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جَفَنَ
نَاقَةً
جفن
ناقه
جفن
ناقة , (K,) inf. n.
جَفْنٌ, (TA,)
He slaughtered a she-camel, and
gave her flesh for food (K, TA)
to the people,
(TA,)
in bowls (
جِفَان).
(K, TA.) 2
جفّنوا
جفنوا They made bowls (
جِفَان
[probably meaning
they prepared bowls of food:
accord. to Freytag's Lex.,
جفّن means “ apposuit scutellam; but he does not
name his authority]). (TA.) -A2-
جفّن and ↓
تجفّن It (a grape-vine)
attained to
the state of having an
أَصْل [i. e., app.,
a stock]. (TA.) 5
تَجَفَّنَ see 2.
جَفْنٌ
جفن The
eyelid; both the
upper and
the
lower: (S, Msb, K:) of the mase. gender: (Msb:)
pl. [of pauc.]
أَجْفَانٌ and
أَجْفُنٌ and [of mult.]
جُفُونٌ. (K.) ― -b2- The
upper surface, and
the
lower, of a cake of bread: both together
being called
جَفْنَا
الرَّغِيفِ. (Lh, TA.) ― -b3- The
scabbard, or
sheath, (
غِمْد,
S, K, or
غِلَاف, Msb,) of a sword: (S, Msb, K:) [or] the
case, or
receptacle, in which is [
put]
the sword together with its
غمد and suspensory belt or
cord: (S
voce
قِرَابٌ:) [but the former signification only is
commonly known:] and [it is said that] ↓
جِفْنٌ signifies the same; (K;) but this is
doubted by IDrd: (M, TA:) pl. [of pauc.]
أَجْفَانٌ and [of mult.]
جُفُونٌ. (Msb.) ― -b4- The
أَصْل [app. here meaning
stock]
of a
grape-vine: (K:) or
a grape-vine itself, in
the dial. of El-Yemen; (T, TA;) so called as being
imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes: (Er-Rághib,
TA:) or
a species of grape: (ISd, K:) or the
skin of the grape, in which is the juice: (IAar,
TA:) or
a climbing shoot of a grape-vine: (AHn,
TA:) or the
shoots of the grape-vine: (T, S, M,
K:) n. un. with
ة: (T S, M:) or, accord. to IAar,
جَفْنَةٌ is
syn. with
كرعة [app. a mistranscription for
كَرْمَةٌ a single grape-vine]: or, accord. to
some, as ISd says, the
leaves of the grape-vine.
(TA.) [Hence,]
مَآءُ
الجَفْنِ The juice of the vine; (A, TA;)
wine: (TA:) [or it may originally mean
tears;
then,
rain; and then,
wine: for] wine is
also called
مَآءُ
السَّحَابِ: and
جَفْنُ
المَآءِ means
the clouds. (TA.) ― -b5-
A
kind of tree, of sweet odour. (AHn, K.) ― -b6-
A
certain plant, of the kind called
أَحْرَار,
that grows in a spreading manner, and,
when it dries up, contracts; having grains like the
حُلْبَة [or
fenugreek]. (AHn, TA.)
جِفْنٌ
جفن : see
جَفْنٌ.
جَفْنَةٌ
جفن
جفنه
جفنة A [
bowl of the kind called]
قَصْعَة: (K:) or
like a
قصعة: (S:) the
largest kind of
قصعة; (Ks, S in art.
صحف, M;) next to which is the
قصعة [properly so called], which satisfies the
hunger of ten [men]; then, the
صَحْفَة, which satisfies five; then, the
مِئْكَلَة, which satisfies two men, and three; then,
the
صُحَيْفَة, which satisfies one man: (Ks, S in art.
صحف:) it is peculiarly applied to
a receptacle
for kinds of food: (Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. [of mult.]
جَفَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and
جِفَنٌ (Sb, TA) and (of pauc., TA)
جَفَنَاتٌ (S, Msb, K.) [Hence,]
كُفِئَتْ
جَفْنَتُهُ [
His bowl was turned upside-down;
meaning] (tropical:)
he was slain; a phrase
similar to
هُرِيقَ
رِفْدُهُ. (A in art.
رفد.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:)
A small well;
(K;) as being likened to the
جفنة for food. (Er- Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:)
A generous man: (K:)
جَفْنَةٌ
غَرَّآءُ is an appellation applied to
a generous
man who entertains many guests and feeds many: (IAar,
TA:) he is called
جفنة because people are fed in the
جفنة, and the epithet
غرّآء is added because of the whiteness of the
camel's hump in the
جفنة. (TA.) ― -b4- Also i.
q.
خَمْرَةٌ [
meaning Some wine, or
a kind of
wine: see also
مَآءُ
الجَفْنِ, voce
جَفْنٌ]. (IAar, TA.) Credit:
Lane Lexicon