فِرْقَة

furoqapN * the subst. from faAraqahu ; (S, MA, * TA;) or from Aifotaraqa , (Msb,) [i. e.] a quasi-inf. n. used in the sense of AifotiraAqN ; (TA;) signifying Separation, disunion, or abandonment; (MA, KL, PS;) and ↓ faraAqN is syn. therewith, whence the reading [in the Kur xviii. 77], h`*aA faraAqu bayoniY wabayonika [ This shall be the separation of my and thy union ]; and so is ↓ firaAqN , (O, * K, TA,) which [is an inf. n. of fArqh , and], in the Kur lxxv. 28, means the time of the quitting of the present world by death. (TA.)

firoqapN * A TaAy^ifap [or party, portion, division, sect, or distinct body or class, ] of men, (S, O, Msb, K,) and of other things; as also ↓ firoqN ; (Msb;) and so, accord. to IB, ↓ fariyqN : (TA: [but see this last word:]) [and a separate herd or the like of cattle:] pl. firaqN (O, Msb, K) and A^aforaAqN (S, O, K) is pl. of firaqN (O, K) and A^afaAriyqu is pl. of A^aforaAqN , (S, O, K,) and A^afaAriqapN occurs in poetry; (O, K;) or A^afaAriyqu may be of the class of A^abaATiylu , a pl. without a sing. (O, TA.) ― -b2- Also A portion of a thing in a state of dispersion; and so ↓ firoqN and ↓ fariyqN . (L, TA.) -A2- And A skin that is full [ of milk ], that cannot be agitated to make butter Hat~aY A^aYo yu*oraqa ↓ yuforaqa [app. a tropical phrase meaning until it is made to void some of its contents ]. (K.)