Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

إِسْتَفْوَقَ

Root: فوق

Form: 10

Full Definition

إِسْتَفْوَقَX see 4, in four places.

def.2 استفاقها: see 5. [It signifies as there explained: or it signifies, or signifies also,] He delayed the milking her, namely, a camel, until her milk collected in her udder, or in order that it might collect; and so فوّقها , Verbal.Noun تَفْوِيقٌ. One says, اِسْتَفِقِ النَّاقَةَ Milk not thou the she-camel before the time.
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3 And مَا يَسْتَفِيقُ مِنَ الشَّرَابِ He does not abstain [from drinking wine]: or he does not drink it in the set time: or he does not appoint a time for drinking it, but drinks it always.


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