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طفء

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مُطْفِئُ الجَمْرِ ذ [ The extinguisher of the live coals; ] one of the [ seven ] days called أَيَّامُ العَجُوزِ; (S, O;) the fifth of those days; (K;) so in the M &c.: (TA:) or the fourth thereof: (O, K:) or the last thereof. (Har p. 295.) [Accord. to modern Egyptian almanacs, it is the fourth of those days on which the last of the three جَمَرَات becomes extinct: see جَمْرَةٌ: and see also عَجُوزٌ] ― -b2- مُطْفِئَةُ الرَّضْفِ (so in the M and O and L and in some copies of the K, in other copies of the K مُطْفِئُ, TA) A piece of fat which, when it falls upon the رَضْف [or heated stones ], melts, and quenches them. (Lth, O, K.) And in the M and L, it is said to signify A lean sheep or goat: the Arabs, as is related by Lh, used to say, حَدَسَ لَهُمْ بِمُطْفِئَةِ الرَّضْفِ (TA) i. e. He slaughtered for them a lean sheep or goat, which extinguished the fire and did not become thoroughly cooked: (M and L and K in art. حدس:) or a fat sheep or goat, (AO and T, TA in that art.,) which quenched the رَضْف by its fat. (T, TA ibid. [See also دَمَغَ.]) ― -b3- Also A serpent, the poison of which, as it passes by the رَضْف, extinguishes their fire: (O, K:) in a verse of El-Kumeyt, [for the sake of the metre,] the former word is [altered to] ↓ مُطَفِّئَة. (O.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) A calamity, or misfortune: (O, K, TA:) said by AO to mean originally such as has made one to forget that which was before it, and extinguished its heat. (O, TA.)

Derived headwords

مُطْفِئُ الجَمْرِ
  1. 1.
أَيَّامُ العَجُوزِ
مُطْفِئَةُ الرَّضْفِ
حَدَسَ لَهُمْ
بِمُطْفِئَةِ الرَّضْفِ