رضف
1 رَضَفَهُ,
aor. ـِ (
S,
Msb,
K,)
inf. n. رَضْفٌ, (
Msb,) He cauterized him, or it, (namely, a thing,
Msb,) with a heated stone. (
S,
Msb,
K.)
b2: And He roasted it (namely, flesh-meat,) upon heated stones. (
Msb.) And
Az says, رُبَّمَا رَضَفَتِ العَرَبُ المَآءِ بِالرَّضْفِ لِلْخَيْلِ [Sometimes, or often, the Arabs heated, or warmed, water with heated stones for the horses]. (
O.)
A2: رَضَفَ بِسَلْحِهِ He ejected his excrement, or thin excrement. (Ibn-'Abbád,
O,
K.)
A3: رَضَفَ الوِسَادَةَ He folded the pillow. (
IDrd,
O,
K.) رَضْفٌ Heated stones (
S,
O,
Mgh,
Msb,
K) with which milk is made hot, or is made to boil; (
S,
O,
K;) [and with which one cauterizes; and upon which flesh-meat is roasted; as shown above;] as also ↓ مِرْضَافَةٌ: (
O,
K:)
n. un. with ة. (
S,
O,
Mgh,
Msb.) It is said in a
prov., خُذْ مِنَ الرَّضْفِةِ مَا عَلَيْهَا [Take thou from the heated stone what is upon it]: (
S, O:) i. e. take thou what adheres, of the milk, to the heated stone when it is thrown, with others, therein, to make it hot, or to make it to boil: it is applied to the case of one's taking as spoil a thing from a niggard, though it be little, or paltry. (
Meyd, O.) [Hence,] مُطْفِئَةُ الرَّضْفِ A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the heated stones, melts, and extinguishes their heat: and a serpent of which the poison, when it passes by the heated stones, extinguished their fire: (
O,
K:) and a lean sheep or goat, that puts out the fire and does not become thoroughly cooked: (
M,
L,
K, all in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, that slakes the heated stones by its fat: (
T and
TA in that art.:) and (assumed
tropical:) a calamity that makes one to forget that which was before it: (
AO,
O,
K:) or simply (assumed
tropical:) a calamity. (
K in art. طفأ [
q. v.].)
b2: Also Certain bones in the knee, like fingers put together, holding together one another; (
O,
K;) above which is the دَاغِصَة [or patella]: (
TA in art. دغص:) in a horse, what are between the shank and the arm: (En-Nadr,
O,
K:) they are certain small bones, places together, at the head of the upper part of the ذراع [
app. a mistranscription for كُرَاع, i. e. shank]: (En-Nadr, O:) one thereof is termed رَضْفَةٌ and ↓ رَضَفَةٌ. (
O,
K.) رَضْفَةٌ
n. un. of رَضْفٌ [
q. v.]. (
S,
O,
Mgh,
Msb.)
b2: [Hence,
app.,] رَضَفَاتُ العَرَبِ an appellation of four [tribes of the Arabs], Sheybán and Teghlib and Bahrà and Iyád. (
O,
K.) رَضَفَةٌ A certain brand, or mark, made by burning the skin with [heated] stones. (
Lth,
O,
K.)
b2: See also رَضْفٌ, last sentence.
رَضِيفٌ Milk that is boiled by means of the heated stone [or stones]. (
S,
O,
K.) مَرْضُوفٌ Roast meat roasted by means of heated stones: (
S,
O,
K: *) and thoroughly cooked thereby. (
K.) مرْضَافَةٌ: see رَضْفٌ, first sentence.
مَرْضُوفَةٌ A cooking-pot [in which the food is] thoroughly cooked by means of heated stones: (
S:) or the stomach, or maw, of a ruminant animal, which is washed and cleansed, and carried in a journey; and when the people desire to cook, and there is no cooking-pot, they cut up the flesh-meat, and put it into the stomach, or maw, then they betake themselves to some stones, and kindle a fire upon them so that they become heated, whereupon they put them into the stomach, or maw. (
O,
K.) It occurs in the saying of ElKumeyt, وَمْرضُوفَةٍ لَمْ تُؤْنِ فِى الطَّبْخِ طَاهِيًا عَجِلْتُ إِلَى مُحْوَرِّهَا حِينَ غَرْغَرَا (
S,
O,
K,) i. e. [Many a cooking-pot &c, or many a stomach, or maw, &c., has there been,] that did not impede nor delay [in the cooking the cook, to the whiteness of the froth whereof I have hastened when it made a sound in boiling, or broiling]. (
S.) [This art. is wanting in the copies of the
L and
TA to which I have had access.]
