رف

رَفْرَفٌ ذ : see رَفٌّ, first sentence. ― -b2- Also A window; or an aperture for the admission of light; syn. رَوْشَنٌ; (IAar, T, K;) and so ↓ رَفِيفٌ. (AA, T, O, K.) -A2- Also Coverlets (حَابِس, Katádeh, T) for beds: (T:) or beds [themselves]: (AO, T, O, K:) or carpets: (AO, T, K:) or green pieces of cloth, or pieces of cloth of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (ثِيَابٌ خُضْرٌ, [which may have either of these two meanings,] S, M, O, K,) that are spread, (M,) or of which مَحَابِس [see above] are made, (S, O, K,) and which are spread; (K;) n. un. with ة; (S, O, M;) but some make the former a sing.: (O:) pl. رَفَارِفُ: (M:) or it signifies, (T, O,) or signifies also, (K,) the redundant parts of مَحَابِس, (T, O, K,) and of beds; (K;) and anything that is redundant and that is folded: (O, K:) or pieces of thin دِيبَاج [or silk brocade ]: (M, K:) it occurs in the Kur lv. 76: and some say that it there means the meadows, or gardens, (رِيَاض,) of Paradise: (Fr, T:) or, as some say, pillows: (T:) or it signifies also a pillow: and meadows, or gardens; syn. رِيَاضٌ: (K:) also a carpet: (T:) and sometimes it is applied to any wide garment or piece of cloth. (Bd in lv. 76.) ― -b2- Also The كِسْر [app. as meaning the lowest piece of cloth, or the part of that piece that is folded upon the ground, ] of a [ tent of the kind called ] خِبَاآء: (Lth, T, S, M, O, K:) and a piece of cloth (خِرْقَةٌ) that is sewed upon the lower part of a [ tent of the kind called ] فُسْطَاط, (Lth, T, M, K,) and of a سُرَادِق, (M, K,) and the like; as also ↓ رَفٌّ, of which the pl. is رُفُوفٌ: (M: [in the CK, الفُسْطاطُ is erroneously put for الفُسْطَاطِ:]) or the skirt of a tent: (Bd in lv. 76:) and, accord. to IAar, the extremity, edge, or border, of a فُسْطَاط. (T.) ― -b3- Also The redundant portion of the skirt of a coat of mail: (A 'Obeyd, T, O:) or the sides of a coat of mail, (S, K,) and the pendent portions thereof: (S, O, K:) n. un. with ة. (S.) And the رَفْرَف of a coat of mail is [The تَسْبِغَة, q. v. : or] a piece of mail (زَرَدٌ) which is fastened to the helmet, and which the man makes to fall down upon his back. (M, K.) ― -b4- The pendent branches of the [tree called] أَيْكَة. (T, O, K.) ― -b5- Soft, or tender, and drooping trees. (M, K.) And Certain trees, (K,) certain drooping trees, (As, T, O,) growing in El-Yemen. (As, T, O, K.) ― -b6- Also, [because pendent,] The [ caruncle, in the vulva of a girl or woman, called ] بَظْر [q. v.]. (Lh, M, K.) -A3- And A species of fish (Lth, T, M, O, K) of the sea. (M, K.)