فَقأَ
Root: فقأ
Form: 1
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فَقأَI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Noun فَقْءٌ, He put out the eye; or blinded it; or made it to sink in its socket; syn. بَخَقَهَا; as also
فقّأها , Verbal.Noun تَفْقِئَةٌ: or, accord. to the Msb, بَخَصَهَا; which is said by Es-Sarakustee to mean he put his finger into the eye and pulled it out; and by IKtt to mean he extinguished its light; and by some to mean he slit it, or rent it: or he slit, or rent, the portion of the eye that is surrounded by the white thereof: or i. q.
قَلَهَا; i. e. [he pulled out the eye; or], as some say, he pulled out the portion of the eye which is surrounded by the white, and with which one sees: (TA: [and the like is said in the Mgh in explanation of القَلْعُ, but this is there said to differ from الفَقْءُ:]) or, as some say, he put his finger into the eye and so slit, or rent, it: or he broke, or ruptured, the eye; syn. كَسَرَهَا; and so البَثْرَةَ [the pimple, or the small, or purulent, pustule]; and the like of these: this last explanation, in the K, is said by MF to be unknown; but it is mentioned in the A and L, and by more than one of the leading lexicologists: [accord. to Mtr,] فَقَأْتُ البَثْرَةَ means I slit the pimple, &c., or rent it [open]. Among the Arabs in the Time of Ignorance, when a man's camels amounted to a thousand, he put out (فَقَأَ) an eye of one of them (a بَعِير), and set it free to pasture where it would, and made no use of it.
2 فَقَأَ ٱللّٰهُ عَنْكَ عَيْنَ الكَمَالِ is a tropical saying [app. meaning May God prevent from seeing thee the fatal eye: the term عين الكمال being applied to an eye believed to have the power of killing by its glance].
3 And فَقَأَ نَاظِرَيْهِ, likewise said to be a tropical phrase, means
4 And فَقَأعَيْنَهُ also means [sometimes]
5 And فَقَأَتِ البُهْمَى, Verbal.Noun فُقُوْءٌ, or, accord. to the L, فَقْءٌ, The [barleygrass termed] بهمى was rendered dusty by rain, or by a torrent, so that the cattle would not eat it until it became clean: and in like manner one says of any plant. [See also 1 in art. فقأ.]
6 And, as some say, or تفقّأت ,
2 فَقَأَ ٱللّٰهُ عَنْكَ عَيْنَ الكَمَالِ is a tropical saying [app. meaning May God prevent from seeing thee the fatal eye: the term عين الكمال being applied to an eye believed to have the power of killing by its glance].
3 And فَقَأَ نَاظِرَيْهِ, likewise said to be a tropical phrase, means
4 And فَقَأعَيْنَهُ also means [sometimes]
5 And فَقَأَتِ البُهْمَى, Verbal.Noun فُقُوْءٌ, or, accord. to the L, فَقْءٌ, The [barleygrass termed] بهمى was rendered dusty by rain, or by a torrent, so that the cattle would not eat it until it became clean: and in like manner one says of any plant. [See also 1 in art. فقأ.]
6 And, as some say, or تفقّأت ,
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