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أ1 نَدَأَ, aor. ـَ He hated a thing: or it is a mistake for نَذَأَ. (As, S, K.) A2: نَدَأَ, (S, K,) aor. ـَ inf. n. نَدْءٌ (TA) He cast flesh-meat into the fire: (K:) or he buried it, (S, K,) or a cake of bread, (S,) in hot ashes, (S, K, TA,) that it might become thoroughly cooked, or baked. (S.) A3: نَدَأَ, (K,) inf. n. نَدْءٌ, (TA,) He frightened. (K.) A4: نَدَأَ He cast a person upon the ground. (K.) A5: نَدَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ He came forth upon them. (K.) A6: نَدَأَ المَلَّةَ He made, or prepared, the kind of fire called ملّة. (K.) Q. Q. 1 نَوْدَأَ, inf. n. نَوْدَأَةٌ, He ran, with a slack pace: syn. عَدَا. (K.) نَدْأَةٌ: see نُدْأَةٌ.

نُدْأَةٌ and ↓ نَدْأَةٌ Abundance of wealth, or of camels, or sheep &c.: (S, K:) like نُدْهَةٌ and نَدْهَةٌ: (S:) by some explained as consisting of twenty sheep or goats. (MF.) A2: Also, both words, The rainbow: (S, K:) also called ↓ نَدِىْءٌ. (K.) b2: Also, both words, A redness in the clouds towards the setting or rising of the sun: (K:) or a redness by the side of the sun at its rising or setting: (TA:) or, by the side of the place of its rising or setting: (T:) also called ↓ نَدِىْءٌ. (K.) b3: Also, both words, A halo, or circle, round the sun or moon. (K.) b4: Also, the former word, نُدْأَةٌ, (tropical:) A streak in flesh-meat, differing in colour from the rest: (K:) such a streak in the flesh of a slaughtered camel: (T:) and, in the dual, two streaks inside the two thighs, having over them a thin, white, sinewy substance, resembling a spider's web, divided, one from the other, by a single muscle, and thus appearing like two muscles: asserted by more than one to be tropical. (TA.) b5: What is above the navel, in a horse. (K.) A3: A woollen thing, (TA,) also called دُرْجَة, which is stuffed into the tuel of a she-camel, [and into her vulva, as explained voce دُرْجَة,] and which is afterwards taken out when she has taken a liking for another camel's colt, (K,) or for the stuffed skin of a camel's colt prepared for her. (IAar.) [See دُرْجَة for a more full explanation.]

A4: One of several parts or portions of scattered herbage: (like نُفْأَةٌ: (TA:) also called ↓ نُدَأَةٌ: pl. نُدَأٌ. (K.) نُدَأَةٌ: see preceding sentence.

نَدِىْءٌ, a subst., like طَبِيخٌ, [or rather an epithet in which the quality of a substantive predominates,] Flesh-meat, or bread, cooked, or baked, by being buried in hot ashes. (IAth, S.) لَحْمٌ نَدِىْءٌ Flesh-meat cooked, or baked, &c. (TA.) b2: [See also نَدْأَةٌ, in two places.]

نعب

1 نَعَبَ, aor. ـَ and نَعِبَ, inf. n. نَعْبٌ and نَعِيبٌ (S, K) and نُعَابٌ (K) and نَعَبَانٌ and تَنْعَابٌ (S, K) He (a raven, or crow, غُرَاب,) uttered a cry, cried out, or croaked: (S:) or uttered the cry, or croak, that is asserted to be ominous of separation: [but see below:] or moved about his head without crying: (Msb:) he (a raven, or crow, or other animal,) cried out: or stretched out his neck, and moved about his head, in crying out. (K.) The نَعِيب of the raven, or crow, is said to be ominous of good; and its نَعِيق, of evil. (Kifáyet el-Mutahaffidh.) b2: نَعِيبٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The neighing of a horse. (TA.) b3: نَعَبَ الدِّيكُ (tropical:) [The cock crowed] is sometimes said, metaphorically. (S.) b4: نَعَبَ المُؤَذِّنُ (tropical:) The chanter of the call to prayer stretched out his neck, and moved about his head, in his cry. (A, L, K.) b5: نَعَبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَعْبٌ, He (a camel, K) went with a quick pace: (S, K:) or, with a certain kind of pace; (K:) or he (a camel) moved about his head, in proceeding at a quick rate; like a بُخْتِى camel, raising his head: (TA:) or, inf. n. نَعَبَانٌ, he stretched out his neck. (A.) Accord. to some, نَعْبٌ signifies The moving of a she-camel's head forwards in her march, or pace. [S, accord to an excellent copy, in which the original words are thus given: يُقَالُ إِنَّ النَّعْبَ تَحَرُّكُ رَأْسِهَا الخ: in another copy تُحَرّكُ رَأْسَهَا; making نَعْب an epithet of a she-camel that so moves her head.]4 انعب (assumed tropical:) He (a man) cried out, or stretched out his neck and moved about his head, in disturbances, broils, or the like: syn. نَعَبَ فِى الفِتَنِ. (TA.) رِيحٌ نَعْبٌ A rapid wind. (K.) نَعُوبٌ: see نَاعِبَةٌ.

نَعَّابٌ The young one of a raven, or crow: syn فَرْخُ غُرَابٍ: or a raven, or crow, [absolutely]: syn. عُرَابٌ. In a prayer of David occur the words يَا رَازِق النَّعَّابِ فِى عُشِّهِ [O Sustainer of the young raven (or young crow) in his nest!]. It is said that the young raven (or young crow), when it comes forth from its egg, is white, like a lump of fat, and that the old bird, on seeing it, dislikes and abandons it; that thereupon God sends to it gnats, which light upon it on account of its foul greasy smell, and that it lives upon them until it is fledged and becomes black, when its parents return to it. (L.) نَعَّابَةٌ: see نَاعِبَةٌ.

نَاعِبَةٌ (K) and ↓ نَعُوبٌ and ↓ نَعَّابَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ مِنْعَبٌ (so in the correct copies of the K: in the L, مِنْعَبَةٌ: accord. to MF, مُنْعِبٌ: TA) A swift she-camel: (S, K:) pl. of the first, and of [the masc. epithet] نَوَاعِبُ, نَاعِبٌ and نُعَّبٌ: and of نعوب, نُعُبٌ. (TA.) [The last pl. is the only one mentioned in the S, K, which do not point out its proper sing.] See also نَعْبٌ in 1.

مِنْعَبٌ An excellent, fleet horse, (S, K,) that stretches out his neck like the raven, or crow: and (or accord. to some, TA) one that follows his own way, heedless of the bridle, [app., lowering his head, and stretching out his neck,] syn. الذى يَسْطُو بِرَأْسِهِ, (K,) without any increase in the rate of his run. (TA.) b2: See نَاعِبَةٌ. b3: A stupid, or foolish, and clamourous man. (K.)

نفخ

1 نَفَخَ بِفَمِهِ, (K,) aor. ـُ [accord, to Golius and Freytag, incorrectly, نَفَخَ; see Kur, iii. 43, &c.] inf. n. نَفْخٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ نفّخ, (K,) inf. n. تَنْفِيخٌ; (TA;) He blew with his mouth; sent forth wind from his mouth; (K;) this is done in taking rest, and in labour or exertion, and the like. (L.) نَفَخَ is mostly used as a neut. v.; but sometimes it is trans., as many have asserted: you say نَفَخَ الصُّورَ, as well as نَفَخَ فِيهِ, He blew the trumpet, or blew into the trumpet: (MF, TA:) نَفَخَهُ is a dial. form of نَفَخَ فِيهِ: (S:) also, نَفَخَ فِى النَّارِ [he blew the fire; or blew into the fire]: [see 8 (last sentence) in art. قوت:] and نَفَخَ فى

الزِّقِّ [he blew into, or inflated, the skin]: and sometimes one says نَفَخَهُ. (Msb.) نُفْخُوا occurs in a verse of El-Katámee for نُفِخُوا. (S.) b2: نَفَخَ الشَّيْطَانُ فِى أَنْفِهِ (assumed tropical:) [The devil blew into his nose]: said of him who aspires to that which is not for him. (TA.) b3: نَفَخَ شِدْقَيْهِ (tropical:) [He inflated, or puffed out, the sides of his mouth; meaning] he was proud, or affected pride. (A.) b4: نَفَخَهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَفْخٌ, It (food) inflated him, or filled him. (L.) b5: نَفِخَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. (L) نَفَخٌ, (S, L,) He (a man, S, and a horse, L) had inflated testicles. (S, L.) b6: Also, He (a beast of carriage) had his pasterns inflated with wind. When a beast thus affected walks, the humour subsides. (L.) b7: نَفَخَ نِهَا Pepedit; crepitum ventris emisit. (S, K.) b8: نَفَخَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind came suddenly. (L.) b9: نَفَخَتْ بِهِمُ الطَّرِيقُ (tropical:) The road cast [or brought] them suddenly [to a place]: from نفخت الريح. (L.) A2: نَفَخَتِ الضُّحَى, inf. n. نَفْخٌ, (tropical:) The morning became advanced, and the sun high. (L, K.) You say also النَّهَارُ ↓ انتفخ (tropical:) The day became advanced, the sun being high, (S, L,) an hour before noon. (L.) 2 نَفَّخَ see 1.5 تَنَفَّخَ see 8.8 انتفخ It (a thing, S, as a skin, Msb,) became inflated, or puffy; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ تنفّخ: (A:) also, it became swollen; i. q. وَرِمَ. (K, art. ورم.) b2: انتفخ He became inflated, or filled, by food. (L.) See 1. b3: إِنْتِفَاخُ الأَهِلَّةِ (tropical:) The bigness [or swelling] of the new moons. Occurring in a trad. respecting the signs of the last day. (L.) [See انتفج.]

b4: انتفخ عَلَىَّ (assumed tropical:) [He became inflated against me; i. e.] he was angry with me. (TA.) And انتفخ لَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He behaved angrily to him]. (TA in art. زحر.) نَفْخٌ [Flatulence. b2: And hence,] (tropical:) Boastfulness; arrogance; pride; (S, K;) [inflation with pride]: pride was termed by Mohammad نَفْخُ الشَّيْطَانِ. (TA, art. همز.) b3: رَجُلٌ ذُو نَفْخٍ, as also ذو نَفْجِ, (tropical:) A boastful, arrogant, proud man; (S;) [a man inflated with pride].

نُفُخٌ (assumed tropical:) A young man (TA) full of youthfulness [or youthful plumpness or vigour]; (K;) and so, without ة, a damsel. (TA.) نَفْخَةٌ and نُفْخَةٌ and نِفْخَةٌ Inflation of the belly (S, K) by food &c. (TA.) You say بِهِ نفخةٌ He has an inflation of the body: (K:) and أَجِدُ نفخةً I experience an inflation of the body. (S.) b2: [And A flatulent humour of any kind: a meaning well known.] b3: النَّفْخَةُ The blast [of the horn] of the day of resurrection. (L.) b4: نَفْخَةٌ A slight odour: differing from نَفْحَةٌ, which is a plenteous odour. (L.) b5: نَفْخَةُ الشَّبَابِ (tropical:) The chief part of youth. (L.) نَفْخَةُ الرَّبِيعِ (tropical:) The time of the season called الربيع when the earth produces herbs, or herbage: (A:) or نُفْخَةُ الربيع, and نِفْخَتُهُ, the time of that season when vegetation has ended. (Az:) b6: نُفْخَةٌ A disease that attacks a horse, and makes his testicles to swell. (L.) b7: See نُفَّاخٌ.

نَفْخَآءُ (applied to land, or ground, S) i. q. نَبْخَآءُ: (S, L, K:) or elevated and good or fertile ground, in which is no sand nor stones, producing a few trees; and so نَهْدَآءُ, except that this latter is more flat and extensive: or soft land, in which is elevation: (L:) or tumid earth, that breaks in pieces when trodden upon: (TA, voce رَخَّآءُ:) pl. نَفَاخِىُّ: it has a form of pl. proper to substs, because it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) b2: نَفْخَآءُ The upper part of the bone of the ساق [or shank, or tibia]. (K.) نَفِيخٌ One who is employed to blow a fire. (K.) نُفَّاخٌ An inflation of a humour occasioned by disease, (T, K,) arising in any part: (T:) a humour; as also ↓ نَفْخَةٌ. (L.) b2: See نُفَّاخَةٌ.

