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فتق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

فَاتِقٌ ذ [ Slitting, rending, &c.]. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, هُوَ الفَاتِقُ الرَّاتِقُ meaning (assumed tropical:) He is the possessor of command or rule, so that he opens and closes, and straitens and widens [or rather widens and straitens ]. (Har p. 208.)

Derived headwords

فَاتِقٌ
  1. 1.
هُوَ الفَاتِقُ الرَّاتِقُ