فُرَيْخِيَّةٌ
Root: فرخ
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فُرَيْخِيَّةٌ
[or, probably, فُرَخِيَّةٌ, agreeably with analogy,] an epithet applied to نِصَال [meaning “ arrow-heads, ” &c., but app. a mistranscription for نِبَال i. e. “ arrows ”], which were so called in relation to الفُرَيْخ, a certain blacksmith in the Time of Ignorance: or الفُرَيْخ was a man who used, in the Time of Ignorance, to pare, or shape, arrows: mentioned by a poet in the saying,
[And two feathered arrows of the paring, or shaping of El-Fureykh]. [Freytag mentions فُرَّخِىٌّ, as applied to an arrow, meaning “ ad virum فرّيخ appellatum referendus: ” but he names no authority: and it has been shown above that the name of the man is without teshdeed; and so, therefore, is its rel. n.]وَمَقْذُوذَيْنِ مِنْ بَرْىِ الفُرَيخِ
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