خِرْقٌ

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خِرْقٌ and خِرِّيقٌ Liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous; as also مِخْرَاقٌ : or ↓ the second signifies very liberal or bountiful &c.: or this and the first signify one who takes a wide, or an ample, range, or is profuse, in liberality or bounty &c.: or a youth, or young man, excellent, or elegant, in mind, manners, address, speech, person, and the like; or clever, or ingenious; with liberality, bounty, munificence, or generosity, and courage: and a goodly youth or young man, [for الفَتِىُّ in the CK, I read الفَتَى, as in other copies of the K,] of generous disposition: the pl. (of خِرْقٌ, TA) is أَخْرَاقٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and خُرَاقٌ, or خُرَّاقٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K, [both anomalous, and perhaps it is خِرَاقٌ, agreeably with analogy,]) and خُرُوقٌ; and the pl. of خِرِّيقٌ is خِرِّيقُونَ; no broken pl. of it having been heard. One says also, هُوَ الكَفِّ بِالنَّوَالِ [He has a liberal hand, largely beneficent]. And هُوَ الكّفِّ بِالنَّوَالِ He is liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous. (TA. [But see مَخْرُوقٌ below.])
2 خِرْقٌ is also applied to a spear, meaning Highly esteemed or prized; excellent; or rare.

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