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.)
