Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

فَتَرٌ ذ : see فَتْرَةٌ. ― -b2- الفَتَرُ expl. in the K as signifyfying “ the muscles, ” and also as signifying “ a certain well-known measure, or quantity, of wheat, ” is a mistake for الفَأْرُ, mentioned in both of these senses in art. فأر in the TS [and in the O]. (TA. [See art. فأر.])

فَتْرَةٌ ذ Languor, or remissness; and weakness, feebleness, or faintness; (S, O;) an affection like a weakness, feebleness, or faintness: (T:) and ↓ فَتَرٌ also signifies weakness, feebleness, or faintness. (M, K.) One says, أَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى فَتْرَةً I experience in myself an affection like a weakness, &c. (T.) ― -b2- An interval of time [ between things: (S and K in art. وتر; &c.:) or] between any two prophets, (M, K,) or between two of God's apostles, (S, O, TA,) during which there is a cessation of the apostolic function: (TA:) or a cessation of the mission of apostles, and a state of effacement of the signs of their religion: so in the Kur v. 22. (Msb.) -A2- See also what next follows.

فِتَرٌّ ذ and ↓ فَتْرَةٌ A certain fish, (O, K,) speckled, and having upon it a blackness, (O,) such that when a man treads upon it, he is affected with a languor (in some copies of the K a tremour ) in his legs, (O, K,) so that he becomes drowned, thus described by Ibn-' Abbád, (O,) or so that he sweats: (thus in copies of the K:) it is the رَعَّادَة [or torpedo ], found in the Nile of Egypt. (TA.)

فُتَارٌ ذ [ A languor which is the ] beginning of intoxication. (AHn, M, K.)

الفُتُورُ ذ The soft and rising parts of the frogs of horses' hoofs. (Ibn-' Abbád, O.)

مَاآءٌ فَاتِرٌ ذ , (T, M, O, K,) and ↓ فَاتُورٌ, (M, K,) Water between hot and cold; lukewarm; tepid; (T, O;) water ceasing to be hot. (M, K.) ― -b2- طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ (assumed tropical:) An eye, or eyes, in which is a weakness that is deemed beautiful; (B, TA;) [i. e., languishing, ] in which is languish, or languidness; (T;) not having a sharp look: (T, M, K;) or not sharp. (S, O.) [See 4.] ― -b3- مَشْىٌ فَاتِرٌ A weak walking. (O.)

فَاتُورٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

تَفْتَرٌ ذ i. q. دَفْتَرٌ, (O, K,) in the dial. of the BenooAsad: (Fr, O, TA:) mentioned in this art. by Sgh [in the O]. (TA.)

مُقْتِرٌ ذ , (so accord. to the O,) or مُفَتِّرٌ, (so in the L,) Beverage which renders languid the drinker; (O, L, TA;) or which heats the body, and occasions in it a languor, or laxity of the joints, and weakness: such beverage is prohibited. (L, TA.)

1 فَتَشَ الشَّىْءَ ذ , (S, O, Msb,) aor. فَتِشَ , (Msb,) inf. n. فَتْشٌ; (S, O, Msb;) and ↓ فتّشهُ, (S, O, Msb,) inf. n. تَفْتِيشٌ; (S, O;) both signify the same; (S, O, Msb;) He examined, looked into, scrutinized, or investigated, the thing; but the latter verb is that which is commonly used. (Msb.) And فَتَشَ عَنْهُ, and ↓ فتّش, He inquired respecting it, and searched to the utmost after it. (Msb.) فَتْشٌ and ↓ تَفْتِيشٌ signify The seeking with inquiry or examination or scrutiny or investigation. (Lth, IF, A, O, K.) You say, وَلَا ↓ فَتِّشْ تُفَنِّشْ Seek thou with inquiry &c., and be not thou lax, or remiss. (A, TA.)

2 فَتَّشَ see above, in four places.

3 فاتشهُ ذ , inf. n. مُفَاتَشَةٌ, [ He inquired of him, or examined him, diligently. ] (Sh, TA in art. ثور.)

