زف

1 زَفَّ العَرُوسَ, (K,) or زَفَفْتُهَا, (S,) or زَفَّتْهَا النِّسَآءُ, (Msb,) aor. ـُ (Msb, K,) inf. n. زَفٌّ (S, Msb, K) and زِفَافٌ, (S, K,) or the latter is a simple subst.; (Msb;) and ↓ ازفّها, (K,) or ازففتها, (S,) or ازفّتها النسآء; (Msb;) and ↓ ازدفّها, (K,) or ازدففتها, (S,) [or ازدفّتها النسآء;] إِلَى زَوْجِهَا; all signify the same; (S, Msb, * K;) i. e. He, [or I,] or the women, sent [or conducted] the bride [with festive parade or pageantry, and generally with music,] to her husband: (Msb, K:) accord. to Er-Rághib, زفّ العروس is a metaphorical phrase, from زَفْزَفَةُ النَّعَامِ; because she is conducted with joyous alacrity. (TA.) A2: زَفَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. زَفِيفٌ (S, K) and زَفٌّ and زُفُوفٌ, (K,) or زَفِيفٌ is a simple subst., (Msb,) said of an ostrich, (S, K,) and of a camel, (S,) &c., (K,) He hastened, or was quick; (S, K;) as also ↓ ازفّ: (IAar, K:) accord. to Lh, said of a man and of others; and ↓ ازفّ, he says, is the more unusual of the two: (TA:) or زَفَّ, aor. ـِ is said, in this sense, of a man: and, accord. to the Mj, said of an ostrich, inf. n. زَفِيفٌ, it means he hastened, or was quick, so that a [sound such as is termed] زَفِيف was heard to be produced by his wings: (Msb:) or زَفٌّ and ↓ إِزْفَافٌ are like ذَمِيلٌ [which signifies the going a gentle pace; or a pace above that which is termed العَنَقُ, and above that which is termed التَّزَيُّدُ]: (K, * TA: [in the CK, الزَّمِيل is put for الذَّمِيل:]) or the first running of the ostrich: (K:) or زَفِيفٌ has this last meaning: (TA:) or signifies the going quickly and with short steps: (Lh, TA:) or the going quickly, with short steps, and quietly. (TA.) You say, زَفَّ القَوْمُ فِى مَشْيِهِمْ The people, or party, hastened, or were quick, in their walking, or marching, or going along: and hence, in the Kur [xxxvii. 92], فَأَقْبلُوا إِلَيْهِ يَزِفُّونَ, (S,) i. e. [And they advanced towards him] hastening, or going quickly. (Fr, TA. [But there are other readings, for which see Bd.]) [Hence also,] one says زَفَّ رَأْلُهُ, meaning (tropical:) He was, or became, light of intellect, lightwitted, or irresolute. (S, Z, TA. [See also art. رأل]) b2: زَفَّ, inf. n. زَفِيفٌ (O, K) and زَفٌّ, (K,) said of a bird, (O, K,) in his flight, (O,) He cast himself: ('Eyn, O, K:) or he spread his wings: and so ↓ زَفْزَفَ [app. in either sense]: (K:) and the latter, he moved [or flapped] his wings in running. (TA.) b3: زَفَّتِ الرِّيحُ, (S, K,) aor. ـِ (S,) inf. n. زَفِيفٌ and زُفُوفٌ, (TA,) The wind blew along, (S, K,) not violently: (S:) or blew gently and continually: (TA:) and ↓ زَفْزَفَت signifies the same: (K, TA:) or the latter, inf. n. زَفْزَفَةٌ, signifies it blew violently: so in the T: or it blew gently: (TA:) or زَفْزَفَةٌ signifies the moaning (حَنِين) of the wind, and its sounding among the trees. (S.) b4: زَفَّ, (O, K,) inf. n. زَفِيفٌ, (TA,) said of lightning, It shone, or gleamed. (O, K, TA.) 4 ازفّ, inf. n. إِزْفَافٌ, intrans.: see 1, in three places.

