فُرَات

furaAtN * , applied to water, (T, S, M, &c.,) and furaAhN , both chaste forms, and well known, like taAbuwtN and taAbuwhN , (Towsheeh, MF, TA,) Sweet: (S, O:) or very sweet: (K:) or of the sweetest kind: (T, M, L:) or that subdues thirst by its excessive sweetness: (Bd in xxv. 55:) so called, accord. to Z, because it breaks the vehemence of thirst, and allays it; as though from rafata , and formed by transposition: (TA:) you say maA='N furaAtN , (S, M, O, K,) and in a copy of the K firaAtN also, (TA,) and miyaAhN furaAtN , (S, M, O, K,) and firotaAnN , (M, Msb, in copies of the K furotaAnN , and in the CK farotaAnN ,) like girobaAnN [pl. of guraAbN ], when furaAtN is pluralized, but this is rarely the case. (Msb.) ― -b2- AlfuraAtu signifies also [ The Euphrates; ] the river of ElKoofeh; (S, Mgh, O, * K; *) a great, celebrated river, which issues from the limits of Er-Room, then passes by the borders of Syria &c., and, after meeting with the Tigris, forms therewith one river, and pours forth into the Sea [or Gulf ] of Persia. (Msb, TA.) And AlfuraAtaAni is an appellation applied to [ The Euphrates and Tigris; i. e.] AlfuraAtu and dijolapu : or, accord. to the S [and O] AlfuraAtu and dujayolN [ The Euphrates and Dujeyl, which latter is a branch of the Tigris]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also The sea: (M, K:) so in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb describing pearls as found therein. (M.)