غ • ر • س

, aor. غَرِسَ , (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. غَرْسٌ, (S, Msb,) He planted it, or fixed it in the ground; (A, K;) namely, a tree; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اغرسهُ, (Zj, A, K,) inf. n. إِغْرَاسٌ. (A.) [Hence,] غَرَسَ فُلَانٌ عِنْدِى نِعْمَةً (tropical:) Such a one established, or settled, in my possession, a benefaction, or boon. (TA.) And غَرَسَ المَعْرُوفَ (tropical:) He did good, or what was beneficent or kind. (IKtt, TA.)

: see غَرْسٌ, in two places. غَرِيسَةُ is a proper name for The female slave [as being planted in a family]. (Sgh, K.)

, [originally an inf. n.,] i. q. ↓ مَغْرُوسٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) i. e., A tree planted; [and used as a subst., meaning a set;] (A, K;) as also ↓ غِرْسٌ, (A,) and ↓ غِرَاسٌ: (Mgh, Msb, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَغْرَاسٌ and [of mult.] غِرَاسٌ (K) [and accord. to general analogy غُرُوسٌ: see عُشُقٌ]. And A twig that is plucked from a garden and then planted: (TA:) and غِرَاسٌ, (S, A,) which is its pl., (A,) shoots, or offsets, of palm-trees, which are cut off from the mother-trees, or plucked forth from the ground, and planted; (S, K;) as also ↓ غَرِيسَةٌ: (TA:) or ↓ this last signifies one of such shoots or offsets from the time when it is put into the ground until it takes hold: (IDrd, K: *) or a palm-tree when it first grows: (S, K:) or a palm-tree recently planted: (A:) and the same word also signifies a grape-vine when first planted: (TA:) and a date-stone that is sown: (Abu-lMujeeb and El-Hárith Ibn-Dukeyn:) and its pl. is غَرَايءِسُ (A, TA) and غِرَاسٌ, which latter is extr. (TA.) [Hence,] أَنَا غَرْسُ يَدِكَ and يَدِكَ ↓ غِرْسُ (tropical:) [I am the creature of thy hand]: and نَحْنُ غَرْسُ يَدِكَ and أَغْرَاسُ يَدِكَ (tropical:) [We are the creatures of thy hand]; غَرْسٌ being an inf. n. [used in the sense of a pass. part. n. both sing. and pl. agreeably with a general rule]; and أَغْرَاسٌ being pl. of غِرْسٌ in the sense of مَغْرُوسٌ. (A.) And فُلَانٌ غَرْسُ نِعْمَتِهِ (tropical:) [Such a one is the creature of his (another's) beneficence]. (TA.)

The act of planting trees. (A.) [Hence,] هٰذَا مَسْقَطُ رَأْسِهِ وَمَكَانُ غِرَاسِهِ (tropical:) [This is the place of his birth, (lit., of the falling of his head,) and the place of his plantation]. (A.) -A2- The time of planting: (S, K:) or this is termed وَقْتُ الغِرَاسِ, (A,) or زَمَنُ الغِرَاسِ. (Msb.) -A3- See also غَرْسٌ [of which it is a syn. and a pl.]. Accord. to Kr, Abundance of the trees called عُرْفُط. (TA.)

: see غَرْسٌ, in two places. -A2- Also The membrane that encloses the child; syn. مَشِيمَةٌ: (IAar, S in art. شيم:) or the membrane, or thin skin, that comes forth with the child from the belly of its mother: (Az, TA:) or that is upon, or over, the head of the new-born child: (A:) or what comes forth upon, or over, the face: (TA:) or what comes forth with the child, resembling mucus: or the membrane, or thin skin, that is upon, or over, the face of the young one of a camel at the birth, and which, if left upon it, kills it: (S, K:) pl. أغْرَاسٌ. (K.)

A place of planting: pl. مَغَارِسُ. (TA.) Hence, metaphorically, (tropical:) A woman, or wife. (Har p. 502.) [Hence also the saying,] اُطْلُبِ الخَيْرَ فِى مَغَارِسِهِ (tropical:) [Seek thou good in the persons in whom it is naturally implanted]; as also, فِى مَغَارِزِهِ. (A and TA in art. غرز.)

: see غَرْسٌ.