تِينٌ The tree of the بَلَس [or common fig; ficus
carica]: or the بلس itself: (M:) [or both; i. e.]
a certain well-known kind of tree; and the fruit
thereof: (TA:) [or the latter only;] a certain
thing that is eaten, (S, Msb,) well known: (Msb,
K:) fresh and ripe, it is the most approved of
fruits, and the most nutritious, and the least
flatulent; drawing, dissolvent, having the property of opening obstructions of the liver and
spleen, and laxative; and the eating much thereof
engenders lice: (K: [the last word in this explanation in the K is مُقْمِلٌ, which I render agreeably
with the TK, having found no authoritative explanation of it: but in my own opinion, the
meaning of this word is fattening, for قَمِلَ signifies “ he became fat after being lean; ” and my
opinion is confirmed by what here follows:]) it is
a pleasant fruit, having nothing redundant, and a
nice food, quick of digestion, and a very useful
medicine, for it has a laxative property, dissolves
phlegm, purifies the kidneys, removes sand of the
bladder, opens obstructions of the liver and spleen,
and fattens the body: it is also said, in a trad.,
that it stops hemorrhoids, and is good for the
gout: (Bd xcv. 1:) AHn says, there are many
kinds thereof; that of the desert, that of the
cultivated land, that of the plains, and that of
the mountains; and it is abundant in the land of
the Arabs: and he adds, on the authority of an
Arab of the desert, of the Saráh, that it is, in the
Saráh, very abundant, and allowed to be commonly taken; and is eaten by the people there in
its fresh state, and also dried and stored: (M:)
the word is Arabic: (Msb:) [a coll. gen. n.:]
n. un. with ة. (S, M, Msb.) This is what is
meant in the Kur [xcv. 1], where it is said,
وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ, (T, S, M, Msb,) accord. to I'Ab,
(T, S, Bd, Jel,) and the generality of the interpreters: (Msb:) or these two words mean two
mountains (S, M, Bd, Jel) of Syria, (S, Jel,) or
of the Holy Land, (Bd,) that produce the two
fruits thus named: (Jel:) or, accord. to a Syrian
interpreter, certain mountains extending from
Hulwán, to Hemdán, and the mountains of Syria:
(Fr, T:) or Damascus and Jerusalem: (M, Bd:)
or the mosque of Damascus and that of Jerusalem: (Bd:) or two mosques in Syria: accord.
to AHn, the former is the name of a mountain in
the country of Ghatafán; but there is no mountain thus called in Syria. (M.) ―
2-b2- Among the
kinds of تِين is that called تِينُ الجُمَّيْزِ [The sycamore-fig; ficus sycomorus; also called the Egyptian fig]; describe voce جُمَّيْزٌ, q. v. (AHn.) ―
2-b3-
[التِّينُ الإِفْرَنْجِىُّ and التِّينُ الشَّوْكِىُّ are appellations
applied in the present day to The Indian fig, or
prickly pear; cactus opuntia: Forskål (Flora
Aegypt. Arab. p. lxvii) applies the former name
to the cochineal Indian fig; cactus cochinillifer.]
―
2-b4- التِّينَةُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The anus: (AHn, M,
K:) [opposed to الجُمَّيْزَةُ as meaning “ the pudendum muliebre. ”.]