فَيْجٌ
Root: فيج
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فَيْجٌ
A foot-messenger; a courier who journeys on foot: or a Sultán's foot-messenger: or one who journeys with letters: or a quick courier who carries tidings, or communications, from one town, or country, to another: originally Pers., arabicized, from پَيْك: pl. فُيُوجٌ. It is also expl. as meaning One going, or journeying, alone: thus in a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, in which it is opposed to زَرَافَةٌ meaning “ a company [of men]. ” And [the pl.] فُيُوجٌ, as used in a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, means Men who enter the prison and go forth from it, keeping guard.
2 And A company [of men]; syn. with فَوْجٌ: (O and K in art. فوج:) and sometimes applied to a single person: pl. [of pauc.] أَفْيَاجٌ and [of mult.] فُيُوجٌ.
def.2 Also A low, or depressed, place, such as is termed وَهْد, of the earth, or ground.
def.3 And A state of dispersion; as also فِيجٌ . (TA. [See 4 in art. فوج.])
2 And A company [of men]; syn. with فَوْجٌ: (O and K in art. فوج:) and sometimes applied to a single person: pl. [of pauc.] أَفْيَاجٌ and [of mult.] فُيُوجٌ.
def.2 Also A low, or depressed, place, such as is termed وَهْد, of the earth, or ground.
def.3 And A state of dispersion; as also فِيجٌ . (TA. [See 4 in art. فوج.])
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