مُوسَىٰ

muwsaY * [ A razor; ] a certain instrument of iron, (M, Msb, TA,) with which one shaves: (Lth, L, K, TA:) of the measure fuEolaY , (Ks, M, Msb, K,) from Almawosu , [inf. n. of maAsa ,] so that the m is a radical letter, (K,) accord. to Lth, (TA,) [for] Lth says, (L, TA,) Almawosu is the root ( taA^osiys [lit. foundation]) of AlmuwsaY , (L, K, TA,) the thing with which one shaves; (L, TA;) therefore, (Az, Msb, K,) it is imperfectly decl., because of the short fem. A [written Y ], (Msb,) without tenween; (Az, K;) and Fr cites a verse [of obscene meaning] in which it is made fem.: (TA:) or it is from A^awosayotu raA^osahu , meaning “ I shaved his head, ” (ISk, M, * Msb, K,) of the measure mufoEalN , (ISk, Msb, TA,) so that the Y is a radical letter, as El-Umawee and Yz say, and Aboo-'Amr Ibn-el-Alà inclined to think it so, (TA,) and therefore it is perfectly decl., (Msb,) with tenween, (Msb, K,) when indeterminate; (Msb;) or it is of the measure mufoEalN because this measure is more common than fuEolaY , and because it is perfectly decl. when indeterminate, whereas fuEolaY is not so when indeterminate and when determinate: (Ibn-EsSarráj, TA:) but IAmb says, that it is masc. and fem., and perfectly decl. and imperfectly decl.: ISk says, that the approved way is to make it perfectly decl.: (Msb:) [but] he says that it is fem. [also, and if so it is imperfectly decl.]: (TA:) and it is related of A'Obeyd, in the Bári', that he said he had not heard it made masc. except by El-Umawee; (Msb;) who asserted it to be masc. only: (TA:) the pl., accord. to him who makes it imperfectly decl., is muwsayaAtN ; and accord. to him who makes it perfectly decl., mawaAsK . (Msb.) The dim. of mwsY , in the sense above explained, [not as a proper name, in which case it is muwsaY only, without tenween, and has no relation to the same word signifying a razor,] is muwayosiyapN , [but by rule it should be muwayosaY , like HubayolaY ,] accord. to him who says h`*ihi muwsaY ; and muwayosK accord. to him who says h`*aA muwsFY . (ISk, TA.)