فنطس

فِنْطاسٌ [The bottom of the hold of a ship or boat; i. e.] the part of a ship or boat where the water that is drawn out therefrom collects: (AA, O, K, TA:) this is the primary signification: (O, TA:) pl. فَنَاطِيسُ. (TA.) b2: Hence, (O,) A tank made of boards, (O, K,) and tarred, (O,) borne in sea-going vessels, (O, K, *) and containing sweet water for drinking. (O, * K.) b3: And, (O, K,) accord. to IAar, (O,) A bowl (O, K) of wood, the exterior of which is coloured with yellow and red and green, (O,) with which the sweet water is distributed (O, K) among the ship's crew. (O.) A2: It is also applied to a nose, as signifying Broad. (IDrd, M, TA. [See also what next follows.]) فِنْطِيسٌ A nose wide in the nostril, and expanded in the end: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) pl. فَنَاطِيسُ. (K. [See also what next precedes.]) b2: And, (O, K,) accord. to IDrd, (O,) A man broad in the nose. (O, K.) b3: And Low, ignoble, or ungenerous, (O, K, TA,) accord. to some, in an absolute sense, (TA,) or in respect of birth; (O, K, TA;) thus accord. to Ibn-'Abbád: pl. as above. (O.) A2: Also The penis; (O, K;) and so فِرْطِيسٌ: accord. to some, peculiarly of the swine. (TA.) فِنْطِيسَةٌ The snout of the swine: (O, K: [mentioned also in art. فطس; the ن being held by some to be augmentative:]) and so فِرْطِيسَةٌ. (TA.) And The nose of the wolf. (O.) And one says, إِنَّهُ لَمَنِيعُ الفِنْطِيسَةِ (O, K *) and الفِرْطِيسَةِ, (O,) meaning (assumed tropical:) [Verily he is] one who defends, or guards, from encroachment, or invasion, or attack, what is in his possession, or occupation; who refuses to submit to wrongful treatment: (O, K:) thus mentioned on the authority of As; and Aboo-Sa'eed [meaning As] says that his فِنْطِيسَة and فِرْطِيسَة [properly] signify his nose. (TA.)

سندر

Q. 1 سَنْدَرَةٌ (M, K) inf. n. of سَنْدَرَ, which signifies He (a man) went quickly: (TK:) [or was quick or expeditious:] syn. of the former سُرْعَةٌ: (M, K:) Sgh mentions it in art. سدر, regarding the ن as augmentative. (TA.) Hence, accord. to some, the saying of 'Alee, أَنَا الَّذِى سَمَّتْنِ أُمِّى حَيْدَرَهْ كَلَيْثِ غَابَاتٍ غَلِيظِ القَصَرَهْ

أَكِيلُكُمْ بالسَّيْفِ كَيْلَ السَّنْدَرَهْ [I am he whom my mother named Heydereh, like a lion of forests, thick in the neck: I will measure you with the sword with a quick measuring:] meaning, I will slay you quickly, before flight. (TA. [But see what follows.]) b2: A large, or an ample, sort of كَيْل [or measuring]: (M, K:) so expl. by some in the saying of 'Alee above quoted: or in that saying it is from سَنْدَرَةُ as the name of a certain woman, who used to sell wheat and give full measure, or of a man who did so. (TA.) [See also سَنْدَرَةٌ as a subst., below.] b3: Also The being bold, or daring: or boldness, or daringness. (TA.) b4: And The being sharp in affairs, and acting with penetrative energy: or sharpness in affairs, and penetrative energy. (TA.) سَنْدَرٌ: see the next paragraph but one.

