فدع

فَدَعٌ ذ [mentioned above as an inf. n.] Deflection, and distortion: this is [said to be] the primary signification. (TA.) [Generally] A distortion of the wrist or of the ankle-joint, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) so that the hand or the foot becomes turned towards the inner side: (S, O, Msb, K:) or the walking upon the back [i. e. the upper surface ] of the foot [from an explanation of أَفْدَعُ by IAar, mentioned in the Mgh and O and Msb and TA; but it seems rather to mean a distortion of the foot that occasions the so walking ]: (K: [see also رَوَحٌ:]) or height of the hollow part of the sale of the foot, such that if the person trod upon a sparrow it would not hurt it [from an explanation of أَفْدَعُ by As, mentioned in the O]: (K, TA:) or a distortion (عِوَجٌ, K, TA, [in the O عَرَجٌ,] and مَيْلٌ, TA) in the joints, as though they were dislocated, (Lth, O, K,) mostly in the wrists and ankle-joints, (Lth, * O, * K, * TA,) by nature (Lth, O, K, TA) or by disease, as though the person were unable to extend them: (Lth, O, TA:) or a deflection between the foot and the shank-bone, (O, K, TA,) and the like in the arm, being a state of dislocation of the joints: (TA:) or it is a colliding of the [ inner ] ankle-bones, and a wide separation of the feet, (Mgh, TA,) to the right and left. (TA. [See, again, رَوَحٌ.]) In the camel, (K,) or in the fore legs of the camel, (ISh, O, TA,) it is The state in which one sees the animal to tread upon the part between the phalanges of his foot, so that the fore part of his foot becomes raised; (ISh, O, K, TA;) and it is nought but a rigidity in the pastern [ that occasions this ]. (ISh, O, TA.)