ف ر ع

ف ر ع • (f-r-ʿ)

1. related to ascending

• Form I: فَرَعَ‎ (faraʿa, “to ascend; to surpass”)
  • Verbal noun: فَرْع‎ (farʿ), فُرُوع‎ (furūʿ)
  • Active participle: فَارِع‎ (fāriʿ)
  • Passive participle: مَفْرُوع‎ (mafrūʿ)
• Form II: فَرَّعَ‎ (farraʿa, “to branch out; to derive”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْرِيع‎ (tafrīʿ)
  • Active participle: مُفَرِّع‎ (mufarriʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُفَرَّع‎ (mufarraʿ)
• Form IV: أَفْرَعَ‎ (ʾafraʿa, “to climb about, to go round, to alight as a guest at; to begin (to narrate); to bring forth firstlings; to injure, to make bleed; to slaughter (the firstling) for offering”)
  • Verbal noun: إِفْرَاع‎ (ʾifrāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُفْرِع‎ (mufriʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُفْرَع‎ (mufraʿ)
• Form V: تَفَرَّعَ‎ (tafarraʿa, “to branch out, to be derived”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفَرُّع‎ (tafarruʿ)
  • Active participle: مُتَفَرِّع‎ (mutafarriʿ)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَرَعَ‎ (iftaraʿa, “to devirginate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِرَاع‎ (iftirāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَرِع‎ (muftariʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَرَع‎ (muftaraʿ)
• Form X: اِسْتَفْرَعَ‎ (istafraʿa, “to slaughter (the firstling); to begin (to narrate)”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِفْرَاع‎ (istifrāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَفْرِع‎ (mustafriʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَفْرَع‎ (mustafraʿ)

• فَرْع‎ (farʿ, “upper part; branch; hair”)
• أَفْرَع‎ (ʾafraʿ, “hairy”)
• فُرْعَة‎ (furʿa, “blood of the virgin on the occasion of devirgination”)
• فَرَع‎ (faraʿ, “firstling; louse”)
• فَارِعَة‎ (fāriʿa, “upper part of the mountain”)
• مِفْرَع‎ (mifraʿ, “one who interposes as a reconciliator between persons”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ف ر ع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 337–338
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ف ر ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2378–2380
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ف ر ع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 785
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ف ر ع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 827–828