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فَلْقٌ ذ , (AHeyth, TA,) or ↓ فَلَقٌ , (S, O, TA,) the former said by AHeyth to be the more correct, (TA,) A split, fissure, cleft, or longitudinal division; syn. شَقٌّ: pl. فُلُوقٌ: (S, O, TA:) and ↓ فَلَقٌ (Lh, K, TA) [or فَلْقٌ?] signifies also [particularly] a fissure, or cleft, (شَقٌّ) in a mountain; (Lh, K, TA;) and so ↓ فَالِقٌ : (K, TA:) and a شِعْب [app. meaning gap, or ravine, or pass]. (TA.) One says, مَرَرْتُ بِحَرَّةٍ فِيهَا فُلُوقٌ, meaning شُقُوقً [i. e. I passed by a stony tract such as is termed حَرَّة in which were fissures, or clefts]. (S, O.) And فِى رِجْلِهِ فُلُوقٌ i. e. شُقُوقٌ [In his foot, or leg, are fissures or clefts]. (As, S, O, * K.) And كَلَّمَنِى مِنْ فَلْقِ فِيهِ (Lh, S, O, K) and ↓ فِلْقِ فِيهِ, (Lh, S, K,) the former of which is the more known, (TA,) meaning مِنْ شَقِّهِ [He spoke to me from out the fissure of his mouth, i. e., with his lips, not by means of a spokesman]. (K.) And ضرَبَهُ عَلَى فَلْقِ رَأْسِهِ He struck him on the place where his hair was separated, the middle of his head. (TA.) ― -b2- See also فَلَقٌ. -A2- And see the paragraph here following, last quarter.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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