صفق

صِفَاقٌ ذ The inferior [or inner ] skin, that is beneath the skin upon which is the hair: (S, O, K:) a thin skin beneath the upper skin and above the flesh: (IAth, TA:) or the صِفَاق of the belly is the skin, (M,) the inner skin, (TA,) that is next to the سَوَاد, (M, TA,) the سَوَاد of the belly, (TA,) [i. e. the liver, ] and which is the part where the farrier perforates the beast (بَنْقُبُ مِنَ الدَّابَّةِ) [at the navel, in order that a yellow fluid may issue forth]: (M, TA:) or the صَفَاق is the part around the navel, where the farrier performs the operation above mentioned: (AA, TA:) or the skin which, when the مَسْك [or hide ] is stripped off, remains cleaving to the belly, and the rending of which occasions a [ rupture termed ] فَتْق; so says As, in the “ Book of the Horse: ” (TA:) or what is between the جِلْد [or outer skin ] and the مُصْرَان [or intestines into which the food passes from the stomach ]; (ISh, O, K;) com- prising all of what are termed the مَرَاقّ of the belly, beneath the جِلْد thereof, to the سَوَاد of the belly [i. e. the liver ]; the مَرَاقّ of the belly being all that has not a bone curving over it: (ISh, O:) or the skin of the whole of the belly: (O, K:) the pl. is صُفُقٌ, only. (M, TA.)