فَتَكَ

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فَتَكَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun فَتْكٌ and فُتْكٌ and فِتْكٌ and فُتُوكٌ and فَتَاكَةٌ, He assassinated him; i. e. he came to him when he was inadvertent, and assaulted him and slew him; thus it signifies accord. to an explanation of الفَتْكُ by A' Obeyd; and this is the primary signification: if he have not given him [for أَعْطَانَا in my original I read أَعْطَاهُ] assurance of safety, it behooves him to make that known to him: he assaulted him; or he slew him at unawares; and is a dial. var. thereof: he seized an opportunity that he offered him by his inadvertence, and slew him: or he wounded him openly: or it has a more general meaning with respect to both of these acts: Fr says that الفَتْكُ signifies the man's slaying openly. It is said in a trad., قَيَّدَ الإِيمَانُ الفَتْكَ لَا يَفْتُِكُ مُؤْمِنٌ [i. e. The giving assurance of safety has inhibited the slaying at unawares, &c.: one who gives assurance of safety shall not slay at unawares, &c.: the like has been said above: see also an explanation of the former clause of the trad. in art. قيد].
2 And فَتَكَ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun فَتْكٌ and فُتْكٌ and فِتْكٌ and فُتُوكٌ, He purposed an affair and executed it: or he embarked in, or performed, an affair that occasioned uneasiness, and to which the mind invited; as also : the latter verb is said by Fr to be a dial. var. of the former.
3 [Hence,] فَتَكَ فِى الأَمْرِ, Verbal.Noun فَتْكٌ, He persisted, or persevered, in the affair; syn. لَجَّ, or أَلَحَّ. (Accord. to different copies of the K; in the TA the former. [The same meaning is also assigned to فَنَكَ.])
4 And فَتَكَ فِى الخُبْثِ, [in the CK فى الخُنْبُثِ,] Verbal.Noun فُتُوكٌ, He exceeded the usual bounds in that which was evil, abominable, foul, or unlawful.
5 فَتَكَ فِى صِنَاعَتِهِ He was skilful in his art, or craft.
6 And فَتَكَتْ said of a girl, or young woman, means She cared not for what she did nor for what was said to her. [See also فَتَكَتْ.]

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