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تفرّى

Root: فرى

Form: 5

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تفرّىV It became slit, or cut lengthwise; as also ; both said of a skin, or of a thing: or it became much slit, or rent; said of the sewing of a leathern water-skin. And تفرّى عَنْهُ ثَوْبُهُ His garment became much slit, or rent, from him. And تفرّت العَيْنُ The spring of water burst forth: or تفرّت الأَرْضُ بِالعُيُونِ The earth, or ground, burst with the springs.
2 [Hence,] the saying of Kabeesah Ibn-Jábir, تَفَرَّى بَيْضُهَا عَنَّا فَكُنَّا بَنِى الأَجْلَادِ مِنْهَا وَالرِّمَالِ i. e. Its eggs (the pronoun in بيضها denoting the earth) burst from us [so as to disclose us], so that we were the sons of the hard tracts thereof and of the soft tracts, or plains, [or of the sands,] means only their numerousness, and the wide extent of their districts.
3 And تفرّى اللَّيْلُ عَنْ صُبْحِهِ [The night became distinct, as though cleft, from its dawn].
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