سِنْدْرٌ A man bold, or daring, in his affair, not frightened at anything. (TA.) سَنْدَرَةٌ, [said in the TK to be the inf. n. of Q. 1, q. v.,] (S in art. سدر,) or ↓ سَنْدَرٌ, (so in a copy of the M,) or ↓ سَنْدَرِىٌّ, (IAar, K, TA,) A مِكْيَال [or measure, for measuring corn, &c.], (S, M, K,) well known, (M,) of large size, (S, K,) like the قَنْقَل and the جُرَاف: this is said in explanation of the first of these words as used in the saying of 'Alee quoted above: (S, TA:) i. e., the saying has hence been expl. as meaning, I will make a wide and quick slaughter of you: (TA:) or it may be a measure (مكيال) made of the tree called سَنْدَرَةٌ: (KT, TA:) [for] b2: it is also the name of A certain tree, (S, M, K,) of which bows and arrows are made. (M, K.) سَنْدَرِىٌّ A man quick, or expeditious, (K, TA,) in his affairs; who strives, exerts himself, or is diligent, therein. (TA.) b2: And the pl. سَنَادِرَةٌ signifies [the contr., or] Persons without occupation; people of sport and idleness; as also سَبَادِرَةٌ. (TA.) b3: Also, the sing., Bold, or daring; (O, K, TA;) who makes a boast of more than he possesses. (TA.) b4: The lion; (K;) because of his boldness, or daringness. (TA.) b5: Strong, or vehement; (O, K;) thus applied to anything. (TA.) b6: Tall, or long; (O, K;) thus in the dial. of Hudheyl. (O.) b7: Large in the eyes. (K.) b8: Good: and the contr., i. e. bad. (M, K.) b9: A certain sort of arrows, and of arrow-heads or the like: (M:) or the white of these, (M, K,) i. e. of the latter: (K:) and a spear-head very clear or bright, (K, TA,) and sharp: (TA:) or, applied to an arrow, it means made of the tree called سَنْدَرَة: (S * in art. سدر, and M, and TA:) and قَوْسٌ سَنْدَرِيَّةٌ means a bow made of that tree: (TA:) or a bow having its string braced, and strongly, or skilfully, or well, made. (K, TA.) b10: Also A species of bird. (K.) b11: See also the next preceding paragraph.

حز

1 حَزَّهُ, (S, A, Msb,) aor. ـُ inf. n. حَزٌّ, (S, Msb, K, *) He cut it; (S, A, K;) namely, his, or its, head; (A;) as also ↓ احتزّهُ: (S, A, K:) or he cut it (namely, a thing, or flesh-meat,) without separating; made an incision in it: or he cut it with labour: (TA:) and he notched it; or made a notch in it; namely, a piece of wood. (S, Msb, TA.) It is said in a prov., حَزَّتْ حَازَّةٌ مِنْ كُوعِهَا [A woman cutting cut a part of the skin of the extremity of the bone of her fore arm next the thumb: nearly the same as another prov. حَلَأَتْ حَالِئَةٌ عَنْ كُوعِهَا]: alluding to a people's being occupied by their own affair so as to be diverted thereby from attending to other things. (Az, K.) You say also, حَزَّ فِى رَأْسِ القَوْسِ He made a notch in the head of the bow. (A.) b2: [Hence the saying,] الإِثْمُ مَا حَزَّ فِى

قَلْبِكَ (tropical:) [Sin is that which makes an impression upon thy heart, causing thee to waver lest it be an act of disobedience because of thy not being easy respecting it]. (A. [See حَزَّازٌ, below; and see also حَكَّ, and حَاكَ.]) Of anything making an impression in, or upon, the bosom, and causing one to waver or scruple, you say حَزَّ. (S.) 2 حَزَّّ [حزّزهُ, inf. n. تَحْزِيزٌ, He cut it, or notched it, much, or in many places; he made notches in it; he made it serrated; he jagged it. You say,] حزّز أَسْنَانَهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَحْزِيزٌ, (TA,) He made his teeth serrated, and sharpened their extremities, to make them like those of a young person. (S, K, TA.) [See also تَحْزِيزٌ, below.]5 تحزّز It was cut much, or in many places, or into many pieces: (S, K:) [it was notched much, or in many places; was made serrated; was jagged.]8 احتزّهُ: see 1.

حَزٌّ A notch, or an incision, (S, A, Msb, K,) in a thing; (S, K;) as, [for instance,] in a piece of wood, and a tooth-stick (سِوَاك), and a bone, (TA,) and a bow: (A, TA:) and in like manner ↓ مَحَزٌّ, the notch of a bow, into which the ring of the string falls: (A and K, voce كُظْرٌ:) [or the former is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. ↓ حَزَّةٌ; (S, TA;) [for which, in the S and L and K, voce طَرِيدَةٌ, we find ↓ حُزَّةٌ, perhaps a dial. var.] You say, رَدَّ الوَتَرَ حَزِّهَا He put back the bow-string to its notch (A, TA) in the head of the bow. (TA.) For the explanation of حَزُّ الكَرَاكِر, see كِرْكِرَةٌ.

A2: A time; a particular time; [a nick of time:] (S, K:) and ↓ حَزَّةٌ signifies the same; and also a particular state or condition. (A, TA.) Yousay, مَجِىْءِ فُلَانٍ ↓ هٰذِهِ حَزَّةُ [This is the time of the coming of such a one]. (A.) And كَيْفَ جِئْتَ

↓ فِى هٰذِهِ الحَزَّةِ [How hast thou come at this time, or in this state?]. (A.) And ↓ لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى حَزَّةٍ

مُنْكَرِةٍ [I met him at an evil time, or in an evil condition]. (A.) حَزَّةٌ: see حَزٌّ in five places.

