فرج
1 فَرَجَ بَيْنَ الشَّيْئَيْنِ ذ , aor. فَرِجَ , inf. n. فَرْجٌ, He made an opening, or intervening space, [or a gap, or beach,] between the two things; or he opened the interstice, or interval, between the two things: (Msb:) [and فَرَجَ الشّىْءَ He opened the thing; and particularly by diduction, or so as to form an intervening space, or a gap, or breach; he unclosed it: and in like manner ↓ فرِّج , inf. n. تَفْرِيجٌ; for ex.,] you say, حَلُوبَتِهِ فَرَّجَ مَا بَيْنَ رِجْلَىْ [He made an opening, or intervening space, between the hind legs of his milch camel; i. e. he parted her hind legs]; (S and O and K in art. فحج, &c.;) and فرّج بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ He made openings, or intervening spaces, between his fingers. (MA.) ― -b2- The saying in the Kur lxxvii. 9 وَإِِذَا ا@لسَّمَآءُ فُرِجَتْ means [And when the sky] shall be opened so that it shall become portals: (Ksh:) or shall become cloven, or split, or rent. (Bd and Jel.) ― -b3- And you say, فَرَجَ البَابَ He opened the door. (A, TA.) And فَرَجَ فَاهُ He opened his mouth to die. (TA.) ― -b4- And فَرَجَ القَوْمُ لِلرَّجُلِ, aor. فَرِجَ , inf. n. فَرْجٌ, [and فَرَجَ لَهُ, aor. فَرُجَ , inf. n. فَرْجٌ and فُرْجَةٌ, seems from the context to be mentioned in this sense in the L,] The people, or party, made room, or ample space, for the man, in the place of standing or of sitting. (Msb.) ― -b5- And فَرَجَ, aor. فَرِجَ , (O, Msb, K,) inf. n. فَرْجٌ; (O, Msb;) and ↓ فرّج , (O, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَفْرِيجٌ; (S, O;) signify also He (God) removed, cleared away, or dispelled, grief, or sorrow; syn. كَشَفَهُ. (Msb, K.) You say, ↓ فَرَّجَ ا@للّٰهُ غَمَّكَ and فَرَجَ ا@للّٰهُ عَنْكَ غَمَّكَ [May God remove, or clear away, from thee thy grief, or sorrow; and in like manner, suppressing the objective complement but meaning it to be understood, عَنْكَ ↓ فَرَّجَ and فَرَجَ عَنْكَ]. (S.) -A2- See also 7, in two places. -A3- فَرِجَ, [aor. فَرَجَ ,] inf. n. فَرَجٌ, He had his pudendum (فَرْج) constantly uncovered (S, TA) when he sat. (TA.) ― -b2- [And, app., He had buttocks which did not meet, or which scarcely met, by reason of their bigness. (See فَرِجٌ and أَفْرَجُ.)] ― -b3- فَرِجَتْ said of a she-camel: see 4. ― -b4- [Freytag adds, as from the S, another signification of فَرِجَ, “ Liberatus fuit curis, tristitia, laetatus fuit: ” but for this I do not find any authority.] 2 فرّج ذ : see the preceding paragraph, first sentence: ― -b2- and again, in the latter half, in three places. -A2- Also, (O, K,) inf. n. تَفْرِيجٌ, (K,) He was, or became, extremely aged, or old and weak. (O, K.) [From فرّج لَحْيَيْهِ, which see expl. voce فَكَّ.] 4 افرج النَّاسُ عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ ذ The people cleared themselves away from his road, or path; removed out of his way. (S, O, K. *) And افرجوا عَنِ القَتِيلِ [as also ↓ انفرجوا (occurring thus in the S and Msb and TA in art. جلو）] They cleared themselves away, or removed, from the slain person: (Mgh, O, Msb, K:) implying that it was not known who had killed him. (Msb.) And افرجوا عَنِ المَكَانِ They left, abandoned, or quitted, the place. (O, K.) ― -b2- افرج الغُبَارُ The dust became dispersed. (TA.) ― -b3- And افرج signifies also His shooting, or casting, became altered [for the worse], having been good. (TA.) -A2- افرج الوَلَدُ النَّاقَةَ The young one caused the she-camel to be in the state in which one says of her ↓ فَرِجَتْ , i. e. ↓ اِنْفَرَجَتْ فِى الوِلَادَةِ [app. meaning She became unknit, or loosened, in the joints of the hips in parturition (see explanations of فَرِيجٌ as applied to a ewe and to a woman)], when bringing forth for the first time; whereby she was caused to suffer extreme distress: whence ↓ فَارِجٌ signifies Distressed. (Mgh.) 5 تفرّج ذ : see 7, in two places. ― -b2- [It also signifies He diverted, amused, or cheered, himself; or became diverted, &c.; often followed by عَلَى شَىْءٍ, meaning by viewing a thing, i. e., some rare, or pleasing, object: but thus used, it is app. postclassical. (See also the next paragraph.)] 