فَتْقٌ
Root: فتق
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فَتْقٌ
Verbal.Noun of فَتَقَهُ.
2 [Used as a simple subst., A rent, slit, or like.
3 And hence,
4 [Hence also A rupture; a hernia;] a certain malady; a protrusion in the thin, or delicate, and soft part of the belly; a malady in the صِفَاق [meaning peritonæum], consisting in a solution of the integument so that a rent takes place in it, and through this passes a strange body, or substance, that was confined within it before the rent; and there is no cure for it, except for that which happens, rarely, to children: a disease that befalls a man in his intestines, consisting in a disruption of a place between these and his scrotum, in consequence of which a flatus collects between the two testicles and they become enlarged; in which case one says, أَصَابَتْهُ رِيحُ الفَتْقِ: or a severing of the fat [or cellular substance] that encloses the testicles: in the “ Ghareebáni, ” it is termed , with fet-h to the ت: and thus it is said to be by Az, and thus it is expl. by him: or it is a rending of the skin between the scrotum and the lower part of the belly, in consequence of which [some of] the intestines fall into the scrotum: accord. to Ibráheem El-Harbee, a rupture of the bladder.
5 [And A rent in the clouds: see 4:] and فَتَقٌ [likewise] signifies a gap of the clouds: pl. فُتُوقٌ.
6 And
7 And A place upon which rain has not fallen when it has fallen upon what is around it; and فَتَقَةٌ signifies thus, applied to a land: pl. of the former فُتُوقٌ. [Hence,] عَامٌ ذُو الفُتُوقِ A year of little rain. (S, O, See an ex., from a rájiz, in the first paragraph of art. زل.)
8 And
9 See also 4, last sentence but one, for a meaning of the pl. فُتُوقٌ.
2 [Used as a simple subst., A rent, slit, or like.
3 And hence,
4 [Hence also A rupture; a hernia;] a certain malady; a protrusion in the thin, or delicate, and soft part of the belly; a malady in the صِفَاق [meaning peritonæum], consisting in a solution of the integument so that a rent takes place in it, and through this passes a strange body, or substance, that was confined within it before the rent; and there is no cure for it, except for that which happens, rarely, to children: a disease that befalls a man in his intestines, consisting in a disruption of a place between these and his scrotum, in consequence of which a flatus collects between the two testicles and they become enlarged; in which case one says, أَصَابَتْهُ رِيحُ الفَتْقِ: or a severing of the fat [or cellular substance] that encloses the testicles: in the “ Ghareebáni, ” it is termed , with fet-h to the ت: and thus it is said to be by Az, and thus it is expl. by him: or it is a rending of the skin between the scrotum and the lower part of the belly, in consequence of which [some of] the intestines fall into the scrotum: accord. to Ibráheem El-Harbee, a rupture of the bladder.
5 [And A rent in the clouds: see 4:] and فَتَقٌ [likewise] signifies a gap of the clouds: pl. فُتُوقٌ.
6 And
7 And A place upon which rain has not fallen when it has fallen upon what is around it; and فَتَقَةٌ signifies thus, applied to a land: pl. of the former فُتُوقٌ. [Hence,] عَامٌ ذُو الفُتُوقِ A year of little rain. (S, O, See an ex., from a rájiz, in the first paragraph of art. زل.)
8 And
9 See also 4, last sentence but one, for a meaning of the pl. فُتُوقٌ.
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