وفد

وَافِدٌ ذ A man coming to a king, (A,) or governor, (S, A,) [or great man, ] as an ambassador, or envoy, or messenger; (S, A;) [or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: See 1:] pl., (S, L,) or [rather] this first is a quasi-pl. n., (L,) ↓ وَفْدٌ (S, A, L, K) and وُفَّدٌ (K) and وُفَّادٌ; (A, Msb;) and pl. of وَفْدٌ, أَوْقَادٌ and وُفُودٌ: (S, L, Msb, K:) وَفْدٌ is also explained as signifying a party that assembles together and comes to a country or town: and a party that repairs to princes, or governors, to visit, and to ask aid, or assistance, or some benefit, &c.: (L:) and a party that comes to a king respecting an affair of conquest, or for congratulation, or the like: (Mgh:) and a company chosen to go forth for the purpose of having an interview with great men: (En-Nawawee:) and a company of riders: (Jel, xix. 88:) and a company riding and honoured: (Zj, in explanation of the same verse of the Kur-an:) but from the explanations in the K, and other lexicons, it seems to signify a party coming, whether walking or riding, chosen for the purpose of having an interview with great men, or not: the explanations of En-Nawawee and some others may be in accordance with general or conventional acceptations, and those of the rest may be proper, or literal. (TA.) ― -b2- وَافِدٌ (tropical:) A camel, (S, A, K,) or bird, (A,) or bird of the kind called القَطَا, (K,) that precedes the others (S, A, K) in pace, and in coming to water. (A.) ― -b3- الوَافِدَانِ (in the poetry of ElAasha, S, L) (tropical:) The parts of the two cheeks which project when one chews, and which become depressed when one grows old. (S, A, L, K.) One says of a very old man, غَابَ وَافِدَاهُ (tropical:) [ The middles of his cheeks have become depressed ]. (A.)