فرع

From the root ف ر ع‎ (f-r-ʿ).

• Verb I: IPA^(key): /fa.ra.ʕa/
• Verb II: IPA^(key): /far.ra.ʕa/
• Noun 1: IPA^(key): /farʕ/ •

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• Noun 2: IPA^(key): /fa.raʕ/

فَرَعَ • (faraʿa) I, non-past يَفْرَعُ‎‎ (yafraʿu)

1. to ascend, to mount, to overtop; to descend
2. to excel, to surpass, to outdo

فَرَّعَ • (farraʿa) II, non-past يُفَرِّعُ‎‎ (yufarriʿu)

1. to branch out
2. to derive, to deduce
3. to slaughter for offering, to sacrifice (a فَرَع (faraʿ))
   • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 41:5:

     ‏فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ «يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْعَتَائِرُ وَٱلْفَرَائِعُ؟‏» قَالَ ‏«‏مَنْ شَاءَ عَتَرَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَعْتِرْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَرَّعَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يُفَرِّعْ فِي الْغَنَمِ أُضْحِيَتُهَا»‏‎

     faqāla rajulun mina n-nāsi “yā rasūla l-lahi l-ʿatāʾiru wal-farāʾiʿu?” qāla “man šāʾa ʿatara waman šāʾa lam yaʿtir waman šāʾa farraʿa waman šāʾa lam yufarriʿ fī l-ḡanami ʾuḍḥiyatuhā”

     Then a man among the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the goat slaughter and goat firstling slaughter?“ He said: Whoso wishes to offer a goat may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. Whoso wishes to offer a firstling may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. And with regard to sheep, a sacrifice should be made.”

فَرْع • (farʿ) m (plural فُرُوع‎ (furūʿ) or أَفْرُع‎ (ʾafruʿ))

1. branch, twig, shoot, limb

   Antonym: أَصْل‎ (ʾaṣl)

2. top of a branch; top
3. section, subdivision
4. derivation, derivative
5. verbal noun of فَرَعَ (faraʿa) (form I)
6. branching out
7. ramification; corollary
8. branch office
9. branch line
10. (electricity) branch wire
11. long hair

• فَرْعِيّ‎ (farʿiyy)

فَرَع • (faraʿ) m (collective, singulative فَرَعَة‎ (faraʿa), plural فُرُع (furuʿ) or فَرَائِع‎ (farāʾiʿ))

1. firstling of a camel or goat or sheep
   • 7th century CE, Sunan Abī Dāwud, 16:43:

     ‏فِي كُلِّ سَائِمَةٍ فَرَعٌ تَغْذُوهُ مَاشِيَتُكَ حَتَّى إِذَا ٱسْتَحْمَلَ‎

     fī kulli sāʾimatin faraʿun taḡḏūhu māšiyatuka ḥattā ʾiḏā staḥmala

     On every pasturing animal there is a firstling that your cattle feeds until it becomes capable of carrying a load.

   • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 41:5:

     ‏فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ «يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْعَتَائِرُ وَٱلْفَرَائِعُ؟‏» قَالَ ‏«‏مَنْ شَاءَ عَتَرَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَعْتِرْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَرَّعَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يُفَرِّعْ فِي الْغَنَمِ أُضْحِيَتُهَا»‏‎

     faqāla rajulun mina n-nāsi “yā rasūla l-lahi l-ʿatāʾiru wal-farāʾiʿu?” qāla “man šāʾa ʿatara waman šāʾa lam yaʿtir waman šāʾa farraʿa waman šāʾa lam yufarriʿ fī l-ḡanami ʾuḍḥiyatuhā”

     Then a man among the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the goat slaughter and goat firstling slaughter?“ He said: Whoso wishes to offer a goat may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. Whoso wishes to offer a firstling may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. And with regard to sheep, a sacrifice should be made.”

2. louse

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “فرع”, 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 337–228
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “فرع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2378–2380
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فرع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 785
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “فرع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 827–828