كف

1 كَفَّ التَّوْبَ He sewed the edge, or border, of the garment, or piece of cloth, the second time, (S, K,) after the [slight] sewing termed المَلُّ, (S,) or الشَّلُّ. (K.) b2: [He felled (a seam or garment).] b3: كَفَّ عَنْهُ, aor. كَفُّ

, He refrained, or forbore, from it, as forbidden; abstained, or desisted, from it; left, relinquished, or forsook it: (Msb:) [as also ↓ انكفّ]. b4: كَفَّ عَنْهُ He refrained, desisted, forbore, abstained, or held, from it. (K, &c.) b5: كَفَّهُ عَنْهُ He made him to refrain, forbear, or abstain, from it; averted him, turned him away or back, from it; (K;) prevented, hindered, held, withheld, or restrained, him from it. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) b6: [كَفَّ بَيْنَهُمَا He interposed as a restrainer between them two: a phrase of frequent occurrence]. b7: كَفَّ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ (M, K, art. قصر) He shortened the hair. (M, ibid.) 3 كَافُّوا عَدُوَّهُمْ i. q.

حَاجَزُوهُمْ, which see. b2: مُكَافَّةٌ signifies i. q. مُحَاجَزَةٌ, because it is a preventing, or an abstaining, from fighting. (Mgh.) 7 إِنْكَفَ3َ see 1.

كَفٌّ [generally The hand: sometimes, app., the palm only:] accord. to Az, the palm with the fingers. (Msb.) b2: [Hence, A cake of the length and thickness of the hand: thus in the present day. See عُجَّالٌ.] b3: كَفٌّ A handful; what one takes with the hand, or grasps; syn. قُبْضَةٌ. (S, art. قبض.) b4: [ضَرَبَهُ كَفًّا He struck him a slap with the hand.] b5: [كَفٌّ often signifies The paw of a beast.] b6: الكَفُّ الجَذْمَآءُ The star α of Cetus. b7: الكَفُّ الخَضِيبُ The

β of Cassiopeia.

كَفَّةٌ

: see كِفَّةٌ.

كُفَّةٌ The selvage, i. e. border, or side, of a garment or piece of cloth, (S, Msb,) that has no هُدْب [or end of unwoven threads]: (S, voce طُرَّةٌ:) or what surrounds the skirt of a shirt: or whatever is oblong; as the حَاشِيَة of a garment or piece of cloth, and of sand: and the edge of a thing. (K.) كِفَّةٌ The bezel, or collet, i. e. the part in which the stone is set, of a signet-ring. (TA in art. ركب.) See كُرْسِىٌّ. b2: See also طَرْقٌ. b3: كِفَّةٌ A scale of a balance: (MA:) vulg. ↓ كَفَّةٌ. (K.) كَفَافٌ The like of a thing. (S, K.) b2: Food, or sustenance, that renders one independent of others: (S, K:) or sufficient for one's want, not exceeding nor falling short. (Msb.) كِفَافٌ The circuit, rim, or surrounding edge, of a thing. (S, K.) كِفَافَةٌ [app. a subst., not an inf. n.,] The act, or art, of sewing in the manner termed كَفٌّ; (TA;) contr. of شِلَاشَةٌ. (TA in art. شل.) نَاقَةٌ كَافَّةٌ An old and weak she-camel. (AO, TA in art. سدم.) b2: [مَا كَافَّةٌ The restrictive مَا, which is annexed to أَنَّ إِنَّ, &c.: so called because it restrains the particle to which it is adjoined from exercising any government.] b3: كَافَّةً

Wholly. (Bd and Jel in ii. 204.) حَرْفُ مُكَافَأَةٍ

A particle denoting compensation, or the complement of a condition; like حَرْفُ جَزَآءٍ.

