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فقح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تفقّح ذ It opened; syn. تَفَتَّحَ: (K:) it is said in this sense of a rose, (S, A, TA,) and of any flower, or blossom: (TA:) some say that it signifies تفتّح absolutely: others, peculiarly فى الكلام. (Az, as quoted in the L. [See تَفَتَّحَ فِى الكَلَامِ (a well-known phrase) in art. فتح: but فى كلام in the present case appears, from what precedes, to be evidently a mistranscription for فِى الكِمَامِ, i. e., in relation to calyxes. ])

Derived headwords

تفقّحverb
  1. 1.
فى الكلام
تَفَتَّحَ فِى الكَلَامِ
فى كلام
فِى الكِمَامِ