نُفَّاخَةٌ A bubble upon water. (L, K [but in some copies of the K, for الحَجَاةُ is erroneously put الحجارة.]) b2: [The air-bladder of a fish;] an inflated thing in the belly of a fish, which is (as they assert, L,) its نِصَاب [app. meaning its most essential part, or element,] by means of which it rises in the water, and moves to and fro. (L, K.) b3: A bladder of a plant (S, O, L, voce قَتَادٌ, &c.) N. un. of نُفَّاخٌ (AHn, in TA, voce عُشَّرٌ.) [And in anatomy, A cell.]

مَا بِالدَّارِ نَافِخُ ضَرَمَةٍ [There is not in the house a blower of a fire; i. e.,] there is not in the house any one. (S.) b2: نَافِخٌ حِضْنَيْهِ [A man inflating, or puffing out, his sides;] inflated, and ready to do mischief, or evil. (L, from a trad.) أَنْفَخُ A man, (S, L, K,) and a horse, (L,) having inflated testicles: (S, L, K:) syn. of آدَرُ. (Mgh, in art, ادر.) b2: Also, A beast of carriage having his pasterns inflated with wind: see نَفِخَ. (L.) رَجُلٌ أُنْفُخَانٌ, and إِنْفِخَانٌ, and أُنْفُخَانِىٌّ, and إِنْفِخَانِىٌّ, fem. with ة, (assumed tropical:) A man full of fat; (K;) inflated with flaccid fat, and so ↓ رحل مَنْفُوخٌ; pl. مَنْفُوخُوَن. (TA.) مِنْفَخٌ: see what follows.

مِنْفَاخٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ مِنْفَخٌ (Msb) The instrument with which a fire is blown; (Msb, K:) a blacksmith's bellows: the thing with which a fire or other thing is blown: (L:) the thing into which one blows. (S.) See also كيرٌ b2: مِنْفَاخُ الرَّاعِى The instrument [i. e. reed-pipe] of the pastor, with which he calls together the camels. (A, TA, voce شِيَاعٌ.) مَنَافِخُ الشَّيْطَانِ (assumed tropical:) The suggestions of the devil (TA.) مَنْفُوخٌ (assumed tropical:) Big-bellied; (K, TA;) [inflated in the belly]. b2: Also, (K,) ↓ مُنْتَفِخٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) Fat; as an epithet; (A, K;) [inflated, or swollen, with fat]. See أُنْفِخَانٌ. b3: مَنْفُوخٌ (tropical:) A coward: so called because he swells out his lungs. (L.) مُنْتَفِخٌ (tropical:) A man inflated, or puffed, or filled, with pride, and with anger. (L.) See مَنْفُوخٌ.

نضد

1 نَضَدَ, aor. ـِ (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. نَضْدٌ; (S, L, Msb;) and ↓ نضّد, (L, K,) inf. n. تَنْضِيدٌ; (S, L;) or the latter has an intensive signification; (S, L;) He put goods, household-goods, or commodities, (مَتَاع, S, L, K,) one upon another: (S, L, Msb, K:) or put, or set, them together, (T, A, L,) in regular order, or piled up: (A:) both verbs signify the same: (L, K:) or the latter, he put them one upon another [or side by side] compactly. (S, L.) b2: [You say,] نَضَدْتُ اللَبِنَ عَلَى المَيِّتِ [I placed the crude bricks in order against the corpse, to support it; as it is laid upon its right side, or so inclined that the face is towards Mekkeh]. (L.) 2 نضّد, inf. n. تَنْضِيدٌ, He [God] made a person's teeth to be disposed in regular order. (A.) b2: See 1.5 تنضّدت الأَسْنَانُ The teeth were disposed in regular order. (A.) 8 انتضد, [quasi-pass. of 1, It was put, or set, one part upon, or beside, another, in regular order; was piled up, or became piled up]. (K, art. فقر.) b2: انتضد (tropical:) It (a people, A) remained, stayed, abode, or dwelt, in a place; (A, K;) and collected there. (A.) نَضَدٌ Goods, household-goods, or commodities, put one upon another: (S, L, K:) or, put, or set, together, (A, L,) in regular order, or piled up: (A:) or the best thereof: (L, K:) or such things in general: but the first meaning is the most appropriate: (L:) pl. أَنْضَادٌ. (S, L.) b2: رَأَيْتُ نَضَدًا مِنَ الثِّيَابِ والفُرُشِ I saw a number of garments, or pieces of cloth, and of beds, or the like, put together in regular order, or piled up. (A.) b3: See نَضِيدَةٌ. b4: نَضَدٌ A couch-frame, or a raised couch, (سَرِير,) upon which goods, householdgoods, or commodities, are put one upon another, (S, L, K,) or put, or set, together, in regular order, or piled up: (A, L:) or simply, a couchframe, or raised couch; (سرير;) so called because the things so termed are generally put upon it: (L, Msb:) or a مِشْجَب, or a thing resembling this, upon which garments and household-goods are put, one upon another, or together. (L.) b5: نَضَدٌ (tropical:) Glory; honour; dignity; might; or power; (A;) eminence; or nobility. (K.) b6: نَضَدٌ (tropical:) Eminent; or noble: (L, K:) applied to a man: pl. أَنْضَادٌ. (L.) b7: Also, (A, L,) and the pl., (S, A, L,) (tropical:) A man's paternal and maternal uncles (S, A, L) preëminent in nobility. (S, L.) b8: Also, the pl., (tropical:) The party, or company, (L, K,) and number, (A, L, K,) and auxiliaries, or assistants, (A,) of a people, (L, K,) or of a man: (A:) and the sing. and pl., companies, or congregated bodies, of men. (A.) b9: نَضَدٌ (tropical:) A fat she-camel; (K;) likened to a couch-frame, or a raised couch, upon which are the things termed نَضَد; (TA;) as also ↓ نَضُودٌ. (K.) b10: أَنْضَادٌ, of mountains, Stones, such as are called جَنَادِل, one upon another. (S, L, K.) Also, of clouds, Portions piled up, one above another: (S, L, K:) sing. نَضَدٌ. (L.) نَضُودٌ: see نَضَدٌ and نَضِيدٌ.