[ فَتَّاشٌ ذ One who examines things, looks into them, scrutinizes them, or investigates them, much, or diligently; who inquires much, or diligently, and searches to the utmost; who seeks much, or diligently, with inquiry, examination, scrutiny, or investigation. ]

1 فَتَقَهُ ذ , (S, O, Msb, K,) aor. فَتُقَ and فَتِقَ , [the former of which is the more common,] (Msb, TA,) inf. n. فَتْقٌ, (S, O, Msb,) He slit it, rent it, rent it asunder or open, or divided it lengthwise: (S, O, K:) disjoined it, or disunited it: (TA:) or undid the sewing of it, unsewed it, or unstitched it: (Msb:) contr. of رَتَقَهُ: (O, TA:) and ↓ فتّقهُ, (S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَفْتِيقٌ, (S, O,) is like it in signification, (S, O, Msb, K,) but means he did so much, or many times. (Msb.) It is said of the heavens and the earth, in the Kur [xxi. 31], كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا [expl. in art. رتق]. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And (hence, TA) الفَتْقُ signifies (tropical:) The effecting of disunion and dissension among the community (T, S, O, K, TA) of the Muslims, (T, TA,) and the befalling of war (S, O, K, TA) among them, (S, O,) after verbal agreement respecting war on the frontier, or some other thing, (T, TA,) with the occurring of wounds and bloodsheddings. (TA.) One says, فَتَقَ فُلَانٌ بَيْنَهُمْ Such a one effected disunion, &c., between them, or among them, (TK.) ― -b3- And sometimes it means (tropical:) The dissolving of a compact, or covenant. (TA.) ― -b4- فَتَقَ العَجِينَ He put leaven such as is termed فِتَاق [q. v.] into the dough. (Lth, O, K.) ― -b5- فَتَقَ المِسْكَ, (S, O, TA,) aor. فَتُقَ , (PS, [in the TA in the next following instance فَتَقَ , an evident mistranscription,]) inf. n. فَتْقٌ, He drew forth the odour of the musk [or increased its fragrance ] بِغَيْرِهِ by the admixture of some other thing: (S, O, TA:) and فَتَقَ الطِّيبَ, and الدُّهْنَ, he rendered fragrant, and mixed, [or rendered fragrant by mixing, ] with aloes-wood &c., the perfume, and the oil. (TA.) -A2- فَتِقَتِ المَرْأَةُ, aor. فَتَقَ , (TK,) inf. n. فَتَقٌ, (S, Mgh, O, K, TK,) The woman was, or became, such as is termed فَتْقَاآء; (S, Mgh, O, K;) contr. of رَتِقَت. (TK.) ― -b2- And فَتِقَ العَامُ, aor. فَتَقَ , inf. n. فَتَقٌ, (tropical:) The year was, or became, abundant with herbage. (S, * O, * K, TA.) It is related by Abu-l-Jowzà that the people were afflicted with drought, and complained to 'Áïsheh, who directed them to make an aperture towards the sky in the tomb of the Prophet, and they did so, and thereupon it rained so that the herbage grew, and the camels became fat to such a degree that they became swollen, or inflated, in the flanks (تَفَتَّقَتْ); whence it [the year] was called عَامُ الفَتَقِ. (O, TA.)

2 فَتَّقَ see the preceding paragraph, first sentence: ― -b2- and see also فُتُقٌ. ― -b3- فتّق الكَلَامَ (tropical:) He rectified the language; or trimmed it, and removed its faults, or defects: or, as Zj says, he made its meaning clear. (TA.)

4 افتق ذ , said of a man, (TA,) or of a party of men, (O,) He was one, or they were persons, whose beasts were become fat (O, K, TA) so that they became swollen, or inflated, in the flanks (تَفَتَّقَتْ) (O, TA) by reason of the abundance of the herbage: (TA:) mentioned by AA. (O, TA.) ― -b2- Said of the upper limb (قَرْن) of the sun [app. when a little above the eastern horizon], It reached a rent (فَتْق) in the clouds, and appeared therefrom. (ISk, S, O, K.) And, said of the moon, It appeared, after concealment, between two black clouds. (IAar, TA.) ― -b3- Also, said of a party of men, They had the clouds parted asunder from [ over ] them. (S, O, K.) ― -b4- And أَفْتَقْنَا We found, or lighted on a فَتْق, i. e. a place upon which rain had not fallen when it had fallen upon what was around it. (S, O, K. *) And We had no rain fallen upon our parts of the country when other parts had rain fallen upon them. (TA.) ― -b5- And افتق (tropical:) He went forth to a فَتْق, or an open, and a spacious, place: (O, K, TA:) a verb, in this sense, similar to أَصْحَرَ and أَفْضَى. (O, TA.) -A2- Also (tropical:) He became harassed by ↓ فُتُوق, meaning such evils as poverty and debt (O, K, TA) and hunger (O, TA) and disease. (K, TA.) -A3- And He cleaned his teeth with the فِتَاق, or stem, or lower part, of the raceme of a palm-tree. (IAar, O, K. *)

