Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

انفتق

Root: فتق

Form: 7

Full Definition

انفتقVII quasi-pass. of فَتَقَهُ [i. e. it signifies It became slit, rent, rent asunder or open, or divided lengthwise: became disjoined, or disunited: or became unsewed, or unstitched]: and تفتّق is quasi-pass. of فتّقهُ [i. e. it signifies it became slit, &c., much, or in many places, or it is said of a number of things].
2 انفتقت آبَاطُهُ is said of a fat child [meaning His armpits became chapped, or cracked]. (S in art. ضب.)
3 انفتق الغَيْمُ عَنِ الشَّمْسِ i. e. [The clouds became parted asunder, or] became removed, or cleared away, from [before] the sun: and عَنِ القَوْمِ [from over the party of men].
4 انفتقت عَلَيْهِ بَائِقَةٌ [A calamity, misfortune, or disaster, burst upon him]. (S and K in art. بوق, &c.)
5 انفتقت said of a she-camel, She was seized with a disease, termed فَتَقٌ , between her udder and her navel, occasioned by fatness: sometimes in this case she recovers, and sometimes she dies.
6 See also 5, in two places.


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