افتق

Form: 4

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افتقIV , said of a man, or of a party of men, He was one, or they were persons, whose beasts were become fat so that they became swollen, or inflated, in the flanks (تَفَتَّقَتْ) by reason of the abundance of the herbage: mentioned by AA.
2 Said of the upper limb (قَرْن) of the sun [app. when a little above the eastern horizon], It reached a rent (فَتْق) in the clouds, and appeared therefrom. And, said of the moon, It appeared, after concealment, between two black clouds.
3 Also, said of a party of men, They had the clouds parted asunder from [over] them.
4 And أَفْتَقْنَا We found, or lighted on a فَتْق, i. e. a place upon which rain had not fallen when it had fallen upon what was around it. And We had no rain fallen upon our parts of the country when other parts had rain fallen upon them.
5 And افتق He went forth to a فَتْق, or an open, and a spacious, place: a verb, in this sense, similar to أَصْحَرَ and أَفْضَى.

def.2 Also He became harassed by , meaning such evils as poverty and debt and hunger and disease.

def.3 And He cleaned his teeth with the فِتَاق, or stem, or lower part, of the raceme of a palm-tree.

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