زرفن

Entries on زرفن in 7 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-ʿAin, Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya, and 4 more

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

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زرفن

Q. 1 زَرْفَنَ صُدْغَيْهِ He disposed the hair hanging down upon each of his temples in the form of a زُِرْفِين [or ring]: (S, * K:) but this is postclassical. (S.) زُرْفِينٌ and زِرْفِينٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) or the latter is the correct word, for there is no word of the measure فُعْلِيلٌ in the language, (Az, TA,) [though the former is agreeable with the Pers\. word which is the original,] A ring of a door: (Mgh, K:) or [a ring] in a general sense: (K:) pl. زَرَافِينُ, occurring in a trad. as applied to rings of a coat of mail belonging to the Prophet, by which rings it was suspended: (TA:) arabicized, (S, K,) from the Pers\. [زُرْفِينْ]. (S.) b2: The latter also signifies A company of men [app. disposed in the form of a ring]. (TA.)