5 تَفَتَّقَ see 7. ― -b2- تفتّقت المَاشِيَةُ and ↓ انفتقت (assumed tropical:) The cattle became swollen, or inflated, in the flanks, by reason of fatness: in consequence of their becoming so, they die; or, sometimes, they become free from the disease: (TA:) one says of a camel, تفتّق سِمَنًا. (As, S, O, K.) And تفتّقت خَوَاصِرُ الغَنَمِ (assumed tropical:) The flanks of the sheep, or goats, became dilated by reason of much pasturing upon herbs, or leguminous plants. (TA.) It is said in a description of the Prophet, كَانَ فِى خَاصِرَتَيْهِ ↓ ا@نْفِتَاقٌ, (O, TA,) meaning (assumed tropical:) [ There was in his flanks ] a flaccidity, or laxness: or a swollen, or an inflated, state: (O:) or a dilatation, which is approved in men, but disapproved in women. (TA.) ― -b3- تفتّق بِالكَلَامِ [see فُتُقٌ] (tropical:) He was diffuse, or profuse, in speech [as though bursting therewith]. (TA.)

7 انفتق ذ quasi-pass. of فَتَقَهُ [i. e. it signifies It became slit, rent, rent asunder or open, or divided lengthwise: became disjoined, or disunited: or became unsewed, or unstitched ]: (S, * O, Msb, K: *) and ↓ تفتّق is quasi-pass. of فتّقهُ [i. e. it signifies it became slit, &c., much, or in many places, or it is said of a number of things]. (S, * O, K. *) ― -b2- انفتقت اآبَاطُهُ is said of a fat child [meaning His armpits became chapped, or cracked ]. (S in art. ضب.) ― -b3- انفتق الغَيْمُ عَنِ الشَّمْسِ (O, K, TA) i. e. [ The clouds became parted asunder, or] became removed, or cleared away, from [ before ] the sun: (TA:) and عَنِ القَوْمِ [ from over the party of men ]. (S, O, K.) ― -b4- انفتقت عَلَيْهِ بَائِقَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [ A calamity, misfortune, or disaster, burst upon him ]. (S and K in art. بوق, &c.) ― -b5- انفتقت said of a she-camel, She was seized with a disease, (AZ, O, K,) termed ↓ فَتَقٌ, (TA,) between her udder and her navel, (AZ, O, K,) occasioned by fatness: sometimes in this case she recovers, (AZ, O,) and sometimes she dies. (AZ, O, K.) ― -b6- See also 5, in two places.

