فرع

5 تفرّعت أَغْصَانُ الشَّجَرِ ذ The branches of the trees became abundant. (S, O, K. *) ― -b2- And [hence,] تفرّع الوَادِى (assumed tropical:) [ The valley branched forth ]. (TA.) ― -b3- [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce فَظِيعٌ.] ― -b4- تَفَرَّعَتْ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَصْلِ مَسَائِلُ (O, Msb, K, TA) (tropical:) Questions, or problems, or propositions, were derived, or deduced, from this fundamental axiom or principle; (Msb;) or were made to be the فُرُوع [i. e. the branches, meaning derivatives, ] thereof; (K, TA;) [ they ramified therefrom; ] is a tropical phrase. (TA.) -A2- تَفَرَّعَهُمْ (tropical:) He set upon them (O, K, TA) with reviling and the like; as in the A and L: (TA:) and he was, or became, superior to them, (O, K, TA,) in eminence, or nobility; and excelled them: (TA: [see also 1:]) or it signifies, (S, K, TA,) or signifies also, (O,) (tropical:) he married, or took to wife, the chief of their women, (S, O, K, TA,) and the highest of them: (TA:) and تَفَرَّعْتُ بِبَنِى فُلَانٍ (tropical:) I married among the noble and high of the sons of such a one; like تَذَرَّيْتُهُمْ and تَنَصَّيْتُهُمْ. (TA.)