ثفر
1 ثَفڤرَ and 2: see 4.
4 اثفرهُ He bound, tied, or fastened, upon him a ثَفَر [or crupper]; (
S,
M,
A,
Msb,
K;) namely, a beast, a horse, an ass, or a camel: (
S, *
M, *
TA, &c.:) or he made for him (namely, a camel or an ass &c.,
TA) a ثَفَر [or crupper]. (
M,
K.) [Hence,] أَثْفَرْتُهُ بَيْعَةَ سُوْءٍ (
tropical:) [
app. I imposed upon him a bad sale so that he could not rid himself of it;
lit.] I stuck a bad sale to his backside. (
A,
K.)
b2: (
tropical:) He drove him, or urged him on, from behind; (
A,
K;) as also ↓ ثفّرهُ,
inf. n. تَثْفِيرٌ; (
K;) in some copies of the
K, ↓ ثَفَرَهُ,
aor. ـُ (
TA.)
b3: اثفرت She (a goat) showed, or gave evidence of, pregnancy, or bringing forth. (
K: in the
CK, بَيَّنَتِ الوِلادَ: in
MS. copies of the
K, and in the
TA, الوِلَادَة.) 10 استثفر (
tropical:) He (a man,
M) put (a part of] his
إِزَار [or waist-wrapper] between his thighs, twisted together; (
M,
K;) he (a wrestler) turned back the extremity of his garment [between his thighs] and stuck it in the part where it was bound round his waist: (
A:) or استثفر بِثَوْبِهِ, (
S,
Msb,) or بِإِزَارِهِ, (
T,
Mgh,) or استثفر إِزَارَهُ, (
Mgh,) he (a man) turned back the extremity of his garment between his legs to the part where it was bound round his waist; (
S;) or he (a wrestler,
T,
Mgh) bound his garment, (
IF,
Msb,) or his ازار, (
T,
Mgh,) round the lower part of his body, (
IF,
Mgh,
Msb,) or round his thighs, (
T,) and then turned back its extremity between his legs, and stuck it in the part where it was bound round his waist, behind. (
T,
IF,
Mgh,
Msb.)
b2: استثفرت, said of a menstruous woman, signifies the like; (
Msb;) (
tropical:)
i. q. تَلَجَّمَتْ; (
A,
Msb;) She closed her vulva with a broad piece of rag, or stuffed it with some cotton, and fastened the [or each] extremity of the bandage to a thing tied round her waist. (
T,
L.)
b3: And استثفر, (
M,) or استثفر بِذَنَبِهِ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,) said of a dog, (
tropical:) He put his tail between his thighs, (
S,
M,
A, *
Msb,
K,) making it to cleave to his belly. (
M,
K.) ثَفْرٌ (
S,
M,
Msb,
K) and ↓ ثُفْرٌ (
M,
K) The vulva of an animal of prey, (
As,
T,
S,
M,
Msb,
K,) and of any creature that has claws, or talons: (
S,
Msb,
K:) or the vagina thereof: (
M,
K:) and metaphorically used in relation to other animals: (
Msb:) thus applied to that of a cow, (
S,
M,
TA,) and of a mare, and of a ewe, and of a woman: or applied to that of a cow it is proper, not
tropical. (
M,
TA.)
b2: Also,
accord. to
AA and others, The anus. (
Mz 44th نوع.)
A2: See also ثَفَرٌ.
ثُفْرٌ: see ثَفْرٌ.
ثَفَرٌ, (
S,
M,
A,
Msb,
K,) and sometimes ↓ ثَفْرٌ, (
K,) The [crupper, or] strap, or thong, at the hinder part of the saddle; (
M,
K;) the appendage of the saddle that is put beneath the tail (
Mgh) of a beast, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,) of a horse, an ass, or a camel: (
T,
TA:) its two ends are bound to the دَفَّتَانِ: (
IDrd in his book on the Saddle and Bridle, p. 4:)
pl. أَثْفَارٌ. (
Msb.) مِثْفَرٌ: see what follows.
مِثْفَارٌ A beast that throws its saddle backwards. (
S,
M,
A,
K.)
b2: (
tropical:) A catamite;
syn. مَأْبُونٌ; (
K;) الَّذِي يُؤْتَى; (
M;) as also ↓ مِثْفرٌ. (
M,
K.)