فَتْقٌ ذ inf. n. of فَتَقَهُ. (S, O, Msb.) ― -b2- [Used as a simple subst., A rent, slit, or like. ― -b3- And hence, (tropical:) A breach in society. ] One says, رَتَقَ فَتْقَهُمْ, meaning (tropical:) [ He closed up the breach that was between them; he reconciled them; or] he reformed, or amended, the circumstances subsisting between them. (TA in art. رتق.) ― -b4- [Hence also A rupture; a hernia; ] a certain malady; a protrusion in the thin, or delicate, and soft part of the belly; (S, O;) a malady in the صِفَاق [meaning peritonæum ], consisting in a solution of the integument so that a rent takes place in it, and through this passes a strange body, or substance, that was confined within it before the rent; and there is no cure for it, except for that which happens, rarely, to children: (K:) a disease that befalls a man in his intestines, consisting in a disruption of a place between these and his scrotum, in consequence of which a flatus collects between the two testicles and they become enlarged; in which case one says, أَصَابَتْهُ رِيحُ الفَتْقِ: or a severing of the fat [or cellular substance ] that encloses the testicles: in the “ Ghareebáni, ” it is termed ↓ فَتَق, with fet-h to the ت: (Mgh:) and thus it is said to be by Az, and thus it is expl. by him: (O:) or it is a rending of the skin between the scrotum and the lower part of the belly, in consequence of which [ some of ] the intestines fall into the scrotum: (TA:) accord. to Ibráheem El-Harbee, a rupture of the bladder. (O, TA.) ― -b5- [And A rent in the clouds: see 4:] and ↓ فَتَقٌ [likewise] signifies a gap of the clouds: pl. فُتُوقٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- And (assumed tropical:) An open, and a spacious, place. (O, K.) ― -b7- And A place upon which rain has not fallen when it has fallen upon what is around it; (S, O, K;) and ↓ فَتَقَةٌ signifies thus, applied to a land: pl. of the former فُتُوقٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] عَامٌ ذُو الفُتُوقِ A year of little rain. (S, O, See an ex., from a rájiz, in the first paragraph of art. زل.) ― -b8- And (tropical:) The dawn; (O, K, TA;) and so ↓ فَتَقٌ: (S, O, K, TA:) signifying also the rising [or rather breaking ] of the dawn; as in the saying, اُنْظُرْ اـِلَى فَتَقِ الفَجْرِ [ Look thou at the rising, or breaking, of the dawn ]: and ↓ الفَتِيقُ likewise signifies the dawn; mentioned by El-Isbahánee, and in the B. (TA.) ― -b9- See also 4, last sentence but one, for a meaning of the pl. فُتُوقٌ.

فَتَقٌ ذ [inf. n. of فَتِقَت said of a woman: ― -b2- and of فَتِقَ said of a year:] as a subst.: see فَتْقٌ, in three places: ― -b3- and see also 7.

فُتُقٌ ذ , applied to a woman, signifies ↓ مُتَفَتِّقَةٌ بِالكَلَامِ (tropical:) [ Diffuse, or profuse, in speech, as though bursting therewith]: (S, O, K, TA; [in the CK مُنْفَتِقَة;]) or loquacious: (TK:) or, accord. to ISk, so applied, that mars (↓ تُفَتِّقُ [lit. rends ]) in [ performing ] affairs. (TA.)

فَتَقَةٌ ذ : see فَتْقٌ, last quarter.

فَتْقَاآءُ ذ , applied to a woman, means Having the فَرْج dehiscent; [or wide; not constringed; ] الفَرْجِ ↓ مُنْفَتِقَةُ; (S, O, K;) contr. of رَتْقَاآءُ [q. v.]. (S, O.)

فِتَاقٌ ذ The parting asunder (اِنْفِتَاق) of the clouds from [ before ] the sun, (O, K, TA,) and their becoming removed, or cleared away, therefrom. (TA.) ― -b2- And The upper limb (قَرْن), and the disk (عَيْن), of the sun, (O, K, TA,) when it is covered over and then somewhat of it appears. (TA.) -A2- Also The base, or lowest portion, of the white [ membranous fibres of the palm-tree which are termed ] لِيف, (O, K, TA,) such as have not yet appeared: (TA:) the face is likened thereto, because of its clearness. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And (accord. to IAar, O, TA) The main stem, or the lower part of the main stem when the fruit-stalks have been cut off, of the raceme of a palm-tree. (O, K, TA.) -A3- And (tropical:) The leaven of dough: (ISd, TA:) a large lump of leaven, that soon causes the dough to become mature (O, K, TA) when it is put therein. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And Mixtures of medicaments compounded (O, K, TA) with oil of jasmine or the like thereof, in order that the odour may diffuse itself: (O, TA:) or musk compounded with ambergris. (TA.)

