Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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فرط فرطح فرع


Q. 1. ⇒ فرطح

فَرْطَحَ He made broad, or wide, (Ḳ,) or he spread out, or expanded, anything: and so فَلْطَحَ. (L.) Hence, فُرْطِحَ said of a round cake of bread, It was made broad, or wide: (Ṣ, L:) said by IB to be correctly فُلْطِحَ, and to be thus in a verse as related by El-Ámidee. (TA. [But see the pass. part. n., below.])


فِرْطَاحٌ

فِرْطَاحٌ: see what follows.


مُفَرْطَحٌ

رَأْسٌ مُفَرْطَحٌ A broad, or wide, head; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoفِرْطَاحٌ↓: the former is thus accord. to J; but it is [said to be] correctly مُفَلْطَحٌ, with ل: (Ḳ:) [or] both are correct; ر being a letter which replaces ل. (MF.)


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