مِفْرَشٌ
1.
A thing resembling the
شَاذَكُونَة [a kind of thick quilted stuff made in El-Yemen]; (O, K;) i. e. a thing that is put upon the
صُفَّة [or covering next the saddle] to sit upon; (TA;) as also
مِفْرَشَةٌ: (A, TA:) or the latter is smaller than the former, (O, K,) and is put upon the
صُفَّة
of the camel's saddle, (A,) or upon the camel's saddle [itself], to sit upon: (O, K:) [plural مَفَارِشُ.]
2.
[Hence,] مَفَارِشُ is applied to signify (tropical:) Women, or wives. (A, TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ كَرِيمُ
المَفَارِشِ (tropical:) Such a one is a person who has highborn wives or women; (A;) or who takes as his wives high-born women. (S, O, K.) One says also of a man who has never married, إِنَّهُ لَهَالِكُ
المِفْرَشِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily his life has passed away lost. (TA.) And هُلْكُ المَفَارِشِ is said to mean (assumed tropical:) Persons who will not die upon their beds, and will not die otherwise than by slaughter. (TA.)