A2: ازفّ العَرُوسَ: see 1, first sentence. b2: ازفّهُ He made him to hasten, or go quickly; (S, L, K;) namely, a camel, (S, L,) and an ostrich. (S.) b3: [And accord. to Freytag, it occurs in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning He led him to do light, vain, things.]8 ازدفّ العَرُوسَ: see 1, first sentence. b2: ازدفّ الحِمْلَ He carried, took up and carried, or raised upon his back, the load. (Ibn-' Abbád, K.) 10 استزفّهُ السَّيْلُ, (Ibn-' Abbád, A, O, TA,) thus correctly, but in the copies of the K السَّيْرُ, (TA,) The torrent found it light to carry (اِسْتَخَفَّهُ, Ibn-' Abbád, A, O, K), and took it away. (Ibn-' Abbád, A, O, TA.) R. Q. 1 زَفْزَفَ, [inf. n. زَفْزَفَةٌ,] said of a man, He walked in a comely manner. (TA.) b2: زَفْزَفَةٌ also signifies The running vehemently. (K.) b3: And A certain manner, or rate, of going, of camels, said to be beyond, or above, what is termed الخَبَبُ. (TA.) b4: Said of a bird: see 1, latter part. b5: And زَفْزَفَت said of the wind: see, again, 1, latter part. The inf. n. signifies The wind's putting in motion the dry herbage, and making a sound therein: (K, TA:) you say, of the dry herbage, زَفْزَفَتْهُ الرِّيحُ [The wind put it in motion, &c.]. (TA.) b6: The inf. n. signifies also The noising, or noise-making, of a procession, or company of men riding or walking along. (IDrd, K.) b7: And The sounding of an arrow when it is twirled round upon the nail [of the left thumb: see دَرَّ السَّهْمُ, in art. در]. (TA.) b8: It is related in a trad., that the Prophet said to a woman, مَا لَكِ تُزَفْزَفِينَ, (O, K, TA, in some copies of the K تُزَفْزِفِينَ,) with damm to the first letter; (K) to which she replied “ The fever, may God not bless it; ” and he said “ Revile not thou the fever, for it does away with the sins of the sons of Adam like as the blacksmith's skin with which he blows his fire does away with the dross of the iron: ” (O, TA:) the meaning is, [What aileth thee] that thou art made to tremble, or quake? (تُرْعَــدِينَ: O, K, TA: in some copies of the K تُرْعِــدِينَ:) [see also مَزْفُوفٌ:] or it is with fet-h to the ت, (O, K, TA,) i. e. تَزَفْزَفِينَ [for تَتَزَفْزَفينَ, from ↓ تَزَفْزَفَتْ], (O,) meaning, that thou tremblest, or quakest? (O, K:) or it is with kesr to the [latter] ز, [تُزَفْزِفِينَ,] meaning, that thou moanest, as does he who is sick: (TA:) or, as some relate it, it is with ر [in the place of the ز, i. e. تُزَفْرِفِينَ, having the second of the meanings expl. above in this sentence, or nearly so]. (K.) R. Q. 1 تَزَفْرَفَتْ: see the next preceding paragraph, last sentence.

زِفٌّ Small feathers of the ostrich, (S, K,) and (S, in the K “ or ”) of a bird (S, K) of any kind: (K:) or small feathers, like down, beneath the thickset feathers: (IDrd, O, TA:) accord. to some, only of the ostrich: (O, TA:) [pl., app., زِفَافٌ: see زَفَازِفُ.] One says أَلْيَنُ مِنْ زِفِّ النَّعَامِ [More soft than the small feathers of the ostrich]. (TA.) زَفَّةٌ (tropical:) A time; one time; syn. مَرَّةٌ: (K:) one says, جِئْتُهُ زَفَّةً, or زَفَّتَيْنِ, (tropical:) I came to him once, or twice. (TA.) A single act of زَفِيف [i. e. hastening, or going quickly]. (TA. [This seems to be the primary signification.]) زُفَّةٌ A company, or congregated body, of men. (O, K.) Hence the saying of the Prophet to Bilál, on the occasion of the marriage of Fátimeh, أَدْخِلِ النَّاسَ عَلَىَّ زُفَّةً زُفَّةً, meaning Bring thou in the people to me company after company. (O, TA.) زَفَفٌ, in a male ostrich, The quality of having abundant and dense زِفّ, i. e. small feathers. (S, K.) زَفُوفٌ: see زَفْزَفٌ. b2: Hence it is applied to a she-camel, as being likened to an ostrich in her quickness; (TA;) meaning [Quick: or] good in pace, and quick. (Ham p. 750.) And الزَّفُوفُ is the name of a certain horse that belonged to Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir. (O.) b3: Also A twanging bow. (TA.) زَفِيفٌ (S, K) and ↓ أَزَفُّ and ↓ زِفَّانِىٌّ, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) or ↓ زِفَّانٌ, without ى, (L, TA,) Quick, (Ibn-'Abbád, S, L, K,) like ذَفِيفٌ, (S,) and light. (L, TA. [In the CK the explanation is omitted.]) A2: It is also an inf. n.: (S, K, &c.:) or a simple subst. (Msb.) [See 1, in several places.) زِفَّانٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

زِفَّانِىُّ: see the next preceding paragraph.

