فرع

Arabic

Pronunciation

• 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/

Verb

فَرَعَ • (faraʕa) I, non-past يَفْرَعُ‎ (yafraʕu)

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

Conjugation

Verb

فَرَّعَ • (farraʕa) II, non-past يُفَرِّعُ‎ (yufarriʕu)

1. to branch out
2. to derive, to deduce
3. to slaughter for offering, to sacrifice (a فَرَع (faraʕ))
   • 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-ʕatāʔiru wal-farāʔiʕu?” qāla “man šāʔa ʕatara waman šāʔa lam yaʕtir waman šāʔa farraʕa waman šāʔa lam yufarriʕ fī l-ḡanami ʔuḍḥiyatuhā”

     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.”

Conjugation

Noun

فَرْع • (farʕ) m (plural فُرُوع (furūʕ) or أَفْرُع (ʔafruʕ))

1. branch, twig, shoot, limb

   Antonym: أَصْل (ʔaṣl)

2. top of a branch; top
3. section, subdivision
4. derivation, derivative
5. verbal noun of فَرَعَ (faraʕa) (form I)
6. branching out
7. ramification; corollary
8. branch office

   البَنْكُ لَدَيْهِ العَدِيدُ مِنَ الفُرُوعِ الْمَنْتَشِرَةِ فِي مُخْتَلِفِ الْمُدُنِ وَالْمَنَاطِقِ.

   al-banku ladayhi l-ʕadīdu mina l-furūʕi l-mantaširati fī muḵtalifi l-muduni wālmanāṭiqi.

   The bank has many branches spreading across various cities and regions.

9. branch line
10. (electricity) branch wire
11. long hair

Declension

Derived terms

• فَرْعِيّ (farʕiyy)

Descendants

• Maltese: fergħ, fergħa
• → Azerbaijani: fər
• → Tarifit: řfarɛ

(via plural form فُرُوع (furūʕ))

• → Azerbaijani: füru
• → Turkish: füru

Noun

فَرَع • (faraʕ) m (collective, singulative فَرَعَة f (faraʕa), plural فُرُع (furuʕ) or فَرَائِع (farāʔiʕ))

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 sāʔimatin faraʕun taḡḏūhu māšiyatuka ḥattā ʔiḏā 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, al-ʕatāʔiru wal-farāʔiʕu?” qāla: “man šāʔa ʕatara waman šāʔa lam yaʕtir, waman šāʔa farraʕa waman šāʔa lam yufarriʕ fī l-ḡanami ʔuḍḥiyatuhā.”

     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

Declension

References

• 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, pages 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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَرْع (farʕ).

Pronunciation

Noun

فرع • (far')

1. interest (on money)
2. subsidiary point, secondary matter
3. consequence, result

Derived terms