فَيْلَقٌ

An army; a military force: (S, O, K:) or a great [military force such as is termed] كَتِيبَة: (Kt, Msb, TA:) this is the primary signification, and the only one known to Kt: (TA:) plural فَيَالِقُ. (S, K.) One says, رَمَاهُمْ بِفَيْلَقٍ شَهْبَاءَ, meaning [He assailed them] with a formidable [great] كَتِيبَة. (TA.)

And A great, big, or large, man: (O, K:) occurring in this sense in a tradition, as an epithet applied to Ed-Dejjál: Kt doubted whether it were thus or فَيْلَمٌ; but Az affirms that both have this meaning. (O.) And one says, بُلِىَ فُلَانْ بِامْرَأَةٍ فَيْلَقٍ, meaning [Such a one was tried, or afflicted, with a woman, or wife,] cunning, evil, and clamourous. (TA.)

See also فِلْقٌ, in two places.

-A2- Also [The cocoon of a silk-worm;] the thing from which قَزّ is obtained; an arabicized word. (Msb voce فَيْلَجٌ, q. v.: mentioned also in the Mgh, in article فرش.)