فرخ

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

The root 'فرخ' primarily denotes a young bird or chick. It extends metaphorically to anything small and young in nature, including plants and animals. It also signifies the emergence or hatching of young, and by extension, the beginning or maturation of things, as well as the dissipation of fear or distress.

Derived headwords

الفَرْخnoun

1.
Chick, young birdboth
The young of a bird; this is the primary meaning. It is also used for any small young creature or plant.
2.
Young of animalsboth
Extended to refer to anything small and young, including animals, plants, and trees.
3.
Brainclassical
The brain, by analogy with the 'sparrow' (عصفور), which is also a name for the brain.
4.
Front of a horse's brainclassical
Specifically, the front part of a horse's brain.
5.
Sprout, young plantboth
Young vegetation that is about to split open after sprouting, or when it has developed branches.
6.
Fear, terrorclassical
Refers to fear or terror, particularly in the context of dissipation of fear.
7.
A weaklingclassical
A weak or timid person, likened to a chick due to their frailty.
8.
A ticklish personclassical
A man who is easily tickled.
9.
A broad arrowheadclassical
A broad type of arrowhead.

أَفْرُخnoun

1.
Few chicksclassical
A small plural of 'فرخ' (chick).

أَفْرَاخnoun

1.
Chicks, young birdsboth
A plural of 'فرخ' (chick), often used for a small number.
2.
Young plantsboth
Young shoots or sprouts of plants.

أَفْرِخَةnoun

1.
Chicks, young birdsclassical
A rare plural of 'فرخ' (chick).

فَرْخnoun

1.
Chicks, young birdsboth
A plural of 'فرخ' (chick), often used for a large number.

فِرَاخnoun

1.
Chicks, young birdsboth
A plural of 'فرخ' (chick), often used for a large number.
2.
Young plantsboth
Young shoots or sprouts of plants.
3.
Skullsclassical
Refers to skulls, specifically the brains within them.

فَرْخَانnoun

1.
Chicks, young birdsboth
A plural of 'فرخ' (chick), often used for a large number.

فَرْخَةnoun

1.
Female chick, young birdboth
The female young of a bird.

أَفْرَخَverb

1.
To hatch, produce youngboth
Said of an egg or a bird when its young hatches or emerges.
2.
To become a parentboth
Said of a bird when it becomes a parent, i.e., has young.
3.
To become apparent, clearclassical
Said of a matter when its outcome becomes clear after uncertainty.
4.
To dissipate fearboth
Said of fear or distress when it leaves someone.
5.
To settle, become calmboth
Said of the heart or mind when fear leaves it and it becomes calm.
6.
To take as a dwellingclassical
Said of Satan when he takes people as a dwelling place, like a bird taking a nest.
7.
To prepare for youngclassical
Said of birds or eggs when they are prepared for hatching or for the young.

فَرَّخَverb

1.
To hatch, produce youngboth
Said of a bird when it has young.
2.
To become apparent, clearclassical
Said of a matter when its outcome becomes clear after uncertainty.
3.
To dissipate fearboth
Said of fear or distress when it leaves someone.
4.
To become weak, timidclassical
Said of a timid or weak person.

اسْتَفْرَخَverb

1.
To raise for chicksclassical
To keep or raise birds specifically for their young.
2.
To cause to hatchclassical
To cause eggs to hatch or young to emerge.

مُفْرِخnoun

1.
Hatching place, nestclassical
A place where birds hatch their young; a nest.

مُفْرِخparticiple

1.
Hatching, producing youngboth
Active participle of 'أفرخ', meaning hatching or producing young.

تَفْرِيخnoun

1.
Hatchingboth
The act of hatching or producing young.
2.
Maturation of cropsclassical
The stage of crops when they are ready to split open or have developed branches.
3.
Dissipation of fearclassical
The act of fear leaving or dissipating.

فَرِيخnoun

1.
Young, small oneclassical
A diminutive form, used to denote something small or young, often with exaggeration of honor or importance.
2.
A specific type of arrowheadclassical
Refers to a type of arrowhead associated with the craftsman Al-Farikh.

