فَرْقَدٌ

A calf: (S:) according to Aboo-Kheyreh, after he has become about two months old: (TA voce عِجْلٌ:) or the calf of a wild cow; as also فُرْقُودٌ: (IAar, O, L, K:) feminine فَرْقَدَةٌ. (L.)

And الفَرْقَدُ (O, L, K) and الفُرْقُودُ (O, K) (assumed tropical:) The asterism (نَجْم) by which one directs his course (O, K) by sea and by land; (O;) two stars [b and y of Ursa Minor]; (L, K;) also called (in poetry, O, K, [and generally in prose,]) الفَرْقَدَانِ; (O, L, K;) thus in a verse cited voce إِلَّا; (O;) they are two stars near the قُطْب [or pole-star]; (S, L;) two stars that never set, revolving round the جَدْى [or pole-star], both in Ursa Minor; (L;) the two bright stars of the four that form the angles of a quadrilateral figure in Ursa Minor; (Kzw;) also called by the Arabs الفَرَاقِدُ [which is the plural of الفَرْقَدُ]. (L.)

And فَرْقَدُ signifies also A level, or an even, land. (Ibn- 'Abbád, O.)