فَرْخٌ

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فَرْخٌ The young one of a bird: this is the primary signification: or, of any creature that lays eggs: fem. with ة: and, sometimes, the young one of any animal: pl. أَفْرُخٌ and أَفْرَاخٌ and أَفْرِخَةٌ, the last of which is extr. [with respect to rule], and فِرَاخٌ and فِرْخَانٌ and فُرُوخٌ and فُرُخٌ. [See an ex. in which فِرَاخ is treated grammatically as a sing. in the first paragraph of art. خلف.]
2 [Hence,] A base, a vile, or an abject, man, who is driven away. And one says, فُلاَنٌ فَرْخٌ مِنَ الفِرَاخِ, or من الفُرُوخِ, meaning Such a one is a bastard: said by El-Khafájee to be a phrase of the people of El-Medeeneh, peculiarly; but accord. to MF, it is a post-classical phrase common in El-Hijáz.
3 And A sucker, an offset, or a sprout, of any plant or tree &c.: or a branch of a tree: or, as some say, a branch that is in the middle of a tree: or [its pl.] فِرَاخٌ signifies offsets, or shoots, from the roots or stems of trees: and this is also said to signify worms that are in herbs. And Seed-produce, or corn, shooting forth into leaf from the grain, when the latter has cloven asunder: or, ready to cleave open, when it has come up: or, when it has shoots.
4 And الفَرْخُ signifies The fore part of the brain; thus called by way of comparison [to the young one of a bird], in like manner as it is called العُصْفُورُ; or the عصفور is beneath the فَرْخ: (TA in art. عصفر:) the pl. is فِرَاخٌ: and الفَرْخُ signifies [also, particularly,] the fore part of the brain of the horse. In the saying of ElFarezdak, وَيَوْمَ جَعَلْنَا البِيضَ فِيْهِ لِعَامِرٍ مُصَمِّمَةً تَفْأَى فِرَاخَ الجَمَاجِمِ he means [And a day in which we made the swords, penetrating into that which they smote, cleave] the brains [lit. brain (الدّمَاغ) of the tribe of 'Ámir].

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