فَتِيقٌ ذ [ i. q. ↓ مَفْتُوقٌ i. e. Slit, rent, &c.]. نَصْلٌ فَتِيقُ الشَّفْرَتَيْنِ means [ An arrow-head ] having two forking portions; (Lth, O, K;) as though [each] one of them were slit [from the other]: (Lth, O:) [or it may mean sharp in the two edges: for] سَيْفٌ فَتِيقُ الغِرَارَيْنِ signifies A sword sharp [ in the two edges ]: and سَيْفٌ فَتِيقٌ, A sharp sword: (TA:) [whence,] رَجُلٌ فَتِيقُ اللِّسَانِ A sharp-tongued man: (S, O, K:) or chaste, or eloquent, and sharp, of tongue: or chaste, or eloquent, of tongue, perspicuous in speech. (TA.) ― -b2- الصُّبْحُ الفَتِيقُ (tropical:) The shining dawn. (As, S, O, K.) ― -b3- See also فَتْقٌ, last sentence but one. ― -b4- جَمَلٌ فَتِيقٌ (tropical:) A camel swollen, or inflated, in the flanks, by reason of fatness; تَفَتَّقَ سِمَنًا: (As, S, O, K:) and نَاقَةٌ فَتِيقَةٌ a fat she-camel. (TA.) -A2- And فَتِيقٌ is used in the sense of فَتْقٌ: thus in the saying of 'Amr Ibn-El-Ahtam, لَهَا مِنْ أَمَامِ المَنْكِبَيْنِ فَتِيقُ [app. describing a she-camel: I can only conjecture the meaning to be, Having, in the part before the shoulders, a crease like a gash, occasioned by fatness]. (O.)

فَاتِقٌ ذ [ Slitting, rending, &c.]. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, هُوَ الفَاتِقُ الرَّاتِقُ meaning (assumed tropical:) He is the possessor of command or rule, so that he opens and closes, and straitens and widens [or rather widens and straitens ]. (Har p. 208.)

فَيْتَقٌ ذ , of the measure فَيْعَلٌ, (S, TA,) from الفَتْقُ [“ the act of slitting ” &c.], (TA,) A carpenter. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- And A حَدَّاد [which signifies a worker in iron: but it also has the meaning here next following, which may therefore be intended by him who first gave this explanation of فَيْتَقٌ]. (AZ, O, K.) ― -b3- And A بَوَّاب [i. e. door-keeper ]. (O, K.) ― -b4- And A king. (AZ, O, K.)

مَفْتَقٌ ذ A place of slitting, or of the slit, of a shirt. (O, K.)

مَفْتُوقٌ ذ : see فَتِيقٌ.

مُتَفَتِّقَةٌ بِالكَلَامِ ذ : see فُتُقٌ.

مُنْفَتِقَةُ الفَرْجِ ذ : see فَتْقَاآءُ.

1 فَتَكَ بِهِ ذ , (S, MA, O, Msb, K,) aor. فَتُكَ and فَتِكَ , inf. n. فَتْكٌ and فُتْكٌ and فِتْكٌ (S, O, Msb, K *) and فُتُوكٌ (MA, K *) and فَتَاكَةٌ, (MA,) He assassinated him; i. e. he came to him when he (the latter) was inadvertent, and assaulted him and slew him; (S, MA, * O;) thus it signifies accord. to an explanation of الفَتْكُ by A' Obeyd; and this is the primary signification: (Az, TA:) if he have not given him [for أَعْطَانَا in my original (an obvious mistranscription) I read أَعْطَاهُ] assurance of safety, it behooves him to make that known to him: (A' Obeyd, TA:) he assaulted him; or he slew him at unawares; and ↓ افتك is a dial. var. thereof: (Msb:) he seized an opportunity that he (another) offered him (K, TA) by his inadvertence, (TA,) and slew him: or he wounded him openly: (K, TA:) or it has a more general meaning with respect to both of these acts: (K, * TA:) Fr says that الفَتْكُ signifies the man's slaying openly. (TA.) It is said in a trad., قَيَّدَ الاـِيمَانُ الفَتْكَ لَا يَفْتُِكُ مُؤْمِنٌ [i. e. The giving assurance of safety has inhibited (or, emphatically, inhibits ) the slaying at unawares, &c.: one who gives assurance of safety shall not slay at unawares, &c.: the like has been said above: see also an explanation of the former clause of the trad. in art. قيد]. (S, O.) ― -b2- And فَتَكَ, aor. فَتُكَ and فَتِكَ , inf. n. فَتْكٌ and فُتْكٌ and فِتْكٌ (O, K) and فُتُوكٌ, (K,) He purposed an affair and executed it: (O:) or he embarked in, or performed, an affair that occasioned uneasiness, and to which the mind invited; as also ↓ افتك: (K:) the latter verb is said by Fr to be a dial. var. of the former. (O.) ― -b3- [Hence,] فَتَكَ فِى الأَمْرِ, (K, TA,) inf. n. فَتْكٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He persisted, or persevered, in the affair; syn. لَجَّ, or أَلَحَّ. (Accord. to different copies of the K; in the TA the former. [The same meaning is also assigned to فَنَكَ.]) ― -b4- And فَتَكَ فِى الخُبْثِ, [in the CK فى الخُنْبُثِ,] inf. n. فُتُوكٌ, (O, K, TA,) (tropical:) He exceeded the usual bounds in that which was evil, abominable, foul, or unlawful. (K, TA.) ― -b5- فَتَكَ فِى صِنَاعَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) He was skilful in his art, or craft. (TA.) ― -b6- And فَتَكَتْ said of a girl, or young woman, means (tropical:) She cared not for what she did nor for what was said to her. (O, K, TA.) [See also فَتَكَتْ.]

