مَفْرَقٌ

(S, O, K) and مَفْرِقٌ (S, O, Msb, K) The middle of the head; (S, O, K;) the place where the hair of the head is separated: (S, O, Msb, K:) plural مَفَارِقُ; which is used also in the sense of the singular, as though the singular applied to every part thereof: (S, O:) one says, شَابَتْ مَفَارِقُ رَأْسِهِ [meaning The place (lit. places) of the separation of the hair of his head became white, or hoary]. (Mgh voce ذَكَرٌ.) [See also فَرْقٌ.]

Also The place, of a road, where another road branches off: (S, O, Msb, K:) both words are used in this sense likewise: (S, O, K: *) plural as above. (K.)

And [hence] one says, وَقَفْتُهُ عَلَى مَفَارِقِ الحَدِيثِ (tropical:) [I made him to know] the modes, or manners, [of the narrative, or discourse,] or the manifest, plain, or obvious, modes or manners [thereof]. (TA.)