قرفص
Q. 1 قَرْــفَصَ [
قَرْــفَصَ: see
قُرْــفُصَآءُ, below.]
A2: قَرْــفَصَهُ, (
JK,
TA,)
inf. n. قَرْــفَصَةٌ (
JK,
S,
K) and
قِرْــفَاصٌ, (
TA,) He bound his arms beneath his legs: (
JK,
K:) or he drew him together, (namely, a man,) binding his legs and arms. (
S.)
b2: [Hence,]
قَرْــفَصَةٌ also signifies A certain mode of coitus, in which the woman's extremities are drawn together, so that the man makes fast here arms beneath her legs: (
JK,
K:) transmitted by Ibn-'Abbád. (
TA.)
Q. 2 تَـ
ـقَرْــفَصَتْ She (an old woman) wrapped herself up in her clothes. (
JK,
K.)
قُرْــفُصَى and its variations: see what follows.
قُرْــفُصَآءُ, with damm, (
K,) [in a copy of the
S written without any vowel-sign to the ف,] or
قُرْــفَصَآءُ, (so in a copy of the
S) or both, (El-Ashmoonee, in his
Expos. of the Alfeeyeh of Ibn-'Akeel,) and
قُرُــفْصَآءُ, with damm to the ق and ر, (
IJ,
K,) and
قُرْــفُصَى, (
S, *
K,) and
قِرْــفِصَى, (
Fr,
K,) and
قَرْــقَصَى, (
K,) of all which the first is the most chaste, (
TA,) [all
inf. ns., of which the verb,
accord. to
analogy, is
قَرْــفَصَ, but I have met with no instance of its occurrence,] A certain mode of sitting; (
S;) the sitting upon the buttocks, making the thighs cleave to the belly, and putting the arms round the shanks, (
A'Obeyd,
S,
K,) like as a man binds himself with a piece of cloth round his back and shanks; his arms being in the place of the piece of cloth: (
A'Obeyd,
S:) or the sitting upon the knees, bending down, (مُنْكَبًّا, [in the
L مُتَّكِئًا, which is a mistranscription,]) making the belly cleave to the thighs, and putting the hands under the arm-pits; (Abu-l-Mahdee,
S,
K;) a mode of sitting of the Arabs of the desert: (
S:) or the sitting upon the legs, putting the knees together, and contracting the arms to the breast. (
IAar,
TA.) You say, قَعَدَ الـ
ـقرفصآءَ He sat in the manner above described. (
IAar,
S.)
قرق
قرم See Supplement