زَفْزَفٌ and ↓ زَفْزَافٌ [the latter of which is omitted in the CK] A wind that blows violently, with continuance; as also ↓ زَفْزَافَةٌ, (K, TA,) or زَفْزَفَةٌ: (CK:) or ↓ زَفْزَافَةٌ and زَفْزَفٌ a wind making a moaning (حَنِين), and sounding among the trees: (S:) or زَفْزَفٌ a quick, or swift, wind: or زَفْزَفَةٌ and ↓ زَفْزَافَةٌ and ↓ زَفْزَافٌ a violent wind, having a زَفْزَفَة, i. e. sounding: the pl. of زَفْزَفٌ is زَفَازِفُ. (TA.) b2: Also, (i. e. the first and second words,) Light [in motion or action]. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) b3: And The ostrich; (K;) so called because of his lightness of pace; or because of his زَفْزَفَة, meaning his moving [or flapping] of his wings when running; (TA;) and so ↓ زَفُوفٌ. (K.) زَفْزَافٌ, and with ة: see the next preceding paragraph, in five places.

زَفَازِفُ pl. of زَفْزَفٌ. b2: It is also used by a Hudhalee poet [app. referring to birds] as meaning ذَوَاتُ زِفَافٍ [i. e., supposing زِفَاف to be pl. of زِفٌّ, agreeably with analogy, Having small, downy, feathers]. (TA.) زَافٌّ act. part. n. of زَفَّ in the phrase زَفَّ العَرُوسَ: fem. with ة: pl. of the latter زَوَافُّ.

Hence,] زَحَفَتْ زَوَافُّهَا, a phrase mentioned by Lh, meaning اللَّوَاتِىزَفَفْنَهَا [i. e. The women who conducted her to her husband walked along gently]. (TA.) أَزَفُّ A male ostrich having abundant and dense زِفّ, i. e. small feathers. (S, K.) b2: See also زَفِيفٌ.

مِزَفَّةٌ A [vehicle of the kind called] مِحَفَّةٌ in which, or upon which, the bride is sent [or conducted] to her husband. (Kh, S, K.) مَزْفُوفٌ pass. part. n. of زَفَّ in a sense not mentioned, and perhaps not used. Hence,] بَاتَ مَزْفُوفًا a phrase meaning بات تُزَفْزِفُهُ الرِّيحُ [i. e. He passed the night made to tremble, or quake, by the wind]. (TA.)

يد

يَدٌ The arm, from the shoulder-joint to the extremities of the fingers. (Msb.) b2: [The foreleg of a horse, &c.] b3: يَدٌ بَيْضَآءُ: see أَبْيَضُ, in two places, near the end of the paragraph. b4: يَدٌ A sleeve: see R. Q. 1 in art. ذب. b5: يَدُ القَوْسِ: see رِجْلٌ, in two places. b6: طِوَالُ الأَيْدِ for الأَيْدِى: see ثَمَانِيَةٌ. b7: أَعْطَاهُ عَنْ يَدٍ, as occurring in the Kur, ix., 29, He gave it in acknowledgement of the superiority of the receiver; that the power (يَدْ) of the latter was superior to that of the giver: or, because of favour received; or, from subjection and abasement: (M:) or, from compulsion: (A 'Obeyd, T:) or, obediently: or, walking with it; not riding, nor sending it: or, in ready money. (TA.) b8: أَسْلَمَ عَلَى يَدَىْ فُلَانٍ

He became a Muslim by the advice and persuasion of such a one. (Marg. note in a copy of the Jámi' es-Sagheer, on a trad. commencing مَنْ

