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فطر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

فَطْرٌ ذ [as an inf. n.: see 1: ― -b2- as a subst.,] A cleft, split, slit, rent, or crack: (K:) or, accord. to some, a first cleft &c.: (MF:) pl. فُطُورٌ: (K:) occurring in the saying هَلْ تَرَى مِنْ فُطُورٍ [ Dost thou see any clefts? ], in the Kur [lxvii. 3]. (TA.) -A2- 'Omar, being asked respecting [the discharge termed] المَذْى, answered, It is الفَطْرُ: (O, K:) thus as related by A 'Obeyd: (TA:) it is said that he likened it, in respect of its paucity, to what is drawn from the udder by means of the milking termed الفَطْرُ: (O, K:) or, as some say, it is from تَفَطَّرَتْ قَدَمَاهُ دَمًا [expl. above]: (TA:) or he likened its coming forth from the orifice of the ذَكَر to the coming forth of the نَاب of the camel: or, as it is related by En-Nadr, he said ↓ الفُطْرُ, with damm: meaning the milk that appears upon the orifice of the teat of the udder. (O, K.)

Derived headwords

فَطْرٌ
  1. 1.
هَلْ تَرَى مِنْ فُطُورٍ
تَفَطَّرَتْ قَدَمَاهُ دَمًا