فَخِذٌ

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فَخِذٌ and فَخْذٌ and فِخْذٌ and فِخِذٌ, as Ez-Zarkashee says in his Expos. of El-Bukháree, for in the case of every faucial medial radical of a word of the measure فَعِل, whether a noun like فَخِذٌ or a verb like شَهِدَ, there are four dial. vars., namely, فَعِل and فَعْل and فِعْل and فِعِل; thus it is said in the Tes-heel of Ibn-Málik; and MF says that the first three forms are common to every word of the measure of كَتِف though without a faucial letter; The thigh; i. e. the limb (وصل [i. e. وُِصْل, but in the O written وَصْل,]) between the سَاق and the وَرِك; so says Lth; and in this sense, the first of the forms above mentioned is the most chaste: it is of the fem. gender: pl. أَفْخَاذٌ, the only pl. form.
2 Also A small sub-tribe, or portion of the tribe, consisting of the nearest of the kinsfolk of a man; less than a بَطْن; the first [i. e. largest] body being the شَعْب, then the قَبِيلَة, then the فَصِيلَة, then the عِمَارَة, then the بَطْن, and then the فَخِْذ: or it is below the قَبِيلَة but above the بَطْن; and is pronounced with the خ quiescent: or below the فَصِيلَة but above the بَطْن: or below the بَطْن and above the فَصِيلَة: this last, accord. to IB and Aboo-Usámeh, is the true order; (TA voce شعب, q. v.;) and AM says that the فَصِيلَة is nearer than the فخذ: in this sense, the second of the forms above mentioned is the most chaste: and in this sense it is of the masc. gender; because meaning نَفَرٌ; wherefore you say, هٰذَا فَخْذِى: pl. as above.
3 حُلِبَتِ النَّاقَةُ فِى فَخِذِهَا is a phrase mentioned by Fr, meaning [The she-camel was milked] in her half-month [app. at the period commencing half a month after her parturition].

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