رفل
1 رَفِلَ, (S, M, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. رَفَلٌ; (S, M;) and رَفَلَ, aor. ـُ (M, K,) inf. n. رَفْلٌ; (M;) He was awkward (S, M, K,) in his manner of wearing his clothes, (S,) or with his clothes [when walking &c. (see رَفِلٌ)], and in every work. (M, K.) b2: And رَفَلَ, (M, K,) or رَفَلَ فِى ثِيَابِهِ, (S, TA,) aor. ـُ (S, M,) inf. n. رَفْلٌ (Lth, T, M, K) and رُفُولٌ (T, TA) and رَفَلَانٌ; (M, K;) and ↓ ارفل; (S, M, K;) He dragged his skirt, and kicked it with his foot: (Lth, T:) or he made his clothes long, and dragged them, walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of his body from side to side: (S:) or he dragged his skirt, and walked in the manner described above: or he moved his arm up and down [in walking]: (M, K:) and فِى ثِيَابِهِ ↓ ترفّل signifies the same as رَفَلَ and ارفل: (TA:) or ↓ إِرْفَالٌ [inf. n. of 4] signifies a man's having a long garment, such as a skirt and a جُبَّة: (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, T in art. ذيل:) and one says, فِى مِشْيَتِهَا خرْقًا ↓ تَتَرَفَّلُ [She drags her skirt, &c., in her gait, by reason of awkwardness]. (S.) تَرْفُلُ المَرَافِلَا, a phrase used by Ru-beh, [↓ مَرَافِلُ being app. pl. of مَرْفَلٌ, a regular inf. n. of رَفَلَ,] means She walks with every sort of رَفْل or رُفُول [i. e. dragging of the skirt, &c.]. (Lth, T accord. to different copies.) And ↓ تَرْفَلَ, inf. n. تَرْفَلَةٌ, He walked with an inclining of his body from side to side (تَبَخْتَرَ) by reason of pride (كِبْرًا), or by reason of old age (كِبَرًا): (K, accord. to different copies:) the ت is augmentative. (TA.) A2: See also the next paragraph, last sentence, in two places.2 تَرْفِيلٌ The making a garment ample, or long towards the ground: the letting it down, or making it to hang down: (TA:) [and so ↓ إِرْفَالٌ:] you say, ثِيَابَهُ ↓ ارفل, (Sh, T,) or ثَوْبَهُ, (M,) or رِفْلَهُ, (K, TA, in the CK رَفِلَهُ,) He let down, or made to hang down, his garments, or his garment, or his skirt. (Sh, T, M, K.) b2: Hence, (TA,) رفّلهُ, (A 'Obeyd, T, S, M,) inf. n. as above, (Sh, T, S, M, K,) (tropical:) He magnified him, or honoured him: (A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, K:) he made him a king, (A 'Obeyd, T, M, K,) and a lord, or chief, (Sh, T, M, K,) and a commander, and a judge: (TA:) [like رَفَّدَهُ:] and he rendered him submissive; made him to submit; or brought him under, or into, subjection: (M, K:) thus it has two contr. meanings; (K;) [like تَرَّفَهُ;] for when a man is made judge in an affair, it is as though he were subjected to service therein. (TA.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, إِذَا نَحْنُ رَفَّلْنَا امْرَأً سَادَ قَوْمَهُ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنْ قَبْلِ ذٰلِكَ يُذْكَرُ (assumed tropical:) [When we magnify a man, or make a man a king, &c., he becomes lord, or chief, of his people, though he have been before that not mentioned]. (T, S, M.) And you say, رُفِّلَ فُلَانٌ (assumed tropical:) Such a one was made a lord, or chief, over his people. (Sh, T.) b3: Also (tropical:) He increased, or exceeded, to him that over which he had authority to judge, or to decide. (TA.) b4: And تَرْفِيلٌ also signifies (tropical:) The leaving a well for its water to collect in it; (S, O, K;) and so ↓ رَفْلٌ: (O, K:) you say, رفّل الرَّكيَّة (tropical:) He left the well for its water to collect in it; (Ks, T, M;) as also ↓ رَفَلَهَا, aor. ـُ inf. n. رَفْلٌ. (O.) 4 ارفل, and its inf. n. إِرْفَالٌ: see 1, in two places: A2: and see also 2, in two places.5 تَرَفَّلَ see 1, in two places. b2: ترفّل also signifies (tropical:) He was, or became, or was made, a lord, or chief. (Sh, T, TA.) Hence, in a trad. of Wáïl Ibn-Hojr, يَتَرَفَّلُ عَلَى الأَقْوَالِ حَيْثُ كَانُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ حَضْرَمَوْتَ (tropical:) [He is, or will be, &c., a lord, or chief, over the subordinate kings, wherever they are, of the people of Hadramowt]. (T, * TA.) Q. Q. 1 تَرْفَلَ, inf. n. تَرْفَلَةٌ: see 1.رِفْلٌ, (IDrd, O, K, TA,) or, as in some copies of the JM, ↓ رِفَلٌّ, (O, TA,) or ↓ رَفَلٌ, (accord. to a copy of the M,) or ↓ رَفِلٌ, (accord. to the CK,) [in the K said to be with kesr, which, accord. to a rule observed in that work, indicates that it is رِفْلٌ,] The skirt, or lower extremity, of a garment. (M, O, K.) You say, أَرْفَلَ رِفْلَهُ [explained above: see 2]. (K.) And قَمِيصٌ سَابِغُ الرِّفْلِ, i. e. [A shirt ample, or long,] in the skirt. (TA.) رَفَلٌ (tropical:) The water that collects after drawing, (جَمَّة, thus accord. to the T and O and some copies of the K, [and this is said in the TA to be the right explanation,]) or the black mud, or black fetid mud, (حَمْأَة, thus accord. to other copies of the K, or مُكْلَة [which has the same or a similar meaning], thus accord. to the M and A and L,) of a well. (T, M, O, A, L, K.) A2: See also the next preceding paragraph.