فُرُوخname

1.
Descendant of Ibrahimclassical
A name referring to a descendant of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), said to be a progenitor of non-Arabs.

فَرْوُخnoun

1.
Young ears of grainclassical
Refers to the young ears of grain whose outcome is clear and whose seeds have formed.

فَرْخَةnoun

1.
Broad arrowheadclassical
A broad type of arrowhead.

Parallel reading

الفرخ: ولد الطائر، هذا الأصل، وقد استعمل في كل صغير من الحيوان والنبات والشجر وغيرها

The chick: the young of a bird, this is the origin, and it has been used for everything small among animals, plants, trees, and others.

والجمع القليل أفرخ وأفراخ وأفرخة نادرة

And the small plural is afrukh, afrakh, and the rare afrikhah.

والكثير فرخ وفراخ وفرخان

And the large plural is farkh, firakh, and farkhan.

والأنثى فرخة

And the female is farkhah.

وأفرخت البيضة والطائرة وفرخت، وهي مفرخ ومفرخ: طار لها فرخ

And the egg and the bird hatched, and it produced young, and it is a hatching place and hatching: a chick flew out for it.

وأفرخ البيض: خرج فرخه

And the eggs hatched: their young emerged.

وأفرخ الطائر: صار ذا فرخ؛ وفرخ كذلك

And the bird became a parent: it became one with young; and farkha likewise.

واستفرخوا الحمام: اتخذوها للفراخ

And they kept pigeons for the young: they took them for the chicks.

إن تقتلوه تهيجوا فتنة يتولى منها شيء كثير؛ كما قال بعضهم: أرى فتنة هاجت وباضت وفرخت، ولو تركت طارت إليها فراخها

If you kill him, you will stir up a sedition from which much will arise; as some have said: I see a sedition that has stirred, laid eggs, and hatched, and if left, its young would fly to it.

ويقال أفرخت البيضة إذا خلت من الفرخ وأفرختها أمها

And the egg is said to have hatched when it is empty of the chick, and its mother hatched it.

يا أهل الشام، تجهزوا لأهل العراق فإن الشيطان قد باض فيهم وفرخ

O people of Sham, prepare for the people of Iraq, for Satan has laid eggs among them and hatched.

الفرخ: الدماغ على التشبيه كما قيل له العصفور

The chick: the brain, by analogy, as it is also called the sparrow.

ونحن كشفنا عن معاوية التي هي الأم، تغشى كل فرخ منقنق

And we uncovered from Mu'awiyah that which is the mother, covering every chirping chick.

يعني به الدماغ

He means the brain by it.

والفرخ: الزرع إذا تهيأ للانشقاق بعد ما يطلع؛ وقيل: هو إذا صارت له أغصان؛ وقد فرخ وأفرخ تفريخا

And the chick: the plant when it is ready to split after it emerges; and it was said: it is when it develops branches; and it has sprouted and matured with sprouting.

الزرع ما دام في البذر فهو الحب، فإذا انشق الحب عن الورقة فهو الفرخ؛ فإذا طلع رأسه فهو الحقل

The plant, as long as it is in the seed, it is the grain; when the grain splits into a leaf, it is the sprout; when its head emerges, it is the field.

أنه نهى عن بيع الفروخ بالمكيل من الطعام

That he forbade the sale of young ears of grain by measure of food.

الفروخ من السنبل ما استبانت عاقبته وانعقد حبه وهو مثل نهيه عن المخاضرة والمحاقلة

The young ears of grain are those whose outcome has become clear and whose seeds have formed, and it is like his prohibition of selling unripe fruit and of selling crops in the field.

وأفرخ الأمر وفرخ: استبانت عاقبته بعد اشتباه

And the matter became clear and hatched: its outcome became apparent after uncertainty.

وأفرخ القوم بيضهم إذا أبدوا سرهم؛ يقال ذلك للذي أظهر أمره وأخرج خبره لأن إفراخ البيض أن يخرج فرخه

And the people hatched their eggs when they revealed their secret; this is said of one whose matter is revealed and whose news is brought out, because hatching eggs means the chick emerges.

