جفن

جَفْنَةٌ جفن جفنه جفنة A [ bowl of the kind called ] قَصْعَة: (K:) or like a قصعة: (S:) the largest kind of قصعة; (Ks, S in art. صحف, M;) next to which is the قصعة [properly so called], which satisfies the hunger of ten [men]; then, the صَحْفَة, which satisfies five; then, the مِئْكَلَة, which satisfies two men, and three; then, the صُحَيْفَة, which satisfies one man: (Ks, S in art. صحف:) it is peculiarly applied to a receptacle for kinds of food: (Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. [of mult.] جَفَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and جِفَنٌ (Sb, TA) and (of pauc., TA) جَفَنَاتٌ (S, Msb, K.) [Hence,] كُفِئَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ [ His bowl was turned upside-down; meaning] (tropical:) he was slain; a phrase similar to هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ. (A in art. رفد.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A small well; (K;) as being likened to the جفنة for food. (Er- Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A generous man: (K:) جَفْنَةٌ غَرَّاآءُ is an appellation applied to a generous man who entertains many guests and feeds many: (IAar, TA:) he is called جفنة because people are fed in the جفنة, and the epithet غرّاآء is added because of the whiteness of the camel's hump in the جفنة. (TA.) ― -b4- Also i. q. خَمْرَةٌ [ meaning Some wine, or a kind of wine: see also مَاآءُ الجَفْنِ, voce جَفْنٌ]. (IAar, TA.)