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فَتِيقٌ

Root: فتق

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فَتِيقٌ [i. q. مَفْتُوقٌ i. e. Slit, rent, &c.]. نَصْلٌ فَتِيقُ الشَّفْرَتَيْنِ means [An arrow-head] having two forking portions; as though [each] one of them were slit [from the other]: [or it may mean sharp in the two edges: for] سَيْفٌ فَتِيقُ الغِرَارَيْنِ signifies A sword sharp [in the two edges]: and سَيْفٌ فَتِيقٌ, A sharp sword: [whence,] رَجُلٌ فَتِيقُ اللِّسَانِ A sharp-tongued man: or chaste, or eloquent, and sharp, of tongue: or chaste, or eloquent, of tongue, perspicuous in speech.
2 الصُّبْحُ الفَتِيقُ The shining dawn.
3 See also فَتْقٌ, last sentence but one.
4 جَمَلٌ فَتِيقٌ A camel swollen, or inflated, in the flanks, by reason of fatness; تَفَتَّقَ سِمَنًا: and نَاقَةٌ فَتِيقَةٌ a fat she-camel.

def.2 And فَتِيقٌ is used in the sense of فَتْقٌ: thus in the saying of 'Amr Ibn-El-Ahtam, لَهَا مِنْ أَمَامِ المَنْكِبَيْنِ فَتِيقُ [app. describing a she-camel: I can only conjecture the meaning to be, Having, in the part before the shoulders, a crease like a gash, occasioned by fatness].
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