فَرْقٌ
1.
[is originally a verbal noun: but is often used as a simple subst. meaning A distinction, or difference, between two things.
2.
Hence,] The line [or division] in the hair of the head: (K: [see also مَفْرَقٌ:]) or, as some say, the part, of the head, extending from the side of the forehead to the spiral curl upon the crown: an example occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce مَطْرَبٌ. (TA.)
3.
[And apparently A blaze on a horse's forehead. (See an example voce مُعْتَدِلٌ.)]
4.
And [hence, perhaps,] one says, بَانَتْ فِى قَذَالِهِ فُرُوقٌ مِنَ الشَّيْبِ i. e. أَوْضَاحٌ [apparently meaning There appeared in the back of his head portions of white, or hoary, hair, distinct from the rest]. (TA.)
5.
One says also of the female comber and dresser of the hair, تَمْشُِطُ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَرْقًا i. e. [She combs and dresses the hair] with such and such a mode or manner [apparently of combing and dressing or of dividing]. (L. [But the last word, which seems to be in this case a verbal noun, is there written without any vowel-sign.])
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7.
And Flax. (K.)
8.
See also فَرَقٌ, in nine places.