فرقة

From ف ر ق (f-r-q); compare فَرَقَ (faraqa, “to separate”).

• IPA^(key): /fir.qa/

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فِرْقَة • (firqa) f (plural فِرَق (firaq) or فِرْقَات (firqāt))

1. part, portion
2. troop of people, number of men, distinct body
3. division, detachment, section, unit
4. party, group, band, company
5. sect
6. class
7. class (in school)
8. a separate herd
9. a portion of a thing in a state of dispersion

• فِرْقَة اَلْمَطَافِئ (firqat al-maṭāfiʔ, “fire brigade, fire department”)
• فِرْقَة اَلْإِطْفَاء (firqat al-ʔiṭfāʔ, “fire brigade, fire department”)

• → Ottoman Turkish: فرقه (fırka)
  • Turkish: fırka
• → Persian: فرقه (ferqe)

فُرْقَة • (furqa) f

1. separation

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “فرق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فرقة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “فرق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic فِرْقَة (firqa).

• IPA^(key): /fir.ɡa/,

فرقة • (firga) f (plural فِرَق (firag) or فِرْقات (firgāt))

1. party, group, band, company

From Arabic فُرْقَة (furqa).

• IPA^(key): /fur.ɡa/,

فرقة • (furga) f

1. separation