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Form 1لَمَسَهُ4 senses · 1 main

muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُ·ـِيَفْعِلُmaṣdarلَمْسٌ مُلَامَسَةٌ

Core sense — he felt it, he touched it; he sought for itgenerated

1.1he felt it, or touched it, with his hand—مَسَّهُ

Muḍāriʿ لَمُسَ and لَمِسَ.

He felt it, or touched it; synonym مَسَّهُ. (IAar, Az, IDrd, El-Fārābee)

Or he put his hand to it; or he felt it with his hand to test it, so as to form a judgment of it; synonym جَسَّهُ.

لَامَسَهُ is synonymous with لَمَسَهُ, or with مَاسَّهُ.

Er-Rāghib: لَمْسٌ and مَسٌّ both mean perceiving by means of the outside of the outer skin.

Or they are nearly alike. [Generally, like the English words feeling and touching, respectively.]

Or the first is, originally, [the feeling] with the hand in order to know the feel of a thing; or, with the hand, the seeking for [or feeling for] a thing here and there.

مُلَامَسَةٌ is the same as مُمَاسَّةٌ with the hand, and so is لَمْسٌ.

Or a distinction is to be made between them: لَمْسٌ is sometimes the feeling, or touching, of a thing with a thing, and is sometimes the knowledge of a thing, though there be no touching of substance upon substance; whereas ملامسة is mostly mutual feeling or touching, the act of two.

Compare sense 1.1 above for the proper meaning.

1.1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredhe had sexual intercourse with her—لَمَسَهَا

Muḍāriʿ لَمُسَ and لَمِسَ. I'Ab: said of a woman, or a girl.

I'Ab: لَامَسَهَا, and لِمَاسٌ, have the same meaning.

It also means he kissed her; by doing this, as well as by the former, one makes the ablution termed وضوء necessary. ('Abd-Allah Ibn-'Amr, Ibn-Mes'ood.)

1.1.2figurative · مجازhe sought it, or sought for or after it—لَمَسَهُ

Muḍāriʿ لَمُسَ and لَمِسَ.

[As though by feeling;] in any manner, as for instance by asking, or demanding.

Also التمسهُ, which is more common, and تلمّسهُ; or this last means he sought it, or sought for or after it, repeatedly, time after time.

seek for me such a one—أُلْمُسْ لِى فُلَانًا

we sought to reach heaven—إِنَّا لَمَسْنَا السَّمَآءَ

Qur'ān 72:8, relating the words of the jinn, or genii: or to learn its news; or to hear by stealth what was said in it; or we laboured, or strove, after the secrets of heaven, and sought to hear them by stealth.

whoever pursues a way by which he seeks after knowledge, or science—مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ بِهِ عِلْمًا

In a tradition.

and I sought for my necklace—فَٱلْتَمَسْتُ عِقْدِى

In another tradition, of 'Āïsheh.

1.1.3figurative · مجاز — inferredit took away the sight—لَمَسَ البَصَرَ

it took away the sight quickly, and destroyed it—التمسهُ

So according to one relation of a tradition, said there of certain serpents; or the meaning is that it aimed at the eye with its bite.

لَمَسَ عَيْنَهُ is said to mean [he, or it, put out his eye,] the same as سَمَلَ.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1

4:43

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَقْرَبُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأَنتُمْ سُكَـٰرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ تَعْلَمُوا۟ مَا تَقُولُونَ وَلَا جُنُبًا إِلَّا عَابِرِى سَبِيلٍ حَتَّىٰ تَغْتَسِلُوا۟ ۚ وَإِن كُنتُم مَّرْضَىٰٓ أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ أَوْ جَآءَ أَحَدٌ مِّنكُم مِّنَ ٱلْغَآئِطِ أَوْ لَـٰمَسْتُمُ ٱلنِّسَآءَ فَلَمْ تَجِدُوا۟ مَآءً فَتَيَمَّمُوا۟ صَعِيدًا طَيِّبًا فَٱمْسَحُوا۟ بِوُجُوهِكُمْ وَأَيْدِيكُمْ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَفُوًّا غَفُورًا

O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again.

5:6

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ فَٱغْسِلُوا۟ وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْمَرَافِقِ وَٱمْسَحُوا۟ بِرُءُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْكَعْبَيْنِ ۚ وَإِن كُنتُمْ جُنُبًا فَٱطَّهَّرُوا۟ ۚ وَإِن كُنتُم مَّرْضَىٰٓ أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ أَوْ جَآءَ أَحَدٌ مِّنكُم مِّنَ ٱلْغَآئِطِ أَوْ لَـٰمَسْتُمُ ٱلنِّسَآءَ فَلَمْ تَجِدُوا۟ مَآءً فَتَيَمَّمُوا۟ صَعِيدًا طَيِّبًا فَٱمْسَحُوا۟ بِوُجُوهِكُمْ وَأَيْدِيكُم مِّنْهُ ۚ مَا يُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ لِيَجْعَلَ عَلَيْكُم مِّنْ حَرَجٍ وَلَـٰكِن يُرِيدُ لِيُطَهِّرَكُمْ وَلِيُتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُۥ عَلَيْكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ

O ye who believe! when ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; Rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity, bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands, Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favour to you, that ye may be grateful.

