Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

فَرِيكٌ

Root: فرك

Full Definition

فَرِيكٌ , applied to grain (حَبّ), i. q. مَفْرُوكٌ [i. e. Rubbed, or rubbed and pressed, with the hand, so that the integument becomes stripped off from the kernel]: or wheat (بُرّ) that is rubbed, &c., and picked, or cleared. See also 4.
2 And Wheat rubbed, &c., and moistened with clarified butter &c.; also termed مَفْرُوكَةٌ .

def.2 The فَرِيكَانِ, or, as in some copies of the K, فَرِيكَتَانِ , Two bones [app. the two greater cornua of the os hyoides] in, or at, (فِى,) the root of the tongue.


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