نش

1 نَشَّ, aor. ـِ (A, TA,) inf. n. نَشِيشٌ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and نَشٌّ, (TA,) It (said of water, S, Mgh, Msb, K, and of other things, S, K, such as wine, and flesh-meat, TA) made a sound in boiling, estuating, or fermenting: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and it (anything) made a sound like that of boiling, estuating, or fermenting; or of beginning to do so: and it (water) made a sound in pouring forth. (TA.) You say also, نَشَّتِ القِدْرُ, (TA,) inf. n. نَشِيشٌ; (IDrd, K;) and ↓ نَشْنَشَت, (TA,) inf. n. نَشْنَشَةٌ; (IDrd, K;) The cooking-pot made a sound in boiling: (IDrd, K:) or began to boil, and so made a sound. (TA.) And نَشَّ المَاءُ فِى

كُوزٍ جَدِيدٍ [The water made a sound in a new earthen mug]: (A:) or نَشَّ الكُوزُ الجَدِيدُ فِى المَآءِ The new [earthen] mug made a sound in the water. (Mgh.) And الدِّرْعُ ↓ نَشْنَشَ The coat of mail made a sound, (K,) or clinking. (Fr.) b2: Also, It (wine, A, Mgh, or the beverage called نَبِيذ, TA,) estuated, or fermented: (A, Mgh, TA:) or نَشِيشٌ signifies the beginning to estuate, or ferment, of the first of expressed juice [of grapes or dates &c.]. (TA.) b3: نَشَّتِ اللَّحْمَةُ, inf. n. نَشٌّ, The piece of flesh-meat dripped. (Sh, from certain of the Kilábees.) A2: Also نَشَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَشِيشٌ (S, K) and نَشٌّ, (TA,) said of a pool of water left by a torrent, Its water began to sink into the earth: (S, K:) or its water dried up, and sank into the earth. (TA.) It (water upon the surface of the ground) dried up. (TA.) It (a full-grown unripe date) lost its moisture. (TA.) A3: نَشَّ الدُّهْنَ بالرَّيْحَانِ [aor., app., نَشُّ,] He infused the oil, or other ointment, with perfume, by boiling it with sweet-smelling plants until it made a sound in boiling. (TA.) [See also سَلِيخَةٌ.]

A4: نَشَّ الذُّبَابَ [aor., accord. to analogy, نَشُّ, but vulgarly, in the present day, نَشِّ,] He drove [or whisked] a way the flies. (TA.) R. Q. 1 نَشْنَشَ, see 1. in two places. See also شِنْشِنَةٌ.

نَشٌّ The half of an أُوقِيَّة [or ounce]; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) i. e., twenty dirhems; (S, Msb, K;) the اوقيّة being forty dirhems; (S, Msb;) and five dirhems being called نَوَاةٌ: (S:) or the weight of a date-stone (نواة) of gold: or the weight of five dirhems: or the quarter of an اوقيّة: (TA:) and the half of anything; (IAar, Sh, Az, Mgh, Msb;) as, for instance, of a dirhem, and of a cake of bread. (IAar, Sh, Az, Mgh.) نَشَاشَةٌ: see نَشَّاشَةٌ.

أَرْضٌ نَشِيشَةٌ and ↓ نَشْنَاشَةٌ Salt land that produces no herbage. (IDrd, K.) سَبَحَةٌ نَشَّاشَةٌ, (S, A, K,) and ↓ نَشَاشَةٌ, (Az, TA,) A tract of salt land of which the moisture [or, as in a copy of the A, the earth,] does not dry up, nor its pasture, or herbage, grow: (A, K:) or what appears of the water of salt lands, and begins to sink therein, so that it becomes salt. (S.) نَشْنَاشَةٌ: see نَشِيشَةٌ.

مَنَشُّ السَّاحِلِ The part of the shore of a sea or great river from which the water has retired. (A.) مِنَشَّةٌ [A fly-whisk;] a thing with which the flies are driven a way. (TA.) دُهْنٌ مَنْشُوشٌ Oil, or other ointment, infused with perfume, (K, TA,) by boiling it with sweetsmelling plants until it makes a sound in boiling. (TA) [See also سَلِيخَةٌ.]

