# فرج
## Arabic

* Root
* ف ر ج (f r j)
* 4 terms

### Verb

فَرَجَ • (faraja) I (non-past يَفْرِجُ (yafriju), verbal noun فَرْج (farj))
* to open, to part, to separate
* to cleave, to split, to breach
* to dispel
* to comfort, to relieve [with عَن (ʕan) ‘whom, or from what’]

#### Conjugation
### Verb

فَرَّجَ • (farraja) II (non-past يُفَرِّجُ (yufarriju), verbal noun تَفْرِيج (tafrīj))
* to open, to part, to separate
* to cleave, to split, to breach
* to dispel
* to comfort, to relieve [with عَن (ʕan) ‘whom, or from what’]

#### Descendants

* → Swahili: -fariji

### Noun

فَرْج • (farj) m (plural فُرُوج (furūj))
* verbal noun of فَرَجَ (faraja) (form I)
* opening, aperture, gap, breach
* (anatomy) vulva
* chastity, modesty
** The Quran 70:29:وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَwāllaḏīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūnaand those who are keepers of their chastities

#### Declension
### Noun

فَرَج • (faraj) m
* relief, release from suffering, freedom from grief and sorrow, repose, pleasure, comfort, relaxation
* happy ending

#### Declension
### Proper noun

فَرَج • (faraj) m
* a male given name, Faraj

#### Descendants

* Maltese: faraġ
* → Swahili: faraja

### Noun

فُرَج • (furaj) pl
* plural of فُرْجَة (furja)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَرْج (farj, “gap, breach; vulva”), verbal noun of فَرَجَ (faraja, “to cleave, split, breach”).

### Noun

فرج • (ferc) (definite accusative فرجی (ferci), plural فروج (fürüc))
* breach, break, any gap or opening made by breaking or battering
    Synonyms: چاتلاق (çatlak), یارم (yarım)
* crotch, the area of the body where the legs fork from the torso
    Synonym: آپش (apış)
* vulva, pudendum muliebre, the external female sexual organs, collectively
    Synonyms: آم (am), كس (küs)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: ferç

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ferç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1562
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ferc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 309
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 891
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vulva”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1801
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فرج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3489
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ferç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1373

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَرْج (farj).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [faɾd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäɾd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäɾd͡ʒ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [fäɾd͡ʒ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [fäɾd͡ʒ̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fæɹd͡ʒ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [fäɾd͡ʒ]

### Noun

| Dari | فرج |
| Iranian Persian | فرج |
| Tajik | фарҷ |
فرج • (farj)
* (anatomy) vagina, vulva
    Synonym: مهبل (mahbel)

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ف ر ج
* 4 terms

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.raʒ/, [ˈfa.raʒ], [ˈfa.rad͡ʒ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Arabic فَرَجَ (faraja).

#### Verb

فرج • (faraj) I (present بفرج (bifrij))
* to relieve, to grant a respite

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of فرج (faraj) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | فرجت (farajt) | فرجت (farajt) | فرج (faraj) | فرجنا (farajna) | فرجتو (farajtu) | فرجو (faraju) |
| past | f | فرجت (farajt) | فرجتي (farajti) | فرجت (farjat) | فرجنا (farajna) | فرجتو (farajtu) | فرجو (faraju) |
| present | m | بفرج (bafrij) | بتفرج (btifrij) | بفرج (bifrij) | منفرج (mnifrij) | بتفرجو (btifriju) | بفرجو (bifriju) |
| present | f | بفرج (bafrij) | بتفرجي (btifriji) | بتفرج (btifrij) | منفرج (mnifrij) | بتفرجو (btifriju) | بفرجو (bifriju) |
| subjunctive | m | أفرج (ʔafrij) | تفرج (tifrij) | يفرج (yifrij) | نفرج (nifrij) | تفرجو (tifriju) | يفرجو (yifriju) |
| subjunctive | f | أفرج (ʔafrij) | تفرجي (tifriji) | تفرج (tifrij) | نفرج (nifrij) | تفرجو (tifriju) | يفرجو (yifriju) |
| imperative | m | | افرج (ifrij) | | | افرجو (ifriju) | |
| imperative | f | | افرجي (ifriji) | | | افرجو (ifriju) | |

##### Derived terms

* الله فرجك (ʔaḷḷa farajak, “bless you”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic فَرَج (faraj).

#### Noun

فرج • (faraj) m
* relief, respite
* salvation