دفن

دَفِينٌ دف دفين i. q. ↓ مَدْفُونٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) Buried, or interred; i. e. hidden, concealed, or covered, (M, Msb, K, TA,) in the earth, or dust, (TA,) or beneath layers, or strata, of earth, or dust; (Msb;) as also ↓ دِفْنٌ (M, K) and ↓ دَفْنٌ: (TA:) pl. [of the first] دُفَنَاآءُ (M, K) and of the same also دُفُنٌ; (TA;) and [of the second] أَدْفَانٌ, (M, K,) which is also pl. of the third: (TA:) دَفِينٌ is also applied to a woman, and so is دَفِينَةٌ; (Lh, M, K;) and the pl. is دَفْنَى, (Lh, M,) or دُفَنَاآءُ, (K,) and دَفَائِنُ: (Lh, M, K:) and the pl. دُفُنٌ is also used as a sing., applied to land (أَرْضٌ). (TA. [But in the M it is said that ↓ دَفْنٌ is thus applied as an epithet to land (ارض), and that its pl. is دُفُنٌ.]) ― -b2- See also دَفِينَةٌ. ― -b3- Also, applied to a well (رَكِيَّةٌ), Partly filled up with earth or dust (اِنْدَفَنَ بَعْضُهَا); as also ↓ دِفَانٌ; pl. دُفُنٌ: (S:) or i. q. ↓ مُنْدَفِنَةٌ, (M, K,) i. e. [ filled up with earth or dust; or] having the dust swept into it by the wind [ so that it is filled up, stopped up, or choked up ]; (T, TA;) as also ↓ مِدْفَانٌ (M, K) and ↓ دِفَانٌ: (K:) and so ↓ دَفْنٌ, (M, TA,) or ↓ دِفْنٌ, (K,) thus applied, (K, TA,) and applied likewise to a watering-place, or spring to which camels have come to water, (M, K, TA,) and to a watering-trough or tank; (M, K;) as also دَفِينٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- Also Flesh-meat buried in rice: but this is a vulgar application. (TA.) ― -b5- دَاآءٌ دَفِينٌ (T, S, M, K) and ↓ دَفِنٌ, (IAar, M, TA,) which is anomalous, app. a possessive epithet, like نَهْرٌ as applied to a man, (M,) in the K, erroneously, ↓ دِفْنٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) A latent disease, which the constitution has overpowered [ so as to prevent its becoming apparent ]; it is said in a trad. that the sun causes it to appear: (IAth, TA:) or a disease that is unknown (T, S) until evil and mischief appear from it: (T:) or a disease that appears after being latent, and from which evil and mischief (شَرٌّ وَ عَرَّ [in the CK, erroneously, وَعُرٌّ]) then appear and spread: (M, K:) [it is said that] it is seldom, or never, cured. (M.) ― -b6- رَجُلٌ دَفِينُ المُرُوَّةِ, and المروّة ↓ دِفْنٌ, (TA,) or ↓ دَفِنُ المروّة and المروّة ↓ دَفْنُ, (T,) (assumed tropical:) A man without manliness, or manly virtue: so says As. (T, TA.)