حُزَّةٌ: see حَزٌّ.

A2: Also A piece of flesh-meat cut off lengthwise: (S, K:) or only of liver: (K, TA:) not of a camel's hump, nor of flesh, or other thing: (TA:) or it signifies also a piece cut off of anything, such as a melon &c.: used in this sense by the people of Syria: (TA:) pl. حُزَزٌ. (Msb.) b2: (tropical:) The neck: (S, Msb, K:) accord. to some: (Msb:) so termed metaphorically. (S.) So in a trad., أَخَذَ بِحُزَّتِهِ He took hold of his neck. (S, TA.) A3: حُزَّةُ السَّرَاوِيلِ i. q. حُجْزَتُهُ: (IAar, Az, S, Msb, K:) but disallowed by As. (TA.) حَزَارٌ Scurf of the head: ↓ n. un. with ة [signifying a particle, or flake, thereof]. (S, K.) حَزِيزٌ Rugged ground: (IDrd:) or a rugged and extended place: (S, K:) or a place abounding with rugged stones like knives: or hard ground in a tract abounding with pebbles: (TA:) or rugged and hard ground with a slight elevation: (ISh:) or depressed ground: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَحِزَّةٌ and [of mult.] حِزَّانٌ (S, K) and حُزَّانٌ and حُزُزٌ, (K, TA,) with two dammehs, (TA,) or حُزَزٌ. (CK.) حَزَازَةٌ: see حَزَازٌ: A2: and see also حَزَّازٌ.

حَزَّازٌ Food that becomes acid in the stomach, (K, TA,) by reason of its badness, and so [as it were] cuts (يَحُزُّ) into the heart. (TA.) Hence the saying, أَنْتَ أَثْقَلُ مِنَ الحَزَّازِ [Thou art heavier, or more difficult to be born, than the food that becomes acid in the stomach, &c.]. (A Heyth, on the authority of Abu-l-Hasan El-Aarábee.) b2: [And hence, app.,] Anything that makes an impression in, or upon, the heart, or bosom, causing one to waver or scruple; lit., that cuts into the heart, and scrapes in the bosom; expl. by مَا حَزَّ فِى القَلْبِ, (A 'Obeyd, S, K,) and حَكَّ فِى الصَّدْرِ; (K;) as also ↓ حُزَّازٌ (K) [and ↓ حَازَّةٌ, as will be seen below]: and pain in the heart, arising from wrath &c.; as also ↓ حُزَّازٌ, (A 'Obeyd, S,) and ↓ حَزَازَةٌ; (A 'Obeyd, S, K;) of which last the pl. is حَزَازَاتٌ. (A 'Obeyd, S.) [See also حَزْحَزَةٌ.] It is said in a trad., الإِثْمُ حَوَازُّ القُلُوبِ, (S, Mgh, and K * in art. حوز,) i. e., Sin is those things that make an impression upon hearts, (Lth, Mgh, MS, and K ubi suprà,) like as cutting, or notching, makes an impression upon a thing, (TA,) and that cause one to suspect that they may be acts of disobedience, by reason of uneasiness respecting them, (Mgh,) or to waver respecting them, lest they should be so, for that reason, (K,) or to be uneasy in heart respecting them: (MS:) حوازّ being pl. of ↓ حَازَّةٌ, (Mgh, K,) like as دَوَابُّ is pl. of دَابَّةٌ: (Mgh:) Sh. reads حُوَّازُ القُلُوبِ, which he explains as meaning, “what overcomes hearts, (مَا يَحُوزُهَا, i. e., يَغْلِبُ عَلَيْهَا,) so that they commit that which is not incumbent:” (Mgh, and K * and TA ubi suprà:) but the former reading is the more common: (Mgh, TA:) and some read حَزَّاز; and some حَرَّار. (TA in art. حوز.) [See also فَصٌّ.] b3: حَزَّازُ الحَجَرِ and حَزَّازُ الصَّخْرِ: See بَهَقُ الحَجَرِ in art. بَهق.

حُزَّازٌ: see حَزَّازٌ, in two places.

