فِلْقَةٌ

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فِلْقَةٌ A piece [properly that has been split off] of a thing; as also فِلْقٌ : or a fragment, or piece broken off, of bread, or of a [bowl such as is termed] جَفْنَة, or of this latter the half, as in the saying أَعْطِنِى فِلْقَةَ الجَفْنَةِ [Give thou to me the half of the bowl, perhaps meaning, of its contents], or, as some say, one of the divided halves thereof: the pl. of فِلْقَةٌ is فِلَقٌ: and [ فِلَاقٌ is app. a pl., like أَفْلَاقٌ, (and perhaps فُلُوقٌ, mentioned voce فُلَاقٌ,) and فُلَاقٌ a quasi-pl. n., of فِلْقٌ , all agreeably with analogy; whence] one says, البَيْضُ صَارَ, and , meaning أَفْلَاقًا, i. e. [The eggs became fragments; or it means, became cleft in pieces; or] became much cleft, or cleft in many places. (K, TA. [See also فَلَاقٌ and فِلَاقٌ below.])

def.2 See also فِلْقٌ, last quarter.

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