فَتَقَهُ

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فَتَقَهُI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ [the former of which is the more common,] Verbal.Noun فَتْقٌ, He slit it, rent it, rent it asunder or open, or divided it lengthwise: disjoined it, or disunited it: or undid the sewing of it, unsewed it, or unstitched it: contr. of رَتَقَهُ: and فتّقهُ , Verbal.Noun تَفْتِيقٌ, is like it in signification, but means he did so much, or many times. It is said of the heavens and the earth, in the Kur [xxi. 31], كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا [expl. in art. رتق].
2 And الفَتْقُ signifies The effecting of disunion and dissension among the community of the Muslims, and the befalling of war among them, after verbal agreement respecting war on the frontier, or some other thing, with the occurring of wounds and bloodsheddings. One says, فَتَقَ فُلَانٌ بَيْنَهُمْ Such a one effected disunion, &c., between them, or among them,
3 And sometimes it means The dissolving of a compact, or covenant.
4 فَتَقَ العَجِينَ He put leaven such as is termed فِتَاق [q. v.] into the dough.
5 فَتَقَ المِسْكَ, Present.T ـُ (PS, [in the TA in the next following instance ـَ an evident mistranscription,]) Verbal.Noun فَتْقٌ, He drew forth the odour of the musk [or increased its fragrance] بِغَيْرِهِ by the admixture of some other thing: and فَتَقَ الطِّيبَ, and الدُّهْنَ, he rendered fragrant, and mixed, [or rendered fragrant by mixing,] with aloes-wood &c., the perfume, and the oil.

def.2 فَتِقَتِ المَرْأَةُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun فَتَقٌ, The woman was, or became, such as is termed فَتْقَآء; contr. of رَتِقَت.
2 And فَتِقَ العَامُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun فَتَقٌ, The year was, or became, abundant with herbage. It is related by Abu-l-Jowzà that the people were afflicted with drought, and complained to 'Áïsheh, who directed them to make an aperture towards the sky in the tomb of the Prophet, and they did so, and thereupon it rained so that the herbage grew, and the camels became fat to such a degree that they became swollen, or inflated, in the flanks (تَفَتَّقَتْ); whence it [the year] was called عَامُ الفَتَقِ.

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