split, cleave

, aor. , (S, M, O, L, Msb, K,) and , (K,) or the latter only [when the verb is trans. as] in فَلَجَ القَوْمَ, (TA,) inf. n. فَلْجٌ, (S, O, K,) or فُلُوجٌ, (Msb,) or both, and, accord. to Kr, فُلْجٌ and فَلَجٌ, but it is said in the L that these two are simple substs: (TA;) and ↓ افلج, inf. n. إِفْلَاجٌ; (K, TA;) the latter verb authorized by AO and Ktr and others, but omitted by Th in the Fs; (TA;) He succeeded; succeeded in an enterprise or a contest; overcame, conquered, or gained a victory: (S, O, K, &c.:) or he attained his object; gained what he sought. (Msb.) One says, مَنْ يَأْتِ الحَكَمَ وَحْدهُ يَفْلُجْ [He who comes to the judge by himself will succeed, or overcome, or gain his cause]: a proverb. (S, O.) And فَلَجَ عَلَى خَصْمِهِ, (S, O,) and ↓ افلج, (TA,) He (a man) succeeded against, or overcame, his adversary; (S, O, TA;) and got before him, or got precedence of him. (TA.) And فَلَجَ بِحُجَّتِهِ, (Msb, TA,) and فِى حُجَّتِهِ, (TA,) He established, (Msb,) or he overcame by and in, (TA,) his argument, plea, allegation, or proof. (Msb, TA.) And فَلَجَتْ حُجَّتُهُ [His argument, &c., was successful]. (A.) And فَلَجَ سَهْمُهُ, and ↓ افلج, His arrow was successful. (O, TA.) And فَلَجَتْ بِقَلْبِى She (a woman) took away [or captivated] my heart. (A, TA.) ― -b2- And فَلَجَ القَوْمَ, in which case only one says يَفْلُجُ and يَفْلِجُ, and فَلَجَ أَصْحَابَهَ, He (a man) succeeded against, or overcame, the people, or party, and his companions. (TA.) ― -b3- فَلَجَ, aor. , (S, M, O, L, K,) and , (K,) or the former only, (MF. TA,) inf. n. فَلْجٌ, He divided a thing; parted it; divided it in parts or shares; or distributed it: (S, O, K;) as also ↓ فلّج, inf. n. تَفْلِيجٌ: (O, K:) he divided property, (Mgh, TA,) or running water: (TA:) and he divided a thing in halves. (M, L, Msb, TA.) One says, فَلَجَتُ الشَّىْءَ بَيْنَهُمْ I divided, parted, or distributed, the thing between them, or among them. (S, O.) And فَلَجَ الشَّىْءَ بَيْنَهُمَا He divided the thing between them two in halves. (M, L, TA.) And فَلَجْتُ أَلْفًا, aor. , inf. n. فَلْجٌ and فُلُوجٌ, I divided, parted, or distributed, a thousand [dirhems] by means of the فِلْج, a well-known measure of capacity. (Msb.) ― -b4- And فَلَجْتُ الشَّىْءَ, (S, Msb, K, *) aor. in this case and in other cases following and , (K,) or only, (TA,) [but it is implied in the S and O and Msb that it is ,] inf. n. فَلْجٌ, (K,) I split the thing, clave it, or divided it lengthwise: (S, O:) or I split the thing, &c., into two halves: (Msb, K:) or فَلَجْتُ الشَّىْءَ فَلْجَيْنِ has this latter meaning. (S, O.) ― -b5- And فَلَجْتُ الأَرْضَ لِلزِّرَاعَةِ, (S, O, K, *) inf. n. فَلْجٌ, (K,) [like فَلَحْتُهَا,] I furrowed, or ploughed, the land for sowing. (S, O, K.) ― -b6- And هُوَ يَفْلُجُ الأَمْرَ He looks into, and divides, or distributes, and manages, the thing, or affair. (L, TA.) ― -b7- And فَلَجَ, inf. n. فَلْجٌ, He imposed the [tax called] جِزُيَة. (K.) One says, فَلَجَ الجِزْيَةَ عَلَى القَوْمِ, (T, S, Mgh, * O, &c.,) and فَلَجَ القَوْمَ, (TA,) He imposed the جزية upon the people, or party; (T, S, Mgh, O, &c.:) he di(??) the جزية among the people, or party, (??) upon each person his portion: (As, Mgh; *) and فَلَجَ الجِزْيَةَ بَيْنَهُمْ: (A:) [said to be] from فِلْجٌ, or فَالِجٌ, (As, Mgh,) or القَفِيزُالفَالِجُ; (A'Obeyd, S, O;) signifying a certain measure of capacity; because the جزيه used to he paid in wheat, or corn: (As, Mgh:) or the verb in this sense (??) arabicized word. (Shifá el-Ghaleel.) -A2- فَلِجَ, aor. , inf. n. فَلَجٌ and فَلَجَةٌ, He had what is termed فَلَجٌ, meaning [as expl. below, i. e.] width. between the teeth, and feet [or legs, and arms], &c. (Lh, TA.) ― -b2- فَلِجَ, (Th, S, O, Msb, K,) inf. n. فَالِجٌ, one of the [few] inf. as. of the measure فَاعِلٌ; (ISd, TA;) and فَلِجَ, aor. , mentioned by IKtt and Es-Sarakustee and others; (MF, TA;) but the former alone is mentioned by Th in the Fs, and by other celebrated lexicologists; (TA;) [and vulg. ↓ انفج;] He had the disease termed الفَالِجُ [expl. below]. (Th, S, O. Msb, K.)

see 1, former half: ― -b2- and see also فَلَجٌ, in two places.