2 فَتَّكْتُ القُطْنَ ذ , (IDrd, O,) inf. n. تَفْتِيكٌ, (IDrd, O, K,) I separated, plucked asunder, or loosened, the cotton: (IDrd, O, K: *) so in one of the dials.; (IDrd, O;) it is of the dial. of Asd. (TA.)

3 المُفَاتَكَةُ ذ signifies المُمَاهَرَةُ; (O, K, TA;) so says Ibn-' Abbád, (O, TA,) and so Z; (TA;) i. e. (tropical:) The making a show of skill, one with another: (TK:) [but for المُمَاهَرَةُ, the CK has المُجَاهَرَةُ:] one says, فاتك صَاحِبَهُ i. e. مَاهَرَهُ (tropical:) [ He made a show of skill, app. in competition, with his companion ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) The falling to the thing (مُوَاقَعَةُ الشَّىْءِ) with vehemence; such as eating, (K, TA,) and drinking, (TA,) and the like. (K, TA.) And فاتك الأَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) He threw himself, or plunged, into the affair; syn. وَاقَعَهُ: (K, TA:) and the subst. is ↓ فِتَاكٌ [having the meaning of the inf. n.: but why this is not called the inf. n. (for such it is accord. to analogy) I do not see]. (TA.) ― -b3- And فاتك فُلَانًا (inf. n. مُفَاتَكَةٌ, TA) i. q. دَاوَمَهُ (tropical:) [app. as meaning (tropical:) He kept continually, or constantly, to such a one: agreeably with what here follows]. (O, K, TA.) ― -b4- فاتكت الاـِبِلُ الحَمْضَ (assumed tropical:) The camels [ kept continually, or constantly, to the plants called حَمْض, desiring them as food and finding them wholesome: (see the part. n., below:) or] confined themselves to the حمض, not pasturing upon anything therewith. (TA.) And فاتكت الاـِبِلُ المَرْعَى (assumed tropical:) The camels consumed with their mouths [or devoured ] the pasture. (TA.) ― -b5- فاتك فُلَانًا He gave to such a one that which he mentioned as the price of what he had to sell: in the case of his bargaining with him and not giving him anything, one says فاتحهُ. (IAar, O, K.) فاتك التَّاجِرُ فِى البَيْعِ is expl. in the A as meaning The trader exceeded the due bounds, or acted unjustly, in offering the thing for sale and naming the price. (TA.)

4 أَفْتَكَ see 1, in two places. -A2- مَا أَفْتَكَهُ means How persistent, or persevering, is he! (TA.)

5 تفتّك بِأَمْرِهِ ذ He executed, or performed, his affair; or kept, or applied himself, constantly, or perseveringly, to it; not consulting any one. (ISh, O, K.)

فِتَاكٌ ذ : see 3, former half.

فَاتِكٌ ذ [act. part. n. of 1; generally meaning Assassinating; or an assassin: ] one who comes upon another suddenly, or at unawares, or takes him by surprise, with some evil, or hateful, act, or [more commonly] with slaughter: and accord. to IDrd, one who, when he purposes a thing, does [ it ]: (Ham p. 43:) any one who attempts, or ventures upon, great, or formidable, affairs: (Az, TA:) bold, or daring; (S, O, K;) courageous: (K:) pl. فُتَّاكٌ. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] فَاتِكُ القَلْبِ (assumed tropical:) Penetrating, sharp, or vigorous, and effective, in mind. (TA.) ― -b3- And حَيَّةٌ فَاتِكَةٌ لِلسَّبُعِ (tropical:) [ A serpent that attacks the beast of prey ]. (TA.) ― -b4- And جَارِيَةٌ فَاتِكَةٌ (tropical:) A young woman who cares not for what she does nor for what is said to her. (TA.)

