فَرَجَ بَيْنَ الشَّيْيءَيْنِ

, aorist فَرِجَ , verbal noun فَرْجٌ, He made an opening, or intervening space, [or a gap, or beach,] between the two things; or he opened the interstice, or interval, between the two things: (Msb:) [and فَرَجَ الشّىْءَ He opened the thing; and particularly by diduction, or so as to form an intervening space, or a gap, or breach; he unclosed it: and in like manner ↓ فرِّج, verbal noun تَفْرِيجٌ; for example,] you say, حَلُوبَتِهِ فَرَّجَ مَا بَيْنَ رِجْلَىْ [He made an opening, or intervening space, between the hind legs of his milch camel; i. e. he parted her hind legs]; (S and O and K in article فحج, &c.;) and فرّج بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ He made openings, or intervening spaces, between his fingers. (MA.)

The saying in the Qur'an, 77:9 وَإِذَا السَّمَاءُ فُرِجَتْ means [And when the sky] shall be opened so that it shall become portals: (Ksh:) or shall become cloven, or split, or rent. (Bd and Jel.)

And you say, فَرَجَ البَابَ He opened the door. (A, TA.) And فَرَجَ فَاهُ He opened his mouth to die. (TA.)

And فَرَجَ القَوْمُ لِلرَّجُلِ, aorist فَرِجَ , verbal noun فَرْجٌ, [and فَرَجَ لَهُ, aorist فَرُجَ , verbal noun فَرْجٌ and فُرْجَةٌ, seems from the context to be mentioned in this sense in the L,] The people, or party, made room, or ample space, for the man, in the place of standing or of sitting. (Msb.)

And فَرَجَ, aorist فَرِجَ , (O, Msb, K,) verbal noun فَرْجٌ; (O, Msb;) and ↓ فرّج, (O, Msb, K,) verbal noun تَفْرِيجٌ; (S, O;) signify also He (God) removed, cleared away, or dispelled, grief, or sorrow; synonym كَشَفَهُ. (Msb, K.) You say, ↓ فَرَّجَ اللّٰهُ غَمَّكَ and فَرَجَ اللّٰهُ عَنْكَ غَمَّكَ [May God remove, or clear away, from thee thy grief, or sorrow; and in like manner, suppressing the objective complement but meaning it to be understood, عَنْكَ ↓ فَرَّجَ and فَرَجَ عَنْكَ]. (S.)

-A2- See also 7, in two places.

-A3- فَرِجَ, [aorist فَرَجَ ,] verbal noun فَرَجٌ, He had his pudendum (فَرْج) constantly uncovered (S, TA) when he sat. (TA.)

[And, apparently, He had buttocks which did not meet, or which scarcely met, by reason of their bigness. (See فَرِجٌ and أَفْرَجُ.)]

فَرِجَتْ said of a she-camel: see 4.

[Freytag adds, as from the S, another signification of فَرِجَ, “ Liberatus fuit curis, tristitia, laetatus fuit: ” but for this I do not find any authority.]