فُرْقَةٌ

the subst. from فَارَقَهُ; (S, MA, * TA;) or from اِفْتَرَقَ, (Msb,) [i. e.] a quasi-verbal noun used in the sense of اِفْتِرَاقٌ; (TA;) signifying Separation, disunion, or abandonment; (MA, KL, PS;) and ↓ فَرَاقٌ is synonym therewith, whence the reading [in the Qur'an, 18:77, هٰذَا فَرَاقُ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنِكَ [This shall be the separation of my and thy union]; and so is ↓ فِرَاقٌ, (O, * K, TA,) which [is a verbal noun of فارقه, and], in the Qur'an, 75:28, means the time of the quitting of the present world by death. (TA.)