فَيْلَقٌ
Root: فلق
Full Definition
فَيْلَقٌ
An army; a military force: or a great [military force such as is termed] كَتِيبَة: this is the primary signification, and the only one known to Kt: pl. فَيَالِقُ. One says, رَمَاهُمْ بِفَيْلَقٍ
شَهْبَآءَ, meaning [He assailed them] with a formidable [great] كَتِيبَة.
2 And A great, big, or large, man: occurring in this sense in a trad., as an epithet applied to Ed-Dejjál: Kt doubted whether it were thus or فَيْلَمٌ; but Az affirms that both have this meaning. And one says, بُلِىَ فُلَانْ بِٱمْرَأَةٍ فَيْلَقٍ, meaning [Such a one was tried, or afflicted, with a woman, or wife,] cunning, evil, and clamourous.
3 See also فِلْقٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also [The cocoon of a silk-worm;] the thing from which قَزّ is obtained; an arabicized word. (Msb voce فَيْلَجٌ, q. v.: mentioned also in the Mgh, in art. فرش.)
2 And A great, big, or large, man: occurring in this sense in a trad., as an epithet applied to Ed-Dejjál: Kt doubted whether it were thus or فَيْلَمٌ; but Az affirms that both have this meaning. And one says, بُلِىَ فُلَانْ بِٱمْرَأَةٍ فَيْلَقٍ, meaning [Such a one was tried, or afflicted, with a woman, or wife,] cunning, evil, and clamourous.
3 See also فِلْقٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also [The cocoon of a silk-worm;] the thing from which قَزّ is obtained; an arabicized word. (Msb voce فَيْلَجٌ, q. v.: mentioned also in the Mgh, in art. فرش.)