فَلَحَ

, aorist فَلَحَ , verbal noun فَلْحٌ, He clave, split, slit, or cracked; and he cut: (K: [compare فَلَجَ, and فَلَقَ, and فَلَذَ:]) he clave, and cut, iron. (T, Msb.) Hence, the saying of a poet, (T, TA,)

إِنَّ الحَدِيدَ بِالحَدِيدِ يُفْلَحُ

Verily iron with iron is cloven, and cut. (T, S, Mgh, * K. *) And فَلَحَ رَأْسَهُ, verbal noun as above, He clave, split, or cracked, his head. (TA.) And فَلَحَ شَفَتَهُ, aorist and verbal noun as above, He slit, or cracked, his lip. (L.) And فَلَحَ الأَرْضَ, (S, Msb,) aorist and verbal noun as above, (Msb.) He furrowed, or ploughed, the land, to cultivate it; he tilled the ground. (S, Msb. [And فَلَجَهَا has a similar meaning.])

-A2- Also, aorist and verbal noun as above, He acted with artifice, fraud, or guile; (K, TA;) and so ↓ فلّح, verbal noun تَفْلِيحٌ. (K, TA.) You say, بِهِمْ ↓ فلّح He acted with artifice, fraud, or guile, towards them, and said what was not true. (TA.) And بِهِ ↓ فلّح He mocked at him, or derided him, and acted with artifice, fraud, or guile, towards him. (L, K. *)

And, aorist as above, verbal noun فَلْحٌ and فَلَاحَةٌ, He defrauded him in a sale; synonym of the verbal noun بَخْسٌ فِى بَيْعٍ: (so in the CK:) or he bade high for an article of merchandise in order to inveigh another into purchasing it at a high price: synonym of the verbal noun نَجْشٌ فِى بَيْعٍ. (So in other copies of the K, and in the L and TA.) You say, فَلَحَ بِهِ [He so acted towards him in a sale]: this is when one trusts to thee, and says to thee, “ Sell to me a slave, ” or “ an article of merchandise, ” or “ buy it for me, ” and thou comest to the merchants, and buyest it at a high price, and sellest by defrauding, and obtainest something from the merchant: or, according to the T, فَلْحٌ signifies a hirer's exceeding [in an offer] in order that another may do so; thus inciting him. (L.)

-A3- فَلِحَتْ شَفَتُهُ السُّفْلَى, [aorist فَلَحَ ,] verbal noun فَلَحٌ, His under lip was slit, or cracked. (MA.) See also فَلَحٌ below.