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لَمَسَهُ , (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.) ―
2-b2-
[Hence,] لَمَسَهَا, (M, A, Msb, K,) aor.
لَمُسَ (M)
[and
لَمِسَ , as implied in the K], inf. n. لَمْسٌ,
(S, M,) (tropical:) 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 (assumed tropical:) 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.) ―
2-b3- [Hence also,] لَمَسَهُ,
aor.
لَمُسَ [and
لَمِسَ ], (A, TA,) inf. n. لَمْسٌ, (IDrd,
Msb, TA,) (tropical:) 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)
(tropical:) 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, *)
(tropical:) 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 (tropical:) Whoso
pursueth a way whereby he seeketh after knowledge, or science. (TA.) And in another, of
'Áïsheh, فَٱلْتَمَسْتُ ↓ عِقْدِى (tropical:) And I sought for
my necklace. (TA.) ―
2-b4- لَمَسَ البَصَرَ, aor.
لَمُسَ , (tropical:) It
took away the sight. (A, TA.) And the same,
or, accord. to one relation of a trad., ↓ التمسهُ, (assumed tropical:) It
took away quickly, and destroyed, the sight; said
there of certain serpents: or the meaning is, (assumed tropical:) it
aimed at the eye with its bite: and لَمَسَ عَيْنَهُ is
said to signify [(assumed tropical:) he, or it, put out his eye,] the
same as سَمَلَ. (TA.)