فَجٌّ

Root: فج

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فَجٌّ A wide road between two mountains; and فُجَاجٌ signifies the same: or, in a mountain: or, in the anterior part of a mountain, wider than a شِعْب [q. v.]: or a depressed road: or a conspicuous and wide road: or a far-extending beaten track or road: (AHeyth, TA: [see an ex. in a verse cited voce عِمْقٌ:]) or, accord. to ISh, [a track] as though it were a road; and sometimes it is a road between two mountains, or having on either side what is termed a فَأْو [a word variously explained], or between two walls (حَائِطَيْنِ), and extending to the distance of two days' journey, or three, if a road or not a road; and if a road, abounding with herbage: pl. [of mult.] فِجَاجٌ and [of pauc.] أَفِجَّةٌ, which is extr. [with respect to analogy], and أَفُجٌّ.

def.2 See also the next paragraph, in two places.

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