فَثٌّ
1.
A certain plant, the grain of which is made into bread, (S, M, O, K,) and eaten, (S, M, O,) in the time of drought, or dearth: (S, M, O, K:) in some of the copies of the K, يُخْتَبَأُ is put for يُخْتَبَزُ: (M, F:) the bread made of it is coarse, or thick, resembling the bread that is baked in hot ashes [which is generally made in the form of thick round cakes]: (S, O:) a grain resembling [the species of millet called] جَاوَرْس, which is made into bread, and eaten: (IAar, T:) it is a wild grain, which the Arabs of the desert take, in the
times of hunger, and pound, or bruise, and make into bread; and it is a bad kind of food, but sometimes, or often, they are content with it for days: (T:) or, as some say, it is [a plant] of the species called
نَجِيل, growing in salt lands, of the [plants termed] حُمُوض [plural of حَمْض], of which bread is made: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. فَثَّةٌ: (Th, M:) Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee says, the فَثّ, like the دُعَاع, is a herb (بَقْلَة) in which comes forth grain, and each of them spreads [upon the ground], not growing up high; and when they become dry, the people collect what is dry thereof, then pound, or bruise, it, and winnow it, and take forth from it a sort of black grain, with which they fill sacks, and lade the camels: it is a black sort of grain like the
شَهْنِيز [q. v.], and they make bread of it, and make
عَصِيدَة (يَعْتَصِدُونَ): (O:) in the Bári' it is said to be a species of tree or plant (شَجَرٌ) growing in the plain, or soft, lands, and on the [eminences called] اكَام, having a sort of grain like the
حِمَّص [or chick-peas], of which are made bread and
سَوِيق. (Msb.)
2.
And according to IF, الفَثُّ signifies The
هَبِيد, (O, Msb,) meaning the pulp of the colocynth,
شَحْمُ الحَنْظَلِ, (O,) or the colocynth-plant,
شَجَرُ الحَنْظَلِ. (Msb: and this is one of the meanings assigned to الفَثُّ in the K. [In the TK, شَحْمُ الحَنْظَلِ is said to be the correct explanation: but from what will be seen voce هَبِيدٌ, I think it most probable that the right meaning is The seeds of the colocynth.])
3.
IF also says that it signifies The فَسِيل [i. e. shoot, or shoots, of the palm-tree,] which is, or are, plucked forth [entire,] from the base thereof. (O.)