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فقء

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of bursting, breaking, or causing something to pop, particularly referring to the eye or skin eruptions. It can also extend to the idea of breaking something open or causing it to split.

Derived headwords

فَقَأَverb
  1. 1.
    to burst the eyeboth

    To burst or rupture the eye, often implying injury or destruction.

  2. 2.
    to burst a boilboth

    To cause a boil, pustule, or similar skin eruption to burst or pop open.

  3. 3.
    to break openclassical

    To break something open, causing it to split or rupture.

فَقْءnoun
  1. 1.
    burstingboth

    The act of bursting or rupturing, especially of the eye or a skin lesion.

يَفْقَؤُهاverb
  1. 1.
    it bursts itboth

    The feminine singular form of the verb 'to burst', referring to something causing an eye or eruption to burst.

Parallel reading

فَقَأَ العينَ والبثرةَ ونحوهما
He burst the eye and the pustule and the like.
كالدمل والقرح
Like a boil and an ulcer.
فتكلف في معناه
So one must labor to understand its meaning.
يفقؤها فقأ
It bursts it, a bursting.
كَسَرها
To break it.
وبه فسر غير واحد من أئمة اللغة
And with this, more than one of the imams of language explained it.