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Quran

Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry وشي

ى

1 وَشَى , inf. n. وَشْىٌ, He variegated, or figured, a piece of cloth, or a garment; (Mgh, Msb, * K;) and embellished it. (K.)

وَشَى بِهِ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ, (S, K,) or عِنْدَ السُّلْطَانِ, (Msb,) He calumniated, or misrepresented, him to the Sultán. (S, Msb, K.) شِيَةٌ Any colour differing from the main colour of a horse, &c.; a colour differing from the rest, (S,) or from that which generally pervades a thing.

لَا شِيَةَ فِيهِ It is of one generally pervading colour, in which is no other colour.

شِيَةٌ [also] A mark, sign, symptom, or token, by which a thing is known; syn. عَلَامَةٌ; (Msb;) and مَخِيلَةٌ, which see. وَشْىٌ , originally an inf. n., A kind of variegated, or figured, cloth, or garment. (Mgh, Msb. *)

وَشْىٌ The variegation, figured work, or figuring, of a garment; making it partycoloured.

وَشى sometimes signifies A natural diversity of colours: see رُمْلَةٌ.

وَشْىٌ of a sword: see فِرِنْدٌ. شِيَوِىٌّ : see what next follows. وَشَوِىٌّ rel. n. of شِيَةٌ, the rad. و being restored; (S in the present art.;) and so ↓ شِيَوِىٌّ, like عِدَوِىٌّ [of عِدَةٌ]. (S in art. وعد.) قَوْلٌ مَوْشِىٌّ بِهِ [A saying misrepresented]. (TA in art. قت, in an explanation of قَوْلٌ مَقْتُوتٌ.)

مَوْشِىٌّ is used by Aboo-Dhu-eyb to signify A musical reed-pipe. (TA, art. نوب.)

E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.