وفرخ الروع وأفرخ: ذهب الفزع؛ يقال: ليفرخ روعك أي ليخرج عنك فزعك كما يخرج الفرخ عن البيضة؛ وأفرخ روعك يا فلان أي سكن جأشك

And fear departed and was dispelled: the panic went away; it is said: may your fear be dispelled, meaning may your panic leave you as the chick leaves the egg; and your fear has been dispelled, O so-and-so, meaning your heart has calmed.

أفرخ روعك قد وليناك الكوفة

Be reassured, we have appointed you to Kufa.

وأفرخ فؤاد الرجل إذا خرج روعه وانكشف عنه الفزع كما تفرخ البيضة إذا انفلقت عن الفرخ فخرج منها

And the man's heart became calm when his fear left and the panic was removed, just as an egg hatches when it cracks open and the chick emerges from it.

جذلان قد أفرخت عن روعه الكرب

Joyful, distress has departed from his fear.

وقلبه ذو الرمة لمعرفته في المعنى فقال: جذلان قد أفرخت عن روعه الكرب

And Dhu al-Rummah's heart, due to his knowledge of the meaning, said: Joyful, distress has departed from his fear.

وفرخ الرعديد: رعب وأرعد، وكذلك الشيخ الضعيف

And the timid one feared and trembled, and so did the weak old man.

وما رأينا من معشر ينتخوا من شنا إلا فرخوا

And we have not seen a people who are roused from weakness except that they became weak.

معنى فرخوا ضعفوا كأنهم فراخ من ضعفهم؛ وقيل: معناه ذلوا

The meaning of farkhu is they became weak, as if they were chicks due to their weakness; and it was said: their meaning is they became submissive.

إذا سمع صاحب الأمة الرعد والطحن فرخ إلى الأرض أي لزق بها يفرخ فرخا

When the slave woman's owner hears thunder and grinding, he falls to the ground, clinging to it, becoming weak with weakness.

وفرخ الرجل إذا زال فزعه واطمأن

And the man became calm when his fear left and he was reassured.

والفرخة: السنان العريض

And the farkhah: the broad arrowhead.

والفريخ على لفظ التصغير: قين كان في الجاهلية تنسب إليه النصال الفريخية

And al-Farikh, in the diminutive form: a blacksmith in the pre-Islamic era to whom the Farikhian arrowheads were attributed.

ومنه قول الشاعر: ومقذوذين من بري الفريخ

And from it is the saying of the poet: And two sharp ones from the sharpening of Al-Farikh.

وقولهم: فلان فريخ قريش، إنما هو على وجه المدح كقول الحباب بن المنذر [أنا جذيلها المحكك وعذيقها المرجب]

And their saying: So-and-so is a Farikh of Quraysh, it is only for praise, like the saying of Al-Hubab ibn Al-Mundhir [I am its well-rubbed trunk and its welcomed branch].

والعرب تقول: فلان فريخ قومه إذا كانوا يعظمونه ويكرمونه، وصغر على وجه المبالغة في كرامته

And the Arabs say: So-and-so is a Farikh of his people if they honor and respect him, and the diminutive is used to exaggerate his honor.

وفروخ: من ولد إبراهيم، عليه السلام

And Furukh: from the offspring of Ibrahim, peace be upon him.

يا بني فروخ

O sons of Furukh.

بلغنا أن فروخ كان من ولد إبراهيم، عليه السلام، ولد بعد إسحاق وإسماعيل وكثر نسله ونما عدده فولد العجم الذين هم في وسط البلاد

We have been informed that Furukh was from the offspring of Ibrahim, peace be upon him, born after Isaac and Ishmael, and his progeny increased and his numbers grew, so he fathered the non-Arabs who are in the middle of the lands.

فإنه جعله أعجميا فلم يصرفه لمكان العجمة والتعريف

For he made him a non-Arab and did not decline him due to his foreignness and definiteness.