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فَاتِقٌ

Root: فتق

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فَاتِقٌ [Slitting, rending, &c.].
2 [Hence,] one says, هُوَ الفَاتِقُ الرَّاتِقُ meaning He is the possessor of command or rule, so that he opens and closes, and straitens and widens [or rather widens and straitens].
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