نَضِيدٌ and ↓ مَنْضُودٌ (Msb, K,) and ↓ مُنَضَّدٌ, [or the last has an intensive signification, as is shewn above,] Goods, household-goods, or commodities, (K,) put one upon another: (Msb, K:) [or put, or set, together, in regular order, or piled up: and the last, put one upon another, or side by side, compactly: see 1]. b2: طَلْعٌ نَضِيدٌ, in the Kur, [l. 10.] Spadices of palm-trees [having their flowers] compacted, or compactly disposed; (L;) yet in their envelopes; (Fr, L;) for when they have come forth therefrom they cease to be نضيد. (L.) b3: ↓ طَلْحٌ مَنْضُودٌ, in the Kur, [lvi. 28,] Gum-acacias having fruit or leaves closely set, one above another, from bottom to top, without their trunks being apparent below. (L.) b4: شَجَرُ الخَنَّةِ نَضِيدٌ مِنْ أَصْلِهَا إِلَى فَرْعِهَا The trees of paradise are closely set with leaves and fruit, one above another, from bottom to top, without having trunks apparent: (L, from a trad.:) and similarly ↓ نَضُودٌ (Jel, lvi. 20.) نَضِيدَةٌ A pillow: and any stuffed article of household furniture: (L, K:) pl. نَضَائِدُ: and ↓ نَضَدٌ is used as a coll. n. (L.) مَنُضُودٌ: see نَضِيدٌ.

دُرٌّ مُنَضَّدٌ Pearls arranged, or put together, in regular order. (A.) b2: See نَضِيدٌ.

جف

1 جَفَّ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) sec. Pers\. جَفَفْتَ, (K,) aor. ـِ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and يَجَفُّ, (S, K,) the latter aor. mentioned by Az, but rejected by Ks; (S;) and sec. Pers\. جَففْتَ, aor. ـَ (Sgh, Msb, K,) of the dial. of Benoo-Asad; (Msb;) inf. n. جَفَافٌ and جُفُوفٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) which are assigned by J and Sgh to جَفَّ aor. ـِ (TA;) It (a thing, Mgh, or a garment, S, Msb, K, and also said of other things, S) was, or became, dry; it dried, or dried up. (Mgh, Msb.) Hence the saying, مَنِ احْتَلَمَ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحَ عَلَى

جَفَافٍ He who experiences an emission of semen in sleep, then rises in the morning with what is on his garment, of the semen, dry. (Mgh.) and جَفَّ النَّهْرُ, an elliptical phrase, for جَفَّ مَآءُ النَّهْرِ [The water of the river dried up]. (Msb.) and فُلَانٌ لَا يَجِفُّ لِبْدُهُ Such a one does not remit, or become remiss, in his work, or labour: (TA:) or does not cease to go to and fro. (Har p. 589.) b2: جَفَّ, inf. n. جُفُوفٌ, said of a man, He was, or became, silent; he did not speak. (Msb.) A2: جَفَفْتُ الشَّىْءَ إِلَىَّ, aor. ـُ inf. n. جَفٌّ, I collected the thing to me. (Nawádir of Az, TA.) b2: جَفُّوا أَمْوَالَهُمْ They collected together their camels, and took them away. (Sgh, * K, * TA.) 2 جفّفهُ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. تَجْفِيفٌ (S, Msb, K) and تَجْفَافٌ, (K,) He dried it. (Msb, K.) A2: جفّف الفَرَسَ, (K,) inf. n. تَجْفِيفٌ, (S,) He clad, or attired, the horse with a تِجْفَاف. (S, K.) 5 تَجَفَّّ see R. Q. 2.8 إِجْتَفَ3َ اجتفّ مَا فِى الإِنَآءِ He consumed what was in the vessel; (K;) i. e., drank up all of it; as also اشتفّ. (TA.) R. Q. 2 تَجَفْجَفَ It (a garment, or piece of cloth), having been moist, dried so far as to retain some moisture: (S, K:) if it has dried entirely, you say of it, قَدْ قَفَّ: (S:) the verb is originally ↓ تجفّف; the medial ف being changed into ج: it is like تَبَشْبَشَ, originally تبشّش. (Lth, S.) جَفٌّ: see جَفَّةٌ.

جُفٌّ The spathe of the palm-tree; the envelope of the طَلْع; (AA, A'Obeyd, S, K;) as also جُبٌّ; (AA, TA;) or [in other words] the قِيقَآء of the طلع; (K;) i. e., the envelope that is with the وَلِيع: (Lth, K:) or, as some say, the envelope of the طلع when it has become dry: (TA:) pl. جُفُوفٌ. (A' Obeyd, TA.) [See جُبٌّ.] b2: A receptacle such as is termed وِعَآء that is not to be tied round at its mouth. (K, TA.) b3: An old, worn-out water-skin or milk-skin, of which half is cut off and made into a bucket: (S, K:) and sometimes it is made of the lower part of a palm-tree hollowed out: (Lth, S, K: *) or a thing that is hollowed out in (فِى [probably a mistranscription for مِن, i. e. of]) the trunks of palm-trees: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or a worn-out milk-skin or butter-skin: (IAar, TA:) or a water-skin, or milk-skin, of which part is cut off at the fore legs, and in which the beverage called نَبِيذ is prepared: (KT, TA:) or the lower half of a water-skin or milk-skin, made into a bucket: (IDrd, TA:) or a thing of camel's skin, like a vessel, or like a bucket, in which the rainwater is taken, holding half the quantity of a water-skin or the like. (TA.) b4: An old man; (K;) as being likened to an old, worn-out water-skin or milk-skin: mentioned in the L from ElHejeree, and by Sgh from Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) b5: Anything hollow, such as has something within it, like the nut, and the مَغْدَة [or fruit of the تَنْضُب, &c.: in the CK, the مَعِدَة]. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) b6: The body, or substance, (شَخْص,) of a thing. (TA.) b7: An obstruction that one sees between him and the kibleh. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) A2: هُوَ جُفُّ مَالٍ He is a good manager of cattle, (K,) acquainted with the art of pasturing them, and of collecting them at their proper time in the place of pasture. (TA.) A3: See also what next follows.

