فرج

فَرْجٌ ذ : see فُرْجَةٌ. ― -b2- The space between the hind legs of a horse or mare: (S, O, K:) so in the saying of Imra-el-Keys, لَهَا ذَنَبٌ مِثْلُ ذَيْلِ العَرُوسِ تَسُدُّ بِهِ فَرْجَهَا مِنْ دُبُرٌ [ She has a tail like the skirt of the bride, with which she fills up the space between her hind legs, from behind ]. (S, O.) And The space between the fore and hind legs of a horse or the like. (L.) [Hence, app.,] one says, مَلَأَ فَرْجَهُ and فُرُوجَهُ, and سدَّ فُرُوجَهُ [in which phrase مَدَّ is erroneously put for سَدَّ in one place in the TA], and جَرَى مِلْءَ فُرُوجِهِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He (a horse) ran swiftly. (TA.) And مَلَأَ فُرُوجَ فَرَسِهِ (assumed tropical:) He made his horse to run at the utmost rate of the pace termed حُضْر. (TA in art. ملأ.) ― -b3- The pudendum, or pudenda; the part, or parts, of the person, which it is indecent to expose; (S, O, Msb, K, &c.;) applied to the pudenda of men and of women and of youths, with what is around them; and so of horses and the like: (TA:) or the anterior pudendum [i. e. the external portion of the organs of generation ] of a man and of a woman, by common consent of the lexicologists; and applied to this and the posterior pudendum [in the conventional language of the law] because both belong to the same [legal] predicament [in certain cases]; (Mgh, Msb;) or because each of them is a place of opening; (Msb;) or because between the legs: (TA:) but in common parlance it is mostly applied to the anterior pudendum: (Msb:) or peculiarly, accord. to some, the anterior pudendum of a woman [i. e. the vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation of a woman: and the vagina ]: (MF, TA:) pl. فُرُوجٌ. (Msb.) فُلَانٌ ا@بْنُ فَرْجِهِ means (assumed tropical:) Such a one is solicitous for his فَرْج. (Er-Rághib, TA in art. بنى.) ― -b4- And i. q. فَتْقٌ [app. as meaning An open, wide, place ]: pl. فُرُوجٌ: (Msb:) which latter also signifies The sides, or lateral parts, quarters, or tracts, of a land. (TA.) And The part between the two sides, i. e. the بَطْن, of a valley: and hence used in relation to a road, as meaning its entrance: and a فَجّ [or wide, or depressed, road, ] of a mountain. (ISh, TA.) And A frontier-way of acces to a country; and [particularly such as is ] a place of fear; (S, O, K, TA;) so called because not obstructed; (TA;) and so ↓ فُرْجَةٌ, (Msb,) [pl. فُرَجٌ, whence] one says, فُلَانٌ تُسَدُّ بِهِ الفُرَجُ, (A,) or الفُرُوجٌ, which is the pl. of فَرْجٌ, (TA,) meaning [ Such a one, by him are obstructed ] the frontier-ways of access [ to the enemy's country ]. (A, TA.)