فأو and فأى 1 فَأَوْتُ رَأْسَهُ, inf. n. فَأْوٌ; and فَأَيْتُهُ, inf. n. فَأْىٌ; I split, or clave, his head, i. e. a man's, with the sword: (Az, T, S, M:) or I struck, or smote, the upper part of his skull so that it opened from over his brain. (Lth, T.)
b2: And فَأَيْتُ القَدَحَ I
split, or clave, or cracked, the bowl. (
M.) and فَأَوْتُهُ بِالعَصَا I smote, or struck, him with the staff, or stick. (
IAar,
M.) فَأْوٌ and فَأْىٌ both signify The act of smiting, or striking: and the act of splitting, or cleaving. (
K.)
4 افأى He (a man,
TA) lighted upon, or became in, what is termed a فَأْو: or he inflicted a wound of the head such as showed the whiteness of the bone, or such as laid bare the bone. (
K,
TA.)
5 تَ1َ2َّ3َ see the next following paragraph.
7 انفأى It became split, or cloven, (
S,
M,
K,) or cracked; (
M,
K;) said of a bowl [&c.]; (
S,
M;) as also ↓ تفأّى: (
M,
TA:) it opened, or became opened: (
M,
K:) it opened so as to form a break, or breach: (
T,
M,
K:) it became laid open, uncovered, or exposed to view. (
T,
TA.)
فَأْوٌ An interval, (
S,
M,) or a low, or depressed, place, (خَفْض, so in one of my copies of the
S,) between two mountains: (
S,
M:) and,
accord. to
Lh, (
M,) a cleft (
M,
K) in a mountain, (
M,) or between two mountains. (
K.) And A وَطْء [or depressed tract], (
M, and so in copies of the
K,) or وَطِىْء, (so in other copies of the
K,) meaning soft, or smooth, or plain, place, (
TA,) between two stony tracts of the kind whereof one is termed حَرَّة. (
M,
K.) And, (
M,
K,) as some say, (
M,) A clear, open, space among sands. (
M,
K.) And, (
M,
K,)
accord. to
As, (
M,) A low, or depressed, tract of good land surrounded by mountains, (
M,
K,) and such as is of an elongated form, and such as is not of that form. (
M.) And (as some say,
TA) A narrow place in a valley, leading to a wide space, (
K,
TA,) of which the upper part has no place of exit. (
TA.) And (as some say,
TA)
b2: Also The night; (
M,
K;) so says Aboo-Leylà but of questionable correctness. (
M.)
b3: And The place, or time, of sunset. (
K.)
فِئَةٌ A party, portion, division, or distinct body; or a company, or congregated body;
syn. فِرْقَةٌ, (
T,) or طَائِفَةٌ, (
S,) or جَمَاعَةٌ; (
M,
K;) of men: (
T,
M:) [see more in art. فيأ, to which it belongs
accord. to some:
accord. to others,] it is originally فِئوَة [
app. فِئْوَةٌ] (
T) [or فِئْوٌ (see art. فيأ); or فِئْىٌ or فِئْيَةٌ (see what follows)]; the ة being a substitute for the [final radical letter, which is و or] ى: (
S:) the
pl. is فِئُونَ (
S,
M,
K) and فِئَاتٌ. (
M,
K.) El-Kumeyt says, تَرَى مِنْهُ جَمَاجِمَهُمْ فِئِينَا
meaning [Thou wouldst see, in consequence thereof, their skulls become] scattered fragments. (
S.)
فَأْوَى The head, or glans, of the penis. (
M,
K.)
فَائِيَةٌ or فَائِيَّةٌ (
accord. to different copies of the
K) An elevated, expanded place. (
K.)