عظلم

Q. 2 تَعَظْلَمَ, [from عِظْلِمٌ as signifying a certain plant or dye,] said of the night, It was, or became, dark, and very black; (K, TA;) i. e. it became like the عِظْلِم. (TA.) عِظْلِمٌ, (S, Msb, K,) of which عَظْلَمٌ is a dial. var., (MF, TA,) The expressed juice of a species of tree or plant, (Az, K, TA,) the colour of which is like نِيل [or indigo], green (أَخْضَر) inclining to duskiness: (Az, TA:) or a certain plant, (S, K,) or thing, (Msb,) with which one dyes, (S, Msb, K,) said to be (Msb) called in Pers\. نِيل [i. e. the indigo-plant]: (Msb, and so in some copies of the S; other copies of which, for نيل, have تفل:) or i. q. وَسْمَةٌ [an appellation now applied to woad; as is also عِظْلِم]: (S, Msb, K:) AHn says, one of the Arabs of the desert told me that the عظلم is the male وَسْمَة: he also says that it is a small tree or plant, (شُجَيْرَةٌ), of the [class called] رِبَّة, that grows in a late season, and the greenness of which is lasting: and in one place he says, an Arab of the desert, of the Saráh (السَّرَاة), told me that the عِظْلِمَة [which is the n. un.] is a tree or plant (شَجَرَةٌ) that rises upon a stem about a cubit [in height] and has branches at the extremities of which are what resemble the blossoms of the كُزْبَرَة [or coriander], and it (the tree or plant) is dustcoloured: (TA:) some say that it is the بِقَّم [or Brazil-wood]: (Msb:) MF says, it is the خَطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallow]: (TA:) thus says El-Hareeree; but El-'Okbaree says that it is not that: (Har p. 625:) and some say that it is a certain red dye. (TA.) Hence the prov., بَيْضَآءُ لَايُدْجِى سَنَاهَا العِظْلِمُ i. e. [A white, or fair, female,] whose whiteness [or brightness] عظلم will not blacken [or darken]: applied to that which is notable, which nothing will conceal. (Meyd, TA.) b2: Hence, as being likened thereto, (S,) it signifies also The dark night: (S, K:) one says لَيْلٌ عِظْلِمٌ. (TA.) عَظْلَمَةٌ Darkness. (K.) عِظْلَامٌ Dust; syn. قَتَرَةٌ and غَبَرَةٌ. (K.)

طرمح

Q. 1 طَرْمَحَ He made his building long; (S, K; in the former in art. طرح;) like طَرَّحَ: (S and K in art. طرح:) or he made it long and high: (A, TA:) accord. to J, the م is augmentative. (TA.) A poet says, describing camels which herbage produced by the نَوْء [here meaning the rain of the auroral setting] of the constellation Leo had filled with fat, طَرْمَحَ أَقْطَارَهَا أَحْوَى لِوَالِدَةٍ

صَحْمَآءَ وَالفَحْلُ لِلضِّرْغَامِ يَنْتَسِبُ [Dark green herbage, the offspring of a mother (meaning, as is said in the TA, of a cloud) of a yellowish black hue, the stallion (meaning the star or asterism supposed to be the cause of its giving rain) tracing his origin to the lion, extended, or stretched out, their sides]. (S and TA, the former in art. طرح.) طَرْمَحٌ One who takes, or walks with, long steps: (K, TA:) accord. to IKtt, the م is augmentative. (TA.) طَرْمَحَانِيَّةٌ Pride. (K.) b2: مِشْيَةٌ طَرْمَحَانِيَّةٌ A proud walk or gait. (TA.) طُرْمُوحٌ (K, TA) and ↓ طِرِمَّاحٌ, as also طُرْحُومٌ, which last is thought by IDrd to be formed by transposition, (TA,) Long, or tall. (K, TA.) طِرِمَّاحٌ, of the very rare measure فِعِلَّالٌ, of which there can hardly, or cannot at all, be found any other example, except سِنِمَّارٌ, a foreign word, and سِجِلَّاطٌ, also said to be of foreign origin, (TA,) A man of high ancestry or family, and celebrated; (K, TA;) of high renown. (TA.) b2: And One who goes, or penetrates, far, or deeply, into an affair. (Az, K, TA.) b3: and accord. to Abu-l-'Omeythil El-Aarábee, One who elevates his head in pride. (TA.) b4: See also طُرْمُوحٌ.