جَفَّةٌ (S, K) and ↓ جُفَّةٌ, (Sgh, K,) but the latter is rare, (Sgh,) and ↓ جُفٌّ (S, K) and ↓ جَفٌّ, (K,) A company of men or people; a collective body thereof: (Ks, S, K:) or a great number (K) thereof. (TA.) You say, دُعِيتُ فِى جَفَّةِ النَّاسِ [I was summoned, or invited, among the collective body of people]. (S.) And جَاؤُوا جَفّةً وَاحِدَةً (S, K) They came in one collective body. (K.) لَا نَفَلَ فِى غَنِيمَةٍ حَتَّى تُقْسَمَ جَفَّةً, (S, Mgh,) or ↓ جُفَّةً, (K,) means [There shall be no gift of spoil] until it is divided altogether: (S, Mgh, K:) a saying of Ibn-'Abbás: (S, Mgh:) accord. to one reading, ↓ عَلَى جُفَّتِهِ, i. e., [until it is divided] among the collective body of the army first. (K. [Golius (here copied by Freytag) appears to have read, لَا تَقُلْ فِى غَنَمٍ; and hence to have said, of جَفَّةٌ, erroneously, " de pecore non dicitur nisi totus grex sit."]) جُفَّةٌ: see what next precedes, in three places.

A2: Also A great دَلْو [or bucket]. (K.) جُفَافٌ What is dry of a thing that one has dried. (K.) You say, اِعْزِلْ جُفَافَهُ مِنْ رَطْبِهِ [Put thou apart what is dry thereof from what is fresh and moist thereof]. (TA.) جَفِيفٌ Dry herbs or herbage: (S, K:) or dry leguminous plants or herbs, of the kind that are eaten without being cooked: (TA:) or of this kind and of such as are thick and inclining to bitterness; as also قَفِيفٌ: (TA in art. قف:) or, as some say, ما ضمنت من الريح. (TA in the present art. [But what this means I know not; the verb being evidently mistranscribed.]) جُفَافَةٌ What has become scattered, or strewed, of dry herbage (حَشِيش) and of [the kind of trefoil called] قَتّ, (S, K, TA,) and the like. (TA.) تِجْفَافٌ A thing, (S, Mgh, Msb,) i. e. a kind of armour, (IAth, K,) [a cataphract,] with which a horse is clad, (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K,) in war, in the manner of a coat of mail, (Mgh, Msb,) to defend him from being wounded; (IAth;) and sometimes worn by a man, to defend him in war: (K:) of the measure تِفْعَالٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) the ت being augmentative, (Aboo-'Alee the Grammarian, S, IJ,) to render the word quasi-coordinate to the class of قِرْطَاسٌ; (IJ;) from جَفَّ, because of its hardness and toughness: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. تَجَافِيفُ (S, Mgh, Msb.) It is said in a trad., أَعِدَّ لِلْفَقْرِ تِجْفَافًا; and one says, اِلْبَسْ لِلْفَقْرِ تِجْفَافًا; [both] meaning, Make thou preparation for poverty. (TA.) مُتَجَفِّفٌ Having a تِجْفَاف upon his horse. (Mgh.)