تَفْتِيكٌ ذ [app. from the Pers. تَفْتِيك signifying “ fine, soft, wool, ” and “ soft, downy, kids' hair, ”] A compress of rags which is put upon a wound in order that the moisture may become absorbed [ thereby ]: a subst. like تَمْتِينٌ and تَنْبِيتٌ: and post-classical. (TA.)

اـِبِلٌ مُفَاتِكَةٌ لِلْحَمْضِ ذ Camels that keep continually, or constantly, to the [ plants called ] حَمْض, desiring them as food and finding them wholesome. (O, TA. [See also 3.])

فِتْكِرٌ ذ and فِتَكْرٌ: see what follows.

فِتَكْرِين ذ and فُتَكْرِين (S, O, K) and فَتَكْرِين and فِتْكَرِين and ↓ فِتْكِرٌ (O, K) and ↓ فِتَكْرٌ (K) A calamity, or misfortune; (O, K;) and [in the CK “ or ”] a wonderful, and great, or formidable, affair, or event: (K:) or the ن is the characteristic of the pl.; and one says, لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ الفِتَكْرِينَ and الفُتَكْرِينَ, meaning [ I experienced from him, or it, ] difficulties, or distresses, and calamities, or misfortunes. (S.)

1 فَتَلَهُ ذ , (S, M, O, Msb, K,) aor. فَتِلَ , (M, Msb, K,) inf. n. فَتْلٌ; (T, M, Msb;) and ↓ فتّلهُ, (M, K, TA,) [but this has teshdeed given to it to denote muchness of the action, or multiplicity of the objects, (see its pass. part. n. below,)] inf. n. تَفْتِيلٌ; (TA;) He twisted it, (T, M, K, TA,) i. e. a thing, (T, M,) like as one twists (T) a rope (T, S, O, Msb) &c., (S, O, Msb,) and like as one twists a wick. (T.) ― -b2- [Hence] one says رَجُلٌ مُحْكَمُ الفَتْلِ (tropical:) [ A man firm, or compact, in respect of make; as though firmly twisted]. (K and TA voce مَجْدُولٌ. [See the pass. part. n. below.]) ― -b3- And فَتَلَ ذُؤَابَتَهُ, (K,) or فَتَلَ فِى ذُؤَابَتِهِ, (O, TA,) (tropical:) [lit. He twisted his pendent lock of hair; ] meaning he made him to turn, or swerve, from his opinion, or judgment, or sentiment, (O, K, TA,) by deceiving, or deluding, him. (TA.) And جَاآءَ وَقَدْ فُتِلَتْ ذُؤَابَتُهُ (tropical:) He came, having been deceived, or beguiled, and turned from his opinion, &c. (TA.) And مَا زَالَ يَفْتِلُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ وَالغَارِبِ, (tropical:) meaning, يَدُورُ مِنْ وَرَاآءِ خَدِيعَتِهِ [i. e. He ceased not to be going about seeking, or endeavouring, after the deceiving, or beguiling, of such a one ]: (S, O, K:) originating from a saying in a trad. of Ez-Zubeyr, cited and expl. voce غَارِبٌ [q. v.]. (O, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 200.]) ― -b4- فَتَلَهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ, (T,) or عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, (S, O,) means He turned him [ from the object of his want, or from his way, or course ], like لَفَتَهُ, (T, S, O,) from which it is [said to be] formed by transposition. (S, O.) And فَتَلَ وَجْهَهُ عَنْهُمْ [also] means He turned his face from them, (M, K,) like لَفَتَهُ. (M.) -A2- فَتِلَتِ النَّاقَةُ, [aor. فَتَلَ ,] inf. n. فَتَلٌ, (assumed tropical:) The she-camel was smooth, or sleek, and flaccid, in the skin of her armpit, it not having in it عَرْك nor حَازّ nor خَالِع [which words see in their proper arts.]. (T, TA.) [See also فَتَلٌ below.]

