فَرَّخَتْ

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فَرَّخَتْII , and أَفْرَخَتْ , said of a bird, [Verbal.Noun of the former تَفْرِيخٌ,] She had [or she produced by hatching] a young one, or young ones. [In the L, in one place, and so, accord. to the TA, in other lexicons, for صَارَ in the explanatory phrase صَارَ لَهَا فَرْخٌ, is put طَارَ; as though the verbs signified She had a young one that flew.]
2 And both verbs, said of an egg (بَيْضَةٌ), It had [or produced] a young one: or افرخت said of an egg, it had in it a young bird: (ISh, TA in art. بيض:) or it broke open from over the young bird, which thereupon came forth from it. (AHeyth, TA in art. روع; and Msb.)
3 See also the next paragraph, in two places.
4 فرّخ الزَّرْعُ, Verbal.Noun تَفْرِيخٌ, The seed-produce, or corn, was ready to cleave open, when it had come up: or produced many shoots: or put forth its shoots: or shot forth into leaf from the grain, when the latter had cloven asunder; as also . [See also قَصَّبَ.] And فرّخ شَجَرُهُمْ فِرَاخاً كَثِيرَةً Their trees produced many offsets, or shoots from their roots or stems.
5 See also 1.
6 [Hence,] وَفَرَّخَ َبَاضَ فِيهِمُ الشَّيْطَانُ, occurring in a trad., means The devil made his fixed abode among them; like as a bird keeps to the place of its eggs and young ones. And [in like manner] one says, فرّخ الشيطان فِى رَأْسِهِ The devil took up an abode in his head. (TA in art. فحص.)
7 فرّخ القَوْمُ means The people, or party, became weak; i. e., became like young birds. And فرّخ said of a man, He was, or became, base, vile, or abject. And He was frightened; or he feared, or was afraid. And فُرِّخَ, in the pass. form, said of a coward, and of a weak old man, Verbal.Noun تَفْرِيخٌ, He was frightened, and made to tremble.

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