غض

1 غَضَّ طَرْفَهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb, * TA,) [and يَغْضُضْ may be used, in the dial. of El-Hijáz, instead of its contracted form يَغُضَّ,] imp. غُضَّ, (S, A,) in the dial. of Nejd, (S,) and اُغْضُضْ, in the dial. of El-Hijáz, (S,) inf. n. غَضٌّ (Msb, K) and غِضَاضٌ, with kesr, (A, K,) and غَضَاضٌ and غَضَاضَةٌ, with fet-h, (K,) He lowered his eye, or eyes; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also غَضَّ مِنْ طَرْفِهِ; (Msb;) [the من being redundant, accord. to some; but see what is said on this point below:] and he contracted his eye, or eyes; syn. كَسَرَهُ; [so as to wrinkle the lids;] or he blinked; i. e. he contracted his eyelids, or drew them near together, and looked: [this signification is very common:] and he contracted (كَسَرَ) his eye, or eyes, and looked towards the ground, not opening his eye [or eyes]: and sometimes it indicates a state of abasement. (TA.) Also غَضَّ alone, inf. n. غَضَاضَةٌ, He contracted his eyelids; like أَغْضَى: he looked languishingly. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [xxiv. 30], قُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ, in which some of the grammarians hold من to be redundant; but the meaning is obvious, i. e. [Say thou to the believers] that they shall abridge their look, or view, from what is prohibited to them: (Sgh:) or that they shall restrain somewhat of their look, or view. (TA.) b2: [And hence,] (assumed tropical:) He bore with forgiveness and silence what was disagreeable, or hateful, or evil. (S, A, K.) b3: غَضَّ صَوْتَهُ, (Msb,) or مِنْ صَوْتِهِ, (S, TA,) or both, (Msb,) in like manner signifies He lowered his voice. (S, Msb.) It is said in the Kur [xxxi. 18], وَاغْضُضْ مِنْ صَوْتِكَ, (S, A,) i. e. And lower thy voice: or diminish the loudness of thy voice. (TA.) b4: غَضَّ مِنْ لِجَامِ فَرَسِهِ He lowered the rein of his horse, in order to lessen his sharpness of temper. (A, TA. *) b5: غَضَّ مِنْهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S, TA,) inf. n. غَضٌّ (Msb, TA) and غَضَاضَةٌ, (Msb,) He lowered and lessened his estimation, dignity, or rank: (S, K, TA:) or he detracted from his reputation; or attributed or imputed to him, charged him with, or accused him of, a vice, fault, or the like: (Msb:) and, inf. n. غَضَاضَةٌ, he disdained it, or scorned it; as also مِنْهُ ↓ اغتضّ. ('Alee Ibn-Hamzeh, TA.) b6: Also غَضَّهُ, (K,) aor. as above, inf. n. غَضٌّ, (TA,) He lessened it, diminished it, or made it defective or deficient; (K, TA;) and so ↓ غَضْغَضَهُ, (K,) inf. n. غَصْغَضَةٌ. (TA.) You say غَضَضْتُ السِّقَآءَ I lessened, diminished, or made defective or deficient, [the contents of] the skin. (Msb.) and المَآءَ ↓ غَضْغَضْتُ I lessened, &c., the water. (S.) And ↓ فُلَانٌ بَحْرٌ لَا يُغَضْغَضُ Such a one is a sea, or great river, that will not be lessened, &c.: (S:) or that will not become exhausted. (Har p. 418.) [See also R. Q. 1 below, and R. Q. 2.] and [you make the former verb doubly trans., saying,] مَا غَضَضْتُكَ شَيْئًا I have not abridged thee, deprived thee, or defrauded thee, of anything. (TA.) and لَا أَغُضُّكَ دِرْهَمًا I will not abridge thee, deprive thee, or defraud thee, of a dirhem. (TA.) You also say, غَضَّ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ He shortened the hair. (M in art. قصر.) And [in like manner] one says, غَضَّ مِنْ رَأْسِهِ, i. q. طَمَّ رَأْسَهُ. (K voce طَمَّ, q. v.) b7: Also He broke it (i. e. a branch, or stick, or the like,) but did not break it thoroughly; (L, K, TA;) and so ↓ غضّضهُ. (L, TA.) b8: And غَضَضْتُهُ also signifies I withheld, restrained, or prevented, it; whatever it were. (S.) [Hence the phrase in the Kur xxiv, 30, accord. to an explanation given above.] You say غَضَّ العَذْلَ, or المَلَامَةَ, aor. as above, inf. n. غَصٌّ, He withheld blame. (Lth.) And you say to a rider, in asking him to stop a little where you are, غُضَّ سَاعَةً, (TA,) and اُغْضُضْ لِى سَاعَةً, (A, TA,) i. e. Restrain for me thy beast, and stop, or pause, where I am, a while. (A, TA.) A2: غَضَّ, [first Pers\. غَضَضْتُ,] aor. ـِ (Msb;) or the first Pers\. is غَضِضْتُ and غَضَضْتُ, (S, K,) and the aor. of each is يَغَضُّ; (K;) or, accord. to the T, some say غَضِضْتَ, aor. ـَ and some say غَضَضْتَ, aor. ـَ (IB, TA;) but the latter of these requires consideration; (TA;) inf. n. غُضُوضَةٌ (IAar, S, K) and غَضَاضَةٌ; (S, K;) or the former only, accord to Alee Ibn-Hamzeh; but the saying بَضَاضَةٌ and بُضُوضَةٌ, to denote the quality of that which is termed بَضٌّ, strengthens what J says [in the S] with respect to غَضَاضَةٌ; (IB;) It (a thing) was, or became, fresh, juicy, sappy, moist, not flaccid. (S, Msb:) or flourishing and fresh; or luxuriant: (IAar:) or beautiful and bright: (K:) and غَضَّتْ, aor. ـِ and تَغَضُّ, inf. n. غَضَاضَةٌ and غُضُوضَةٌ, said of a woman, (tropical:) she was, or became, fine-skinned, or thin-skinned, so that the blood appeared [through the skin]. (Lh, TA.) 2 غضّض: see 1, latter half.

A2: Also, inf. n. تَغْضِيضٌ, He ate what is termed غَضّ, (K, TA,) i. e. the طَلْع [or spadix of a palm-tree]: (TA:) or he became thin-skinned, and plump, and soft, or tender: (O, K:) or he became affected with languor and abasement; (K, TA;) or, as in the Tekmileh, with softness, or tenderness. (TA.) 7 انغضّ الطَّرْفُ i. q. انْغَمَضَ: (S, TA:) [or the former more probably signifies The eye, or eyes, became contracted: and the latter, the eye, or eyes, became closed.]8 إِغْتَضَ3َ see 1, near the middle. R. Q. 1 غَضْغَضَهُ, inf. n. غَضْغَضَةٌ: see 1, near the middle, in three places.

A2: عَضْغَضَ [inf. n. as above] is also intrans. (TA.) See R. Q. 2. b2: It likewise signifies It (for instance a sea, or a large river, TA) became scanty, or little in quantity, and sank into the earth, or disappeared in the earth; or became scanty, or little in quantity; or decreased: (K, TA:) or went away. (TA.) In the TS, the inf. n. is expl. by غَيْظ, which is an abominable mistake for غَيْض. (TA.) b3: and غَضْغَضَةٌ also signifies A man's speaking indistinctly. (TA.) b4: And The boiling of a cooking-pot. (IKtt, TA.) R. Q. 2 تغَضْغَضَ It (water, and a sea, or great river, S) decreased, diminished, lessened, or became defective, or deficient; (S, K;) as also ↓ غَضْغَضَ, (TA,) inf. n. غَضْغَضَةٌ. (Msb.) Yousay, مَاتَ فُلَانٌ بِبِطْنَتِهِ لَمْ يَتَغَضْغَضْ مِنْهَا شَىْءٌ Such a one died with his property abundant, (S,) or complete; nothing thereof having been given away by him; a prov. relating to the death of the niggard. (A 'Obeyd.) And 'Amr Ibn-El-'As said, alluding to the death of Ibn-'Owf. خَرَجْتَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِبِطْنَتِكَ وَلَمْ تَتَغَضْغَضْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا, meaning Thou hast died with thy religion unimpaired: (A 'Obeyd:) i. e. he had not been occupied with any office of authority or administration where by his recompense might be diminished. (Az.) Yousay also مَطَرٌ لَا يَتَغَضْغَضُ Rain that will not cease (TA.) غَضٌّ Fresh; juicy; sappy: moist; not flaccid; (S, Msb, K;) applied to a thing, (S, Msb,) whatever it be; (TA;) as also ↓ غَضِيضً. (S. K,) Hence the trad. مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَقْرَأُ القُرْآنَ غَضًّا كَمَا نَزَلَ فَلْيَقْرَأْ قِرَآءَةَ ابْنِ أَمِّ عَبْدٍ [He who is rejoiced or pleased, to read the Kur-an freshly, who as it descended, let him read according to the reading of Ibn-Umm-'Abd]. (TA.) b2: A calf recently born: pl. غِضَاضٌ. (K.) b3: Anything (S) beautiful and bright; (S, K;,) as (assumed tropical:) youth, and the like: (S;) or غَضٌّ applied to youth, and غَضَّةٌ applied to a woman, (tropical:) i. q. بَضٌّ and بَضَّةٌ thinskinned, or fine-skinned, and plump: &c. j: (A:) or the latter, applied to a woman, (tropical:) thin-shinned, or fine-skinned, so that the blood appears [though the skin]; (Lh:) and ↓ غَضِيضَةٌ also is thus applied like غَضَّةٌ. (TA.) You say also, شَىْءٌ بَضٌّ غَضٌّ, and ↓ بَاضٌّ غَاضٌّ A thing fresh, &c., and beautiful and bright; [in a flourishing condition;] not changed, or altered [for the worse]. (TA.) and نَبْتُ غَضٌّ A [fresh and flourishing and] tender plant. (TA.) And ظِلٌّ غَضٌّ (assumed tropical:) Shade which the sun has not reached; like a plant which the sun has not reached. (TA.) b4: The spadix of a palm-tree; syn. طَلْعٌ; as also ↓ غَضِيضٌ: (IAar:) or both signify a tender طَلْع: (K:) or a tender طَلْع when it appears: (TA:) or the latter, a طَلْع when it appears: (As, S:) or the same, fruit when it first comes forth. (TA.) غُضَّةٌ: see غَضَاضَةٌ.

