Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

فَدَغَهُ, aor. ـَ {يَفْدَغُ}, inf. n. فَدْغٌ, He broke it, (Ṣ, O, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or crushed it; (Ṣ, O, Ḳ;) or (Ḳ) it is said when the object is a hollow thing, (Ṣ, O, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA,) or a moist, or soft, thing, (TA,) a person's head, (Ṣ, O, TA,) and a grape, and the like: (O, TA:) and he bruised, brayed, or pounded, it coarsely: and he clave, split, or rent, it slightly. (TA.)

And فَدَغَ الطَّعَامَ He put much clarified butter into the food. (O,* Ḳ,* TA.)

And one says also, فَدَغَ الكَمْأَةَ فِى السَّمْنِ [app. meaning He preserved the truffles in clarified butter]. (O.)

انفدغ It (anything dry, or rigid,) became soft, or supple. (O, Ḳ.*)

فَدَغٌ Distortion in the foot: (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, Ḳ:) like فَدَعٌ, which is more common. (O.) [See فَدَعٌ.]

مِفْدَغٌ An instrument for breaking, or crushing. (Ḳ, TA.) And applied to a man; like مِدَقٌّ [q. v.]. (TA.)