فَتْحٌ

verbal noun of فَتَحَ [q. v.]. (Msb, &c.)

[As a subst.,] (tropical:) Conquest of a country: (K, TA:) plural فُتُوحٌ (TA) [and plural plural فُتُوحَاتٌ]. يَوْمٌ الفَتْحِ means particularly (assumed tropical:) The day of the conquest of Mekkeh: (L:) and also (assumed tropical:) The day of resurrection. (Mujáhid, L.)

(assumed tropical:) Aid against an enemy; or victory; synonym نَصْرٌ; as also ↓ فَتَاحَةٌ. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) Means of subsistence, with which God gives aid: plural as above. (TA.)

(tropical:) The first of the rain called الوَسْمِىّ; (L, K;) as also ↓ فَتُوحٌ [which see again in what follows]: (K:) or the first of any rain; as also ↓ فُتْحَةٌ: (L:) plural of the first فُتُوحٌ, (A,) or ↓ فَتُوحٌ, with fet-h to the ف, (L,) [see the mention of this voce فَيْحٌ,] but MF strongly reprobates this latter form, and observes that فَعُولٌ as a plural measure is absolutely unknown. (TA.) One says, أَصَابَتِ الأَرْضُ فُتُوحٌ (tropical:) [First rains fell upon the land]. (A.)

(tropical:) Water running (S, K, TA) from a spring or other source: (S, TA:) or water running upon the surface of the earth: (AHn, TA:) or water for which a channel is opened to a tract of land for its irrigation thereby: (L:) or a river, or rivulet, or canal of running water. (T, TA.) مَا سُقِىَ بِالفَتْحِ فَفِيهِ العُشْرُ, and مَا سُقِىَ فَتْحًا, (L,) فَتْحًا being here in the accusative case as a verbal noun, i. e. مَا فُتِحَ إِلَيْهِ مَاءُ الأَنْهَارِ فَتْحًا, (Mgh, L, *) occurring in a tradition, means In the case of that (relating to the several sorts of seed-produce, and palm-trees,) which is irrigated by means of the channel opened to conduct to it the water of the river [or rivers], the tithe [of the produce shall be taken]. (L.)

The place of insertion of the tang of the iron head that enters into the shaft of an arrow: (K, * TA:) plural as above. (TA.)

The fruit of the tree called نَبْع, resembling the حَبَّة خَضْرَاء [or fruit of the pistachia terebinthus], (K, TA,) except that it is red, sweet, and round; eaten by men. (TA.)

[As a conventional term in grammar and lexicology, A certain vowel-sound, well-known: and ↓ فَتْحَةٌ signifies The sign of that vowel-sound.]