ف • د • غ

, aor. فَدَغَ , inf. n. فَدْغٌ, He broke it, (S, O, Msb, K,) or crushed it; (S, O, K;) or (K) it is said when the object is a hollow thing, (S, O, Msb, K, TA,) or a moist, or soft, thing, (TA,) a person's head, (S, O, TA,) and a grape, and the like: (O, TA:) and he bruised, brayed, or pounded, it coarsely: and he clave, split, or rent, it slightly. (TA.) And فَدَغَ الطَّعَامَ He put much clarified butter into the food. (O, * K, * TA.) And one says also, فَدَغَ الكَمْأَةَ فِى السَّمْنِ [app. meaning He preserved the truffles in clarified butter]. (O.)

It (anything dry, or rigid,) became soft, or supple. (O, K. *)

Distortion in the foot: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) like فَدَعٌ, which is more common. (O.) [See فَدَعٌ.]

An instrument for breaking, or crushing. (K, TA.) And applied to a man; like مِدَقٌّ [q. v.]. (TA.)