بِهِ حَازٌّ, said of a camel, He has an incision, or a cut, in the edge of the callous protuberance upon his breast, produced by his elbow, which makes it bleed: if it does not make it bleed, it is termed مَاسِحٌ: (S, K:) or حازّ is a cut, or an incision, in the arm, penetrating through the skin, to the flesh, opposite the callous protuberance upon the breast of a camel; also termed عَرْكٌ: (El-'Adebbes El-Kinánee:) or a cut, or an incision, in the said protuberance: it is a subst., like نَاكِتٌ and ضَاغِطٌ. (TA.) حَازَّةٌ; pl. حَوَازُّ: see حَزَّازٌ, in two places.

حَزْحَزَةٌ A pain in the heart, arising from fear or from physical suffering: (K:) pl. حَزَاحِزُ. (TA.) [See also حَزَّازٌ.]

تَحْزِيزٌ [see 2. b2: ] The being cut, or notched, much, or in many places; being serrated, or jagged, like the teeth of the مِنْجَل: and sometimes this is in the edges, or extremities, of the human teeth. (TA.) You say, فِى أَسْنَانِهِ تَحْزِيزٌ (S, A, K) In his teeth is a serration, and a sharpness of the extremities [such as is seen in the teeth of young persons]; syn. أُشُرٌ; (S, K;) the like of the serration of the teeth of the مِنْجَل. (A.) b3: Also The marks of cutting or notching. (TA.) مَحَزٌّ A place of cutting [or notching]. (TA.) You say, قَطَعَ فَأَصَابَ المَحَزَّ (A, TA) He cut, and hit the place of cutting. (TA.) And تَكَلَّمَ وَأَشَارَ فَأَصَابَ المَخَزَّ (tropical:) [He spoke, and indicated, or advised, and hit upon the right thing]: (A, TA:) [app. alluding to the right place of incision of the كِرْكِرَة, which is a nice and difficult operation: see كِرْكِرَةٌ.] b2: [A notched, or small hollowed, place, made by cutting or otherwise. b3: A groove, or the like. Occurring in the K, voce بَكْرَةٌ, and in art. خصر, &c.] b4: See also حَزٌّ, first signification.