6:7

وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْكَ كِتَـٰبًا فِى قِرْطَاسٍ فَلَمَسُوهُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ لَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِنْ هَـٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ

If We had sent unto thee a written (message) on parchment, so that they could touch it with their hands, the Unbelievers would have been sure to say: "This is nothing but obvious magic!"

72:8

وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَـٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًا شَدِيدًا وَشُهُبًا

'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. لَمُسَ (S, M, Msb, K) and لَمِسَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. لَمْسٌ , (S, M, Msb,) He felt it; or touched it; syn. مَسَّهُ : (IAar, Az, IDrd, El-Fárábee, A, Msb, TA:) or he felt it, or touched it, ( مَسَّهُ ,) with his hand: (S, Msb, K:) or he put his hand to it: (Msb:) or he felt it with his hand for the purpose of testing it, that he might form a judgment of it; syn. جَسَّهُ : (M, TA:) and لَامَسَهُ is syn. with لَمَسَهُ , (M, TA,) or مَاسَّهُ : (A:) لَمْسٌ and مَسٌّ both signify the perceiving by means of the exterior of the external skin: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or they are nearly alike: (TA:) [generally, like the English words feeling and touching, respectively:] or the former is, originally, [the feeling] with the hand for the purpose of knowing the feel ( مَسّ ) of a thing: (IDrd, Msb:) or, with the hand, it is the seeking for [or feeling for] a thing here and there: (Lth, TA:) مُلَامَسَةٌ is the same as مُمَاسَّةٌ (K, TA) with the hand; as also لَمْسٌ : (TA:) or a distinction is to be made between them; for it is said that لَمْسٌ is sometimes the feeling, or touching a thing with a thing; and is sometimes [for] the knowledge of a thing, though there be no touching ( مَسّ ) of substance upon substance; whereas ملامسة is mostly mutual feeling or touching, &c., being] the act of two. (IAar in TA.) [Hence,] لَمَسَهَا , (M, A, Msb, K,) aor. لَمُسَ (M) [and لَمِسَ , as implied in the K], inf. n. لَمْسٌ , (S, M,) Inivit eam; (I'Ab, S, M, A, Msb, K;) scil. mulierem; (A, Msb;) puellam; (K;) as also لَامَسَهَا , (M, A, Msb,) inf. n. مُلَامَسَةٌ (I'Ab, S, Msb, K) and لِمَاسٌ : (I'Ab, Msb:) and he kissed her; by doing which, as well as by the former, one renders necessary the performance of the ablution termed وضوء . ('Abd-Allah Ibn- 'Amr, Ibn-Mes'ood.) [Hence also,] لَمَسَهُ , aor. لَمُسَ [and لَمِسَ ], (A, TA,) inf. n. لَمْسٌ , (IDrd, Msb, TA,) He sought, [as though by feeling,] or sought for or after, it, namely, a thing, (IDrd, Msb, TA,) in any manner; (IDrd, Msb;) [as, for instance, by asking, or demanding;] as also التمسهُ , (S, M, A, * K, TA,) [which is more common,] and تلمّسهُ : (M, TA:) or this last signifies he sought it, or sought for or after it, repeatedly, or time after time. (S, K, TA.) You say, أُلْمُسْ لِى فُلَانًا (A, TA) Seek thou for me such a one. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [lxxii. 8,] relating the words of the jinn, or genii, إِنَّا لَمَسْنَا السَّمَآءَ , (K, * TA, *) Verily we sought to reach heaven: or to learn the news thereof: (Bd:) or to hear by stealth what was said therein: (Jel:) or we laboured, or strove, after ( عَالَجْنَا ) the secrets of heaven, and sought to hear them by stealth. (K.) And in a trad., مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ بِهِ عِلْمًا Whoso pursueth a way whereby he seeketh after knowledge, or science. (TA.) And in another, of 'Áïsheh, فَٱلْتَمَسْتُ عِقْدِى And I sought for my necklace. (TA.) لَمَسَ البَصَرَ , aor. لَمُسَ , It took away the sight. (A, TA.) And the same, or, accord. to one relation of a trad., التمسهُ , It took away quickly, and destroyed, the sight; said there of certain serpents: or the meaning is, it aimed at the eye with its bite: and لَمَسَ عَيْنَهُ is said to signify [ he, or it, put out his eye,] the same as سَمَلَ . (TA.)

