افق

أُفُقٌ ذ (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ أُفْقٌ (S, K) A side; meaning a lateral, or an outward or adjacent, part or portion; or a part, region, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole; or a remote side; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and a border, or an extremity; (JK;) of a land, or of the earth; and of the sky, or heavens: (JK, Mgh, Msb:) [or the horizon, or part next to the horizon, of the sky and of the earth; ] or what appears of the sides (النَّوَاحِى) of the celestial sphere, (K, TA,) and of the borders, or extremities, of the earth: (TA:) or the place whence blows the south wind, and the north wind, and the west wind, and the east wind: (K, * TA:) pl. اآفَاقٌ: (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and the sing. also is used as a pl.; like فُلْكٌ, as is said in the Nh: (MF:) thus in the verse of El-'Abbás, in praise of the Prophet: أَنْتَ لَمَّ وُلِدْتَ أَشْرَقَتِ الأَرْ ضُوَضَاآءَ تْ بِنُورِكَ الأُفُقُ [ When thou wast born, the earth became bright, and the tracts of the horizon, or the regions, shone with thy light ]: or, as some say, الافق is made fem. by him as meaning النَّاحِيَةُ. (TA.) The phrase حِينَ يَغِيبُ الأُفُقُ means When the redness, or whiteness, in the أُفُق [or horizon ] disappears. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Also, in like manner, The side, or lateral part, of a tent: (JK:) or the part between the [ two ] anterior [ pieces of wood called the ] زِرَّانِ, in the [ fore part called the ] رِوَاق, of a tent: (K:) and the sides, or lateral parts, of a tent of the kind belonging to the Arabs of the desert. (TA.) -A2- أُفُقٌ is also said to be a pl. of أَفِيقٌ; but this is disallowed by Lh. (TA.) -A3- See also اآفِقٌ.