ذفر

ذِفْرَى ذ , without tenween, (S, K,) because the alif [written ى] is the characteristic of the fem. gender, (S,) and sometimes, (S, K,) more rarely, (Sb,) ذِفْرًى, with tenween, (S, K,) when indeterminate, (S,) the alif in this case being considered as making the word quasi-coordinate to دِرْهَمٌ (S, K,) The place that sweats, in the back of a camel's neck, behind the ear: (Lth, S:) or, in a man, (M,) and in any animal, the part extending from the مَقَدّ [or part between the two ears, erroneously written in the CK مُقَدَّم,] to the half of the قَذَال [or entire back of the head ]: or the prominent bone behind the ear: (M, K:) or a bone in the upper part of a man's neck, on the right and left of the small hollow which is in the middle: (Sh:) or the ذِفْرَيَانِ [which is the dual] are the two protuberances on the right and left of the small hollow in the middle of the back of the neck: (M:) it is from ذَفَرُ العَرَقِ [“ the pungency of the odour of sweat ”], because it is the first part that sweats in a camel: (S:) pl. ذِفْرَيَاتٌ and ذَفَارَى, (S, K,) and some say ذَفَارٍ. (S.)