فرى

5 تفرّى ذ It became slit, or cut lengthwise; (S, M, Msb, K;) as also ↓ انفرى; (S, M, Msb;) both said of a skin, (M,) or of a thing: (S:) or it became much slit, or rent; said of the sewing of a leathern water-skin. (T.) And تفرّى عَنْهُ ثَوْبُهُ His garment became much slit, or rent, from him. (T.) And تفرّت العَيْنُ (tropical:) The spring of water burst forth: (K, TA:) or تفرّت الأَرْضُ بِالعُيُونِ (tropical:) The earth, or ground, burst with the springs. (S, M, A, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] the saying of Kabeesah Ibn-Jábir, تَفَرَّى بَيْضُهَا عَنَّا فَكُنَّا بَنِى الأَجْلَادِ مِنْهَا وَالرِّمَالِ i. e. (assumed tropical:) Its eggs (the pronoun in بيضها denoting the earth) burst from us [so as to disclose us], so that we were the sons of the hard tracts thereof and of the soft tracts, or plains, [or of the sands, ] means only their numerousness, and the wide extent of their districts. (Ham p. 341.) ― -b3- And تفرّى اللَّيْلُ عَنْ صُبْحِهِ (tropical:) [ The night became distinct, as though cleft, from its dawn ]. (TA.)