فَالِقٌ

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فَالِقٌ Splitting, cleaving, or dividing lengthwise. فَالِقُ ٱلْحَبِّ وَٱلنَّوَى, in the Kur [vi. 95], means The Cleaver of the dry grain so as to produce therefrom green leaves [and of the date-stone]: or, as some say, the Creator thereof. And hence the saying of Áïsheh, إِنَّ البُكَآءَ فَالِقٌ كَبِدِى [Verily weeping is cleaving my liver].
2 Hence, also, in the Kur [vi. 96], فَالِقٌ الإِصْبَاحِ He who causeth the dawn to break: in which instance, also, فالق has reference to the meaning of Creator: so says Zj.
3 نَخْلَةٌ فَالِقٌ means A palmtree splitting, or cleaving from [around, i. e. so as to disclose,] the spathe: pl. فُلْقٌ.
4 الفَوَالِقُ as pl. of الفَالِقُ signifies The veins that divide [so as to form ramifying veins (thus I render العُرُوقُ )] in the human being.
5 See also فَلْقٌ, first sentence.
6 And see فَلَقٌ, former half, in three places.
7خَلَّيْتُهُ الوَرِكَةِ, or, as in the T, بِفَالِقِ الوركآء, [thus in the TA, but I think that الوركة and الوركآء are evidently mistran- scriptions, and that the right reading is الوَدْكَآءِ, with دال,] meaning [I left him in the low, or depressed, tract in the midst of] the sand [called El-Wedkà].

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