فلق

فَيْلَقٌ ذ An army; a military force: (S, O, K:) or a great [ military force such as is termed ] كَتِيبَة: (Kt, Msb, TA:) this is the primary signification, and the only one known to Kt: (TA:) pl. فَيَالِقُ. (S, K.) One says, رَمَاهُمْ بِفَيْلَقٍ شَهْبَاآءَ, meaning [ He assailed them ] with a formidable [ great ] كَتِيبَة. (TA.) ― -b2- And A great, big, or large, man: (O, K:) occurring in this sense in a trad., as an epithet applied to Ed-Dejjál: Kt doubted whether it were thus or فَيْلَمٌ; but Az affirms that both have this meaning. (O.) And one says, بُلِىَ فُلَانْ بِا@مْرَأَةٍ فَيْلَقٍ, meaning [ Such a one was tried, or afflicted, with a woman, or wife, ] cunning, evil, and clamourous. (TA.) ― -b3- See also فِلْقٌ, in two places. -A2- Also [The cocoon of a silk-worm; ] the thing from which قَزّ is obtained; an arabicized word. (Msb voce فَيْلَجٌ, q. v.: mentioned also in the Mgh, in art. فرش.)