# فرع
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* Verb I: IPA: /fa.ra.ʕa/
* Verb II: IPA: /far.ra.ʕa/
* Noun 1: IPA: /farʕ/ • Audio:(file)
* Noun 2: IPA: /fa.raʕ/

### Verb

فَرَعَ • (faraʕa) I (non-past يَفْرَعُ (yafraʕu), verbal noun فَرْع (farʕ) or فُرُوع (furūʕ))
* to ascend, to mount, to overtop; to descend
* to excel, to surpass, to outdo

#### Conjugation
### Verb

فَرَّعَ • (farraʕa) II (non-past يُفَرِّعُ (yufarriʕu), verbal noun تَفْرِيع (tafrīʕ))
* to branch out
* to derive, to deduce
* to slaughter for offering, to sacrifice (a فَرَع (faraʕ))
** 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 41:5:فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ «يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْعَتَائِرُ وَٱلْفَرَائِعُ؟» قَالَ «مَنْ شَاءَ عَتَرَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَعْتِرْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَرَّعَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يُفَرِّعْ فِي الْغَنَمِ أُضْحِيَتُهَا»faqāla rajulun mina n-nāsi “yā rasūla l-lahi l-ʕatāʔiru wal-farāʔiʕu?” qāla “man šāʔa ʕatara waman šāʔa lam yaʕtir waman šāʔa farraʕa waman šāʔa lam yufarriʕ fī l-ḡanami ʔuḍḥiyatuhā”Then a man among the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the goat slaughter and goat firstling slaughter?“ He said: Whoso wishes to offer a goat may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. Whoso wishes to offer a firstling may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. And with regard to sheep, a sacrifice should be made.”

#### Conjugation
### Noun

فَرْع • (farʕ) m (plural فُرُوع (furūʕ) or أَفْرُع (ʔafruʕ))
* branch, twig, shoot, limb
    Antonym: أَصْل (ʔaṣl)
* top of a branch; top
* section, subdivision
* derivation, derivative
* verbal noun of فَرَعَ (faraʕa) (form I)
* branching out
* ramification; corollary
* branch office
    البَنْكُ لَدَيْهِ العَدِيدُ مِنَ الفُرُوعِ الْمَنْتَشِرَةِ فِي مُخْتَلِفِ الْمُدُنِ وَالْمَنَاطِقِ.al-banku ladayhi l-ʕadīdu mina l-furūʕi l-mantaširati fī muḵtalifi l-muduni wālmanāṭiqi.The bank has many branches spreading across various cities and regions.
* branch line
* (electricity) branch wire
* long hair

#### Derived terms

* فَرْعِيّ (farʕiyy)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: fergħ, fergħa
* → Azerbaijani: fər
* → Tarifit: řfarɛ
(via plural form فُرُوع (furūʕ))
* → Azerbaijani: füru
* → Turkish: füru

### Noun

فَرَع • (faraʕ) m (collective, singulative فَرَعَة f (faraʕa), plural فُرُع (furuʕ) or فَرَائِع (farāʔiʕ))
* firstling of a camel or goat or sheep
** 7th century CE, Sunan Abī Dāwud, 16:43:فِي كُلِّ سَائِمَةٍ فَرَعٌ تَغْذُوهُ مَاشِيَتُكَ حَتَّى إِذَا ٱسْتَحْمَلَfī kulli sāʔimatin faraʕun taḡḏūhu māšiyatuka ḥattā ʔiḏā staḥmalaOn every pasturing animal there is a firstling that your cattle feeds until it becomes capable of carrying a load.
** 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 41:5:فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ: «يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، الْعَتَائِرُ وَٱلْفَرَائِعُ؟» قَالَ: «مَنْ شَاءَ عَتَرَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَعْتِرْ، وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَرَّعَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يُفَرِّعْ فِي الْغَنَمِ أُضْحِيَتُهَا.»faqāla rajulun mina n-nāsi: “yā rasūla l-lahi, al-ʕatāʔiru wal-farāʔiʕu?” qāla: “man šāʔa ʕatara waman šāʔa lam yaʕtir, waman šāʔa farraʕa waman šāʔa lam yufarriʕ fī l-ḡanami ʔuḍḥiyatuhā.”Then a man among the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the goat slaughter and goat firstling slaughter?“ He said: Whoso wishes to offer a goat may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. Whoso wishes to offer a firstling may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. And with regard to sheep, a sacrifice should be made.”
* louse

#### Declension
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1835) “فرع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 337–228
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “فرع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2378–2380
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فرع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 785
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “فرع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 827–828

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَرْع (farʕ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [faɾʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäɾʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäɾʔ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [fäɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [fäɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fæɹʔ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fæɹʔ]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [fæɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [fäɾʔ]

### Noun

فرع • (far')
* interest (on money)
* subsidiary point, secondary matter
* consequence, result

#### Derived terms

* فرعی (far'i, “secondary”)