جفر

1 جَفَرَ He, or it, became wide: (K:) or became inflated, or swollen. (A.) And جَفَرَ جَنْبَاهُ His (a kid's, S and Msb, or lamb's, Msb) sides became widened, or distended: (S, Msb:) and جَنْبَاهُ ↓ اجفر [and ↓ انجفر (K in art. هضم)] his (a horse's) sides became inflated, or swollen. (A.) b2: He (a lamb, K, and a kid, TA) became what is termed جَفْرٌ; as also ↓ تجفّر and ↓ استجفر: (K:) and ↓ تجفّرت and ↓ استجفرت she (a kid) became a جَفْرَة. (ISh, TA.) And He (a boy) became what is termed جَفْرٌ; as also ↓ تجفّر (TA) and ↓ استجفر: (A:) and this last verb, he became large in the sides. (L.) A2: جَفَرَ (S, A) عَنِ الضِّرَابِ, (S,) or عَنِ الإِبِلِ, (A,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. جُفُورٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ اجتفر; and ↓ اجفر, inf. n. إِجْفَارٌ; and ↓ جفّر, inf. n. تَجْفِيرٌ; (K;) He (a stallioncamel) ceased, (S, K,) or abstained, (A,) from covering, (S, A, K,) and avoided it; having indulged in it so much that he was wearied; (S;) and his seminal fluid became little: (TA:) you say of a ram, رَبَضَ, (S, A,) not جَفَرَ. (S.) and جَفَرَ عَنِ المَرْأَةِ, (IAar, TA,) and عَنْهَا ↓ اجفر, (IAar, K,) and ↓ اجتفر, and ↓ جفّر, (IAar, TA,) He (a man) abstained from the woman; (K;) he abstained from sexual intercourse with her. (IAar, TA.) b2: جَفَرَ مِنَ المَرَضِ He recovered from the disease. (K, TA.) 2 جَفَّرَ see 1, in two places.

A2: جفّرهُ الأَمْرُ عَنْهُ The thing, or affair, cut him off from him, or it. (IAar, L.) 4 أَجْفَرَ see 1, in three places.

A2: اجفر also signifies He cut, abandoned, or forsook, (S, K,) another, (S,) or his companion, or friend, (K,) and left off visiting him. (S, K.) And أَجْفَرْتُ مَا كُنْتُ فِيهِ I left, or relinquished, that in which I was occupied. (S.) A3: Also It (a thing, TA) was, or became, absent, or hidden, or concealed, (K, TA,) from one. (TA.) 5 تَجَفَّرَ see 1, in three places.7 إِنْجَفَرَ see 1.8 إِجْتَفَرَ see 1, in two places.10 إِسْتَجْفَرَ see 1, in three places.

جَفْرٌ A lamb, or kid, whose sides have become widened, or distended: (Msb:) or a lamb, (IAmb, Msb, K,) and a kid, (K, * TA,) that has become large, and begun to pasture, (K, TA,) and whose sides have become widened, or distended: (TA:) or a lamb, (K,) or a kid, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, * TA,) that is four months old, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and whose sides have become widened, and that is weaned, (A'Obeyd, S,) and has taken to pasture: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or this is sometimes four months, and sometimes five months, after the birth: or a young lamb, and a kid, after it has been weaned, when six months old: (IAar, TA:) pl. [of pauc.]

أَجْفَارٌ (K) and [of mult.] جِفَارٌ (Msb, K) and جَفَرَةٌ: (K) fem. with ة: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) or جَفْرَةٌ signifies a female kid that has become satiated with leguminous herbs and with shrubs, and is independent of its mother: (ISh, TA:) IAmb applies it to a female lamb and a female kid; and this is correct, though some say that it is applied to the latter only. (TA.) b2: A boy when his belly has become widened, (A,) or when his flesh has become swollen out, (K,) and he has begun to eat: (A, K:) fem. with ة (K.) [See شَادِخٌ; and see also مُطَبِّخٌ.]

A2: A well, (Msb, K,) or a wide well, (S, A,) not cased, or walled round, within; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ جَفْرَةٌ: (R, TA:) or, of which a portion is cased, or walled round, within, (K, TA,) and a portion is not: (TA:) the former of the masc. gender: pl. جِفَارٌ. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] فُلَانٌ مُنْهَدِمُ الجَفْرِ (A, K *) [Such a one's well is in a state of demolition; meaning,] such a one has no judgment: (A:) or has no intelligence. (K.) And إِنَّ جَفْرَكَ عَلَىَّ لَهَارٍ

[Verily thy well is falling in upon me; meaning] thy mischief is coming quickly upon me. (A, TA.) b3: [The pl.] جَفَارٌ also signifies [simply] Wells. (K.) b4: And hence, (TA,) She-camels abounding with milk. (K, TA.) جَفْرَةٌ: see جَفْرٌ.

جُفْرَةٌ A round space in the ground: (S, K:) or a round and wide cavity in the ground: (L:) pl. جِفَارٌ. (S.) b2: Hence, (S,) The belly, or interior of the body: (S:) or the cavity of the chest: or what comprises the belly [in the TA the chest] and the two sides: (K:) or the place where the ribs curve; and so in a horse &c.: (TA:) the middle of a horse, (S, Msb, K,) and of a camel: and, as some say, the middle, and main part, of anything: and thus, the main part of the sea: (TA:) pl. جُفَرٌ and جِفَارٌ, accord. to the K; but the latter is pl. of جُفْرَةٌ in the sense of "a round cavity." (TA.) b3: Also [the pl.]

جُفَرٌ signifies The holes that are dug in the ground for props. (TA.) جَفِيرٌ A kind of quiver like the كِنَانَة, but wider, (Lth, S, TA,) in which are put many arrows: (Lth, TA:) or a [quiver of the kind called] جَعْبَة [q. v.], of skins, in which is no wood: or of wood, in which are no skins; (K;) or in which is no skin; as in some good lexicons: (TA:) or of skins, and slit in its side, that the wind may enter it, and the feathers in consequence may not be eaten: (TA: [see also جَشِيرٌ:]) or the same as the جعبة and the كنانة: (El-Ahmar, TA:) or a quiver for نَبْل, wide, of wood. (Ham p. 358.) Hence, لَيْسَ فِى جَفِيرِهِ غَيْرُ زَنْدَيْنِ [There is not in his quiver aught save two pieces of wood for producing fire]: a prov. applied to him in whom is no good. (Meyd.) مَجْفَرٌ: see مَجْفَرَةٌ.

مُجْفَرٌ, applied to a horse, (S, Msb, K,) and with ة applied to a she-camel, (S,) Large in the middle: (S, Msb, K:) and مُجْفَرُ الجَنْبَيْنِ a horse inflated, or swollen, in the sides. (A.) مَجْفَرَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ مَجْفَرٌ (Lh, K) An impediment to venery; (Lh, A'Obeyd, S, A, K;) and a cause of diminishing the seminal fluid: (A'Obeyd, TA:) applied to food: (Lh, K:) and such is fasting said to be; (A'Obeyd, S, K;) and the sun, (A, * TA,) i. e., sitting in the sun; and such, also, the sleeping between daybreak and sunrise, or in the first part of the day. (TA.)