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فقص

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 فَقَصَ ذ , aor. فَقِصَ , (Lth, Lh, M, O, K,) inf. n. فَقْصٌ; (Lth, Lh, IDrd, M, O;) He broke; (Lth, Lh, M, O, K;) or crushed; (Lh, O, K;) an egg, (Lh, IDrd, M, O, K,) and the like thereof, (IDrd, O,) and any hollow thing; (Lth, M, O;) as also ↓ فقّص, inf. n. تَفْقِيصٌ: (M, TA:) and he (a bird) broke asunder an egg from over the young bird: (A and TA in explanation of the former verb:) and فَقَسَ, aor. فَقِصَ , inf. n. فَقْسٌ, signifies the same as فَقَصَ. (Lh, O.) ― -b2- فَقَصَ فُلَانٌ بَيْضَ الفِتْنَةِ [lit. Such a one broke asunder the eggs of sedition, or the like, ] is a tropical phrase [meaning (tropical:) such a one originated sedition, &c.]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [Golius has assigned to فَقَصَ, constr. with an accus., another signification (“ assecutus fuit rem ”), as on the authority of the K; app. from a mistranscription in the explanation of المِفْقَاص, in a copy of that lexicon.]

Derived headwords

فَقَصَverb
  1. 1.
فَقَصَ فُلَانٌ بَيْضَ الفِتْنَةِ