. They did not wash their heads &c., as one does in cleansing himself from impurity,] means مَا فَرَغُوا and مَا تَخَلَّصُوا [i. e., app., (assumed tropical:) they did not become free from the consequences of the Day of the Camel (the famous engagement between the forces of 'Alee and those of Áïsheh)]. (TA.) ― -b4- And one says of a horse, غُسِلَ, like عُنِىَ, meaning He sweated; [or became suffused with sweat;] (Sh, O, K;) as also ↓ اِغْتَسَلَ (K.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited in art. عدو, conj. 3.] ― -b5- غَسَلَ المَرْأَةَ signifies (tropical:) He compressed the woman (جَامَعَهَا); (Az, Mgh, O, TA;) like عَسَلَهَا, with ع; (Az, Mgh, TA;) much or little; (TA;) and ↓ غَسَّلَهَا signifies the same: (Mgh, O, TA:) or both signify he did so much. (K.) It is said in a trad., (Mgh, O, TA,) respecting [preparation for the prayers of] Friday, (Mgh,) مَنْ غَسَلَ وَا@غْتَسَلَ, as some relate it, or, as others relate it, واغتسل ↓ من غَسَّلَ ; the latter of which is said to mean Whose compresses his wife [before his going to the mosque]; (Mgh, O;) and El-Kutabee says that most hold this to be the meaning; i. e., lest he should see in his way anything that might divert his heart [from devotion]; (Mgh;) [and then washes himself;] and Az held غَسَلَ, without teshdeed to be correct (Mgh, O) in this sense: (Mgh:) or the meaning accord. to the reading of غسّل is, whose performs the [ablution termed] وُضُوءْ fully, washing every member [of those that are to be washed] three times, (Mgh, O,) and then washes himself for the [prayers of] Friday; (Mgh;) and accord. to IAmb, it means whose washes himself after الجِمَاع and then washes himself for the [prayers of] Friday; (O:) accord. to the K, ↓ التَّغْسِيلَ signifies the exceeding the ordinary bounds in washing the members: (TA:) he who explains as meaning the causing a woman to become under the obligation of performing a total ablution, بِأَنْ وَطِئَهَا, says what is improbable, and departs from the authorities respecting it. (Mgh.) ― -b6- One say, also, غَسَلَ الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ, meaning (tropical:) The stallion covered the she-camel much. (K, TA.) [See also 4.] ― -b7- And غَسَلَ, aor. غَسِلَ . (K, TA,) inf. n. غَسْلٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He beat, and caused to suffer pain, (K, TA,) بِالسَّوْطِ [with the whip]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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