فرق

فَرَقٌ ذ Wideness of the space between the two central incisors, (IKh, S, O, K, TA,) of a man: (TA:) and likewise between the two toe-nails of the camel. (Yaakoob, S, O, K, TA.) And A division in the عُرْف [or comb ] of the cock: and likewise in the forelock, and in the beard, of a man: (S, O, K:) pl. أَفْرَاقٌ. (S, O.) And sparseness, or a scattered state, of the plants, or herbage, of a land. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- In a horse, The state of the hips when one of them is more prominent than the other; which is disapproved: (S, O, K, TA:) or a deficiency in one of the thighs, in comparison with the other: or a deficiency in one of the hips. (TA.) ― -b3- Also The dawn: or الفَرَقُ signifies فَلَقُ الصُّبْحِ: (K:) or what has broken of the bright gleam of dawn; of the dawn that rises and spreads, filling the horizon with its whiteness; (مَا ا@نْفَلَقَ مِنْ عَمُودِ الصُّبْحِ [which is one of the explanations of الفَلَقُ in the K];) because it has become separated from the blackness of the night: (TA:) one says, أَبْيَنُ مِنْ فَرَقِ الصُّبْحِ a dial. var. of فَلَقِ الصُّبْحِ [i. e. More distinct than what has broken of the bright gleam of dawn ]. (S, O, Msb, * TA.) -A2- It is also the inf. n. of فَرِقَ [q. v.: when used as a simple subst., signifying Fear, or fright ]. (S, O, Msb.) -A3- Also, and ↓ فَرْقٌ, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) the latte accord. to the usage of the relaters of traditions, (Az, Mgh, O, Msb, TA,) but the former accord. to the usage of the Arabs, (Az, Mgh, O, * TA,) or the former is the more chaste (K, TA) accord. to Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà and Khálid Ibn-Yezeed, (TA,) A certain vessel, (T, Mgh, O, Msb,) a measure of capacity, (S, O, K, TA,) of large size, (TA,) well known, (S,) in El-Medeeneh, (S, Msb, K,) holding three اآصُع [a pl. of صَاعٌ], (Mgh, O, Msb, K, TA,) or, (K, [app. referring to ↓ فَرْقٌ only,]) which is the same quantity, sixteen pints, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, * TA,) i. e. twelve times the quantity termed مُدّ by the people of El-Hijáz: (TA:) or, accord. to El-Kutabee, the ↓ فَرْق is sixteen pints, and the صاع is one third of the فَرْق; but the فَرَق is eighty pints: or the ↓ فَرْق, he adds, is, as some say, four pints: (Mgh:) or it is four أَرْبَاع [pl. of رُبْعٌ, q. v.]; (K, TA;) thus accord. to AHát: and IAth says, the فَرَق is said to be five أَقْسَاط; [or six; (see قِسْطٌ;)] the قِسْط being the half of a صاع: but the ↓ فَرْق is a hundred and twenty pints: (TA:) in the “ Nawádir ” of Hishám, on the authority of [the Imám] Mohammad, the ↓ فَرْق is said to be thirty-six pints; but [Mtr says] this I have not found in any of the lexicons in my possession; and so what is said in the Moheet, that it is sixty pints: (Mgh:) the pl. is فُرْقَانٌ, (S, Mgh, O, K, TA,) which is of ↓ فَرْقٌ and of فَرَقٌ; (S, Mgh, O, TA;) and أَفْرُقٌ occurs in a trad. as a pl. [of pauc.] of فَرَقٌ meaning the measure thus called. (TA.) 'Áïsheh is related to have said that she and the Prophet used to wash themselves from a vessel called the ↓ فَرْق. (O, Msb.) [In a verse of which a hemistich is cited in the S and TA, the pl. فُرْقَان is used as meaning Milking-vessels. (See also الفُرْقُ.) Respecting a modern signification of ↓ فَرْق ( A bale, or sack, of merchandise), see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., iii., 378-9 and 382.]