فَلَق

faloqN * , (AHeyth, TA,) or ↓ falaqN , (S, O, TA,) the former said by AHeyth to be the more correct, (TA,) A split, fissure, cleft, or longitudinal division; syn. $aq~N : pl. fuluwqN : (S, O, TA:) and ↓ falaqN (Lh, K, TA) [or faloqN ?] signifies also [particularly] a fissure, or cleft, ( $aq~N ) in a mountain; (Lh, K, TA;) and so ↓ faAliqN : (K, TA:) and a $iEob [app. meaning gap, or ravine, or pass ]. (TA.) One says, mararotu biHar~apK fiyhaA fuluwqN , meaning $uquwqF [i. e. I passed by a stony tract such as is termed Har~ap in which were fissures, or clefts ]. (S, O.) And fiY rijolihi fuluwqN i. e. $uquwqN [ In his foot, or leg, are fissures or clefts ]. (As, S, O, * K.) And kal~amaniY mino faloqi fiyhi (Lh, S, O, K) and ↓ filoqi fiyhi , (Lh, S, K,) the former of which is the more known, (TA,) meaning mino $aq~ihi [ He spoke to me from out the fissure of his mouth, i. e., with his lips, not by means of a spokesman]. (K.) And Drabahu EalaY faloqi raA^osihi He struck him on the place where his hair was separated, the middle of his head. (TA.) ― -b2- See also falaqN . -A2- And see the paragraph here following, last quarter.

filoqN * : see the next preceding paragraph. -A2- See also filoqapN , in two places. ― -b2- Also A rod, or branch, that is split in two, (S, O, K,) [i. e., in halves, ] and of which are then made two bows, each whereof is termed filoqN , (S, O,) [or] each half ( kul~u $iq~K [in the CK $aq~K ]) of what is thus split is termed filoqN : (K, TA:) and thus is termed a bow that is made of the half of a branch, (K, TA,) the branch being split in two; and it is also termed qawosN filoqN , the latter word being thus used as an epithet, on the authority of Lh: or, as AHn says, the bow termed filoqN is one of which the wood whereof it has been made has been previously split in two, or three, pieces: and he also says that ↓ faliyqN [app. for qawosN faliyqN ] signifies a bow of which the piece of wood has been split in two pieces. (TA.) [See also $ariyjN , in two places: and see faroEN .] -A3- Also A wonderful thing or affair or case; (S, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ faliyqN , (K,) and ↓ fayolaqN , (TA,) and ↓ faliyqapN , (O, * TA,) of which last an ex. occurs in the prov., yaA EajabiY lih`*ahi AlfaliyqahN halo tagoliban~a AlquwabaA='u Alr~iyqahu [ O my wonder at this wonderful thing! Does the ringworm indeed overcome the spittle? ]: AA says, the meaning is, that he was in wonder at the alteration of usual occurrences; for the spittle usually dispels the ringworm, so he spat upon his ringworm, but it did not become healed: AlqwbA=' is made an agent; and Alryqp , an objective complement. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And A calamity, or misfortune; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ filoqapN , (K, TA, accord. to the CK ↓ faloqN ,) and ↓ faliyqN , (O, K,) and ↓ faliyqapN , (S, O, K,) and ↓ faloqaY (K, TA) or ↓ falaqaY , (TA,) and ↓ fayolaqN , (O and CK,) and ↓ mafolaqapN . (IDrd, O, K.) The Arabs say, ↓ yaA lilofaliyqapi O [come with succour] to the calamity. (S, O.) And ↓ jaA='a biEulaqa fulaqa , (S, O, K,) imperfectly decl., (S, O,) i. e. [ He brought to pass ] that which was a calamity: (S, O, K:) and ↓ biEulaqF fulaqK : (O, K:) or this means a very wonderful thing. (TA.)

falaqN * : see faloqN , first sentence, in two places. ― -b2- Also The daybreak, or dawn; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ faloqN , mentioned by Z and others; (TA;) and thus the former has been expl. as signifying in the Kur cxiii. 1: (S, O, TA:) or what has broken ( Anflq ) of the Eamuwd of the dawn; (Fr. K, TA;) i. e. [ of the bright gleam of dawn; of the dawn that rises and spreads, filling the horizon with its whiteness; or] the extending light that is like the [ long tent called ] Eamuwd : (TA:) or [simply] the light of daybreak or dawn: (Msb, K: *) or the appearing of the daybreak or dawn: (Zj, TA:) and falaqu AlS~uboHi signifies the light, and shining, or bright shining, of the daybreak or dawn: (TA:) one says, huwaA^aboyanu mino falaqi AlS~uboHi and faraqi AlS~uboHi [ It is more distinct than what has broken of the bright gleam of dawn ]. (O, TA.) ― -b3- And [hence,] The plain appearing of the truth after its having been dubious. (TA.) -A2- Also A law, or depressed, place of the earth, between two kills, or elevated grounds; (As, S, O, K;) as also ↓ faAliqN , (S, O, K,) and ↓ faAliqapN , (K,) which last is said by Aboo-Kheyreh, or some other, of the Arabs of the desert, to be in the midst of mountains, giving growth to trees, a place where people alight and where camels, or other cattle, remain during the cold night, saying that the ↓ faAliq is of hard, or hard and level, ground; (TA:) and the pl. of falaqN is fuloqaAnN (S, K, TA) and A^afolaAqN also: (TA:) or falaqN , (K,) or ↓ faAliqN , (TA,) signifies a wide tract of land or ground, between two extended tracts of sand; (K, TA;) and the pl. of the latter word is fuloqaAnN , like as HujoraAnN is pl. of HaAjirN . (TA.) -A3- And Alfalaqu signifies Hell; syn. jahan~amu : (K:) or a certain well ( jub~N ) therein. (Es-Suddee, O, K.) -A4- And The whole creation; all the beings, or things, that are created. (Zj, S, O, K.) This, accord. to some, is the meaning in the Kur cxiii. 1. (S, O.) -A5- And What remains, of milk, in the bottom of the bowl; whence one says, (in reviling a person, attributing to him meanness, TA,) yaA A@bona $aAribi Alfalaqi [ O son of the drinker of what remains &c.]. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And The milk that is in a dissundered, or curdled, state, by reason of sourness; as also ↓ mutafal~iqN . (K.) -A6- And The miqoTarap of the keeper of a prison; (S, O, * K;) i. e. [ a kind of stocks; ] a piece of wood in which are holes of the size of the shank, wherein men are confined, (K, TA,) i. e. thieves and waylayers, (TA,) in a row: (K, TA:) whence the saying of Z, baAta fulaAnN fiY Al$~afaqi waAlfalaqi mina Al$~afaqi A_ilaY Alfalaqi i. e. [ Such a one passed the night ] in fear and the mqTrp [ from the time of the redness of the region of sunset after the setting of the sun until the dawn ]. (TA.) See also falaqapN .