قفو

Entries on قفو in 12 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Al-Fayyūmī, Al-Miṣbāḥ al-Munīr fī Gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib, and 9 more

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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قفو

1 قَفَا أَثَرَهُ and إِتْرَهُ He followed his track, or footsteps; tracked him. (S, Msb.) b2: قَفَا فُلَانًا He followed the footsteps of such a one. (TA.) See قَصَّ أَثَرَهُ, which signifies the same, for a better explanation. See also قَفَوَتُ أَثَرَهُ.

قَفًا The back of the neck. (S, Msb, K.) b2: عَيْنَاهُ فِى قَفَاهُ is said of him who is put to flight. because he looks behind him, fearing pursuit. (TA in art. انف.) And جَعَلَ أَنْفَهُ فِى قَفَاهُ: see أَنْفٌ. b3: [Also the back of the hand: and the flat back of a knife and the like.]

قَفِيَّةٌ

: see دَوَآءُ.

قَافِيَةٌ

, by synecdoche, for ذُو قَافِيَةٍ, (IJ,) (tropical:) A verse; a single verse of a poem. (Akh, Az, TA.) b2: Also, [by a further extension of the proper signification,] A قَصِيدَة [or an ode, or a poem]. (Az, IJ, TA.)