عفج

عَفَجٌ ذ and ↓ عِفْجٌ and ↓ عَفِجٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ عَفْجٌ (L, and some copies of the K) sings. of which the pl. is أَعْفَاجٌ (S, O, K) and عِفَجَةٌ: (TA:) the أَعْفَاج are The أَمْعَاآء [or intestines into which the food passes from the stomach ]: (TA, and Ham p. 641:) or the lower أَمْعَاآء: (TA, and Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or in human beings, and in solid-hoofed animals, and in beasts of prey, (S, O,) that [ portion of the intestines ] to which the food passes from the stomach; (S, O, K;) which is like the [ intestines called ] مَصَارِين in camels and in cloven-hoofed animals, to which the stomach transmits what it has concocted, lit. what it has tanned (مَا دَبَغَتْهُ:) (S, O: in some copies of the former, ما دَفَعَتْهُ:) or the عفج is what is in the place of the كَرِش to that which has no كَرِش: or, accord. to Lth, it is, to any animal that does not ruminate, such of the أَمْعَاآء [or lower intestines ] of the belly as is like the مِمْرَغَة to the sheep or goat. (TA.) -A2- عَفَجٌ is also the inf. n. of عَفِجَ [q. v.]. (L.)