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مُفِيقٌ

Root: فوق

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مُفِيقٌ and مُفِيقَةٌ A she-camel having in her udder the milk that had collected between two milkings: pl. مَفَاوِيقُ and مَفَاوِقُ, and فُيُقٌ also is pl. of مُفِيقٌ signifying as expl. above, mentioned by AA in the third vol. of his “ Nawádir, ” and said by IB to be, accord. to analogy, pl. of فُوُوقٌ, and to be originally فُوُقٌ; but accord. to one relation of a verse in which it occurs, it is , which is more agreeable with analogy.

def.2 And the former, applied to a poet, is syn. with مُفْلِقٌ [i. e. One who poetizes admirably, or wonderfully.]. (Aboo-Turáb, K. [But its verb is mentioned in the O and K in art. فيق.])
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