ضفدع

Q. 1 ضَفْدَعَ, said of water, It had in it ضَفَادِع [or frogs]. (O, K.) A2: And, said of a man, He shrank, or became contracted; syn. تَــقَبَّضَ: or he voided his excrement, or ordure; or thin excrement; syn. سَلَحَ: or he emitted wind from the anus, with a sound. (TA.) ضِفْدِعٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and ضَفْدَعٌ and ضُفْدَعٌ (K) and ضِفْدَعٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) this last said by some, (S, O, Msb,) but most rare, or rejected, (K,) disallowed by Kh and a number of others, (Msb,) [for] accord. to Kh [and others] there are only four words of the measure فِعْلَلٌ in the language, which are دِرْهَمٌ and هِجْرَعٌ and هِبْلَعٌ and the proper name قِلْعَمٌ, (S, O,) [The frog; and app. also the water-toad;] a certain reptile (دَابَّة) of the rivers, (K, TA,) generated in the river, (TA,) the flesh of which, cooked with oliveoil, is [said to be] an antidote to the poison of venomous creatures, (K, TA,) when put upon the place of the sting, or bite: (TA:) and [a certain reptile] of the land, (K, TA,) [app. the landtoad,] that lives, or grows, in caverns and caves, (TA,) the fat of which is [said to be] wonderful for the extraction of teeth (K, TA) without fatigue, and of the skin of which, tanned, the skull-cap that renders invisible (طَاقِيَّةُ الإِخْفَآءِ [a vulgar term]) is made, as is said by the performers of legerdemain; and the flesh of this species is said to be poisonous: (TA;) the fem., (S, O, Msb,) or the n. un., (K,) is with ة: and the pl. is ضَفَادِعُ (S, O, Msb, K) [and ضَفَادٍ; in the Msb and K, ضَفَادِى; in the O, correctly, الضَّفَادِى is said to be a var. of الضَّفَادِعُ, like الثَّعَالِى and الأَرَانِى of الثَّعَالِبُ and الأَرَانِبُ]. b2: نَقَّتْ ضَفَادِعُ بَطْنِهِ [lit. The frogs of his belly croaked] means (assumed tropical:) he was, or became, hungry; (O, K;) like نَقَّتْ عَصَافِيرُ بَطْنِهِ. (O.) b3: الضِّفْدِعُ الأَوَّلُ is a name of (assumed tropical:) The bright star α] on the mouth of Piscis Australis; (Kzw, Descr. of Aquarius;) also called فَمُ الحُوتِ: (Idem, Descr. of Piscis Australis:) and الضِّفْدِعُ الثَّانِى is the name of (assumed tropical:) The star on the southern fork of the tail of Cetus. (Idem.) b4: And الضِّفْدِعُ, (O, K,) thus only, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) A certain bone [or horny substance, which we, in like manner, call “ the frog,”] in the interior of the horse's hoof, (O, K,) in the sole thereof. (O.) [See also نَسْرٌ.]

مُضَفْدِعَاتٌ Waters abounding with ضَفَادِع [or frogs]. (S, O.)

جرثم

Q. 2 تَجَرْثَمَ: see 3, in two places.

A2: تجرثم الشَّىْءَ He took the greater, main, or chief, part of the thing. (K.) Q. 3 اِجْرَنْثَمَ He, or it, drew himself, or itself, together; contracted; or shrank: (TA, Har p. 297:) from جُرْثُومَةٌ signifying the “earth collected around a tree.” (Har ib.) Also, and ↓ تجرثم, It (a thing, S) collected itself together, or became collected, (S, K,) and kept to a place. (K.) Hence, in a trad., ↓ وَعَادَ لَهَا النِّقادُ مُجْرَنْثِمًا And the lambs, by reason of it, namely, the vehement drought, became collected, or drawn, together [in one place, and kept to it]. (TA.) b2: He (a man, TA) fell from a high, or higher, to a low, or lower, place; as also ↓ تجرثم. (K, TA.) جُرْثُمَةٌ: see what next follows.

جُرْثُومَةٌ [and accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the S, جُرْثُومٌ, but this I have. not found in any Lexicon but his and that of Freytag,] The root, lowest part, base, stock, or source, syn. أَصْلٌ, of a thing; (S, Mgh, K;) whatever the thing be; (Mgh;) as also ↓ جُرْثُمَةٌ: (TA:) and the place of collection thereof: (Mgh, TA:) or the earth that is collected at the roots, or lower parts, of trees: (K:) or the earth collected around a tree: (Har p. 297:) or the root of a tree to which the earth is collected: (Lth, TA:) pl. جَرَاثِيمُ. (Mgh.) One is related to have said, الأَسْدُ جُرْثُومَةُ العَرَبِ فَمَنْ أَضَلَّ نَسَبَهُ فَلِيَأْتِهِمْ [ElAsd are those, of the Arabs, to whom most others congregate: therefore whoever loses his genealogy, let him come to them]: meaning الأَزْدُ. (TA.) And جَرَاثِيمُ جَهَنَّمَ means The greater, main, or chief, degrees of the punishment of Hell. (Mgh.) b2: The base (أَصْل) of a sandhill overlooking what surrounds it. (Har p. 99.) and the pl. (جراثيم), Places elevated above the ground, composed of clay and earth collected together. (TA.) b3: The earth collected by ants; (TA;) an ant-hill: (K:) or جُرْثُومَةُ النَّمْلِ signifies the ant-hill. (S.) b4: The earth, or dust, that the wind raises, or sweeps up and scatters. (K.) b5: The غَلْصَمَة [or epiglottis]. (K.) مُجْرَنْثِمٌ: see 3. b2: رَكَبٌ مُجْرَنْثَمٌ [in the CK, erroneously, رَكْبٌ مُجْرَنْثَمٌ,] i. q. مُسْتَهْدِفٌ, (K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, مُسْتَهْدَفٌ,]) i. e., A wide, elevated pubes. (TA in art. هدف.)

