فِجَارٌ
Root: فجر
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فِجَارٌ
[a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned] Roads, or ways; like فِجَاجٌ [pl. of فَجٌّ, q. v.].
def.2 أَيَّامُ الفِجَارِ is an appellation applied to Four أَفْجِرَة; the four أَفْجِرَة meaning days [i. e. conflicts] of the Arabs; the single day thereof being termed الفِجَارُ: they took place at 'Okádh; and those engaged therein transgressed, and held to be allowable everything that should be sacred; as is said in the A: they were called فِجَارُ الرَّجُلِ and فِجَارُ المَرْأَةِ and فِجَارُ القِرْدِ and فِجَارُ البَرَّاضِ; the last, which was the greatest onslaught, being thus called in relation to El-Barrád Ibn-Keys, who slew 'Orweh Er-Rahhál: they were between Kureysh with their associates of Kináneh on the one side and Keys-'Eylán on the other side, in the Time of Ignorance; and the [final] defeat befell Keys; it occurred in the sacred months; and when they fought therein, they said فَجَرْنَا; therefore Kureysh called this war فِجَار; فِجَارٌ, like مُفَاجَرَةٌ, being an Verbal.Noun of فَاجَرَ, expl. above, on the authority of the R.
2 And فِجَارَاتُ العَرَبِ signifies The vyings of the Arabs in glorying, or boasting.
def.2 أَيَّامُ الفِجَارِ is an appellation applied to Four أَفْجِرَة; the four أَفْجِرَة meaning days [i. e. conflicts] of the Arabs; the single day thereof being termed الفِجَارُ: they took place at 'Okádh; and those engaged therein transgressed, and held to be allowable everything that should be sacred; as is said in the A: they were called فِجَارُ الرَّجُلِ and فِجَارُ المَرْأَةِ and فِجَارُ القِرْدِ and فِجَارُ البَرَّاضِ; the last, which was the greatest onslaught, being thus called in relation to El-Barrád Ibn-Keys, who slew 'Orweh Er-Rahhál: they were between Kureysh with their associates of Kináneh on the one side and Keys-'Eylán on the other side, in the Time of Ignorance; and the [final] defeat befell Keys; it occurred in the sacred months; and when they fought therein, they said فَجَرْنَا; therefore Kureysh called this war فِجَار; فِجَارٌ, like مُفَاجَرَةٌ, being an Verbal.Noun of فَاجَرَ, expl. above, on the authority of the R.
2 And فِجَارَاتُ العَرَبِ signifies The vyings of the Arabs in glorying, or boasting.
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