فرغ

فَرْغٌ ذ Width, breadth, or ampleness. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- And The place whence the water pours forth, between the cross-pieces of wood (العَرَاقِى), of the leathern-bucket; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ فِرَاغٌ: (K: [expl. in the O as signifying the side of the leathern bucket from which the water pours forth: ]) pl. of the former فُرُوغٌ (TA) and مَفَارِغُ, [which is anomalous, like مَشَابِهُ and مَحَاسِنُ &c.,] (A, TA,) or this is pl. of ↓ مَفْرَغٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- Hence الفَرْغَانِ, (S, O,) فَرْغُ الدَّلْوِ المُقَدَّمُ and فَرْغُ الدَّلْوِ المُؤَخَّرُ, (S, O, K,) or الفَرْغُ الأَوَّلُ and الفَرْغُ الثَّانِى, (Kzw,) Two of the Mansions of the Moon, (S, O, K,) the Twenty-sixth Mansion and the Twentyseventh; four stars, wide apart, forming the corners of a square, or four-sided figure; (Kzw;) each consisting of two stars, (S, O, K, and Kzw,) of two bright stars, (S,) the apparent distance between each two stars being the measure of five cubits, (S, O, L,) or the measure of a spear; (K;) [see ذِرَاعٌ and رُمْحٌ; the former pair consists of the stars a and b of Pegasus; and the latter, of g in Pegasus together with the bright star in the head of Andromeda; as is shown by what here follows:] the Arabs name الدَّلْوُ the four bright stars in Pegasus which form a square, or four-sided figure; i. e., that at the extremity of the neck, which is called مَتْنُ الفَرَسِ, and that which is called مَنْكِبُ الفَرَسِ, and that which is called جَنَاحُ الفَرَسِ, and the star that belongs to both Pegasus and Andromeda: (Kzw, descr. of Pegasus:) [these two pairs of stars are what are commonly known as the فَرْغَانِ; and are plainly indicated by the periods assigned to the auroral settings thereof: but the periods assigned to their auroral risings would lead us to apply the appel-lation of the فرغان to some other stars, not easily determinable, in Aquarius: see نَوْءٌ: and see also مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل.] The pl. الفُرُوغُ is said to be applied to The فَرْغَانِ with the stars around them: (O, TA:) and (accord. to El-Jumahee, O, TA) الفُرُوغُ [in the CK erroneously written الفَرُوغُ] signifies [ The constellation called ] الجَوْزَاآءُ. (O, K, TA. [But see فُرُوعُ الجَوْزَاآءِ, in art. فرع.]) ― -b4- فَرْغٌ also signifies A vessel in which is [ the exuded, or expressed, juice termed ] دِبْس, (O, K,) and صَقْر. (O.) ― -b5- Also Land affected with drought, or barrenness. (IB, TA.) ― -b6- See also the next paragraph.