أَسْلَمَ.) b9: أَخَذتُّ عِنْدَهُ يَدًا: see art. اخذ. b10: لِفُلَانٍ عِنْدِى يَدٌ I owe such a one a benefit. b11: عَلَى يَدِهِ By his agency, or means. See the corresponding expression in Hebrew, in Ps. lxiii. 11, Jer. xviii. 21, and Ezek. xxxv. 5, in the phrase “ to pour out (the blood of) a person by means of the sword. ” b12: وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ (Kur, ii. 191): see ب (used redundantly). b13: لا آتِيهِ يَدَ الدَّهْرِ, and يَدَ المُسْنَدِ I will not come to him, or do it, ever; I will never do it. (IAar, in I., voce مُسْنَدٌ.) See أَبَدٌ and جَدًا. b14: عَلَى يَدَىِ الخَيْرِ وَاليُمْنِ: see خَيْرٌ. b15: بِعْتُهُ يَدًا بِيَدٍ: see نَاجِزٌ. b16: You say, also, بَايَعْتُهُ يَدًا بِيَدٍ, the two nouns being only thus used, as a denotative of state, I contracted a sale with him for ready money; i. q. بِالتَّعْجِيلِ وَالنَّقْدِ. (Mgh.) b17: لَكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذَا [or يَدَىَّ?] يَدِىَّ is like عَلَىَّ لك ان يكون كذا. (Aboo-Sahl El-Harawee, TA in art. حبق.) b18: أُتِىَ عَلَى يَدِ فُلَانٍ: see أَتَى. b19: أَوَّلَ ذِى يَــدَيْنِ and ذَاتِ يَــدَيْنِ: see art. ذو. b20: تَحْتَ يَدِهِ Under his authority. b21: يَدٌ (assumed tropical:) Generosity. (A, voce شَبْرٌ) مَيْدِىٌّ A gazelle whose fore-leg is caught in a snare: see مَرْجُولٌ.

عقرب

Q. 1 عَقْرَبَ He twisted, wreathed, curled, curved, or bent, a thing. (MA.) A2: [And, accord. to Freytag, He imitated the scorpion in acting: but for this he names no authority; and I doubt its correctness: see the next paragraph.]Q. 2 تَعَقْرَبَ [It was crisp and curved; said of a lock of hair hanging down upon the temple: so accord. to Reiske, as mentioned by Freytag. b2: And He acted like 'Akrab; a man notorious for putting off the fulfilment of his promises; as is said in the TA in the present art.]. (A and TA in art. عرقب: see Q. 2 in that art.) عَقْرَبٌ [The scorpion;] a certain venomous reptile, (TA,) well known: (K, TA:) the word is masc. (TA) and it is fem., (S, O, K, TA,) generally the latter; (T, Msb, TA;) but is applied to the male and the female: (Lth, T, O, Msb, TA:) and the male is called ↓ عُقْرُبَانٌ, (T, S, O, Msb, K, TA,) accord. to some, (O,) when one desires to denote it in a corroborative manner, (Msb, TA,) and ↓ عُقْرُبَّانٌ also; (K;) or these two words are syn. with عَقْرَبٌ: (K:) and the female is called ↓ عَقْرَبَةٌ, (T, S, O, Msb, K,) sometimes, (T, Msb,) and ↓ عَقْرَبَآءُ, which is imperfectly decl.; (S, O, K;) or these two words and عَقْرَبٌ, accord. to the “ Tahreer et-Tembeeh,” all denote the female, and the male is called ↓ عُقْرُبَانٌ: (TA:) or, as some say, the male and the female are called only عَقْرَبٌ: (Msb, TA:) and of ↓ عُقْرُبَانٌ it is said by IB, on the authority of AHát, that it does not signify the male of عَقَارِب, but [as expl. below] “ a certain creeping thing, having long legs: ” (TA:) IJ says that you may drop the ا and ن, and say ↓ عُقْرُرَّان: (L, TA:) and an instance occurs of ↓ عَقْرَابٌ, as a coll. gen. n., in the following verse: أَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنَ العَقْرَابِ اَلشَّائِلَاتِ عُقَدَ الأَذْنَابِ [I seek protection by God from the scorpions raising the joints of the tails]: but the ا here is said to be inserted for the purpose of what is termed الإِشْبَاع: (MF, from the “ Mukhtasar el-Bayán: ”) and الشائلات is applied as an epithet to a sing. n. because this is used as a coll. gen. n.: (M voce سَبْسَبٌ:) the pl. of عَقْرَبٌ is عَقَارِبُ. (S, O.) b2: And [hence] العَقْرَبُ is the name of (assumed tropical:) A certain sign of the Zodiac, (T, S, O, K,) [i. e. Scorpio,] to which belong the Mansions of the Moon called الشَّوْلَةُ and القَلْبُ [and الإِكْلِيلُ] and الزُّبَانَيَانِ. (T, TA. [See these words, and see also شِيبَانُ, and مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ in art. نزل. It should also be observed that the Arabs extended the figure of this constellation (as they did that of Leo) far beyond the limits that we assign to it.]) b3: [Hence, likewise,] عَقْرَبٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) A thong, or strap, of a sandal, (O, K, TA,) in the form of the reptile of this name. (TA.) [See also عَقْرَبَة.]

