حجف

حَجَفَةٌ حجفه حجفة A shield made of skins, (S, K, TA,) or, as some say, of the skins of camels, cut out in a round form, (TA,) without wood and without sinews; (S, K, TA;) as also دَرَقَةٌ: (S:) or of skins sewed one over another; as also دَرَقَةٌ: (ISd:) or a small shield made of two [ pieces of ] skins sewed together, one over the other: (Msb:) pl. ↓ حَجَفٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. is] حَجَفَاتٌ. (Msb.) The saying of the rájiz, (S,) namely, Su-r-edhDhi-b, (TA,) بَلْ جَوْزِتَيْهَاآءَ كَظَهْرِ الحَجَفَتْ means رُبَّ جَوْزِ تَيْهَاآءَ [i. e. Many a middle of a desert in which one loses his way, like the back of a shield such as is called حجفة]: and [by احجفت is meant الحجفه; for] some of the Arabs, in pausing upon a ة, make it ت: thus they say, هٰذَا طَلْحَتْ, and خُبْزُ الذٌّرَتْ: (S, Sgh:) these are Teiyi. (Sgh, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The breast, or chest; (Abu-l-'Omeythil, K:) as being likened to a shield: (Abu-l-'Omeythil, TA:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ حَجَفٌ. (Abu-l-'Omeythil, K.)