فَرَحٌ

[verbal noun of فَرِحَ, q. v.: as a simple subst.,] Joy, mirth, or gladness; or happiness; (S, L, Msb, K;) synonym سُرُورٌ; (Msb, K;) opposite of حُزْنٌ, (L,) and of تَرَحٌ: (S and A in art ترح:) or a sensation of lightness of the heart: (Th, TA:) or dilatation of the bosom with delight, or pleasure, of short continuance, transitory, or fleeting, not lasting, as is the case in bodily and worldly pleasures; whereas سُرُورٌ is dilatation of the bosom with delight, or pleasure, wherein is quiet or tranquillity or rest of mind, of short or of long continuance; but each is sometimes used as synonym with the other. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

And A state of being well pleased, or content, with a thing. (Msb.)

And Exultation, or a rejoicing above measure; or a state of exulting greatly, and behaving insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully. (S, Msb, K.)

[Also A festivity, or merry-making; particularly, as used in the present day, on the occasion of a marriage.

Pl. أَفْرَاحٌ.]

In the saying of Muteea Ibn-Iyás,

قَدْ ظَفِرَ الحُزْنُ بِالسُّرُورِ وَقَدْ

أُدِيلَ مَكْرُوهُنَا مِنَ الفَرَحِ

[Sorrow, or sadness, has overcome happiness, and the object of our dislike, or hatred, has been given a turn to prevail over the object of our love], by مِنَ الفَرَحِ he means مِنَ المَفْرُوحِ بِهِ, i. e. المَحْبُوبِ. (Ham p. 391.)