b4: And (assumed tropical:) A thong, or strap, (O, K,) plaited, and having a buckle at its extremity, (O,) by which the crupper of a horse, or the like, is bound to the saddle. (O, K.) b5: And the pl. عَقَارِبُ signifies also (tropical:) Malicious and mischievous misrepresentations, calumnies, or slanders. (O, K, TA.) One says, إِنَّهُ لَتَدِبُّ عَقَارِبُهُ (tropical:) Verily his malicious and mischievous misrepresentations, &c., creep along: (TA:) or he traduces, or defames, people behind their backs, or otherwise. (O, K.) and the phrase دَبَّتْ عَقَارِبُهُ is sometimes used to signify (tropical:) His downy hair crept [along his cheeks]. (MF.) b6: And (tropical:) Reproaches for benefits conferred: so in the saying of En-Nábighah, عَلَىَّ لِعَمْرٍو نِعْمَةٌ بَعْدَ نِعْمَةٍ

لِوَالِدِهِ لَيْسَتْ بِذَاتِ عَقَارِبِ (tropical:) [I owe unto 'Amr favour after favour, for his father, not accompanied by reproaches for benefits conferred]. (TA.) b7: And (assumed tropical:) Hardships, severities, difficulties, troubles, or distresses. (K.) عَقَارِبُ الشِّتَآءِ means (assumed tropical:) The hardships, severities, &c., of winter: (TA:) or the intense cold thereof: (O, K:) and عَقْرَبُ الشِّتَآءِ, accord. to IB, the assault, and intense cold, of winter. (TA.) And عَيْشٌ ذُو عَقَارِبَ means (assumed tropical:) An uneasy life: or a life in which is evil and roughness. (TA.) b8: See also the next paragraph.

عَقْرَبَةٌ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence. b2: Also (assumed tropical:) An iron thing like the كُلَّاب [or flesh-hook], which is suspended, or attached, to the horse's saddle. (O, K.) b3: And, of a sandal, (assumed tropical:) The knots of the [thong, or strap, called] شِرَاك [q. v.]. (TA.) b4: And, (O, K,) thus in all the copies of the K, and in the handwriting of Ibn-Mektoom, but in the L ↓ عَقْرَب, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) An intelligent female slave, who does much service, or work. (O, L, K, TA.) عَقْرَبَآءُ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence.

عُقْرُبَانٌ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence, in three places. b2: Also, [or it has this meaning only, as stated above, voce عَقْرَبٌ,] A certain creeping thing, having long legs, and the tail of which is not like that of the عَقْرَب [or scorpion]: (S, IB, O, TA:) or a small creeping thing that enters the ear; long, yellow, and having many legs: (TA:) i. q. دَخَّالُ الأُذُنِ [an appellation now applied to the earwig]; (Az, K;) and (K) so ↓ عُقْرُبَّانٌ. (O, K.) عُقْرُبَانَة: see مُعَقْرَبٌ.

عُقْرُبٌّ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence.

عُقْرُبَّانٌ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence: b2: and عُقْرُبَانٌ.

عَقْرَابٌ: see عَقْرَبٌ, first sentence.

مُعَقْرَبٌ [Twisted, wreathed, curled,] curved, or bent. (K.) A صُدْغ [or lock of hair hanging down upon the temple curled, or] curved, or having one part turned upon another. (S, O.) b2: And Strong and compact in make: (K:) or مُعَقْرَبُ الخَلْقِ, applied to a wild ass, compact and strong in make. (O.) b3: Also, and ↓ ذُو عُقْرُبَانَةٍ, One who aids, or assists, much, or well, (O, * K, * TA,) and resists attack: (K:) or an aider who resists attack with energy. (MF.) مَكَانٌ مُعَقْرِبٌ A place having in it scorpions (عَقَارِب). (S, O.) And أَرْضٌ مُعَقْرِبَةٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and مَعْقَرَةٌ, (S, O, * K,) the latter as though formed from عَقْرَبٌ after reducing it to three letters, (S,) A land in which are scorpions: (S, O, Msb:) or a land abounding with scorpions. (K.)