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فلق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تَفَلَّقَ see 7, first sentence. [Hence] one says, تَصَدَّعَتِ البَيْضَةُ وَلَمْ تَتَفَلَّقْ [ The egg cracked, or rather cracked in several places, but did not split apart, or did not split much ]. (Az, S in art. قيض.) And of milk such as is termed رَائِب [q. v.] one says تفلّق meaning It became dissundered, or curdled, by reason of intense sourness: or, as heard by Az from some of the Arabs, it, being collected in a skin, and smitten by the heat of the sun, became dissundered, or curdled, so that the milk [or curds ] became separate [ from the whey ]: and of such milk they loathe the drinking. (TA.) ― -b2- And تفلّق الصَّبْحُ: see 7. ― -b3- تفلّق said of a boy: see Q. Q. 2. ― -b4- See also 8, in two places.

Derived headwords

تَفَلَّقَverb
  1. 1.
تَصَدَّعَتِ البَيْضَةُ وَلَمْ تَتَفَلَّقْ
تفلّق الصَّبْحُ