فرع

فَرَعَ

To overtop or surpass in height; by extension, to excel or be superior in eminence, nobility, beauty, or excellence.

Used of a person or group in relation to others, especially for superiority in stature or rank.

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فَرَعَ

To ascend or descend a mountain.

The direction depends on the construction and usage; the sources record both contrary senses.

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فَرَعَ

To strike or assail someone's head with a staff or sword.

Used with the head as object and the instrument expressed or understood.

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فَرَعَ

To pull in and stop a horse by its bridle and bit.

A specialized equestrian construction.

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فَرَعَ

To interpose between disputing parties, restrain them, and bring about reconciliation.

Used with بين to describe intervening as a barrier between people or animals.

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فَرَعَ

To take the first object of a chase and shed its blood.

Attested in the expression for the first quarry taken.

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فَرِعَ

To be abundant or free from deficiency in the hair of the head.

This is a distinct vocalized verb from the height and branch senses.

• Lane · entry 33896

فَرَّعَ

To derive or deduce questions, propositions, or subsidiary matters from a fundamental principle.

A technical or figurative construction with an أصل as the source and فروع as its derivatives.

• Lane · entry 33897

فَارَعَ

To suffice someone and undertake responsibility for him.

Used with a person as object.

• Lane · entry 33898

أَفْرَعَ

To alight at someone's abode as a guest.

A construction with بِـ; synonymous with نزَلَ in the cited usage.

• Lane · entry 33899

أَفْرَعَ

Possibly, to descend or lower oneself in meanness.

This meaning occurs in a disputed phrase whose transmitted wording is suspected of corruption.

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أَفْرَعَ

To travel around a land and learn its condition or circumstances.

Used of surveying or traversing a territory.

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أَفْرَعَ

Of camels, to bring forth their first offspring; of people, to sacrifice a firstling.

The firstling may be of a camel, sheep, or goat; the latter use belongs to the pre-Islamic sacrificial custom described in the evidence.

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أَفْرَعَ

To cause bleeding, injure, or kill by making blood flow.

Used of an animal attacking livestock, a bit injuring a horse's mouth, or another agent causing bleeding.

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أَفْرَعَ

To consummate sexual intercourse with a bride.

A specialized idiomatic construction.

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أَفْرَعَ

Of a woman or female animal, to begin bleeding, menstruate, or experience blood at childbirth.

The sources record variation as to whether the bleeding is before childbirth, during its pains, or at the beginning of menstruation.

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أَفْرَعَ

To begin or commence discourse, a narration, a journey, or an affair.

Used with speech, a journey, a needful matter, or another thing as the object or complement.

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أَفْرَعَ

To seek herbage among the first or foremost of a people.

A specialized pastoral usage.

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أَفْرَعَ

Of a valley, to suffice or sustain its inhabitants.

The corrected lexical reading has the valley as subject and its people as the sufficed party.

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أُفْرِعَ

To be taken and slain, especially when referring to a chief.

A passive construction used of a leader who is seized and killed.

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تَفَرَّعَ

To branch out or become abundant in branches.

Used of the branches of trees and, by extension, of a valley that branches.

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تَفَرَّعَ

To be derived or deduced from a fundamental principle.

Used of questions, propositions, or subsidiary matters that ramify from an أصل.

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تَفَرَّعَ

To set upon people with reviling or similar verbal attack.

A figurative transitive construction.

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تَفَرَّعَ

To become superior or excel in eminence or nobility.

Used of becoming pre-eminent over a group or other persons.

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تَفَرَّعَ

To marry into the highest or noblest part of a family, especially by marrying its chief woman.

A figurative social-status construction used with a family or tribe.

• Lane · entry 33900

اِفْتَرَعَ

To deflower or devirgin a maiden.

A specialized Form VIII sexual usage.

• Lane · entry 33901

اِفْتَرَعَ

To broach an ode or originate novel meanings.

A figurative literary extension of opening or initiating something new.

• Lane · entry 33901

فَرْعٌ

The upper or uppermost part of something.

Used of the upper part of an object, including the upper part of an ear or eyeball.

• Lane · entry 33903

فَرْعٌ

A branch, subdivision, or derivative founded upon a fundamental whole or principle.

