أَفْجَى
Root: فجو
Full Definition
أَفْجَى
an epithet, of which the fem. is فَجْوَآءُ. The latter, applied to a bow, Having its string distant from the part called its
كَبِد; as also
فَجُوْءٌ ; and so فَجَّآءُ [mentioned in art. فج].
2 And the former, applied to a man, Wide between the thighs, or between the knees, or between the shanks: or, applied to a camel, wide between the hocks: or, accord. to Az, it signifies having the thighs very wide apart. [Freytag adds “ Ventrosus, ” applied to a camel, as from the K, in which I do not find it.] [Accord. to the TA, some of the words of this art. have ى for the final radical; but for this distinction there is no reason.]
2 And the former, applied to a man, Wide between the thighs, or between the knees, or between the shanks: or, applied to a camel, wide between the hocks: or, accord. to Az, it signifies having the thighs very wide apart. [Freytag adds “ Ventrosus, ” applied to a camel, as from the K, in which I do not find it.] [Accord. to the TA, some of the words of this art. have ى for the final radical; but for this distinction there is no reason.]
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more