فَرَقٌ
1.
Wideness of the space between the two central incisors, (IKh, S, O, K, TA,) of a man: (TA:) and likewise between the two toe-nails of the camel. (Yaakoob, S, O, K, TA.) And A division in the
عُرْف [or comb] of the cock: and likewise in the forelock, and in the beard, of a man: (S, O, K:) plural أَفْرَاقٌ. (S, O.) And sparseness, or a scattered state, of the plants, or herbage, of a land. (S, O, K.)
2.
In a horse, The state of the hips when one of them is more prominent than the other; which is disapproved: (S, O, K, TA:) or a deficiency in one of the thighs, in comparison with the other: or a deficiency in one of the hips. (TA.)
3.
Also The dawn: or الفَرَقُ signifies فَلَقُ
الصُّبْحِ: (K:) or what has broken of the bright gleam of dawn; of the dawn that rises and spreads, filling the horizon with its whiteness; (مَا
انْفَلَقَ مِنْ عَمُودِ الصُّبْحِ [which is one of the explanations of الفَلَقُ in the K];) because it has become separated from the blackness of the night: (TA:) one says, أَبْيَنُ مِنْ فَرَقِ الصُّبْحِ a dialect var. of فَلَقِ
الصُّبْحِ [i. e. More distinct than what has broken of the bright gleam of dawn]. (S, O, Msb, * TA.)
4.
5.
Also, and
فَرْقٌ, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) the latte according to the usage of the relaters of traditions, (Az, Mgh, O, Msb, TA,) but the former according to the usage of the Arabs, (Az, Mgh, O, * TA,) or the former is the more chaste (K, TA) according to Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà and Khálid Ibn-Yezeed, (TA,) A certain vessel, (T, Mgh, O, Msb,) a measure of capacity, (S, O, K, TA,) of large size, (TA,) well known, (S,) in El-Medeeneh, (S, Msb, K,) holding three
اصُع [a plural of صَاعٌ], (Mgh, O, Msb, K, TA,) or, (K, [apparently referring to
فَرْقٌ only,]) which is the same quantity, sixteen pints, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, * TA,) i. e. twelve times the quantity termed
مُدّ
by the people of El-Hijáz: (TA:) or, according to El-Kutabee, the
فَرْق is sixteen pints, and the صاع is one third of the فَرْق; but the فَرَق is eighty pints: or the
فَرْق, he adds, is, as some say, four pints: (Mgh:) or it is four
أَرْبَاع [plural of رُبْعٌ, q. v.]; (K, TA;) thus according to AHát: and IAth says, the فَرَق is said to be five
أَقْسَاط; [or six; (see قِسْطٌ;)] the قِسْط being the half of a صاع: but the
فَرْق is a hundred and twenty pints: (TA:) in the “ Nawádir ” of Hishám, on the authority of [the Imám] Mohammad, the
فَرْق is said to be thirty-six pints; but [Mtr says] this I have not found in any of the lexicons in my possession; and so what is said in the Moheet, that it is sixty pints: (Mgh:) the plural is فُرْقَانٌ, (S, Mgh, O, K, TA,) which is of
فَرْقٌ and of فَرَقٌ; (S, Mgh, O, TA;) and أَفْرُقٌ occurs in a tradition as a plural [of pauc.] of فَرَقٌ meaning the measure thus called. (TA.) 'Áïsheh is related to have said that she and the Prophet used to wash themselves from a vessel called the
فَرْق. (O, Msb.) [In a verse of which a hemistich is cited in the S and TA, the plural فُرْقَان is used as meaning Milking-vessels. (See also الفُرْقُ.) Respecting a modern signification of
فَرْق (A bale, or sack, of merchandise), see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., iii., 378-9 and 382.]