فُوَاقٌ

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فُوَاقٌ : see 1, former half, in two places:

def.2 and see 1 again, latter half:
2 and 4, in two places.
3 Also The time between two milkings; for the she-camel was milked, and then left a little while for her young one to suck her in order that she might yield her milk copiously, after which she was milked again; and likewise the time between two suckings; and فَوَاقٌ signifies the same; or, accord. to IF, the فواق of the she-camel is the retuning of the milk into the udder after the milking: or فُوَاقٌ signifies the time between the opening of one's hand and the grasping with it the udder of the camel: or when the milker grasps the udder and then lets it go, in milking: the pl. is أَفْوِقَةٌ and آفِقَةٌ; and Fr says that فواق has for its pl. أَفِيقَةٌ, originally أَفْوِقَةٌ, the kesreh of the و being transferred to the ف, and the و being then changed into ى because of the kesreh before it; and أَفْوِقَةٌ has for its pl. أَفْوِقَاتٌ. One says, مَا أَقَامَ عِنْدَهُ إِلَّا فُوَاقًا [He did not remain at his abode save as long as the time between two milkings]. And it is said in a trad., العِيَادَةُ قَدْرُ فُوَاقِ النَّاقَةِ [The period of the visiting of a sick person is the space of time between the two milkings of the she-camel]. And in a trad. of 'Alee occurs the saying, قَالَ لَهُ الأَسِيرُ أَنْظِرْنِى فُوَاقَ نَاقَةٍ i. e. [The captive said to him,] Grant thou me a delay, or respite, as long as the time between two milkings [of a she-camel]. مَا لَهَا مِنْ and فُوَاقٍ in the Kur [xxxviii. 14], accord. to different readings, the latter the reading of the Koofees except 'Ásim, and the former that of the rest, means [There shall not appertain to it] any postponement, or delay, and resting: or, accord. to AO, the latter is the meaning of the former reading; and the latter reading means, any waiting, or expecting: or [both mean] any pausing as much as the time between two milkings, or two suckings: or any returning, and repeating; from أَفَاقَ “ he returned to a healthy, or sound, state ”; and the فواق of the she-camel, when the supply of milk returns to her udder; or because in it [i. e. the فواق] the milk returns to the udder; i. e. the blast [to which the words refer] shall be one only; it shall not be repeated. The saying of the Prophet, related in a trad., قَسَمَ غَنَائِمَ خَيْبَرَ عَنْ فُوَاقٍ, or الغَنَائِمَ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ عَنْ قَسَمَ and فُوَاقٍ, means He divided the spoils [of Kheyber, or on the day of Bedr,] in the space of the rest between two milkings of a she-camel: or quickly; عن فواق meaning صَادِرًا عَنْ سُرْعَةٍ [i. e. قَسْمًا صَادِرًا عَنْ سُرْعَةٍ with a dividing proceeding from quickness]: or, as some say, the meaning is, making some of them [i. e. of those who composed his army] to be more highly distinguished ( ) than others in the proportion of their spoils and of the trial undergone by them.

def.3 See also فَاقٌ, last sentence but one.

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