وفز

3 وافزهُ He hastened with him; vied, or strove, with him in hastening; or made haste to be, or get, before him; syn. عَاجَلَهُ. (A, TA.) 4 اوفزهُ He hastened him. (K.) 5 توفّز He prepared himself (A, K) لِكَذَا for such a thing, (A,) or لِلشَّرِّ for evil, or mischief. (K.) b2: Also, He turned over and over upon his bed. (A.) See also 10.10 استوفز فِى قِعْدَتِهِ He put himself in an upright posture, not at his ease, in his manner of sitting; he sat erect, not at his ease: (S, Mgh, K:) or he put down his knees [upon the ground] and raised his buttocks: (Aboo-Mo'ádh, K:) or he raised himself upon his legs, or feet, without having yet set himself firmly in a standing posture, but having prepared himself to leap, or spring, (Lth, K, TA,) or to go away: (Lth, TA:) or he sat in a posture as though he desired to rise and stand up; whether in the manner termed إِقْعَآء [i. e. sitting upon the ground with the shanks erect], or otherwise. (MF.) وَفْزٌ and ↓ وَفَزٌ Haste: pl. (of the latter, TA,) أَوْفَازٌ. (S, K.) You say, نَحْنُ عَلَى أَوْفَازٍ, (S, K,) and عَلَى وَفَزٍ, (K,) We are in haste: (K:) or we are on a journey; [like عَلَي أَوْفَادٍ;] the time of our journeying has come. (S, TA.) and لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى أَوْفَازٍ, and عَلَى وَفَزٍ, I found him in a state of haste: (Az, TA:) or preparing [his apparatus for travel]. (M, TA.) وَفَزٌ: see وَفْزٌ.

وَفَزَةٌ An upright posture in sitting, so that one is not at his ease. (Lth, TA.) See 10.

مُتَوَفِّزٌ Turning over and over upon the bed, scarcely sleeping: (K, * TA:) mentioned by Z, and by Sgh in the O, on the authority of Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) مُسْتَوْفِزٌ act. part. n. of 10, q. v. One says, إِطْمَئِنّ فَإِنِّى أَرَاكَ مُسْتَوْفِزًا [Be thou at ease, for I see thee to be sitting in an upright and uneasy posture]. (TA.)