فَارِغٌ

Empty, vacant, void, devoid, destitute, or unoccupied; synonym خَالٍ; as in the phrase إِنَاءٌ فارِغٌ [an empty vessel]: (O, TA:) and likewise applied to a man, (O, TA, *) meaning vacant from, devoid of, or free from, business, occupation, or employment; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ فَرِغٌ: (O, K, TA:) [and often, used elliptically, meaning vacant from, devoid of, or free from, business &c., and care or anxiety or disquietude; unoccupied, unemployed, or at leisure:] and ↓ أَفْرَغُ is synonym with فَارِغٌ; (O, K;) as in the phrase, of Ru-beh, مَا المَشْغُولُ مِثْلُ الأَفْرَغِ [The busied is not like the free from business]: (O, TA:) [فُرَّاغٌ is plural of فَارِغٌ: and] ↓ فِرْغٌ is synonym with فُرَّاغٌ; (O, K; [in the former, as is often the case, the sign of tesh-deed in this word has been carelessly omitted; and in the CK, الفرَغُ is put for الفُرَّاغُ, and has been erroneously supposed to be for الفَرَاغُ;]) for example, Tuleyhah Ibn-Khuweylid El-Asadee says, in relation to the slaying of his brother's son, Hibál Ibn-Selemeh Ibn-Khuweylid,

فَمَا ظَنُّكُمْ بِالقَوْمِ إِذْ تَقْتُلُونَهُمْ

أَلَيْسُوا وَإِنْ لَمْ يُسْلِمُوا بِرِجَالِ

فَإِنْ تَكُ أَذْوَادٌ أُصِبْنَ وَنِسْوَةٌ

فَلَنْ تَذْهَبُوا فِرْغًا بِقَتْلِ حِبَالِ

[And what is your opinion of the party when ye slay them? Are they not (though they have not become Muslims) men? And if some small numbers of camels have been smitten (and carried off). and some women, ye will not go away free from care by reason of the slaying of Hibál]. (O, TA.) It is said in the Qur'an, 28:9, وَأَصْبَحَ فوءَادُ أُمِّ مُوسَى فَارِغًا, meaning And the heart, or mind, of the mother of Moses became devoid of patience: or devoid of everything except remembering of Moses: or devoid of anxiety; because of God's having promised to restore him to her, (O, TA,) by words in the next but one of the preceding verses. (O.) [See also another reading voce فِرْغٌ; and another, voce فُرُغٌ.] And it is said in a form of prayer, اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّى أَسْأَلُكَ العَيْشِ الرَّافِغِ وَالمَالَ الفَارِغَ [O God, I ask of Thee ample, or abundant, and pleasant, or good, means of subsistence, and cattle free from labour]. (TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ فَارِغٌ مَشْغُولٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is devoted to that which is unprofitable. (TA in article شغل.) And هٰذَا كَلَامٌ فَارِغٌ (tropical:) [This is empty talk or language]. (TA.)