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غوّصهُ فِى المَا=ءِ He made him to dive in, or descend beneath, the water; (A;) he immersed, immerged, dipped, plunged, or sunk, him therein. (TA.)

غَوْصٌ [originally an inf. n.]: see مَغَاصٌ , in two places.

غَوْصَةٌ [A single diving in, or descent beneath, water: see 1, last sentence but one]. (A.)

غَوَّاصٌ : see the next paragraph, in four places.

غَايءِصٌ One who dives in, or descends beneath, or enters into, water; as also ↓ غَوَّاصٌ [which, however, has an intensive signification, or implies the habit of so doing]: (TA:) and ↓ the latter, (S, A, K,) or both, (Az, TA,) particularly one who dives in the sea for pearls, (S, A, K,) or for pearl-shells, and fetches them out: (Az, TA:) pl. غُوَّاصٌ , (A, TA,) of the former, (TA,) and غَاصَةٌ , (A, TA,) [also of the former,] and [of the latter] غَوَّاصُونَ . (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] هَوَ مِنْ صَاغَةِ الفِقَرِ وَغَاصَةِ الدُّرَرِ (tropical:) [He is of the moulders of فِقَر , lit., as thus used, ornaments fashioned in the form of the vertebræ of the back, but here meaning choice phrases or sentences; and of the divers for, and producers of, (expressions like) pearls, or large pearls]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence likewise,] ↓ غَوَّاصٌ also signifies (tropical:) One who exercises art, craft, cunning, or skill, in ordering the means of obtaining subsistence. (TA.) ― -b4- And غَايءِصٌ also signifies One who pounces, or comes suddenly, or at unawares, upon a thing; (JK, S, Msb;) as also, (JK, Msb,) but in an intensive sense, (Msb,) ↓ غَوَّاصٌ : (JK, Msb:) pl. of the former غَاصَةٌ . (Msb.)

مَغَاصٌ A place where one dives in, or descends beneath, water; (Lth, A, K;) as also ↓ غَوْصٌ : (Lth, Mgh:) or ↓ the latter signifies particularly a place [where one dives and] whence pearls are fetched out. (JK, Mgh. *) You say also, هٰذَا مَغَاصُ اللُّوءْلُوءِ This is the diving-place for pearls. (A.) ― -b2- Also The upper part of the سَاق [or shank, &c.]. (JK, Sgh, K.)