زعف
1 زَعَفَهُ, (
S,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
K,)
inf. n. زَعْفٌ, (
S,) He, or it, killed him on the spot; (
S,
K;) as also ↓ ازعفهُ, and ↓ ازدعفهُ; (
K;) the last mentioned by
As, as
syn. with أَقْعَصَهُ: (
TA:) or cast, or shot, at him, or smote him, so that he died on the spot, quickly: (
L,
TA:) and killed him quickly. (
S.)
b2: See also 4.
A2: زَعَفَ فِى حَدِيثِهِ He added, or exaggerated, or he lied, in his discourse, or narration. (
Mj,
L.) 4 أَرْعَفَ see above.
b2: ازعف عَلَيْهِ He despatched him; or hastened and completed his slaughter; (El-
Khárzenjee,
K;) as also ↓ زَعَفَهُ,
aor. and
inf. n. as above. (
TA.) 8 ازدعفهُ [originally اِزْتَعَفَهُ]: see 1.
زُعَافٌ, applied to poison, like زُؤَافٌ (
S,
K) and ذُعَافٌ [meaning Quick in its effect]; and in like manner applied to death: (
S:) and ↓ مُزْعِفٌ, applied to death, and to a sword, that will not suffer one to linger; killing on the spot; (
K;) as applied to a sword, thus
expl. by
As; as applied to death,
expl. by
Skr as meaning quick. (
TA.) زُعُوفٌ [a
pl. of which the
sing. is not mentioned,] Places of destruction. (
IAar,
K.) حِسْىٌ مُزْعَفٌ [Water which the earth imbibes from sand above it, and which, when it reaches what is hard, is arrested thereby,] such as is not sweet. (Ibn-' Abbád,
K.) مُزُعِفٌ: see زُعَافٌ.
b2: المُزْعِفُ is also the name of a certain sword, (
K,
TA,) belonging to 'AbdAllah Ibn-Sebreh, one of the braves of El-Islám; thus
accord. to
Az: (
TA:) or this is with ر; (
Sgh,
K;) and is thus found in the handwriting of Mohammad Ibn-El-' Abbás El-Yezeedee, with a dot beneath the ر, to show that it is not ز. (
Sgh,
TA.) المِزْعَافَةُ The serpent; (
K;) as also المِزْعَامَةُ. (
TA.) [
Accord. to Freytag, مِزْعَافَةُ الرِّيقِ occurs in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning The serpent: or the lion.] [See also art. ذعف, passim.]