7 انفرج ذ It opened; [and particularly by diduction, or so as to form an intervening space, or a gap, or breach; it gaped; it became unclosed; and so ↓ تَفَرَّجَ ; (see exs. in art. فيض, voce أَفَاصَ, in three places;) and it became unknit, or loosened, said of a bone, and of a limb or member, and of a joint; (see فَرِيجٌ, in two places; and see also فَكِكْتَ, and اِنْفَكَّ in three places, and فَكَكٌ;)] syn. انفتح. (Msb in art. فتح; &c. [See also فُرْجَةٌ.]) ― -b2- اِنْفَرَجَتْ سِيَتَاهَا is said of a bow such as is termed ↓ فَرُوجٌ , (O, K, TA,) as also اِنْفَجَّتْ [i. e. انفجّت هِىَ, which shows that the meaning is, Its two curved extremities were such as to have an open space between them and between the intermediate portion and the string]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 4, second sentence: ― -b4- and the same, last sentence; and فَرِيجٌ, in two places; and فَارِجٌ. ― -b5- [اِنْفَرَجْتُ عَنِ الكَلَامِ occurs in the L, in art. فص, app. meaning I broke off from, or intermitted, speaking.] ― -b6- انفرج said of grief, or sorrow, or anxiety, [and the like,] signifies It was, or became, removed, cleared away, or dispelled; (A, O, TA;) as also ↓ تفرّج ; (S, * O, * TA;) and so ↓ فَرَجَ , aor. فَرُجَ , inf. n. فُرُوجٌ. (TA.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, “ ↓ وَلِلشَّرِّ بَعْدَ القَارِعَاتِ فُرُوجُ” meaning [And to evil, after striking and agitating calamities, there is, or shall be,] a removing, clearing away, or dispelling: (S, O, TA:) the last word being the inf. n. of the last of the verbs above mentioned; or it may be a pl. of ↓ فَرْجَةٌ , like as صُخُورٌ is of صَخْرَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b7- Also He was, or became, happy, or cheerful. (KL. [See also 5.]) فَرْجٌ ذ : see فُرْجَةٌ. ― -b2- The space between the hind legs of a horse or mare: (S, O, K:) so in the saying of Imra-el-Keys, “ لَهَا ذَنَبٌ مِثْلُ ذَيْلِ العَرُوسِ
تَسُدُّ بِهِ فَرْجَهَا مِنْ دُبُرٌ
” [She has a tail like the skirt of the bride, with which she fills up the space between her hind legs, from behind]. (S, O.) And The space between the fore and hind legs of a horse or the like. (L.) [Hence, app.,] one says, مَلَأَ فَرْجَهُ and فُرُوجَهُ, and سدَّ فُرُوجَهُ [in which phrase مَدَّ is erroneously put for سَدَّ in one place in the TA], and جَرَى مِلْءَ فُرُوجِهِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He (a horse) ran swiftly. (TA.) And مَلَأَ فُرُوجَ فَرَسِهِ (assumed tropical:) He made his horse to run at the utmost rate of the pace termed حُضْر. (TA in art. ملأ.) ― -b3- The pudendum, or pudenda; the part, or parts, of the person, which it is indecent to expose; (S, O, Msb, K, &c.;) applied to the pudenda of men and of women and of youths, with what is around them; and so of horses and the like: (TA:) or the anterior pudendum [i. e. the external portion of the organs of generation] of a man and of a woman, by common consent of the lexicologists; and applied to this and the posterior pudendum [in the conventional language of the law] because both belong to the same [legal] predicament [in certain cases]; (Mgh, Msb;) or because each of them is a place of opening; (Msb;) or because between the legs: (TA:) but in common parlance it is mostly applied to the anterior pudendum: (Msb:) or peculiarly, accord. to some, the anterior pudendum of a woman [i. e. the vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation of a woman: and the vagina]: (MF, TA:) pl. فُرُوجٌ. (Msb.) فُلَانٌ ا@بْنُ فَرْجِهِ means (assumed tropical:) Such a one is solicitous for his فَرْج. (Er-Rághib, TA in art. بنى.) ― -b4- And i. q. فَتْقٌ [app. as meaning An open, wide, place]: pl. فُرُوجٌ: (Msb:) which latter also signifies The sides, or lateral parts, quarters, or tracts, of a land. (TA.) And The part between the two sides, i. e. the بَطْن, of a valley: and hence used in relation to a road, as meaning its entrance: and a فَجّ [or wide, or depressed, road,] of a mountain. (ISh, TA.) And A frontier-way of acces to a country; and [particularly such as is] a place of fear; (S, O, K, TA;) so called because not obstructed; (TA;) and so ↓ فُرْجَةٌ , (Msb,) [pl. فُرَجٌ, whence] one says, فُلَانٌ تُسَدُّ بِهِ الفُرَجُ, (A,) or الفُرُوجٌ, which is the pl. of فَرْجٌ, (TA,) meaning [Such a one, by him are obstructed] the frontier-ways of access [to the enemy's country]. (A, TA.) فُرْجٌ ذ : see فُرُجٌ; the latter in two places. فِرْجٌ ذ : see فُرُجٌ; the latter in two places. فَرَجٌ ذ inf. n. of فَرِجَ [q. v.]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- And [app. as such also, or] as a simple subst., The having the pudendum (الفَرْج) constantly uncovered, (K, TA,) when sitting. (TA.) ― -b3- Also a subst. [or quasi-inf. n.] from فَرَجَ الغَمَّ; (Msb;) [as such signifying] The removal, or clearing away, of grief, or sorrow: or freedom from grief, or sorrow: (S, * O, * KL:) or i. q. رَاحَةٌ [i. e. rest, repose, or ease; or cessation of trouble, or inconvenience, and of toil, or fatigue; or freedom therefrom]: (MA:) and ↓ فَرْجَةٌ and ↓ فُرْجَةٌ accord. to ISk, and ↓ فِرْجَةٌ : also accord. to Az, signify the same as فَرَجٌ: (Msb:) one says, مَا لِهٰذَا الغَمِّ مِنْ ↓ فَرْجَةٍ and ↓ فُرْجَةٍ and ↓ فِرْجَةٍ [There is not for this grief any removal, or clearing away]: (T, TA:) and ↓ لِكُلِّ غَمِّ فُرْجَةٌ i. e. كَشْفَةٌ [For every grief there is a removal, clearing away, or dispel-ling]: (A:) or ↓ فَرْجَةٌ , of which فُرُوجٌ may be a pl., (see 7, in two places,) signifies rest from grief, or mourning, or from disease: (TA:) or freedom from difficulty, distress, or straitness; as also ↓ فُرْجَةٌ : (Msb:) or freedom from anxiety; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ فُرْجَةٌ and ↓ فِرْجَةٌ : (O, K:) or ↓ فَرْجَةٌ , with fet-h, is an inf. n. [app. of unity]; and ↓ فُرْجَةٌ , with damm, is a simple subst.: (IAar, Msb:) or ↓ فَرْجَةٌ relates to an affair or event; and ↓ فُرْجَةٌ , [which see expl. below,] to a wall, and a door; but the two [primary] significations are nearly the same: the authority for the three [syn.] forms of the word is taken by the author of the K from the statement in the T, cited above, that one says, مَا لِهٰذَا الغَمِّ مِنْ فَرْجَةٍ and فُرجَةٍ and فِرْجَةٍ. (TA.) ― -b4- [Hence,] أُمُّ الفَرَجِ is a name of The جُوذَابَة [n. un. of جُوذَابٌ: see art. جذب]. (Har p. 227.) فَرِجٌ ذ (S, O, TA) and ↓ أَفْرَجُ (K, TA) A man whose pudendum (فَرْج) is constantly uncovered (S, O, K, TA) when he sits. (TA.) ― -b2- مَكَانٌ فَرِجٌ A place in which is تَفَرُّج [app. as meaning diversion, amusement, or cheering pastime; such a place as is termed in Pers. تَفَرُّج گَاهْ]. (A, TA.) فُرُجٌ ذ (S, O, K) and ↓ فِرْجٌ , with kesr, (O,) or ↓ فُرْجٌ , (K,) and ↓ فَارِجٌ and ↓ فَرِيجٌ , (S, O, K,) [like فَرُوجٌ (see 7) and فَجَّآءُ,] A bow wide apart from the string; (S, O, K;) or of which the string is distant from its كَبِد [q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b2- And the first, A woman wearing a single garment; (O, L, K;) of the dial. of El-Yemen; (O, L;) like فُضُلٌ in the dial. of Nejd; (L;) as also ↓ فُرْجٌ . (K.) ― -b3- And, as also ↓ فِرْجٌ , One who will not conceal a secret: (O, K:) and ↓ فُرَجَةٌ a man wont to reveal his secrets. (Ham p. 49.) فَرْجَةٌ ذ : see فَرَجٌ, in five places. ― -b2- It is said in the T, that أَدْرَكُوا القَوْمَ عَلَى فَرْجَتِهِمْ or ↓ فُرْجَتِهِمْ occurs in a trad. as meaning على هزِيمَتِهِمْ [i. e. They overtook the people, or party, in their state of defeat]: but it is also related as with قاف and حآء [app. قَرْحَتِهِمْ]. (TA.) فُرْجَةٌ ذ An opening, or intervening space, [or a gap, or breach,] between two things; (Msb, TA;) as also ↓ فَرْجٌ , (A,) of which the pl. is فُرُوجٌ only; (TA;) [and so ↓ مَفْرَجٌ , lit. a place of opening, occurring in the K in art. ودى, &c.;] and ↓ مُنْفَرَجٌ : (JK and K voce خَلَلٌ, &c.:) the pl. of the first is فُرَجٌ (Msb, TA) and فُرُجَاتٌ: (TA:) and it is also in a wall, (S, Msb, K,) and the like: (S, Msb:) and signifies also an opening, or a space, or room, made by persons for a man entering among them, in a place of standing or of sitting. (Msb.) One says, بَيْنَهُمَا فُرْجَةٌ, meaning انْفِرَاجٌ [i. e. Between them two is an opening, or intervening space, &c.]. (S.) فُرَجُ الشَّيْطَانِ [The Devil's gaps], occurring in a trad., means the gaps, or unoccupied spaces, in the ranks of men praying [in the mosque]. (L.) ― -b2- See also فَرْجٌ, last sentence: ― -b3- and see فَرَجٌ, in seven places: ― -b4- and فَرْجَةٌ. فِرْجَةٌ ذ : see فَرَجٌ, in three places. فُرَجَةٌ ذ : see فُرُجٌ, last sentence. فَرُوجٌ ذ , applied to a bow [like فُرُجٌ &c.]: see 7. فَرِيجٌ ذ : see فُرُجٌ. ― -b2- Also A ewe whose hips are unknit, or loosened, [in the joints], (وَرِكَاهَا ↓ اِنْفَرَجَ [see 4],) when she brings forth. (TA.) And A woman whose bones are unknit, or loosened, (عِظَامُهَا ↓ اِنْفَرَجَتْ ) in consequence of parturition: and hence, as likened thereto, (tropical:) a camel that is fatigued, and drags his feet, or stands still: (Skr, O:) or a woman fatigued in consequence of parturition: and hence, as being likened thereto, (tropical:) a she-camel that is fatigued. (Kr, TA.) And A she-camel that has brought forth her first offspring. (O, K.) [See also فَارِجٌ.] ― -b3- Also, accord. to the K, [and the O as on the authority of Ibn- 'Abbád,] i. q. بَارِدٌ: but [SM says that] this is a mistake for بَارِزٌ, meaning Uncovered, appearing, or apparent; in which sense it is applied also to a fem. noun: (TA:) it is applied, in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, to a pearl (دُرَّة), as meaning uncovered, and exposed to view, for sale. (O, TA.) فَرَّاجٌ ذ One who often removes, clears away, or dispels, grief, or anxiety, from those affected therewith; or who does so much. (O.) فَرُّوجٌ ذ The young of the domestic hen; [the chicken, and chickens;] (S, Mgh, O, K; [but the explanation is omitted in one of my copies of the S;]) as also فُرُّوجٌ, (S, O, K,) like سُبُّوحٌ [q. v.], (K,) a dial. var., (S, O, TA,) mentioned by Lh: (TA:) n. un. with ة: (S:) pl. فَرَارِيجُ. (S, Mgh, O.) ― -b2- And hence, app., by a metaphorical application, (Mgh,) it signifies also A [garment of the kind called] قَبَآءِ, (S, Mgh, O, K, [but omitted in one of my copies of the S,]) having a slit in its hinder part: (Mgh, O, K:) or the shirt of a child: (O, K:) [but] the Prophet is related to have prayed in a فرّوج (Mgh, TA) of خَزّ (Mgh) or of silk; (TA;) or he pulled off one that he had put on. (O.) فَارِجٌ ذ : see فُرُجٌ. ― -b2- Also A she-came that has become unknit, or loosened, [app. in the joints of the hips,] (↓ اِنْفَرَجَتْ [see 4],) in consequence of parturition, and therefore hates the stallion, (O, K,) and dislikes his being near. (O.) [See also فَرِيجٌ.] And see 4, last sentence. أَفْرَجُ ذ , in the phrase أَفْرَجُ الثَّنَايَا, i. q. أَفْلَجُ [q. v.]