ROOT ف س ح

[1] فَسُحَ , (MA, Msb, K, [in the CK فَسَحَ, a misprint,]) with damm, (Msb,) like كَرُمَ, (K,) [aor. فَسُحَ ,] inf. n. فُسَاحَةٌ, (L,) or فَسَاحَةٌ [for which the former is app. a mistranscription] and فُسْحَةٌ, (MA,) It (a place) was, or became, spacious, roomy, wide, or ample; (MA, Msb, K;) as also ↓ افسح, (Msb, K,) and ↓ تفسّح, and ↓ انفسح. (K.) ＝ 1-A2- فَسَحَ لَهُ, (S, MA, Msb, K,) aor. فَسَحَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. فَسْحٌ (MA, Msb, TA) and فُسُوحٌ; (TA;) as also ↓ تفسّح, (A, K,) and ↓ افسح; (A;) He made room, or ample room, for him, (S, MA, Msb, K,) فِى المَجْلِسِ (S, MA, Msb) in the sitting-place, or in the assembly. (MA.) You say, تَفَسَّحُوا ↓ فِى المَجْلِسِ, (S, Msb, *) and ↓ تَفَا سَحُوا, (S, K,) Make ye room, or ample space, [in the sitting-place, or in the assembly,] syn. تَوَسَّعُوا: (S, K:) both of these verbs have nearly the same signification: [each may be rendered, but the latter more properly, make ye room, or ample space, one for another:] the latter occurs, accord. to the reading of El-Hasan, and the former accord. to that of others, in the Kur lviii. 12. (Fr, TA.) ― 2-b2- And اِفْسَحْ عَنِّى Remove thou, withdraw, or retire to a distance, from me. (Ksh and Bd in lviii. 12.) ― 2-b3- فَسْحٌ [as inf. n. of فَسَحَ] also signifies The making wide steps; and so فَيْسَحَى. (K.) [Hence,] اِفْسَحِ الخُطَى, said by an Arab of the Desert, of the Benoo-'Okeyl, to one who was sewing for him a water-skin, and mentioned in the T, as heard by its author, meaning (assumed tropical:) Make wide the spaces between each two punctures of the needle, lest the punctures should rend. (L.) ― 2-b4- And فَسَحَ لَهُ الأَمِيرُ فِى السَّفَرِ means The commander, or governor, wrote for him a فَسْح [q. v.]. (K.)