با

بَا and بَآءٌ: see the letter ب, and arts. بوأ and بى بأ

R. Q. 1 بَأْبَأَهُ, (Lth, T, S, M, K,) and بأبأ بِهِ, (Fr, M, K,) inf. n. بَأْبَآَةُ (Lth, T, M) and بَئْبَآءٌ; (Fr, M;) [as also بأَبِى; see art. بِأَبِى أَنْتَ;] He said to him, بِأَبِي, (Fr, M,) or بأَبَا, (M,) or بِأَبِى أَنْتَ, (Lth, T, K,) [all meaning With my father mayest thou be ransomed! or] meaning أَفْدِيكَ بِأَبِى [I will ransom thee with my father]; (Lth, T;) or he said to him, بِأَبِى أَنْتَ وَأُمِّى [With my father mayest thou be ransomed, and with my mother! or I will ransom thee &c.; see art. ابو]; (S;) the current phrase of the Arabs being that which includes both parents: (TA:) i. e., a man said so to another man, (Lth, T, M,) or to a child; (Fr, S, M;) and in like manner to his horse, for having saved him from some accident: (IAar, T:) the verb is derived from بِأَبِى. (Lth, T, M.) Hence البِأَبْ, in an ex. cited voce أَبٌ, in art. ابو, q. v.; (M;) or البِئَبْ; (TA in art. ابو;) or البِيَبْ. (S in that art.) b2: And [hence,] بَأبَؤُوهُ They made a show of treating him with graciousness, courtesy, or blandishment; as also عَلَيْهِ ↓ تَبَأْبَؤُوا. (M.) b3: [Hence also,] ↓ بَأْبَآءٌ, with medd, [used as an inf. n.,] A woman's dandling, or dancing, of her child. (AA, T.) A2: بَأْبَأَ also signifies He (a child) said ↓ بَأْبَأْ (M, K) [in some copies of the K written بَابَا, both meaning Papa, or Father,] to his father. (M.) [Accord. to the TA, the verb is trans. in this sense, as in the senses before explained; but I think that بَأْبَأَهُ has been there erroneously put for بَأْبَأَ.] b2: And He (a stallion [meaning a stallion-camel]) reiterated the sound of the letter ب [or b] in his braying. (M.) b3: [And hence, perhaps,] ↓ بَأْبَأٌ [or, more probably, ↓ بَأْبَآءٌ, with medd, agreeably with analogy, used as an inf. n.,] The chiding of the cat, or act of chiding the cat; (AA, T, Sgh;) also termed غَسٌّ. (AA, T.) A3: Also He hastened, made haste, or sped: and ↓ تَبَأْبَأْنَا we hastened, &c.: (marginal note in a copy of the S:) or ↓ تَبَأْبَأَ signifies he ran. (ElUmawee, T, K.) R. Q. 2 see above, in three places.

بَأْبأْ and بَأْبَأٌ: see R. Q. 1, in two places.

