أَفَقَ
Root: افق
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 [Hence, app.,] أَفَقَ, Present.T as above; thus, says IB, accord. to Kz, and thus it is given on the authority of Kr; [see آفِقٌ;] or أَفِقَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَفَقٌ; He attained the utmost degree, [as though he reached the أُفُق ] in generosity; or in knowledge, or science; or in chasteness of speech, or eloquence, and in the combination of excellent qualities.
3 Also, أَفَقَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَفْقٌ, He overcame, or surpassed.
4 And, inf. n, أُفُوقٌ, He was goodly, or beautiful; he possessed the quality of exciting admiration and approval by his beauty and the pleasingness of his aspect; said of a camel, and of a horse.
5 أَفَقَ عَلَيْهِ He excelled him; namely, another man: or he preceded him in excellence; or outwent him therein; as also أَفَقَهُ, Present.T ـِ. [It is like فَاقَهُ.]
6 أَفَقَ فِى العَطَآءِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَفْقٌ, He gave to some more than to others. So in the saying of El-Aashà,
[Nor the King En-Noamán, on the day that I met him, in his goodly, or happy, condition, giving gifts, or stipends, or written obligations conferring gifts, and giving to some more than to others]: or the meaning is, writing [writs of] gifts, and sealing them: or, as some say, taking his way into the آفاق [or regions, &c.,] of the land.وَلَا المَلِكَ النُّعْمَانُ يَوْمَ لَقِيتُهُ بِغِبْطَتِهِ يُعْطِى القُطُوطَ وَ يَأْفِقُ
def.2 أَفَقَهُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَفْقٌ, He tanned it until it became what is termed أَفِيق.
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