حف

1 حَفُّوهُ, (Ksh and Bd in xviii. 31,) or حَفُّوا حَوْلَهُ, (S, K,) or بِهِ, (Msb, and W p. 153, [and so in the present day, because syn. with احاطوا به and اطافوا به and استداروا به, &c.,]) but the verb is properly trans. by itself, (W ibid.,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَفٌّ (S, TA) and حِفَافٌ; (TA [accord. to a meaning there assigned to it];) and ↓ حفّفوا and ↓ احتفّوا; all signify the same; (K, TA;) They went round about, circuited, compassed, or surrounded, it, or him. (S, Ksh, Bd, Msb, TA.) You say, حَفَّ القَوْمُ بِالبَيْتِ, [or rather حَوْلَ البَيْتِ,] The company of men went round about the House [called the House of God, i. e. the Kaabeh]. (Msb.) And it is said in a trad., فَيَحُفُّونَهُمْ بِأَجْنِحَتِهِمْ And they circuit round about them with their wings. (TA.) And in a prov., مَنْ حَفَّنَا أَوْ رَفَّنَا فَلْيَقْتَصِدْ, i. e. Whoso goes round about us, and minds, or manages, our affairs, (K, TA,) and treats us with honour; (TA;) or [in the K “ and ”] serves us, (S, K,) and guards us, defends us, or takes care of us, and regards us, or behaves towards us, with benevolence and solicitude; (S, TA;) or [in the K “ and ”] praises us; (A 'Obeyd, K, TA;) let him [act moderately, and] not exceed the due bounds, (A 'Obeyd, K, TA,) but speak truth. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) Hence the saying, (K,) وَلَا رَافٌّ ↓ مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ (S, K) [He has not any who goes round about him, and minds, or manages, his affairs, &c.]. And ذَهَبَ مَنْ كَانَ يَحُفُّهُ وَيَرُفُّهُ (S, K) [He went away, or has gone away, who used to go round about him, &c.; or] who used to give to him, and bring him corn or food: (TA:) [for] حَفَّهُ signifies also he gave to him. (Msb.) And هُوَ يَحُفُّ وَيَرُفُّ He stands and sits: and he acts as a sincere, or faithful, adviser, and with benevolence and solicitude. (As,) (TA.) [See also art. رف.] One says, of persons in want, حَفَّتْهُمُ الحَاجَةُ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَفٌّ, (TA,) (tropical:) [Want beset, or encompassed, them; or has beset, &c.;] and ↓ هُمْ قَومٌ مَحْفُوفُونَ (tropical:) [They are persons beset, or encompassed, by want]. (S, K, TA.) b2: حَفَّهُ بِالشَّىْءِ, aor. ـُ (S, O, K,) He surrounded it, or him, with the thing; (K, TA;) as, for instance, a هَوْدَج with pieces of cloth; (S, O;) and so ↓ حفّفهُ, inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ. (S.) It is said in the Kur [xviii. 31], حَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ We made them, namely, the two gardens, to be surrounded by palm-trees; (Ksh, Bd;) We made palm-trees to encompass their أَحِفَّة, (K,) i. e., their sides. (TA.) And you say, حَفَفْتُهُ بِهِمْ I surrounded it, or him, with them. (Ksh and Bd in xviii. 31, and TA.) And حُفَّتِ الجَنَّةُ بِالمَكَارِهِ (TA) a trad., meaning (assumed tropical:) Paradise is encompassed by things that one dislikes to do: these being likened to a wall, through which alone one can enter Paradise. (Gloss in a copy of the “ Jámi' es-Sagheer ” of Es-Suyootee.) A2: حَفَّ شَارِبَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) and رَأْسَهُ, (S, K,) and اللِّحْيَةَ, (M,) aor. ـِ (S,) or ـُ (M, IB, TA,) [the former contr. to rule, and disapproved by IB,] inf. n. حَفٌّ, (S, M, TA,) He cut, or clipped, (S, M, Msb, K,) his mustache, (S, Msb, K,) and the hair of his head, (S, K,) and the beard, (M,) much, or short, or to the utmost degree. (S, Msb, K.) b2: حَفَّتْ وَجْهَهَا (S, Mgh, Msb, K) مِنَ الشَّعَرِ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَفٌّ (S, Msb, K) and حِفَافٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ اِحْتَفَّتْ; (S, K;) said of a woman; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) She plucked out the hair of her face: (Mgh:) or she embellished her face by removing the hair thereof: (Msb:) or she scraped off the hair of her face (K, TA) with a razor: (TA:) and ↓ اِحْتَفَّتْ she ordered another to pluck out the hair of her face with two threads: (K, * TA:) so some say: and ↓ أَحَفَّتْ, inf. n. إِحْفَافٌ, signifies the same as احتفّت. (TA.) A3: حَفَّ رَأْسُهُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, His head remained long without ointment, (As, S, K,) and its hair was shaggy, matted, frouzy, or dusty: (TA:) and حَفَّتِ اللِّحْيَةُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, The beard was shaggy, matted, frouzy from long want of ointment, or dusty. (M, TA.) El-Kumeyt says, describing a wooden peg or stake, (S, L,) long neglected, (L,) وَأَشْعَثَ فِى الدَّارِ ذَا لِمَّةٍ

يُطِيلُ الحُفُــوفَ فَلَا يَقْمَلُ [And a wooden peg or stake, in the dwelling, having a head of battered and pendent fibres, long neglected, but not lousy: the fibres being likened to hair; and (as is said in the TA in art. شعث, where this verse is cited, but with ذِي in the place of ذا,) the term اشعث being used to signify a wooden peg or stake because its head is bruised, or battered, and separated, so that the parts do not cohere]. (S, L.) b2: حَفَّتِ الثَّرِيدَةُ The ثريدة [or mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] became dry in its upper part [by reason of paucity of broth], and cracked open in several places. (TA.) [See the part. n., حَافٌّ.] b3: [The inf. n.]

حُفُوفٌ signifies The being dry, without grease. (TA.) b4: And حَفَّ بَطْنُهُ His (a man's) belly became dry in consequence of his not having eaten greasy food nor flesh-meat. (TA.) b5: حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, (TA,) The earth, or land, dried up: (TA:) or its plants, (Msb,) or its herbs, or leguminous plants, (K,) dried up, (Msb, K,) for want of water. (TA.) b6: حَفَّ سَمْعُهُ, (IAar, K,) inf. n. حُفُوفٌ, (IAar, TA,) (assumed tropical:) His hearing went away entirely. (IAar, K.) A4: حَفَّ, (S, K,) aor. ـِ (S,) inf. n. حَفِيفٌ, (S, K, KL,) He (a horse) made a sound, (S, K, KL,) such as is termed دَوِيّ [i. e. a confused and continued sound], (S,) with his fore and hind feet, (KL,) in his running, (S, K,) or in going along. (KL.) Said also of violent rain, It made a [pattering] sound. (As, TA.) and of a viper, It made a [rustling] sound with its skin: فَحَّ, inf. n. فَحِيحٌ, signifies “ it made a sound to proceed from its mouth: ” (Aboo-Kheyreh, K:) or حَفَّتْ, inf. n. as above, said of the female of the [kind of serpents called] أَسَاوِد, she made a [rustling] sound with her skin by rubbing one part thereof with another. (L.) And in like manner it is said of a tree, meaning It made a [rustling] sound (K, TA) by the blowing of the wind upon its branches. (TA.) And of a bird, meaning It made a [rustling] sound (K, TA) with its wing [or wings]: (TA:) and ↓ حَفْحَفَ signifies the same, said of the wing of a bird; and likewise, of a hyena, (IDrd, K,) as also خَفْخَفَ. (TA.) [Hence,] said of the [beetle called] جُعَل, [because of the humming that it makes in flying,] It flew. (TA.) 2 حَفَّّ see 1, in two places: b2: see also 4.