A3: رَفَلْ رَفَلْ A call to the ewe, to be milked. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) رَفِلٌ Awkward (S, M, K) in his manner of wearing his clothes, (S,) or with his clothes [when walking &c.], and in every work; as also ↓ أَرْفَلُ; fem. [of the latter] ↓ رَفْلَآءُ. (M, K.) And رَفِلَةٌ (Lth, T, M, K, TA) and ↓ رَافِلَةٌ (Lth, T, TA) A woman who drags her skirt (Lth, T, M, K, TA) well, or beautifully, (M, K, TA,) when she walks, and who walks with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side: (Lth, T, TA:) or the former signifies a woman who drags her skirt (تَتَرَفَّلُ), in her gait, by reason of awkwardness: (S, TA:) and ↓ رَفْلآءُ, a woman who does not walk well (ADk, T, S, M, K) in her clothes, (ADk, T, S, M,) dragging her garment, (M,) or dragging her skirt: (K:) and ↓ رَافِلٌ, a man making his clothes long, and dragging them, walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of his body from side to side; (S;) in which sense رَفِلَةٌ may be well used as an epithet applied to a woman: (Lth, T:) or ↓ رَافِلٌ (TA) and ↓ تَرْفِيلٌ, (Seer, M, K, TA,) in which latter the ت is augmentative, (TA,) signify a man who drags his skirt, and walks in the manner last described above; or who moves his arm up and down in walking. (Seer, M, K, TA.) b2: Also, i. e. رَفِلٌ, Foolish; stupid; or unsound, or deficient, in intellect, or understanding. (S.) b3: And رَفِلَةٌ, A foul, or an unseemly, or ugly, woman; (M, K;) as also ↓ رِفَلَّةٌ, (M,) or ↓ رِفِلَةٌ, with two kesrehs: (K:) and the same epithets are applied likewise in this sense to a man. (M.) A2: See also رِفْلٌ.
رِفِلَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, near the end.
رِفَلٌّ Long in the tail; (Lth, T, S, M, K;) applied to a garment: (S:) or, thus applied, wide, or ample: (M, K:) in the former sense, applied to a horse, (Lth, As, T, M,) and to a bull, (Lth, T,) and to a camel, (Lth, T, S, M,) and to a mountaingoat; (M;) and رَفَنٌّ signifies the same: (Lth, As, M:) and applied to a horse as meaning also (M) having much flesh; (M, K;) and so رِفَنٌّ: (M:) and to a camel as meaning also wide in the skin: (Lth, T, S, M, K:) and, applied to hair, long; (M;) [or] so ↓ رَفَالٌ, like سَحَابٌ; (K;) or ↓ رُفَالٌ, or ↓ رِفَالٌ; (so accord. to different copies of the T;) and so ↓ رَفَالٌ applied to a garment. (TA.) Also A man having a long skirt. (Ham p. 386.) b2: [Hence,] عَيْشٌ رِفَلٌّ, (TA,) or مَعِيشَةٌ رِفَلَّةٌ, (S, M, in one copy of the S رَفِلَةٌ,) (tropical:) Ample means of subsistence. (S, M, TA.) A2: See also رِفْلٌ.
A3: and see رَفِلٌ.
رَفَالٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
رُفَالٌ: see رِفَلٌ.
رِفَالٌ: see رِفَلٌّ.
A2: رِفَالُ التَّيْسِ A thing that is put before the penis of the goat, in order that he may not copulate. (IDrd, M, K.) رَافِلٌ; and its fem., with ة: see رَفِلٌ, in three places.
أَرْفَلُ; and its fem., رَفْلَآءُ: see رَفِلٌ, in three places.
تَرْفِيلٌ: see رَفِلٌ.
إِزَارٌ مُرْفَلٌ [A waist-wrapper] made to hang down. (Sh, T.) [Hence, perhaps, what next follows.]
مرفلة [written without any syll. signs, app. either مُرْفَلَةٌ or مُرَفَّلَةٌ, an epithet used as a subst., or converted into a subst. by the addition of ة,] A long [dress or garment such as is called] حُلَّة, in which one drags his skirt, and walks with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait (يُرْفَلُ فِيهَا). (TA.) مُرَفَّلَةٌ A she-camel having her udder bound with a piece of rag, which is made to hang down over her teats so as to cover them. (M, O, L, K.) b2: [See also the next preceding paragraph.]
مِرْفَالٌ, applied to a woman, means كَثِيرَةُ الرُّفُولِ فِى ثَوْبِهَا [i. e. Who drags her skirt, &c., much]: (Lth, T:) [and in like manner,] applied to a man, (TA,) كَثيرُ الرَّفَلَانِ [which means the same: see 1]. (M, K, TA.) مَرَافِلُ [app. pl. of مَرْفَلٌ, an inf. n. of رَفَلَ]: see 1.