Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

فَارَ

Root: فور

Form: 1

Full Definition

فَارَI , Present.T يَفُورُ, said of water; and فَارَتْ, Present.T تَفُورُ, said of a قِدْر [or cooking-pot]; Verbal.Noun فَوْرٌ and فَوَرَانٌ [the latter of which is the more common] and فُؤُورٌ and فُوَارٌ; It boiled, or estuated.
2 [فار said of a liquor, It fermented. (See نَبِيذٌ.)
3 Said of blood, and of wine, It flushed, or mantled, in the cheeks or head.]
4 فارت نَفْسُهُ His soul [or stomach] heaved; or became agitated by a tendency to vomit; i. q. ثارت [q. v.]. (T in art. ثور.)
5 فار i. q. ثار ثَائِرُهُ His anger boiled [or became roused or excited]; or he was, or became, angry.
6 [And ↓ the same phrase is expl. in the M, accord. to the transcript in the TT, as signifying اِنْتَشَرَ غَضَبُهُ; but I think that the right reading is evidently عَصَبُهُ; and the meaning, His sinews became swollen; said of a horse or the like: see art. نشر; and see also فَائِرٌ, below.]
7 فار العِرْقُ, Verbal.Noun فَوَرَانٌ, The vein became excited, or in a state of commotion, and flowed forth [with blood]: to which is added in the K, وَضَرَبَ; but this is a mistake, occasioned by a false reading of the next words in the M, which are وَضَرْبٌ فَوَّارٌ رَغِيبٌ وَاسِعٌ. (TA. [See فَوَّارٌ.])
8 فَوْرُ العِرْقِ, in a horse means The vein's having inflations, or knots, [or a varicose condition,] apparent in it; which is disapproved.
9 فار said of water signifies also It welled, and came forth, from the earth, or ground: it appeared, pouring forth, from the spring, or source.
10 فاروا is said of men assembled in market-places [app. as meaning They bustled, or were in a state of commotion].
11 فار المِسْكُ, Verbal.Noun فُوَارٌ and فَوَرَانٌ, [The odour of] the musk spread.

def.2 فُرْتُهُ: see 4.

def.3 Also (فُرْتُهُ) I made for it, i. e. the balance, what are termed فِيَارَانِ [dual of فِيَارٌ, q. v.].


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