A2: Also حفّف, inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ, (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was in a state of embarrassment, or distress, and his property became little: (K, TA:) from حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ

“ the earth, or land, dried up. ” (TA.) حفّف وَجْهُهُ occurs in a trad. [app. in the same sense]. (TA.) 4 أَحَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1.

A2: أَحْفَفْتُ رَأْسِى I made my head to remain long without ointment [so that the hair became shaggy, matted, frouzy, or dusty]. (As, S, K.) b2: [Hence, app.,] أَحْفَفْتُهُ (tropical:) I spoke evil of him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) A3: أَحْفَفْتُ الفَرَسَ I urged the horse (S, O, L, K) to run vehemently (O, K) so as to cause him to make a sound such as is termed دَوِيّ [i. e. a confused and continued sound] (S, O, L, K) in his running, [with his feel, (see حَفَّ,)] (S, L,) or in his belly: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning. (TA.) A4: أَحْفَفْتُ الثَّوْبَ I wove the piece of cloth with the حَفّ, i. e. the مِنْسَج; as also ↓ حَفَّفْتُهُ, (K, TA, [in the CK حَفَفْتُهُ,]) inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ. (TA.) 8 احتفّوا: see 1, first sentence. b2: احتفّ بِهِ He, or it, became encompassed, or surrounded, by it: and hence, became in the midst of it. (Har p. 445.) A2: اِحْتَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1, in two places. b2: احتفّ النَّبْتَ He cut the herbage; syn. جَزَّهُ: (so in some copies of the K, and in the TK:) or حَزَرَهُ [he computed by conjecture its quantity]: (so in other copies of the K, and in the TA:) mentioned by Sgh: in some copies of the K, حزّزه [he jagged it]: in one, جزره, which is a mistake. (TA.) b3: اِحْتَفَّتِ الإِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels ate the herbage: or obtained some of it. (TA.) b4: And احتفّ He ate up entirely what was in the cooking pot: like as اشتفّ signifies “ he drank up entirely ” what was in the vessel. (S.) 10 استحفّ أَمْوَالَهُمْ He took the whole of their possessions (K, TA) in an incursion into the territory of an enemy. (TA.) R. Q. 1 حَفْحَفَ: see 1, last sentence but one.

A2: Also (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was, or became, straitened in his means of subsistence. (IAar, K, TA.) حَفٌّ: see حَفَّةٌ, in three places. b2: [It is said, accord. to the KL, to signify also What is called in Persian زين كوهه, app. meaning a saddlebow: but this signification, if correct, is probably post-classical.]

A2: Also, and ↓ حَفَفٌ and ↓ حِفَافٌ, A time, or season: (L:) or i. q. أَثَرٌ [a track, &c.]. (K.) You say, جَآءَ عَلَى حَفِّ ذٰلِكَ, and ↓ حَفَفِهِ, and ↓ حِفَافِهِ, (L, K,) He, or it, came in the time, or season, of that: (L:) or the meaning is عَلَى

