زفن
1 زَفَنَهُ, (
TA, and
Har p. 124,)
aor. ـِ (
TA,)
inf. n. زَفْنٌ, (
TA,
Har,) in its primary acceptation, He pushed, or thrust, or he pushed, or thrust, away, (
TA,
Har,) vehemently: and he struck [or kicked] with the leg, or hind leg. (
Har.) Yousay, دَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ فَزَفَنَنِى I approached him, and he pushed me, or thrust me, from him. (
TA.) and هُوَ يَزْفِنُ المَطِىَّ He drives, or urges on, the saddlecamel. (
TA.) And الرِّيحُ تَزْفِنُ السَّحَابَ and التُّرَابَ [The wind drives along the clouds and the dust]. (
TA.) And الأَمْوَاجُ تَزْفِنُ السَّفِينَةَ [The waves drive along the ship]. (
TA.) And المُحْتَضَرُ يَزْفِنُ بِنَفْسِهِ, i. e. [He who is at the point of death] urges on his soul. (
TA.)
A2: And زَفَنَ,
aor. ـِ (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K, in the
CK زَفُنَ,)
inf. n. زَفْنٌ (
S,
Mgh,
Msb) and زَفَنَانٌ, (
TA,) He danced; (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K;) and played, or sported. (
TA.) It is said in a
trad. of
Fátimeh, كَانَتْ تَزْفِنُ لِلْحَسَنِ She used to dance to El-Hasan. (
TA.) زَفْنٌ: see what next follows.
زِفْنٌ A covering which they make over their flat house-tops to protect them from the heat and dew of the sea; (
K;) of the
dial. of 'Omán; and ↓ زَفْنٌ is a
dial. var. thereof. (
TA.)
b2: and Straight and slender palm-branches stripped of their leaves [and cut to certain required lengths], conjoined, one to another, [side by side, by means of split pieces of such branches passing through holes punched in the former,] like the woven mat: (
K:) [of such are made chests for cooking utensils and provisions &c.:] of the
dial. of Azd. (
TA.) زَفُونٌ, applied to a she-camel,
i. q. زَبُونٌ [That pushes, or thrusts, or that pushes, or thrusts, away, or that kicks, or strikes, and pushes, &c., her milker with her hind leg, or with her stiflejoint; or that is wont, or accustomed, to do so]: or lame; as also ↓ زَافِنَةٌ; (
K;) as though she danced in her gait, in consequence of lameness. (
TA.) زَفَّانٌ A dancer: [whence] one says, الصُّوفِيَّةُ زَفَّانَةٌ جَفَّانَةٌ The Soofees are dancers, providers of food with their جَفَنَات [or bowls, which many of them, leading a mendicant-life, as darweeshes, are in the habit of always carrying with them]. (
TA.) زَافِنَةٌ: see زَفُونٌ.
b2: Also A woman that suffices her man, or husband, in respect of the means of جِمَاع. (
K.) زِيَفْنٌ (
S,
K) and زِيفَنٌّ (
K) Tall; (
K;) and strong; (
S,
K;) and some add, light, or active. (
TA.) [In one copy of the
S, I find it written زَيْفَن; which its measure in poetry shows to be wrong.]
زَيْزَفُونٌ, applied to a she-camel, Swift, (
K,) and light, or active:
IJ says that it is
app. of the measure فَيْفَعُولٌ, from الزَّفْنُ [as meaning “ the act of dancing ”]; or it may be a quadriliteralradical word:
IB says that دَيْدَبُونٌ [which see in art. ددن] is similar to it. (
TA.)
b2: Also, applied to a bow, That makes a sound, or sounds, in consequence of being put in motion: and in this sense it is said by
IJ to be of the measure فَيْفَعُولٌ, from الزَّفْنُ. (
TA.) رَجُلٌ فِيهِ إِزْفَنَّةٌ A man in whom is motion, or commotion: and رَجُلٌ إِزْفَنَّةٌ A man in a state of motion, or commotion: mentioned by
Sb, and
expl. by
Seer. (
TA.)