A2: Also A sufficiency of the means of subsistence; like غُبَّةٌ. (TA in art. غب.) غَضِيضٌ, applied to an eye, or eyes, (طَرْف,) Lowered: (A, TA:) contracted: having the lids contracted, or drawn near together, and so looking: contracted, and looking towards the ground: (TA:) languishing: (K, TA:) and so ↓ مَغْضُوضٌ, in all these senses: (TA:) and the former, so applied, [and app. the latter also,] having the eyelids relaxed, or flaccid. (TA.) You say, ظَبْىٌ غَضِيضُ الطَّرْفِ A gazelle having languishing eyes. (S.) And إِنَّكَ لغَضِيضُ الطَّرْفِ نَقِىُّ الظرْفِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [Verily] thou art faithful, not treacherous; by الظَّرْف being meant وِعَاؤُهُ. (TA.) b2: [Lowered and lessened in estimation, dignity, or rank: (see غَضَّ مِنْهُ:)] defective or deficient [in good qualities]; (K;) and, in consequence thereof, (TA,) low, mean, or vile: (A, K:) pl. أَغِضَّةٌ (K) and أَغِضَّآءُ. (TA.) b3: Lessened; diminished; made defective or deficient. (TA.) A2: See also غَضٌّ, in three places.

غَضَاضَةٌ, [an inf. n., of which the verb is not mentioned in senses agreeing with those here following,] (S, A, K,) and ↓ غَضِيضَةٌ and ↓ مَغَضَّةٌ (IAar, K) and ↓ غُضَّةٌ, (Ibn- 'Abbád, K,) A defect, an imperfection, a fault, a vice, or the like: and lowness, meanness, or vileness: (S, A, Mgh, K:) and the first, [or all,] languor, or want of power. (TA.) You say, لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ غَضَاضَةٌ There is not, or will not be, charged against thee, in, or with respect to, this affair, lowness, &c.; or any defect, &c.; (S, TA;) or languor, or want of power. (TA.) And ↓ مَا أَرَدْتُ بِدٰلِكَ غَضِيضَةَ فُلَانٍ, and ↓ مَغَضَّتَهُ, I desired not, or meant not, thereby, to attribute any defect, imperfection, fault, vice, or the like, to such a one. (IAar.) غَضِيضَةٌ: see غَضَاضَةٌ, in two places.

غَاضٌّ: see غَضٌّ.

مَغَضَّةٌ: see غَضَاضَةٌ, in two places.

مَغْضُوضٌ: see غَضِيضٌ.

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.)

