افق1 أَفَقَ, (JK, S, K,) aor. ـِ (JK, K,) inf. n. أَفْقٌ, (TK,) He went his own way, at random, or heedlessly, (رَكِبَ رَأْسَهُ,) and went away in the آفَاق [or regions, &c., of the land]: (Lth, JK, K:) or he went away in, or into, the land, or country: (S:) and he took his way into the آفاق [or regions, &c.,] of the land. (JK.) b2:  [Hence, app.,] أَفَقَ, aor.  as above; thus, says IB, accord. to Kz, and thus it is given on the authority of Kr; (TA;) [see آفِقٌ;] or أَفِقَ, aor. ـَ (S, O, K,) inf. n. أَفَقٌ; (S;) He attained the utmost degree, [as though he reached the أُفُق (or horizon, or furthest point of view,)] in generosity; (S, O, K;) or in knowledge, or science; or in chasteness of speech, or eloquence, and in the combination of excellent qualities. (K.) b3:  Also, أَفَقَ, aor. ـِ (Kr, Ibn-'Abbád, JK, K,) inf. n. أَفْقٌ, (JK, TA,) He overcame, or surpassed. (Kr, Ibn-'Abbád, JK, K.) b4:  And, inf. n, أُفُوقٌ, He was goodly, or beautiful; he possessed the quality of exciting admiration and approval by his beauty and the pleasingness of his aspect; said of a camel, and of a horse. (JK.) b5:  أَفَقَ عَلَيْهِ (JK, TA) He (a man) excelled him; namely, another man: (JK:) or he preceded him in excellence; or outwent him therein; as also أَفَقَهُ, aor. ـِ (TA.) [It is like فَاقَهُ.] b6:  أَفَقَ فِى العَطَآءِ, aor. ـِ (S, K,) inf. n. أَفْقٌ, (TA,) He gave to some more than to others. (S, K.) So in the saying of El-Aashà, وَلَا المَلِكَ النُّعْمَانُ يَوْمَ لَقِيتُهُبِغِبْطَتِهِ يُعْطِى القُطُوطَ وَ يَأْفِقُ [Nor the King En-Noamán, on the day that I met him, in his goodly, or happy, condition, giving gifts, or stipends, or written obligations conferring gifts, and giving to some more than to others]: (S:) or the meaning is, writing [writs of] gifts, and sealing them: or, as some say, taking his way into the آفاق [or regions, &c.,] of the land. (JK.) A2:  أَفَقَهُ, aor. ـِ (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. أَفْقٌ, (S, Msb,) He tanned it (namely a hide) until it became what is termed أَفِيق. (S, Msb, * K.) 5 تأفّق بِنَا He (a man, As, TA) came to us مِنْ أُفُقٍ [from a region, &c., of the land]: (As, K:) or came to us, and alighted at our abode as a guest: and in the Nawádir el-Aaráb, تأفّق بِهِ is said to signify he reached him, or overtook him; as also تلّفق به (TA.) أُفْقٌ: see أُفُقٌ.أَفَقٌ The main and middle part (سَنَن) of a road; (K;) the face, or surface, thereof: (IAar, K:) pl. آفَاقٌ. (K.) Hence the saying, قَعَدَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى أَفَقِ الطَّرِيقِ [Such a one sat upon the main and middle part, or face, or surface, of the road]. (TA.) b2:  The flanks, or ilia: or, as some say, skins; or skin; as in the saying, شَرِبْتُ حَتَّى مَلَأْتُ أَفَقِي I drank until I filled my skin: (JK:) pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ أَفَقَةٌ; (IAar;) which signifies the flank; (IAar, K;) as does also ↓ آفِقَةٌ. (Th, K.) b3:  Also pl., (S, K,) or [rather] quasi-pl. n., (M, K,) of أَفِيقٌ, q. v. (S, M, K.) أَفِقٌ: see أَفِيقٌ, in two places.أُفُقٌ (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ أُفْقٌ (S, K) A side; meaning a lateral, or an outward or adjacent, part or portion; or a part, region, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole; or a remote side; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and a border, or an extremity; (JK;) of a land, or of the earth; and of the sky, or heavens: (JK, Mgh, Msb:) [or the horizon, or part next to the horizon, of the sky and of the earth;] or what appears of the sides (النَّوَاحِى) of the celestial sphere, (K, TA,) and of the borders, or extremities, of the earth: (TA:) or the place whence blows the south wind, and the north wind, and the west wind, and the east wind: (K, * TA:) pl. آفَاقٌ: (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and the sing. also is used as a pl.; like فُلْكٌ, as is said in the Nh: (MF:) thus in the verse of El-'Abbás, in praise of the Prophet: أَنْتَ لَمَّ وُلِدْتَ أَشْرَقَتِ الأَرْضُوَضَآءَ تْ بِنُورِكَ الأُفُقُ [When thou wast born, the earth became bright, and the tracts of the horizon, or the regions, shone with thy light]: or, as some say, الافق is made fem. by him as meaning النَّاحِيَةُ. (TA.) The phrase حِينَ يَغِيبُ الأُفُقُ means When the redness, or whiteness, in the أُفُق [or horizon] disappears. (Mgh.) b2:  Also, in like manner, The side, or lateral part, of a tent: (JK:) or the part between the [two] anterior [pieces of wood called the]زِرَّانِ, in the [fore part called the] رِوَاق, of a tent: (K:) and the sides, or lateral parts, of a tent of the kind belonging to the Arabs of the desert. (TA.) A2:  أُفُقٌ is also said to be a pl. of أَفِيقٌ; but this is disallowed by Lh. (TA.) A3:  See also آفِقٌ.