فَرْجٌ
Root: فرج
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فَرْجٌ
: see فُرْجَةٌ.
2 The space between the hind legs of a horse or mare: so in the saying of Imra-el-Keys,
3 The pudendum, or pudenda; the part, or parts, of the person, which it is indecent to expose; applied to the pudenda of men and of women and of youths, with what is around them; and so of horses and the like: or the anterior pudendum [i. e. the external portion of the organs of generation] of a man and of a woman, by common consent of the lexicologists; and applied to this and the posterior pudendum [in the conventional language of the
4 And i. q. فَتْقٌ [app. as meaning An open, wide, place]: pl. فُرُوجٌ: which latter also signifies The sides, or lateral parts, quarters, or tracts, of a land. And The part between the two sides, i. e. the بَطْن, of a valley: and hence used in relation to a road, as meaning its entrance: and a فَجّ [or wide, or depressed, road,] of a mountain. And A frontier-way of acces to a country; and [particularly such as is] a place of fear; so called because not obstructed; and so فُرْجَةٌ , [pl. فُرَجٌ, whence] one says, فُلَانٌ تُسَدُّ بِهِ الفُرَجُ, or الفُرُوجٌ, which is the pl. of فَرْجٌ, meaning [Such a one, by him are obstructed] the frontier-ways of access [to the enemy's country].
2 The space between the hind legs of a horse or mare: so in the saying of Imra-el-Keys,
[She has a tail like the skirt of the bride, with which she fills up the space between her hind legs, from behind]. And The space between the fore and hind legs of a horse or the like. [Hence, app.,] one says, مَلَأَ فَرْجَهُ and فُرُوجَهُ, and سدَّ فُرُوجَهُ [in which phrase مَدَّ is erroneously put for سَدَّ in one place in the TA], and جَرَى مِلْءَ فُرُوجِهِ, meaningلَهَا ذَنَبٌ مِثْلُ ذَيْلِ العَرُوسِ تَسُدُّ بِهِ فَرْجَهَا مِنْ دُبُرٌ
3 The pudendum, or pudenda; the part, or parts, of the person, which it is indecent to expose; applied to the pudenda of men and of women and of youths, with what is around them; and so of horses and the like: or the anterior pudendum [i. e. the external portion of the organs of generation] of a man and of a woman, by common consent of the lexicologists; and applied to this and the posterior pudendum [in the conventional language of the
4 And i. q. فَتْقٌ [app. as meaning An open, wide, place]: pl. فُرُوجٌ: which latter also signifies The sides, or lateral parts, quarters, or tracts, of a land. And The part between the two sides, i. e. the بَطْن, of a valley: and hence used in relation to a road, as meaning its entrance: and a فَجّ [or wide, or depressed, road,] of a mountain. And A frontier-way of acces to a country; and [particularly such as is] a place of fear; so called because not obstructed; and so فُرْجَةٌ , [pl. فُرَجٌ, whence] one says, فُلَانٌ تُسَدُّ بِهِ الفُرَجُ, or الفُرُوجٌ, which is the pl. of فَرْجٌ, meaning [Such a one, by him are obstructed] the frontier-ways of access [to the enemy's country].
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