فيج
1 فَاجَتْ بِرِجْلِهَا,
aor. ـِ She (a camel) kicked with her hind legs, backwards. (
TA.) 4 افاج, mentioned in the O and
L and
Msb in this art.: see art. فوج.
فَيْجٌ A foot-messenger; a courier who journeys on foot: (
S:) or a Sultán's foot-messenger: (
L,
Msb:) or one who journeys with letters: (
L:) or a quick courier who carries tidings, or communications, from one town, or country, to another: (
Nh,
TA:) originally
Pers\., (
S,
O,) arabicized, (
S,
O,
K,) from پَيْك: (
O,
K:)
pl. فُيُوجٌ. (
S,
TA.) It is also
expl. as meaning One going, or journeying, alone: thus in a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, in which it is opposed to زَرَافَةٌ meaning “ a company [of men]. ” (
TA.) And [the
pl.] فُيُوجٌ, (
O,
K,) as used in a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, (
O,) meansMen who enter the prison and go forth from it, keeping guard. (
O,
L,
K: in some copies of the
K, and keep guard.)
b2: And A company [of men]; (
Msb;)
syn. with فَوْجٌ: (O and
K in art. فوج:) and sometimes applied to a single person:
pl. [of pauc.] أَفْيَاجٌ and [of mult.] فُيُوجٌ. (
Msb.)
A2: Also A low, or depressed, place, such as is termed وَهْد, of the earth, or ground. (
AA,
O,
K.)
A3: And A state of dispersion; as also ↓ فِيجٌ. (
TA. [See 4 in art. فوج.]) فِيجٌ: see what next precedes.
فَيَّاجَةٌ A she-camel that kicks with her hind legs [much or often], backwards. (
TA. [See 1.]) فَائِجٌ A wide [expanded and even tract such as is termed] بَسَاط, of land. (
AA, O in art. فوج.) فَائِجَةٌ A wide tract between two elevated portions, (
S,
O,
K, all in art. فوج,) of rugged ground, or of sand: (
S, O:) or what has the form of a valley between two mountains, or between two rugged tracts containing stones and sand and earth, like a خَلِيف [
q. v.], but wider: thus
expl. by
ISh:
pl. فَوَائِجُ. (
TA in art. فوج.)
