لفح
1 لَفَحَتْهُ النَّارُ, (
S,
M,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
M,)
inf. n. لَفْحٌ and لَفَحَانٌ, (
M,
K,) The fire smote, or hurt, his face; as also لفحت وَجْهَهُ: (
M, O:) the fire burned him; (
TA;) as also نفحته النار بِحَرِّهَا; (
S,
K;) and in like manner the hot wind called سَمُوم: (
S:) لَفَحَتْ and نَفَحَتْ are
syn., except that the effect of النَّفْح is greater than that of اللَّفْح: (
Zj:) or لَفْحٌ relates to a hot wind; and نَفْحٌ, to a cold, or cool, wind: (
As,
S:) you also say لفحته السَّمُوم meaning the سموم blew in his face. (
L.)
b2: Also لَفَحَهُ,
aor. ـَ He smote, or struck, him, with a sword, (
S,
K,) lightly, or slightly: you say لَفَحْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ لَفْحَةً I struck him with the sword a light, or slight, blow. (
S.) أَصَابَهَ لفْحٌ مِنْ حَرُورٍ وَسَمُومٍ A burning gust of hot night-wind, and of hot day-wind, smote him. (
L.)
b2: أَصَابَهُ مِنَ الحَرِّ لَفْحٌ وَمِنَ البَرْدِ نَفْحٌ [A blast of heat smote him, and a blast of cold]. (
A.)
b3: You say also لَوَافِحُ السَّمُوِم [
pl. of ↓ لَافِحَةٌ, and meaning Burning blasts of the سموم]. (
S,
K in art. سفع.) لَفْحَةٌ A light, or slight, blow with a sword. (
S.) لُقَّاحٌ A certain well known plant, (
K,) of the kind termed يَقْطِينِىٌّ, (
L,) which people smell, (
S.) yellow, and of sweet odour, (
A,
L,) resembling the بَاذِنْجَان (
S,
A,
K,) when it becomes yellow; (
S, A;) [
accord. to Golius,
app. on the authority of Ibn-Beytár, the same which the Syrians and Egyptians call شَمَّامٌ,
q. v.].
b2: Also, The fruit, or produce, (ثَمَرَة,) of the يَبْرُوح [or mandrake, which is called by this name (يبروح) in the present day]; (
K;) thus correctly written, with the ى before the ب [not ببروح, as in the
CK and some
MS. copies]. (
TA.) [It seems that the application of the term لفّاح to both the mandrake and the شمّام has led to confusion, and occasioned Linnæus to call the latter “ cucumis dudaim. ” See also يَبْرُوحٌ, and مَغْدٌ.]
لَافِحَةٌ: see لَفْحٌ.