Form 3لامسهُ2 senses · 1 main

maṣdarمُلَامَسَةٌ

Core sense — he felt it, he touched it; a sale concluded by touching the goodsgenerated

3.1a mode of bargaining based on feeling, or touching—بَيْعُ المُلَامَسَةِ

Maṣdar مُلَامَسَةٌ and لِمَاسٌ. For the proper meaning of the verb, see 1, in three places.

It consists in saying: when you feel, or touch, my garment, or I feel, or touch, your garment, or when I feel your garment and you feel mine, or when I feel the thing to be sold, the sale is settled, or concluded, between us for such a sum.

Or, according to Aboo-Ḥaneefeh, in your saying, I will sell you this commodity for such a sum, and when I feel, or touch, you, the sale is settled; or in the purchaser's saying the like.

Or, as in the Sunan of Aboo-Dāwood, in buying a commodity on the condition of feeling it behind a garment or piece of cloth, without seeing it, or spreading it out and turning it over and examining it; or on the condition that feeling it with the hand cuts one off from the choice of returning it.

This mode of bargaining is forbidden.

Also called بَيْعُ اللِّمَاسِ, or المُلَامَسَةُ فِى البَيْعِ.

3.1.1

For a figurative meaning of the verb, see 1.

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, inf. n. مُلَامَسَةٌ and لِمَاسٌ : for its proper signification, see 1, in three places. [Hence,] بَيْعُ المُلَامَسَةِ , (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb,) and بَيْعُ اللِّمَاسِ , (Mgh,) or المُلَامَسَةُ فِى البَيْعِ , (K,) A mode of bargaining, which consists in saying, When thou feelest, or touchest, my garment, or I feel, or touch, thy garment, (A, K,) or when, (Mgh,) or if, (Msb,) I feel, or touch, thy garment, and thou feelest, or touchest, my garment, (Mgh, Msb,) or when I feel, or touch, the thing to be sold, (S,) the sale is binding, or settled, or concluded, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) between us, (S, Msb,) for such a sum: (S, Msb, K:) or, accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh, in thy saying, I will sell to thee this commodity for such a sum, and when I feel, or touch, thee, the sale is binding, or settled, or concluded; or in the purchaser's saying the like: (Mgh:) or, (M, Mgh, K,) as in the Sunan of Aboo-Dáwood, (Mgh,) in purchasing a commodity on the condition of feeling it (M, Mgh, * K, *) behind a garment or piece of cloth, (K,) without seeing it, (M, K,) or spreading it out and turning it over and examining it: (Mgh:) or on the condition that the feeling it with the hand shall cut one off from the choice of returning it: (TA:) the mode of bargaining thus termed is forbidden. (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb.) For a tropical signification of the verb, see 1.

Form 4أَلْمِسْنِى الجَارِيَةَ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — let me feel the girl; marry a woman to megenerated

4.1

Permit me to feel, or touch, the girl.

4.1.1figurative · مجازmarry a woman to me—أَلْمِسْنِى ٱمْرَأَْةً

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Permit thou me to feel, or touch, the girl. (A, TA.) أَلْمِسْنِى ٱمْرَأَْةً Marry thou to me a woman. (A, TA.)

Form 5تَلَمَّسَ1 sense

Core sense — he felt about for it, he sought itgenerated

5.1

See 1, in two places.

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see 1, in two places.

Form 8إِلْتَمَسَ1 sense

Core sense — he sought it, he sought for or after itgenerated

8.1

See 1, in four places.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 8

57:13

يَوْمَ يَقُولُ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقُونَ وَٱلْمُنَـٰفِقَـٰتُ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱنظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِن نُّورِكُمْ قِيلَ ٱرْجِعُوا۟ وَرَآءَكُمْ فَٱلْتَمِسُوا۟ نُورًا فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُم بِسُورٍ لَّهُۥ بَابٌۢ بَاطِنُهُۥ فِيهِ ٱلرَّحْمَةُ وَظَـٰهِرُهُۥ مِن قِبَلِهِ ٱلْعَذَابُ

One Day will the Hypocrites- men and women - say to the Believers: "Wait for us! Let us borrow (a Light) from your Light!" It will be said: "Turn ye back to your rear! then seek a Light (where ye can)!" So a wall will be put up betwixt them, with a gate therein. Within it will be Mercy throughout, and without it, all alongside, will be (Wrath and) Punishment!

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see 1, in four places.

Derived nouns 7

Nounلَمُوسٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — a she-camel whose fatness one doubts; one of suspected lineagegenerated

A she-camel of whose fatness one doubts, on the authority of Ibn-'Abbād; the same as شَكُوكٌ and ضَبُوثٌ.

Or one of whose hump one doubts, whether there be fat in it or not, so that it is felt.

