فاقه fāḳa A (from فوق Heb. ) s. m. 1. Po- verty, necessity, want. 2. (Pers. and in Hindī) A fast, fasting (from want, not as a religious duty). فاقه کرنا fāḳa karnā, To fast. فاقه کش fāḳa-kash, One who fasts, a faster, famished. فاقه کشي fāḳa-kash-ī, s. f. Fasting, endurance of hunger. فاقه کهـينچنا fāḳa khainchnā, or فاقون مرنا fāḳoṅ marnā, v. n. To starve, to be famished, to die with hunger. فاقه مست fāḳa- mast, One who is starving but conceals his distress.

فروشي farosh-ī P in compos. s. f. Selling.

فطر تي fit̤rat-ī A. adj. Sagacious, cunning.

فاتحه fātiḥa A (from فتح) 1. s. m. Commence- ment, exordium. 2. s. f. The first chapter or سوره of the ḳurʼān, which being repeated when praying for the souls of the dead, the word comes to mean prayers offered up in the name of saints, &c. and vulgarly oblations made to saints, &c.

فتوت futūwat A (from فتا) s. f. Liberality, ge- nerosity.

قيته fīta Port. s. m. Ribbon, tape. (Portug. fita).

فرق farḳ A (Heb. To break, to divide) 1. s. m. Difference, distance, distinction, separa- tion, interruption, dispersion. 2. The head, the

فروغ farog̠ẖ P s. m. Illumination, light, splen- dour.

فتان fattān A 1. adj. (superl. from فتن) Sedi- tious, mischievous, malicious. 2. s. m. An as- sayer (of gold).

فراسيس farāsīs P adj. French.