فرع

4 أَفْرَعَ see 1, in five places. ― -b2- You say افرع بِهِم meaning He alighted at their abode [ as a guest ]; syn. نَزَلَ. (K.) And أَفْرَعْنَا بِفُلَانٍ فَمَا أَحْمَدْنَاهُ i. e. نَزَلْنَا بِهِ [ We alighted as guests at the abode of such a one, and we did not find him to be such as should be commended ]. (S, O.) ― -b3- And افرع فى لومه [app. فِى لُؤْمِهِ] i. e. اِنْحَدَرَ [as though meaning (tropical:) He lowered himself in his meanness, or sordidness; but I suspect it to be a mistranscription]; a tropical phrase. (TA.) -A2- افرع الأَرْضَ He went round, or about, or round about, (S, O, K, TA,) or did so much, (S, O, TA,) in the land, (S, O, K, TA,) as also ↓ فَرَعَهَا, and ↓ فرّعها, (TA,) and consequently knew its state, or case, or circumstances. (S, O, K, TA.) -A3- افرعت الاـِبِلُ The camels brought forth the [ firstlings, or] first offspring (الفَرَعَ). (O, K.) ― -b2- And أَفْرَعُوا, (O,) or القَوْمُ افرع, (K,) They, (O,) or the people, or party, (K,) were, or became, persons whose camels had brought forth the first offspring. (O, K.) ― -b3- And افرع القَوْمُ The people, or party, sacrificed the فَرَع [or firstling of a camel, or of a sheep or goat ]: (S, Msb:) or افرع الفَرَعَةَ he sacrificed the فَرَعَة, (O, K,) which signifies the same as the فَرَع; (Mgh, Msb;) and so الفَرَعَةَ ↓ استفرع; (O;) or [simply] ↓ استفرع; (K;) and افرع [alone]; (O;) and ↓ فرّع, (O, K,) inf. n. تَفْرِيعٌ; (K;) he sacrificed the فَرَعَ; (O, K;) whence the trad., ↓ فَرِّعُوا اـِنْ شَئْتُمْ وَلٰكِنْ لَا تَذْبَحُوا غَرَاةً حَتَّى يَكْبَرَ i. e. Slaughter ye the firstling [ of a camel, or of a sheep or goat ], but slaughter not one that is little, whose flesh is like glue, [ until it be full-grown. ] (O, TA. *) ― -b4- And [hence, perhaps,] أَفْرَعْتُهُ I made him to bleed. (Msb.) And أَفْرَعَتِ الضَّبُعُ الغَنَمَ, (O, K, TA,) so says Ibn-'Abbád, (O, TA,) or فِى الغَنَمِ, so in the L, (TA,) The hyena, or female hyena, injured, and made to bleed, (O, K, TA,) or killed, and injured, (L, TA,) the sheep or goats. (O, L, K, TA.) And افرع اللِّجَامُ الفَرَسَ The bit made the mouth of the horse to bleed. (O, K. [See also 1, near the end.]) And افرع المَرْأَةَ, said of menstruating, It made the woman to bleed. (TA.) And [hence, app.,] افرع العَرُوسَ He accomplished his want in respect of the compressing of the bride. (AA, O, K. * [See also 8.]) ― -b5- And افرعت She (a woman) saw blood on the occasion of childbirth: (O, K:) or, as some say, before childbirth: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or at the first of her menstruating: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or she menstruated: (A'Obeyd, L, TA:) or she (a woman, or a beast,) first saw blood when taken with the pains of parturition, or near to bringing forth: and افرع لَهَا الدَّمُ the blood appeared to her. (L, TA.) -A4- And افرع He began, or commenced, discourse, or a narration; (K;) and so ↓ استفرع; (Sh, O, K, TA;) and ↓ افترع: (Sh, TA:) and likewise, as also ↓ استفرع, a thing. (K.) One says, بِئْسَ مَا أَفْرَعْتَ بِهِ Very evil is that with which thou hast begun, or commenced: (S, O:) and نِعْمَ مَا أَفْرَعْتَ [or أَفْرَعْتَ بِهِ] Very good is that which [or with which ] thou hast begun. (Msb.) And افرع سَفَرَهُ, and حَاجَتَهُ, He began, commenced, or entered upon, his journey, and his needful affair. (TA.) And افرعوا مِنْ سَفَرِهِمْ They came, or arrived, from their journey when it was not the proper time for their coming. (TA.) ― -b2- And افرعوا They sought after herbage in its place (اِنْتَجَعُوا) among the first, or foremost, of the people. (S, O, K.) -A5- افرع أَهْلَهُ, thus in all the copies of the K, expl. as meaning كَفَلَهُمْ, and likewise in the O, is a mistranscription by Sgh, whom the author of the K has here followed: it is correctly, افرع الَوادِى أَهْلَهُ i. e. The valley sufficed its people; syn. كَفَاهُمْ. (TA.) -A6- أُفْرِعَ بِسَيِّدِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ, (O, K,) with damm, (K,) means The chief of the sons of such a one was taken (O, K, TA) and slain. (TA.)