أَثَرِهِ [lit. in the track thereof; and hence, after, or near after, that]. (K.) A3: فُلَانٌ حَفٌّ بِنَفْسِهِ Such a one is busied with, or anxious about, himself. (TA.) حَفَّةٌ i. q. مِنْوَالٌ; i. e. The web-beam of a loom; the wooden thing [or roller] upon which the weaver winds the web, or piece of cloth [as it is woven]: ↓ حَفٌّ signifying the مِنْسَج [which generally means the weaver's loom; but explained in the TK as meaning here the stay of a weaver's loom; in the KL, said to be what is called in Persian كار چوب, but this is the حَفَّة, to which the same explanation is assigned in the KL]: (S, K: *) so accord. to As: [for] Aboo-Sa'eed [i. e. As] says, the حَفَّة is the مِنْوَال; and it should not be called the ↓ حَفّ; for the حَفّ is the مِنْسَج: (S, O:) [the former is also applied to the yarnbeam, upon which the yarn is rolled: see نِيرٌ:] in the L, it is said that the حَفَّة of the weaver is the wide piece of wood with which he arranges the woof between [the threads of] the warp: or, as some say, the three canes: and some say that it is ↓ حِفَّةٌ, with kesr: and it is said to be the thing with which the weaver strikes, like a sword: and the ↓ حَفّ is the cane that comes and goes [or goes to and fro; app. meaning the shuttle]: Az says, thus it is with the Arabs: and its pl. [the pl. of حَفٌّ] is حُفُوفٌ. (TA.) One says, مَا أَنْتَ بِحَفَّةٍ

وَلَا نِيرَةٍ [Thou art neither a حفَة nor a نيرَة]; the نيرة being the transverse piece of wood: alluding to him who neither profits nor harms; meaning that he is good for nothing. (TA.) [See also a similar saying voce نِيرٌ.]

A2: Also What camels have eaten, or obtained, (اِحْتَفَّتْ,) of herbage. (TA.) b2: See also حَفَفٌ.

حِفَّةٌ: see حَفَّةٌ.

حَفَفٌ The verge of an event, or affair. (K, * TA.) You say, هُوَ عَلَى حَفَفِ أَمْرٍ He is on the verge of an event, or affair. (TA.) b2: See also حَفٌّ, in two places. b3: Also, (As, S, K,) and ↓ حُفُوفٌ, (K,) (tropical:) An evil state, or condition, of life; and paucity of property; (As, S, K, TA;) as though one were placed aloof (فى حَفَفٍ, i. e. جَانِبٍ,) from the means of subsistence: (Er-Rá- ghib, TA:) or the former signifies straitness of the means of subsistence; (IDrd, TA;) and so ↓ latter: (TA:) or the former, a [bare] sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (Lh, TA:) or a state in which the family, or household, is proportionate to the provisions: (Th, TA:) it is coupled with ضَعَفٌ: and is said to signify straitness; the latter signifying “ paucity of food with numerousness of the eaters thereof; ” or, as some say, “food proportionate to the household: ” (TA:) or the former signifies a state in which the eaters are proportionate to the property; and the latter, “ a state in which the eaters are more than proportionate to the property: ” (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) or the former, want; and the latter, “paucity [of property]: ” (IAar, TA:) or both signify the same. (TA.) One says, مَا رُئِىَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفَفٌ وَلَا ضَفَفٌ There was not seen upon them a trace of want. (S.) And أَصَابَهُمْ مِنَ العَيْشِ حَفَفٌ and ضَفَفٌ and قَشَفٌ, Straitness of the means of subsistence befell them. (As, TA.) And مَا عِنْدَ فُلَانِ إِلَّا حَفَفٌ مِنَ المَتَاعِ There is not with such a one aught save a scanty supply of the necessaries of life. (TA.) And مِنْ مَالٍ ↓ هٰذِهِ حَفَّةٌ or مَتَاعٍ, This is a scanty supply of the necessaries of life, not exceeding the wants of its people, or owners. (TA.) حِفَافٌ A side (S, K) of a thing; حِفَافَا شَىْءٍ

signifying the two sides of a thing: (S:) pl. أَحفَّةٌ. (K.) b2: A border of hair remaining around the head of one who has become bald: (S, K: *) pl. as above. (S, K.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (S, TA,) describing bowls [of food], (TA,) لَهُنَّ أِذَا أَصْبَحْنَ مِنْهُمْ أَحِفَّةٌ وَحِينَ يَرَوْنَ اللَّيْلَ أَقْبَلَ جَائِيَا meaning They, i. e. the bowls, have a party of them surrounding them [when they are set in the beginning of the day, and when they see the night, that it has advanced, coming on]. (S, TA.) and you say, قَوْمُهُ أَحِفَّةٌ بِهِ His people are surrounding him. (TA.) b3: حِفَافُ الرَّمْلِ The place where the sand ends: pl. as above. (TA.) b4: كَانَ الطَّعَامُ حِفَافَ مَا أَكَلُوا The food was proportionate to what they ate. (TA.) b5: See also حَفٌّ, in two places.

حُفُوفٌ an inf. n. [See حَفَّ رَأْسُهُ, &c.]. b2: See also حَفَفٌ, in two places.