2 فَتَّلَ see the preceding paragraph, first sentence.

4 افتل ذ said of [trees of the species termed] سَلَم and سَمُر, (K,) or افتلت said of a سَمُرَة (M, O) and of a سَلَمَة, (M,) They, or it, put forth, or produced, the فَتْلَة [q. v.] thereof. (M, O, K.)

5 تَفَتَّلَ see the paragraph here following.

7 انفتل ذ , and ↓ تفتّل, [but the latter, as quasipass. of 2, denotes, or implies, muchness, or multiplicity,] It [a rope, &c.,] became twisted. (M, K.) ― -b2- And the former, He turned away (T, S, Mgh) from his prayer, (T,) or from prayer, (Mgh,) or from his way, or course. (S.) And انفتل رَاجِعًا [ He turned away, returning ]. (S, O, K, in art. صوع.)

فَتْلٌ ذ : see its n. un. فَتْلَةٌ: -A2- and see also فَتَلٌ. -A3- Also The cry, or crying, of the فَتَّال, i. e. بُلْبُل. (IAar, T, O, TA. [Said in the TA to be an inf. n.: but its verb, if it have one, is not mentioned.])

فَتَلٌ ذ an inf. n. of فَتِلَت [q. v.] said of a she-camel. (T, TA.) [It is also expl. as signifying] (tropical:) Wideness between the elbows and sides of a she-camel: (S, O, TA:) or a state of firm, or concealed, insertion, (اِنْدِمَاجٌ,) in the elbow of a camel, (M, K, TA,) and its being apart from the side; (M, TA;) as also ↓ فَتْلٌ: (M: [thus in the TT as from the M; being there written فَتَْل:]) this [or rather the like of this] in the shank and foot of the camel is a fault. (M, TA.)

فَتْلَةٌ ذ [as an inf. n. un., A twisting. ― -b2- And hence, app., (assumed tropical:) An intense firmness of compacture of the flesh of the fore arm: expl. in the TT, as from the M, by the words شِدة عَصْب الدِباغ; for which, I doubt not, we should read شِدَّةُ عَصْبِ الذِّرَاعِ: see مَفْتُولٌ. ― -b3- And A twist. ― -b4- And particularly A twisted slip, formed by slitting, of the ear of a she-camel. (See 4 in art. دبر, in the last quarter of the paragraph.) ― -b5- And, as used in the present day, A needleful of thread. ― -b6- Also] The seed-vessel of the سَلَم and of the سَمُر, peculiarly, (M, K,) resembling the pods of the bean, (M,) when they first come forth. (M, K.) And The blossom of the سَمُرَة: (M:) or the fruit of the سَمُر and of the عُرْفُط: (TA:) or the blossom of the [ kind of trees called ] عِضَاه, (O, TA,) when it has become compactly organized: (TA:) or it signifies also, (M, K,) and so does ↓ فَتَلَةٌ, (K,) or peculiarly this latter, بالتَّحْرِيكِ, as AHn says on the authority of some one or more of the relaters, (O,) the fruit (بَرَمَة) of the عُرْفُط, (M, O, K,) because its filaments, or fringe-like appertenances, are as though they were cotton, and it is white, like the button of the shirt, or somewhat larger: (AHn, M, O:) or it signifies one of what are termed ↓ فَتْلٌ, which means what are [ as though they were ] twisted, of the وَرَق [properly signifying leaves of simple and common kinds] of trees, such as the ورق of the [ tamarisks called ] طَرْفَاآء and أَثْل and the like; (TA;) or, (M, K, TA,) as AHn says, (M, TA,) this word فَتْلٌ signifies what are not وَرَق, but are substitutes for these: (M, K, TA:) and, (K,) as some say, (M,) what do not expand, of [ the appertenances of ] plants, but are [ as though they were ] twisted; (M, K;) so that they are like هُدْب [thus in the TT as from the M, perhaps a mistranscription for هَدَب, q. v.]; being like the هدب [i. e. هَدَب] of the طَرْفَاآء and أَثْل and أَرْطى. (M.) ― -b7- See also فَتِيلٌ, last sentence.