أَفْوَقُ
1.
See فُوَاقٌ.
2.
Also An arrow of which the
فُوق [or notch] is broken: (S, O, Msb, K, TA:) [and] an arrow having no
فُوق: (L voce أَقَذُّ:) plural فُوَقٌ [perhaps a mistranscription for the regular form of plural, i. e. فُوْقٌ; or it may be that the و is with fet-h to distinguish it from فُوقٌ signifying “ a notch ” of an arrow]: but IAar explains this as signifying arrows of which the heads have fallen. (TA.) One says, رَجَعَ فُلَانٌ بِأَفْوَقَ نَاصَلٍ (assumed tropical:) Such a one returned with an arrow having a broken notch and without a head upon it; meaning, with an incomplete share of good fortune: (S, O:) or, disappointed of attaining what he desired, or sought: a proverb. (TA.) And رَدَدْتُهُ بِأَفْوَقَ نَاصِلٍ (assumed tropical:) [I turned him back, or away, with a paltry benefit; or] I made his share of good fortune to be little, or incomplete. (TA.) And مَا بَلِلْتُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ بِأَفْوَقَ نَاصِلٍ, explained in the first paragraph of article بل.
3.
مَحَالَةٌ فَوْقَاءُ [A large sheave of a pulley] of which every
سِنّ [or tooth, perhaps meaning cog, though I do not remember to have met with any description of a cogged محالة,] has two cusps (فُوقَانِ), (O, K,) like the
فوقان [of the notch] of the arrow. (O.) [The strangeness of this explanation induces me to think that فَوْقَاءُ is here a mistranscription for فَوْهَاءُ, (see مَحَالَةٌ فَوْهَاءُ, in article فوه,) and that the explanation is partly conjectural.]