حَفِيفٌ The دَوِيّ [or confused and continued sound] (S, O, K) [of the feet] of a horse in running, (S,) or of the belly of a horse in running vehemently: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning: (TA: [see 1 and 4:]) the sound of the feet of camels when going a vehement pace: (TA:) the [pattering] sound of violent rain: (As, TA:) the [rustling] sound of the skin of a serpent, (L, K,) caused by rubbing one part thereof with another: (L:) the [rustling] sound of the wing [or wings] of a bird: (S, TA:) the [rustling] sound of a tree agitated by the wind: the [rustling, or murmuring,] sound of the wind, in, or upon, anything by [or through] which it passes: a plaintive sound, or moaning: the [murmuring, or quivering,] sound of the flaming, or blazing, of fire; and the like: (TA:) the [rushing] sound of a stone thrown by a مَنْجَنِيق: the [whizzing] sound of a penetrating or transpiercing arrow [app. in its passage through the air: see a verse cited voce ذِلَّةٌ]: (TA:) the humming, or buzzing, (دَوِيّ,) of bees. (S and K, in art. دوي.) The saying, cited by IAar, أَبْلِغْ أَبَا قَيْسٍ حَفِيفَ الأَثْأَبَهْ is explained by him as meaning [Tell thou Aboo-Keys] that he is weak in intellect; as though he were the حفيف of the tree called أَثْأَبَة when it is agitated by the wind: some say that it means [tell thou Aboo-Keys that] I will threaten him and agitate him like as the wind agitates this tree; but ISd says that this is nought. (TA.) A2: Dry herbage; as also جَفِيفٌ. (TA.) حُفَافَةٌ Hair plucked out: or what has fallen of hair plucked out. (TA.) b2: Remains of straw, and of [the trefoil, or dry trefoil, called] قَتّ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) حَفْحَفَةٌ [inf. n. of حَفْحَفَ]. b2: See فَهَرَ.

حَفَّانٌ A full vessel: (K:) or a vessel nearly filled to [the top of] each side: (TA:) or a vessel of which the contents, measured therein, reach to [the top of] each side. (S, K.) A2: The young ones of an ostrich; male and female: (S, K:) or, accord. to ISd, females only: (MF, TA:) n. un. with ة. (S, K.) b2: The feathers, or plumage, of the ostrich. (TA.) b3: The young ones of camels: (TA:) sometimes these are thus termed: (S in art. حفن:) [app. as being likened to those of the ostrich:] or such camels as are under [i. e. younger than] those termed حِقَاق: (TA:) n. un., applied to a male and a female, as above. (S in art. حفن.) b4: Servants: (S, K:) as though likened to the young ones of the ostrich. (TA.) حَفٌّ Going round about, circuiting, compassing, or surrounding. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [xxxix. last verse], وَتَرَي المَلَائِكَةَ حَافِّينَ مِنْ حَوْلِ العَرْشِ (Zj, S, K *) And thou shalt see the angels surrounding the عرش: (Zj, TA:) or surrounding the sides thereof: (Sgh, K:) or going round about on either side thereof. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b2: مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ وَلَا رَافٌّ: see 1.

A2: سَوِيقٌ حَافٌّ [Meal of parched barley] not moistened with water or with clarified butter or the like. (Lth, K.) [خُبْزٌ حَافٌّ, in the present day, means Dry bread; i. e. bread without anything savoury.] And هُوَحَافُّ المَطْعَم He is one whose food is dry. (TA.) A3: See also حَافٌ, in art. حوف.

مَحْفُوفٌ [Encompassed, or surrounded]. Yousay, هُوَ مَحْفُوفٌ بِخَدَمِهِ [He is encompassed, or surrounded, by his servants]. (TA.) b2: هُمْ قَوْمٌ مَحْفُوفُونَ: see 1.

مِحَفَّةٌ, with kesr; (S, Sgh, Msb, K;) in the “ Meshárik ” of 'Iyád said to be [مَحَفَّةٌ,] with fet-h, (MF,) A vehicle of the kind used for women, like the هَوْدَج, (S, Msb, K,) except that it has no قُبَّة [or dome-like, or tent-like, top], (S, K,) which the هودج has: (S:) or a camel's saddle (رَحْل) surrounded (يُحَفُّ [with pieces of cloth (see 1) upon a wooden frame]), upon which a woman rides: accord. to IDrd, so called because the [frame of] wood [with the pieces of cloth attached thereto] surrounds on all sides the sitter upon it. (TA.) هَوْدَجٌ مُحَفَّفٌ بِدِيبَاجٍ [A هودج hung round with silk brocade]. (TA.)