Plural لُمُسٌ.

1.1figurative · مجاز

One whose origin, or lineage, is suspected; synonym دَعِىٌّ.

Or one in whose grounds for claiming respect there is a fault, or taint.

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A she-camel of whose fatness one doubts; (O, TS, K;) on the authority of Ibn-'Abbád; (TA;) i. q. شَكُوكٌ and ضَبُوثٌ : (A, TA:) or of whose hump one doubts, whether there be in her fat or not; wherefore it is felt: (M, L:) pl. لُمُسٌ . (M, K.) [Hence,] One whose origin, or lineage, is suspected; syn. دَعِىٌّ : (K:) or in whose grounds of pretention to respect is a fault, or taint. (A, K.)

Nounلَمِيسٌ1 sense

Core sense — a woman soft to the touchgenerated

1a woman soft to the feel, or touch—لَيِّنَةُ المَلْمَسِ

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A woman soft to the feel, or touch; لَيِّنَةُ المَلْمَسِ . (K.)

Nounلَمَاسَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a want; a moderate wantgenerated

1figurative · مجاز — inferred

لُمَاسَةٌ, or both forms: a want; or a moderate, or middling, want.

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, (M,) لُمَاسَةٌ , (S,) or both, (TA,) A want: (IAar, Sgh:) or a moderate, or middling, want. (S, M, O, L.)

Nounلَمُوسَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a road, a waygenerated

A road, or way: so called because one who has lost the way seeks it in order to find the track of the travellers.

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A road, or way: so called because he who has lost his way seeks it in order to find the track of the travellers. (K, * TA.)

Nounلَامِسٌ1 sense

Core sense — one who feels, or touchesgenerated

1figurative · مجازsuch a woman does not repel the hand of one who feels her—فَلَانَةُ لَا تَرُدُّ يَدَ لَامِسٍ

Ism fāʿil of 1.

The meaning is that such a woman commits adultery, or fornication, and acts viciously, not repelling from herself anyone who desires to lie with her; and she is suspected of easiness, or compliance, towards him who desires to lie with her.

Or the meaning is that she gives, of her husband's property, what is sought, or demanded, from her; and this is more probably meant in a tradition in which a man is related to have said this of his wife, because Moḥammad directed him to retain her and did not require him to divorce her.

Said of a woman who commits adultery, or fornication, or acts viciously. Also لَا تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لَامِسٍ, but that is at variance with the written authorities, the former being the phrase commonly known.

such a man has no force of resistance, and no care for what is sacred, or inviolable—فُلَانٌ لَا يَرُدُّ يَدَ لَامِسٍ

The like is said of a man.

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act. part. n. of 1. (Msb, &c.) One says, of a woman who commits adultery, or fornication, or acts viciously, فَلَانَةُ لَا تَرُدُّ يَدَ لَامِسٍ , (A, TA,) or لَا تَمْنَعُ يَدَ لَامِسٍ , (K,) but the latter is at variance with the written authorities, the former being the phrase commonly known, (TA,) [properly signifying, Such a woman does not repel the hand of a feeler;] meaning, such a woman commits adultery, or fornication, and acts viciously, (K, TA,) not repelling from herself any one who desires of her that he may lie with her; (TA;) and she is suspected of easiness, or compliance, (K, TA,) towards him who desires of her that he may lie with her: (TA:) or the meaning is, such a woman gives, of her husband's property, what is sought, or demanded, from her; and this is more probably meant in a trad. in which a man is related to have said thus of his wife; because Mohammad directed him to retain her, and did not require him to divorce her. (TA.) The like said of a man, (K,) فُلَانٌ لَا يَرُدُّ يَدَ لَامِسٍ , (A, Msb,) means, Such a man has in him no force of resistance, (A, Msb, K,) nor care of what is sacred, or inviolable. (TA.)

Nounمَلْمَسٌ1 sense

Core sense — a place that is felt, or touchedgenerated

[A place that is felt, or touched; and it may also be a maṣdar: see لَمِيسٌ.]

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[A place that is felt, or touched: and it may also be an inf. n.: see لَمِيسٌ ]. (K.)

Nounإِكَافٌ مَلْمُوسُ الأَحْنَآءِ1 sense

Core sense — an ass's saddle with its curved pieces of wood smoothed by feelinggenerated

1figurative · مجاز

An ass's saddle, or pad, of which the curved pieces of wood have been felt with the hands until they have become even.

Or of which any unevenness and prominence in it has been pared off by passing the hand, or the hands, over it.

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An ass's saddle, or pad, of which the curved pieces of wood have been felt with the hands until they have become even: (M:) or of which any unevenness and prominence that was therein has been pared off (Lth, T, A, K) by the passing of the hand over it, (Lth, T,) or of the hands. (A.)