أَفْتَخُ
Root: فتخ
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أَفْتَخُ
Having the quality termed
فَتَخٌ [expl. in the first sentence of this art.]: as an epithet applied to a man, wide, or broad, in the hand and foot, with softness, or suppleness: or it signifies lax, or relaxed, and soft, or supple, and wide, or broad, in the joints: or soft, or supple, in the joints &c.: and, applied to a lion, wide, or broad, in the fore and hind feet, with softness, or suppleness: fem. فَتْخَآءُ: and pl. فُتْخٌ. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce رَوَحٌ.]
2 The fem., applied to a she-camel, means Having what is termed طَرَقٌ [expl. above: see 1]. And فَتْخَآءُ الأَخْلَافِ, so applied, Whose teats rise towards her belly; denoting a quality discommended; but the like in the woman and in the cloven-hoofed animal is commended.
3 Also Any female bird having lax, or relaxed, wings: afterwards used as a name for the eagle: or it is an epithet applied to an eagle; you say عُقَابٌ فَتْخَآءُ, meaning an eagle having soft, or supple, wings; because, when it descends, it contracts its wings, and this is only from softness, or suppleness.
4 And, applied to a foot, accord. to As, Soft, or supple: and accord. to AA, having in it a crookedness, or curvature. Frogs are فُتْخُ الأَرْجَلِ [app. meaning Soft, or supple, in the hind legs].
5 أَفْتَخُ الطَّرْفِ, applied to a gazelle, or to a man, means Languid in respect of the eye.
def.2 And فَتْخَآءُ signifies also A thing, four-sided, resembling a مِلْبَن [app. here meaning the thing thus called upon which bricks are carried from place to place], of wood, upon which the gatherer of [wild] honey sits: then he is drawn, or pulled, [up] from above, until he reaches the place of the honey [which is generally in a cliff].
2 The fem., applied to a she-camel, means Having what is termed طَرَقٌ [expl. above: see 1]. And فَتْخَآءُ الأَخْلَافِ, so applied, Whose teats rise towards her belly; denoting a quality discommended; but the like in the woman and in the cloven-hoofed animal is commended.
3 Also Any female bird having lax, or relaxed, wings: afterwards used as a name for the eagle: or it is an epithet applied to an eagle; you say عُقَابٌ فَتْخَآءُ, meaning an eagle having soft, or supple, wings; because, when it descends, it contracts its wings, and this is only from softness, or suppleness.
4 And, applied to a foot, accord. to As, Soft, or supple: and accord. to AA, having in it a crookedness, or curvature. Frogs are فُتْخُ الأَرْجَلِ [app. meaning Soft, or supple, in the hind legs].
5 أَفْتَخُ الطَّرْفِ, applied to a gazelle, or to a man, means Languid in respect of the eye.
def.2 And فَتْخَآءُ signifies also A thing, four-sided, resembling a مِلْبَن [app. here meaning the thing thus called upon which bricks are carried from place to place], of wood, upon which the gatherer of [wild] honey sits: then he is drawn, or pulled, [up] from above, until he reaches the place of the honey [which is generally in a cliff].
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