أَفْوَقُ
Root: فوق
Full Definition
def.2 Also An arrow of which the فُوق [or notch] is broken: [and] an arrow having no فُوق: (L voce أَقَذُّ:) pl. فُوَقٌ [perhaps a mistranscription for the regular form of pl., i. e. فُوْقٌ; or it may be that the و is with fet-h to distinguish it from فُوقٌ signifying “ a notch ” of an arrow]: but IAar explains this as signifying arrows of which the heads have fallen. One says, رَجَعَ فُلَانٌ بِأَفْوَقَ نَاصَلٍ
2 مَحَالَةٌ فَوْقَآءُ [A large sheave of a pulley] of which every سِنّ [or tooth, perhaps meaning cog, though I do not remember to have met with any description of a cogged محالة,] has two cusps (فُوقَانِ), like the فوقان [of the notch] of the arrow. [The strangeness of this explanation induces me to think that فَوْقَآءُ is here a mistranscription for فَوْهَآءُ, (see مَحَالَةٌ فَوْهَآءُ, in art. فوه,) and that the explanation is partly conjectural.]
3 And كَمَرَةٌ فَوْقَآءُ A glans of a penis whereof the extremity is tapering in form, like that which is termed حَوْقَآءُ.
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