فرق

فِرْقَةٌ ذ A طَائِفَة [or party, portion, division, sect, or distinct body or class, ] of men, (S, O, Msb, K,) and of other things; as also ↓ فِرْقٌ; (Msb;) and so, accord. to IB, ↓ فَرِيقٌ: (TA: [but see this last word:]) [and a separate herd or the like of cattle:] pl. فِرَقٌ (O, Msb, K) and أَفْرَاقٌ (S, O, K) is pl. of فِرَقٌ (O, K) and أَفَارِيقُ is pl. of أَفْرَاقٌ, (S, O, K,) and أَفَارِقَةٌ occurs in poetry; (O, K;) or أَفَارِيقُ may be of the class of أَبَاطِيلُ, a pl. without a sing. (O, TA.) ― -b2- Also A portion of a thing in a state of dispersion; and so ↓ فِرْقٌ and ↓ فَرِيقٌ. (L, TA.) -A2- And A skin that is full [ of milk ], that cannot be agitated to make butter حَتَّى أَىْ يُذْرَقَ ↓ يُفْرَقَ [app. a tropical phrase meaning until it is made to void some of its contents ]. (K.)