قنفذ

مَا أَبْيَضُ شَطْرًا أَسْوَدُ ظَهْرًا يَمْشِى قِمْطَرًا وَيَبُولُ قَطْرًا What is white in one half, black in the back, that walks contractedly, and makes water in drops? An enigma: to which the answer is, The قُنْفُذ [q. v.]. (L.) b2: قُنْفُذُ لَيْلٍ

One who sleeps not [during the night]; because the قنفذ sleeps not: (L:) and a calumniator; a slanderer; (L, K;) as also أَنْقَدُ لَيْلٍ. (L.) b3: Also قُنْفُذٌ and قُنْفَذٌ The rat, or mouse; syn. فَارٌ: (K:) fem. with ة. (TA.) b4: قُنْفُذٌ (assumed tropical:) The part behind the ear of a camel, whence the sweat exudes. (S, L, K.) b5: And, with ة, (assumed tropical:) The part of the head that is below that which is called the قَمَحْدُوَة. (L.) b6: قُنْفُذٌ (assumed tropical:) A place that produces tangled herbage: (S, L, K:) an elevated place abounding with trees: AHn says, that what is thus termed is in hard ground, between what is termed قُفّ and sand. (L.) b7: قُنْفُذُ رَمْلٍ (assumed tropical:) Sand collected together, (Aboo-Kheyreh, L, K,) and elevated, (K,) or somewhat elevated: (Aboo-Kheyreh, L:) or the abundance of trees of sand: or, as some say, قُنْفَذُ رَمْلٍ, with fet-h, signifies abundance and tallness of trees of sand. (L.) b8: قُنْفُذٌ (L, K) and with ة (L) (assumed tropical:) A tree in the midst of sand. (L, K.) b9: قَنَافِذُ (assumed tropical:) Mountains that are not long: or long and narrow tracts, (أَحْبُل, L, K, TA: in the CK, أَجْبُل, or mountains,) of sand: (L, K:) or hills with pointed heads (نَبَكٌ) lying in the way, or road. (Th, L, K.)

قرفص

Q. 1 قَرْفَصَ [قَرْفَصَ: see قُرْفُصَآءُ, below.]

A2: قَرْفَصَهُ, (JK, TA,) inf. n. قَرْفَصَةٌ (JK, S, K) and قِرْفَاصٌ, (TA,) He bound his arms beneath his legs: (JK, K:) or he drew him together, (namely, a man,) binding his legs and arms. (S.) b2: [Hence,] قَرْفَصَةٌ also signifies A certain mode of coitus, in which the woman's extremities are drawn together, so that the man makes fast here arms beneath her legs: (JK, K:) transmitted by Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) Q. 2 تَقَرْفَصَتْ She (an old woman) wrapped herself up in her clothes. (JK, K.) قُرْفُصَى and its variations: see what follows.

قُرْفُصَآءُ, with damm, (K,) [in a copy of the S written without any vowel-sign to the ف,] or قُرْفَصَآءُ, (so in a copy of the S) or both, (El-Ashmoonee, in his Expos. of the Alfeeyeh of Ibn-'Akeel,) and قُرُفْصَآءُ, with damm to the ق and ر, (IJ, K,) and قُرْفُصَى, (S, * K,) and قِرْفِصَى, (Fr, K,) and قَرْقَصَى, (K,) of all which the first is the most chaste, (TA,) [all inf. ns., of which the verb, accord. to analogy, is قَرْفَصَ, but I have met with no instance of its occurrence,] A certain mode of sitting; (S;) the sitting upon the buttocks, making the thighs cleave to the belly, and putting the arms round the shanks, (A'Obeyd, S, K,) like as a man binds himself with a piece of cloth round his back and shanks; his arms being in the place of the piece of cloth: (A'Obeyd, S:) or the sitting upon the knees, bending down, (مُنْكَبًّا, [in the L مُتَّكِئًا, which is a mistranscription,]) making the belly cleave to the thighs, and putting the hands under the arm-pits; (Abu-l-Mahdee, S, K;) a mode of sitting of the Arabs of the desert: (S:) or the sitting upon the legs, putting the knees together, and contracting the arms to the breast. (IAar, TA.) You say, قَعَدَ القرفصآءَ He sat in the manner above described. (IAar, S.) قرق قرم See Supplement