Opposed to أصل; includes the technical sense of a derivative discipline or rule.

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فَرْعٌ

The hair of a woman, or full and abundant hair.

A figurative or collective nominal usage.

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فَرْعٌ

A noble or eminent person of a people or party.

Used of a leading or distinguished member of a group.

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فَرْعٌ

A valley branching off, or a channel carrying water to a ravine or watercourse.

A geographical sense; its plural in this use is فِرَاعٌ.

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فَرْعٌ

A bow made from the extreme portion or tip of a branch; by extension, a bow of a specified un-split construction.

A technical term in descriptions of bows, also used adjectivally with قوس.

• Lane · entry 33903

فَرْعٌ

Beneficial or serviceable property that has been made ready.

A disputed or possibly metonymic usage; the evidence also suggests that some attestations may retain the sense “branch.”

• Lane · entry 33903

فَرَعٌ

The first offspring of a camel, sheep, or goat, especially one sacrificed for blessing; by ellipsis, the skin of such an offspring.

The term belongs to the pre-Islamic firstling sacrifice and related custom described in the lexical evidence.

• Lane · entry 33904

فَرَعٌ

A louse, especially according to some authorities a small louse; according to others, a large louse.

The size distinction is a reported lexical disagreement.

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فَرَعٌ

Food prepared on the occasion of camels giving birth.

A customary food term analogous to a childbirth feast.

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فَرَعٌ

A portion or share, sometimes specifically a share of water.

The water-specific limitation is attributed only to some authorities.

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فَرْعَةٌ

A high or elevated place, such as the upper part of a mountain, valley, date receptacle, or road.

It may denote the conspicuous summit or upper end and, in descriptions of a road, its sides or borders.

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فَرْعَةٌ

The early or first part of the day.

Used in the temporal expression فِي فَرْعَةٍ مِنَ النَّهَارِ.

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فُرْعَةٌ

The blood of a virgin released on defloration.

A specialized noun associated with the act of devirginization.

• Lane · entry 33906

فَرَعَةٌ

A piece of skin added to a partially sized or incomplete water-skin.

A technical term for repairing or enlarging a water container.

• Lane · entry 33907

فُرُوعُ الجَوْزَاءِ

The name of an asterism associated with the season of the most intense heat.

The lexical evidence records variant explanations of the astronomical name and its identification.

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فُرَيْعٌ

A poetic or dialectal variant of فِرْعَوْنُ, Pharaoh, the proper name or title of an ancient ruler.

A foreign proper name; the form may be used by poetic license.

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فَارِعٌ

High, tall, or overtopping what is adjacent; by extension, elevated, beautiful, or eminent.

Used of mountains, people, form or appearance, and rank.

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فَارِعٌ

Low, ignoble, or mean.

A contrary sense reported for the same adjective by one line of lexical evidence.

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فَارِعٌ

In a particular expression, moving in opposite vertical directions, with one person ascending and the other descending.

This is a conventional contextual use illustrated by meeting two people moving in contrary directions.

• Lane · entry 33911

فَارِعٌ

An armed attendant or guard of a ruler.

Singular corresponding to فَرَعَةٌ in this specialized social sense.

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فَارِعَةٌ

The higher or highest part of a mountain or valley.

A geographical feminine noun for an elevated part; its plural may describe elevated torrent channels.

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فَارِعَةٌ

Surplus property deducted from the main stock of spoils before division into fifths.

A specialized legal or distribution term.

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فَيْفَرْعٌ

A species of tree.

The evidence also records the variant form فَيْفَرَعٌ.

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أَفْرَعُ

Full-haired or free from deficiency in the hair of the head.

Used of a man in opposition to أصلع and, according to the cited distinction, of a woman meaning abundantly haired; feminine فَرْعَاءُ.

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أَفْرَعُ

One subject to diabolical promptings or suggestions.

A specialized usage attested in a traditional expression about who should lead prayer.

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مُفْرَعٌ

Tall.

A general adjective of height.

• Lane · entry 33915

مُفْرَعٌ

Broad, high, or projecting at the shoulder blade.

Used of a person or of a shoulder blade itself.

• Lane · entry 33915

مِفْرَعٌ

One who interposes between disputing persons and effects reconciliation.

Agent noun; plural مَفَارِعُ.

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