بُؤْبُؤٌ The source, origin, race, root, or stock, syn. أَصْلٌ, (AA, Sh, T, S, M, K,) of a man, (Sh, T,) whether noble or base. (AA, T.) You say, هُوَ كَرِيمُ البُؤْبُؤِ He is of generous, or noble, origin; lit., generous, or noble, of origin. (TK.) And فُلَانٌ فِىبُؤْبُؤِ الكَرَمِ Such a one is of [a race] the source (أَصْل) of generosity, or nobleness. (S. [In the PS, من is here put in the place of فى: but فى is often used in phrases of the same kind and meaning as that above, in the sense of مِنْ.]) IKh cites from Jereer, فِى يُؤْبُؤِ المَجْدِ وَبُحْبُوحِ الكَرَمْ [Of a race the source of glory, and the very heart of generosity, or nobleness]: but Aboo-'Alee El-Kálee quotes the words thus; فِى ضِئْضِئِ المَجْدِ وَ بُؤْبُوْءِ الكَرَمْ [which may be rendered, of a race the source of glory, and the very root of generosity]; whence it appears that بُؤْبُوءٌ is a dial. var. of بُؤْبُؤٌ in the sense here given. (TA.) b2: The middle of a thing; (K;) [and app. the heart, or very heart, thereof; the middle as being the best part of a thing;] like بُحْبُوحٌ. (TA.) b3: [Hence, perhaps,] The pupil, or apple, or the image that is seen reflected in the black, (عَيْر AA, T, or إِنْسَان K,) of the eye. (AA, T, K.) Whence the saying, هُوَ أَعَزُّ عَلَىِّ مِنْ بُؤْبُؤِ عَيْنِى [He is dearer to me than the apple of my eye; a saying common in the present day, with the substitution of إِنْسَان for بُؤْبُؤ]. (TA.) b4: A generous, or noble, (ISk, T,) or a clever, an ingenious, or an accomplished, or a well-bred, or an elegant, (M, K,) and a light, an active, or a sprightly, (M,) lord, master, chief, or personage: (ISk, T, M, K:) fem. with ة. (IKh, TA.) b5: Also, (AA, T, S, * [but I find it only in one of three copies of the S,]) or ↓ بُؤْبُؤْءٌ, and ↓ بَأْبَآءٌ, (K,) the last from the M, (TA, [but it is not in the M as transcribed in the TT,]) A learned man (AA, T, S, K) who teaches; (AA, T;) but the teaching of others is not a condition required in the application of the epithet; (TA;) like سَرْسُورٌ. (S [in which this last word is evidently given as a syn.: but in the K it is given to show the form, only, of بُؤْبُوْءٌ].) b6: Also The body of a locust, (K,) without the head and legs. (TA.) b7: And, accord. to the K, The head, or uppermost part, of a vessel in which [the collyrium called] كُحْل is kept: but it will appear, in art. يأ, that this is [perhaps] a mistranscription for يُؤْيُؤٌ. (TA.) بَأْبَآءٌ: see R. Q. 1, in two places: A2: and see بُؤْبُؤٌ.

بُؤْبُوءٌ: see بُؤْبُؤٌ, in two places.

ضرغم

Q. 1 ضَرْغَمَتِ الأَبْطَالُ, [inf. n. ضَرْغَمَةٌ,] (assumed tropical:) The men of valour acted like lions; as also ↓ تَضَرْغَمَت: (K:) or, as some say, الضَّرْغَمَةُ and ↓ التَّضَرْغُمُ signify (assumed tropical:) the choosing of valiant men [app. as antagonists] in war, or battle. (TA.) And you say, ضَرْغَمَ الأَبْطَالُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا فِى الحَرْبِ (assumed tropical:) [The men of valour attacked one another like lions in war, or battle]. (S, TA.) Q. 2 تَضَرْغَمَ: see what precedes, in two places.

ضِرْغَمٌ, or ضَرْغَمٌ: see the next paragraph.

ضِرْغَامٌ, (MA, K, and so in some copies of the S,) and ↓ ضِرْغَامَةٌ, (MA, K, and so in other copies of the S,) and ↓ ضِرْغَمٌ, (MA,) or ↓ ضَرْغَمٌ, like جَعْفَرٌ, (K, TA,) The lion: (S, MA, K:) or a lion accustomed to prey, strong, and bold. (TA.) b2: And الضِّرْغَامُ is also applied to (assumed tropical:) The constellation of the Lion. (Ham p. 110.) ضِرْغَامَةٌ: see ضِرْغَامٌ. b2: Hence, as being likened to a lion, (TA,) (tropical:) Courageous; (K, TA;) as an epithet applied to a man. (TA.) b3: And (assumed tropical:) A powerful stallion [camel]. (K.) b4: And (tropical:) A strong man; (K, TA;) as being likened to a lion. (TA.) b5: And ضِرْغَامَةٌ مِنْ طِينٍ is said in the Nawádir el-Aaráb to mean Slime, or mire. (TA.)