. ― -b2- And A man whose buttocks do not meet, (S, O, K,) or scarcely meet, (TA,) by reason of their bigness: (S, O, K:) fem. فَرْجَآءُ: it is mostly the case among the Abyssinians. (S, O.) ― -b3- See also فَرِجٌ. تِفْرِجٌ ذ , accord. to Akh, A beater and washer and whitener of clothes; syn. قَصَّارٌ. (O.) ― -b2- See also the next paragraph. تِفْرِجَةٌ ذ and ↓ تِفْرَاجٌ are sings. of تَفَارِيجٌ, (O,) which signifies, (IAar, O, K,) as pl. of the first, (K,) or of the second, (IAar, O,) The openings [or interstices] of the fingers: (IAar, O, K:) and the apertures, (IAar, O,) or clefts, (K,) of a railing: (IAar, O, K:) and also, (O, K,) accord. to IDrd, as pl. of تِفْرِجَةٌ, (O,) the slits of the [kind of garment called] قَبَآء [and فَرُّوجْ]. (O, K.) -A2- تِفْرِجَةٌ as an epithet, applied to a man, signifies Cowardly and weak; as also ↓ تِفْرَاجَةٌ ; (O, K;) and نِفْرَاجَآءُ, with ن, (O, * K,) mentioned by IAmb, as imperfectly decl., and as signifying cowardly; (O;) or so, accord. to the T and L, ↓ تِفْرِجٌ and تِفْرِجَةٌ, and نِفْرِجٌ and نِفْرِجَةٌ: and the last two, and نِفْرَاجٌ and نِفْرِجَآءٌ, all with ن, signify one who becomes defeated, or put to flight, (يَنْكَشِفُ,) on the occasion of war, or battle. (TA.) تِفْرَاجٌ ذ and تِفْرَاجَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph. مَفْرَجٌ ذ : see فُرْجَةٌ. [Hence] مَفْرَجُ الغَمِ [The place of opening of the mouth]. (TA in art. شجر.) مَفَارِجُ [is its pl.; and] signifies Places of exit, or egress. (TA.) مُفْرَجٌ ذ , occurring in the saying, in a trad., لَا يُتْرَكُ فِى الإِسْلَامِ مُفْرَجٌ, [meaning that he who is thus termed shall not be left unbefriended among the Muslims,] is variously explained: As used to say that it is with ح; and disapproved of the saying مفرج, with ج: A'Obeyd says, I heard Mohammad Ibn-El-Hasan say, it is related with ح and with ج; and he who says مفرج, with ج, means A slain person found in a desert tract, not by a town or village, [which signification is mentioned in the K,] the fine for whose blood is to be paid from the government-treasury: AO says that it means one who becomes a Muslim and has no alliance of friendship with any one [among the Muslims]; wherefore, if he commits a crime, [such as maiming another, &c.,] the governmenttreasury must make amends for it, because he has no relations or others bound to aid him by paying a bloodwit [or the like]: (S, O: and the like is also said in the Mgh and in the K:) or, accord. to Jábir El-Joafee, it means a man who is among a people to whom he does not belong; wherefore they are bound to pay for him a bloodwit [or the like]: (O, TA:) or it means one who has no kinsfolk, or near relations: so accord. to IAar: (Mgh, TA:) or one who has no offspring: or one who has no wealth, or property: and it is also said to mean one burdened by the obligation to pay a bloodwit, or a ransom, or a debt that must be discharged: and [in like manner] ↓ مَفْرُوجٌ is said to mean one who is burdened with a debt: but it is correctly with ح [unpointed]; (TA;) [i. e.] such is termed مُفْرَحْ, with ح: (As, Mgh:) and مُفْرَجٌ means one burdened by his family, although he be not in debt. (Az, TA voce مُفْرَحٌ [q. v.].) مُفْرِجٌ ذ One whose shooting, or casting, has become altered [for the worse], having been good. (AA, O, * K.) -A2- And thus, without ة, A hen having chickens. (S, O, K.) مُفَرَّجٌ ذ A camel (O) whose elbow is distant from his armpit: (O, K:) or wide in step: (O:) or, with ة, a she-camel whose elbows are far from her chest, and whose armpits are [therefore] wide. (Ham p. 783.) ― -b2- And A comb. (O, K.) مَفْرُوجٌ ذ An opened door. (TA.) ― -b2- See also مُفْرَجٌ, near the end. مُنْفَرَجٌ ذ : see فُرْجَةٌ.