He contended with him, trying which of them should succeed, or overcome. (TA.) Hence one says, (TA,) أُفَالِجُكَ أُمُورًا مِنَ الحَقِّ I will contend with thee, trying which of us shall succeed, to accomplish affairs of right. (A, TA.)

as intrans.: see 1, former half, in three places. -A2- افلجهُ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ God made him to succeed against him; to overcome him, conquer him, or gain the victory over him: (S, O, K: *) and made him to excel him. (TA.) ― -b2- And خَاصَيْتُ فَأَفْلَجَنَى I contended in an altercation, disputed, or litigated, and he decided in my favour, and judged me to have prevailed against, or overcome, my adversary. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b3- And افلج ٱللّٰهُ حُجَّتَهُ, (S, O, Msb,) or بُرْهَانَهُ, (K, *) God made his argument, plea, allegation, or proof, right, and manifest, or clear: (S, O, K: *) or established it. (Msb.)

His foot became cracked, or chapped. (S, O, K.) [See also مُتَفَلِّح, in art. فلح.] ― -b2- [And تفلّجت said of a woman, She made open spaces between her front teeth: see the part. n., voce أَفْلَجُ.]

i. q. انبلج [The daybreak shone, or shone brightly]. (TA.) -A2- See also 1, last sentence.

Such a one mastered, or became master of, his affair: and so استفلح, with ح. (A, TA.) [See the latter verb.]

an inf. n. of فَلَجَ [q. v.]. (S, O, K, &c.) ― -b2- And [probably as such] i. q. قَمْرٌ [app. as meaning An overcoming in a game of hazard]; as also ↓ فُلْجٌ. (L.) -A2- See also فَالِجٌ, in two places. -A3- Also, and ↓ فِلْجٌ, (S, O, K,) and ↓ فُلُجٌّ, [q. v.,] (Seer, L,) [or perhaps this is a mistranscription for فَلْجٌ or فِلْجٌ,] The half of a thing: (S, O, K:) pl. of the first and second فُلُوجٌ. (S, O.) One says, هُمَا فَلْجَانِ They two are two halves. (K.) ― -b2- And one says, فِى رِجْلِهِ فُلُوجٌ, [pl. of فَلْجٌ,] In his foot are fissures, or cracks; as also فُلُوحٌ. (S in art. فلح.) ― -b3- See also فَلَجٌ.

(S, O, K) and ↓ فَلَجٌ (L) and ↓ فُلْجَةٌ, (O, K,) substs., (or, accord. to some, the first and second are inf. ns., TA,) Success; success in an enterprise or a contest; conquest; or victory. (S, O, L, K.) One says, لِمَنَ الفُلْجُ and ↓ الفَلَجُ To whom belongs success, or the conquest, or victory? (Lh, L.) ― -b2- See also فَلْجٌ.

: see فَلْجٌ. ― -b2- Also, (S, O, Msb, K,) and ↓ فَالِجٌ, (TA,) or قَفِيزٌ فَالِجٌ, (AO, S, O,) A certain measure of capacity, (AO, S, O, Msb, K,) well known, (Msb, K,) with which things are divided, (TA,) of large size, said to be the same as the قَفِيز [q. v.]; and ↓ فَالِجٌ is said to be an arabicized word, from the Syriac فالغا: (L: [but see فُلُجٌّ:]) it is said that the ↓ فَالِج [thus in my copy of the Mgh, but it is there strangely added that it is “ with fet-h, ” as though فَالَج,] is two fifths of what is termed الكُرُّ المُعَدَّلُ, [see art. كر,] and, by 'Alee Ibn-'Eesà, that it is larger than the فِلْج: in the T, the ↓ فَالِج is said to be the half of the great كُرّ; and the فِلْج is the measure of capacity that is called in Syriac فَالَغَا. (Mgh.)

: see فُلْجٌ, in two places. -A2- It is also an inf. n. of فَلِجَ [q. v.]: (Lh, TA:) and signifies Distance, or width, between the teeth; (K;) as also ↓ تَفْلِيجٌ: (TA:) or, between the medial and lateral incisors, (T, S, O,) when natural; and تَفْلِيجٌ, distance, or width, between those teeth when it is the effect of art. (T.) فَلَجٌ in all the teeth is disapproved, and not at all beautiful; but it is esteemed goodly when only between the two middle teeth. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Distance, or width, between the feet, (Lth, O, K, TA,) in the posterior direction: (O, TA:) or, between the shanks; like فَحَجٌ: (ISd, TA:) or crookedness, or curvature, [or a bowing outwards,] of the arms. (TA. [See أَفْلَجُ.]) And The turning over of the foot upon the outer side, and displacement of the heel; in a neuter sense. (L.) -A3- Also, (S, K,) and, accord. to the S, فَلْجٌ, but this is a mistake, (IB, K,) A river: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or a small river: (S, O, K:) a rivulet, or streamlet; syn. جَدْوَلٌ: (A:) or a running spring of water: or running water: (R, TA:) or a large well: (Ibn-Kunáseh, TA:) pl. أَفْلَاجٌ (S, O) and فَلَجَاتٌ (R, TA) [or فُلْجَانٌ, for] فُلْجَانٌ signifies rivulets, streamlets, or small channels, for the irrigation of seed-produce: and ↓ فُلُجٌ, with two dammehs, signifies a rivulet, streamlet, or small channel, for irrigation, running to every part of a garden. (L.) ― -b2- فَلَجٌ is also sometimes used as an epithet: one says مَآءٌ فَلَجٌ meaning Running water: and عَيْنٌ فَلَجٌ a running spring of water. (L.) -A4- And الفَلَجُ signifies The daybreak. (TA.)

[part. n. of فَلِجَ]: see an ex. voce أَفْلَجُ.