حوف

حَوْفٌ حوف : see حَافَةٌ, first and last significations. -A2- Also A skin that is slit [ in several places, into a number of thongs or strips, ] of a form like that of the اـِزَار [or waist-wrapper ], worn [ round the hips ] by one who is in menstruis, and by boys; (S, K;) i. e. a رَهْط: (S:) pl. أَحْوَافٌ: (TA:) accord. to IAar, a skin that is slit into thongs or strips: or, as he says on one occasion, a وَثْر, i. e., (TA,) a نُقْبَة of skin or leather, slit into strips of the width of four fingers each, (IAar, K, TA,) or a span, (IAar, TA,) worn by a young girl before she has attained to puberty, (IAar, K, TA,) and worn by her in menstruis; of the dial. of El-Hijáz; in the dial. of Nejd called رَهْط: (IAar, TA:) or red skin or leather, cut in the form of thongs or strips, upon which are put [ ornaments of the kind termed ] شَذْر; worn by a girl over her garments: (K:) [see also خَوْفٌ:] accord. to IAth, i. q. بَقِيرَةٌ; i. e. a garment without sleeves. (TA.) -A3- A thing, (K,) i. e. a kind of vehicle in which a woman rides upon a camel, (TA,) resembling, but not the same as, the هَوْدَج: (K:) of the dial. of the people of El-Howf [in 'Omán], and of the people of Esh-Shihr. (TA.)