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فتخ

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَفْتَخُ ذ Having the quality termed فَتَخٌ [expl. in the first sentence of this art.]: as an epithet applied to a man, wide, or broad, in the hand and foot, with softness, or suppleness: (S:) or it signifies lax, or relaxed, and soft, or supple, and wide, or broad, in the joints: or soft, or supple, in the joints &c.: (L:) and, applied to a lion, wide, or broad, in the fore and hind feet, with softness, or suppleness: (L, K: *) fem. فَتْخَاآءُ: and pl. فُتْخٌ. (S, L.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce رَوَحٌ.] ― -b2- The fem., applied to a she-camel, means Having what is termed طَرَقٌ [expl. above: see 1]. (L.) And فَتْخَاآءُ الأَخْلَافِ, so applied, Whose teats rise towards her belly; denoting a quality discommended; but the like in the woman and in the cloven-hoofed animal is commended. (K) ― -b3- Also (i. e. the fem.) Any female bird having lax, or relaxed, wings: afterwards used as a name for the eagle: (MF:) or it is an epithet applied to an eagle; you say عُقَابٌ فَتْخَاآءُ, (S, L, K,) meaning an eagle having soft, or supple, wings; (L, K;) because, when it descends, it contracts its wings, and this is only from softness, or suppleness. (S, L.) ― -b4- And, applied to a foot, accord. to As, Soft, or supple: and accord. to AA, having in it a crookedness, or curvature. (TA.) Frogs are فُتْخُ الأَرْجَلِ [app. meaning Soft, or supple, in the hind legs ]. (A, TA.) ― -b5- أَفْتَخُ الطَّرْفِ, applied to a gazelle, (A,) or to a man, (K,) means Languid in respect of the eye. (A, K.) -A2- And فَتْخَاآءُ signifies also A thing, (K, TA,) four-sided, (TA,) resembling a مِلْبَن [app. here meaning the thing thus called upon which bricks are carried from place to place ], of wood, upon which the gatherer of [ wild ] honey sits: (K, TA:) then he is drawn, or pulled, [ up ] from above, until he reaches the place of the honey [ which is generally in a cliff ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

أَفْتَخُ
  1. 1.
فَتْخَاآءُ الأَخْلَافِ
عُقَابٌ فَتْخَاآءُ
فُتْخُ الأَرْجَلِ