فود

فَوْدٌ ذ Each of the two sides of the head: (As, S, M, A, O, L, Msb, K:) pl. أَفْوَادٌ: (M, L, Msb:) one says, بَدَا الشَّيْبُ بِفَوْدَيْهِ [ Hoariness appeared in the two sides of his head ]. (S, O, L.) And The main, or chief, portion of the hair of the head, next the ear; (M, L, K;) or of the hair that descends below the lobe of the ear, next the ear: (IF, L, Msb:) or فَوْدَانِ signifies [ two locks, or plaited locks, of hair, such as are termed ] ضَفِيرَتَانِ (ISk, S, O, L, Msb) of a man (ISk, S, O, L) and of a woman. (O.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The side (K, TA) of anything; (TA;) each of the two sides (M, L) of a thing. (L.) You say, اِرْفَعْ فَوْدَ الخِبَاآءِ (tropical:) Raise thou the side of the tent. (A.) And نَزَلُوا بَيْنَ فَوْدَىِ الوَادِى (tropical:) [ They alighted, or abode, between the two sides of the valley ]. (A.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Each of the two equiponderant halves of the load of a beast: (S, M, O, L, K, TA:) one says, قَعَدَ بَيْنَ الفَوْدَيْنِ (tropical:) [ He sat between the two equiponderant halves of the load of the beast ]. (S, O, L, TA.) And [hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) A [ sack such as is termed ] جُوَالِق. (K.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The part that is abundant in plumage of each of the wings of the eagle: (M:) [or each of the wings; for] one says, أَلْقَتِ العُقَابُ فَوْدَيْهَا عَلَى الهَيْثَمِ (tropical:) [ The eagle cast ] its wings [ upon, or over, the eaglet ]. (A.) ― -b5- One says also, جَعَلْتُ الكِتَابَ فَوْدَينِ, meaning (tropical:) I doubled the upper part of the letter, or writing, over the lower part, so that it became two halves. (A, O.) ― -b6- And اِسْتَلَمْتُ فَوْدَ البَيْتِ (tropical:) [ I touched, by kissing, or with the hand, ] the corner of the House [ of God; i. e., of the Kaabeh]. (A.) -A2- Also A company, congregated body, party, or group, of men; or a crowd, or dense company &c.; or a great crowd of men; syn. فَوْج: (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K:) pl. أَفْوَادٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.)