عرقب

Q. 1 عَرْقَبَ الدَّابَّةَ He hocked, houghed, hamstrung, or cut the hock-tendon of, the beast. (S, A, O, K, *) b2: And عَرْقَبَهُ He raised his hocks, (namely, a camel's, O,) in order that he might stand up: (O, K:) he assisted him (i. e. a camel) to stand up, by raising [his hocks]. (TA.) Thus the verb has two contr. meanings. (K.) b3: and عَرْقَبَ (assumed tropical:) He practised artifice, craft, or cunning. (O, K.) One says, إِذَا أَعْيَاكَ غَرِيمُكَ فَعَرْقِبْ (assumed tropical:) [When thy debtor wearies thee,] practise artifice, &c. (AA, O, TA.) Q. 2 تَعَرْقَبَ He mounted a beast from behind. (O, TA.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) He took his course along the narrow roads, or ways, of the mountain, which are called عَرَاقِيب. (S, O, K.) b3: And تعرقب لِخَصْمِهِ (assumed tropical:) He pursued a way hidden from his adversary: said when one adopts another and easier course of speech. (TA.) b4: And تعرقب عَنِ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) He turned away, or declined, from the affair. (K.) b5: إِذَا مَطَلَ تَعَقْرَبَ وَإِذَا وَعَدَ تَعَرْقَبَ (assumed tropical:) [When he puts off the fulfilment of his promise, he acts like 'Akrab (a man notorious for putting off the fulfilment of his promises); and when he promises, he acts like 'Orkoob] (A, TA) is a prov. (TA. [See the following paragraph, last sentence but one.]) عُرْقُوبٌ [The tendo Achillis, or heel-tendon;] a certain tense, (T, A, Mgh, Msb,) or thick, (K,) or thick and tense, (S, O,) tendon, (T, S, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) behind the two ankle-bones, (T, A, Mgh, Msb,) above the heel; (S, O, K;) the thing that conjoins the shank and the foot; (As, TA;) in a human being: (S, O, K:) pl. عَرَاقِيبُ. (TA, &c.) The saying of the Prophet, وَيْلٌ لِلْعَرَاقِيبِ مِنَ النَّارِ [Woe to the heel-tendons from the fire of Hell] means, to him who neglects the washing of them (Mgh, Msb) in the [ablution termed] وُضُوْء. (Msb.) b2: [In a beast, it is in some instances applied to The hock, or hough; i. e.] the عُرْقُوب of a beast is that which, in its hind leg, corresponds to the رَكْبَة [or knee] in its fore leg: (S, O, K:) [in other instances, it is applied to the tendon of the hock, or hough; i. e., to the hamstring; for, as] As says, in every quadruped, the عُرْقُوبَانِ are in the hind legs, and the رُكْبَتَانِ in the fore legs; (S, O, TA;) and the عُرْقُوب of the horse is the tendon that conjoins the part wherein meet the وَظِيف [here meaning the metatarsus] and the سَاق [here meaning the tibia]: (TA: [he says “ of the horse,” instead of using a more comprehensive term, app. because he is describing that animal:]) it is, in a quadruped, the tendon that [corresponds to that which in a human being] is behind the two ankle-bones, between the joint of the foot and the shank: in a human being it is a little above the heel. (TA, from an explanation of a trad. [This last explanation evidently employs terms according to their applications in the comparative anatomy of quadrupeds and human beings, and therefore requires the words which I have supplied. That عُرْقُوبٌ, in relation to a beast, signifies the hocktendon is well known: and that it also signifies the hock itself is shown by a usage of the verb عَرْقَبَ (for it is by raising the hocks that a man assists a camel to stand up), and by an explanation voce رُكْبَةٌ.]) شَرٌّ مَا أَجَآءَكَ إِلَى مُخَّةِ عُرْقُوبٍ [It is an evil thing that has compelled thee to have recourse to the marrow of a hock] (K, TA) is a prov. (TA) applied to him who seeks to obtain a thing from a mean, or sordid, person; (K, TA;) for the عرقوب has no marrow. (TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ يَضْرِبُ العَرَاقِيبَ ويَقْرَعُ الظَّنَابِيبَ [Such a one smites the hock-tendons of camels to slaughter them, and strikes the shins of camels to make them lie down that he may mount them in haste]; meaning that he entertains guests and gives aid, or succour. (A.) b3: عُرْقُوبُ الأَسَدِ is a name of The Thirteenth Mansion of the Moon. (Kzw: see العَوَّآءُ, in art. عو.) b4: طَيْرُ عُرْقُوبٍ is an appellation given to Any bird from which one augurs evil to camels, because it wounds them in the hocks or hock-tendons (يُعَرْقِبُهَا). (Meyd, TA.) The Arabs say that when the bird called أَخْيَل [q. v.] lights upon a camel, its hocks, or hock-tendons, will assuredly be laid bare: and accord. to the [O and] K, طَيْرُ العَرَاقِيبِ is an appellation of The [bird called] شِقِرَّاق [which is said in the S &c. to be the same as the أَخْيَل]; and [Sgh and SM add that] they regard it as of evil omen. (TA.) b5: عُرْقُوبُ القَطَا means The سَاق [or shank] of the قطا [or sand-grouse]. (S, O, K.) To this a thing is hyperbolically likened to denote its shortness: one says يَوْمٌ أَقْصَرُ مِنْ عُرْقُوبِ القَطَا [A day shorter than the shank of the katà]: (L, TA:) and a poet says, (S, &c.,) namely, El-Find Ez-Zimmánee, (O, L, TA,) or, accord. to Seer, Imra-el- Keys Ibn-'Ábis, (IB, L, TA,) وَنَبْلِى وَفُقَاهَا كَعَرَاقِيبِ قَطًا طُحْلِ [And my arrows, with their notches, like the shanks of ash-coloured sand-grouse]. (S, O, L, TA.) b6: عُرْقُوبٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A turning, or bending, part of a valley: (K:) or a part of a valley in which is a great turning or bending. (S, O.) And A road in a mountain: (K:) or a narrow road in a mountain: or a road in a deep valley, in which only one can walk. (TA.) And [the pl.] عَرَاقِيبُ, (tropical:) The prominences, or projecting parts, of mountains: (O, K, TA:) and the most distant, or far-extending, roads, or ways, thereof: (Aboo-Kheyreh, O, TA:) for [in travelling mountains,] you follow the most easy way, wherever it be: (Aboo-Kheyreh, TA:) or the narrow roads or ways, in the hard and elevated parts, of moun-tains. (S, O, K.) And [hence, app.,] عَرَاقِيبُ الأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) Great and difficult affairs: (S, O, K:) as also عَرَاقِيلُهَا. (S, O.) b7: And A mountain always crowned with clouds, not rained upon. (TA.) b8: Also (assumed tropical:) Artifice, craft, or cunning; or a stratagem, or trick. (O, K. [See Q. 1, last signification.]) b9: And (assumed tropical:) Knowledge (عِرْفَان) of an argument, a plea, an allegation, or a proof. (O, K.) A2: Also the name of a certain man of the Amalekites, (S, O, K, TA,) or, (so says Ibn-El-Kelbee, O,) of the Benoo-Abd-Shems-Ibn-Saad, (JM, O, TA,) but this is said to be of no authority, (O,) or of El-Ows, (JM, TA,) the greatest liar of his time, (K,) proverbial for breach of promises: (S, O:) El-Ashja'ee (whose name was Jubeyhà, O, K) says, وَعَدْتَ وَكَانَ الخُلْفُ مِنْكَ سَجِيَّةً

مَوَاعِيدَ عُرْقُوبٍ أَخَاهُ بِيَتْرَبِ (S, O, K, TA) i. e. (tropical:) Thou promisedst, but breach of promise was an inherent quality of thee, like the promises of 'Orkoob to his brother in Yetreb; which is in El-Yemámeh; or, as some relate it, بِيَثْرِب, i. e. El-Medeeneh, or, as some say, the land of the Benoo-Saad; but the former is the more correct. (TA. [See also Har p. 160.]) And one says, هُوَ أَكْذَبُ مِنْ عُرْقُوبِ يَتْرَبَ (tropical:) [He is more mendacious than 'Orkoob of Yetreb]. (A, TA.)