فص

• IPA^(key): /fasˤsˤ/, IPA^(key): /fusˤsˤ/, IPA^(key): /fisˤsˤ/

فَصّ or فُصّ or فِصّ • (faṣṣ or fuṣṣ or fiṣṣ) m (plural فُصُوص (fuṣūṣ)) (countable)

1. a roundish object that is apparently or actually attached to or separable from another object
   1. a circular, dome-shaped, or spherical object set into another (like the stone of a ring, the bead of an earring, or the pupil of the eye)
      • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 48:241:

        كَانَ خَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ وَفَصُّهُ مِنْهُ‏.‏

        kāna ḵātamu n-nabiyyi min fiḍḍatin wafaṣṣuhu minhu.

        The ring of the Prophet was of silver, and its stone was of it [likewise].

   2. the core, kernel, or nucleus of a proposition or idea
2. a roundish object of many forming a composite whole
   1. a semicircular division of a fruit (as in citrus fruits, like mandarins or oranges), a segment
   2. a semicircular bulb (as in garlic), a clove
   3. (anatomy) a gross anatomical division or extension of an organ (as of a brain, a liver, or a kidney), a lobe

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “فص”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 350
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “فص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2403
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 965