فَوْدٌ

Each of the two sides of the head: (As, S, M, A, O, L, Msb, K:) plural أَفْوَادٌ: (M, L, Msb:) one says, بَدَا الشَّيْبُ بِفَوْدَيْهِ [Hoariness appeared in the two sides of his head]. (S, O, L.) And The main, or chief, portion of the hair of the head, next the ear; (M, L, K;) or of the hair that descends below the lobe of the ear, next the ear: (IF, L, Msb:) or فَوْدَانِ signifies [two locks, or plaited locks, of hair, such as are termed] ضَفِيرَتَانِ (ISk, S, O, L, Msb) of a man (ISk, S, O, L) and of a woman. (O.)

(assumed tropical:) The side (K, TA) of anything; (TA;) each of the two sides (M, L) of a thing. (L.) You say, اِرْفَعْ فَوْدَ الخِبَاءِ (tropical:) Raise thou the side of the tent. (A.) And نَزَلُوا بَيْنَ فَوْدَىِ الوَادِى (tropical:) [They alighted, or abode, between the two sides of the valley]. (A.)

(tropical:) Each of the two equiponderant halves of the load of a beast: (S, M, O, L, K, TA:) one says, قَعَدَ بَيْنَ الفَوْدَيْنِ (tropical:) [He sat between the two equiponderant halves of the load of the beast]. (S, O, L, TA.) And [hence, apparently,] (assumed tropical:) A [sack such as is termed] جُوَالِق. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) The part that is abundant in plumage of each of the wings of the eagle: (M:) [or each of the wings; for] one says, أَلْقَتِ العُقَابُ فَوْدَيْهَا عَلَى الهَيْثَمِ (tropical:) [The eagle cast] its wings [upon, or over, the eaglet]. (A.)

One says also, جَعَلْتُ الكِتَابَ فَوْدَينِ, meaning (tropical:) I doubled the upper part of the letter, or writing, over the lower part, so that it became two halves. (A, O.)

And اِسْتَلَمْتُ فَوْدَ البَيْتِ (tropical:) [I touched, by kissing, or with the hand,] the corner of the House [of God; i. e., of the Kaabeh]. (A.)

Also A company, congregated body, party, or group, of men; or a crowd, or dense company &c.; or a great crowd of men; synonym فَوْج: (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K:) plural أَفْوَادٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.)