أَفَقَةٌ: see أَفَقٌ.A2:  Also A burying of a skin, or hide, in the earth, so that its hair may be removed, and it may become ready for tanning. (Lth, K,* TA.) [See أَفِيقٌ.]أَفَقِىٌّ, (ISk, JK, T, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) contr. to rule, (T, Msb,) and ↓ أُفُقِىٌّ, (As, ISk, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) agreeably with rule, (S,) being a rel. n. from أُفُقٌ, (Msb,) and some (namely the lawyers, in relation to pilgrimage and the like, MF) say ↓ آفَاقِىٌّ, (Mgh, MF,) which is incorrect, (Mgh, Msb,) or whether it be correct, after the manner of أَنْصَارِىٌّ and the like, requires consideration, (MF,) an epthet applied to a man, (ISk, S, Msb,) meaning One who is from the آفَاق [or lateral parts, or regions,] of the land; (ISk,* S, Msb;*) mentioned by Aboo-Nasr: (S, referring to the first form of the word:) or one who goes about in the آفَاق: (JK:) or one who goes through the آفاق of the land in search of sustenance: (K,* TA:) as also ↓ أَفَّاقٌ. (K, TA.) أُفُقِىُّ مَكَّةَ or أَفَقِىُّ مكّة means He who is without the places where the pilgrims coming to Mekkeh enter upon the state of إِحْرَام. (Mgh.) أُفُقِىٌّ: see أَفَقِىٌّ.أَفِيقٌ: see آفِقٌ. b2:  Applied also to a bucket (دَلْو), meaning Excelling other buckets. (AA, K.) A2:  Also, (As, Th, JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ أَفِيقَةٌ, (K,) or the latter is a more particular term than the former, like as جِلْدَةٌ is more so than جِلْدٌ, (Mgh,) and ↓ أَفِقٌ, (K, [but see what follows,]) The skin, or hide, that is not completely tanned, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) so that it is unsubstantial, not firm, or strong, or tough: (Mgh:) when its tanning is complete, and it becomes red, it is termed أَدِيم: therefore أَفِيقٌ is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: (Msb:) or in the second stage of its tanning; for in the first stage it is termed مَنِيْئَة; then, افيق; and then, اديم: (TA:) or that is tanned, but before it is sewed: (As, S, K:) or before it is cut, or slit: (K:) or when it comes forth from the tan, its tanning being finished, (JK, TA,) its [original] odour being [still] in it: (TA:) or after it is tanned: (Msb:) or not tanned: (Th, TA:) or that is tanned without قَرَظ or أَرْطَى or any of the tans of the people of Nejd: (TA:) ISd says, I think that Th has mentioned ↓ أَفِقٌ as syn. with أَفِيقٌ, and explained it as signifying the skin, or hide, that is not tanned; but I am not sure of it: (TA:) the pl. is أَفَقٌ, (Lh, JK, S, Msb, K,) like as أَدَمٌ is pl. of أَدِيمٌ, (S,) or this is a quasi-pl. n., (M, K,) and أُفُقٌ (JK, K) is allowable, (JK,) or, accord. to Lh, it is not allowable, (TA,) and [pl. of pauc.] آفِقَةٌ, (As, S, K,) like as آدمَةٌ and أَرْغِفَةٌ are  pls. of أَدِيمٌ and رَغِيفٌ. (As, S.) ↓ أَفِيقَةٌ signifies also A سِقَآء [or skin for water or milk &c.] made of a hide of the kind termed أَفِيق. (Mgh.) And أَفِيقٌ also signifies The skin of a man, and of any beast. (TA.) أَفِيقَةٌ: see أَفِيقٌ, in two places.أَفَّاقٌ: see أَفَقِىٌّ.آفِقٌ, (S, K, &c.,) of the measure فَاعِلٌ, (S, Kz, TA, [in the CK اَفِقٌ, and in like manner in a copy of the JK,]) from أَفِقَ, (S, K,) or, as IB says, accord. to Kz, from أَفَقَ, aor. ـِ and so accord. to Kr, and shown to be of the measure فَاعِلٌ by several verses in which it occurs, (TA,) One who has attained the utmost degree in generosity; (S, K;) or in knowledge, or science; or in chasteness of speech, or eloquence, and in the combination of excellent qualities; (K;) as also ↓ أَفِيقٌ: (K:) fem. with ة. (IF, K.) Also applied to a horse, Generous with respect to both parents: fem. with ة. (S.) And applied to a camel, That excites admiration and approval by his generousness, excellence, high blood, or the like; (JK;) and so ↓ أُفُقٌ, (JK, S, K,) applied to a horse, (S, K,) and a mare, (JK, S, K,) and a she-camel. (JK.).آفِقَةٌ: see أَفَقٌ.آفَاقِىٌّ: see أَفَقِىٌّ.