Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

ظُبَةٌ ذ The حَدّ, (T, M, Msb, K,) or طَرَف, (S,) [both of which mean the end, or extremity, but the former means also the edge, ] of a sword, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) or of a spear-head and the like, (K,) or also of a spear-head and of an arrowhead and of a dagger and the like; (M;) or the part next to the طَرَف [or extremity ] of the sword; also called its ذُبَاب: (T:) or the ظُبَتَانِ are the parts of the two edges that are on either side of the ذُبَاب [by which last word is here app. meant the point ] of the sword: (AZ, T and TA voce ذُبَابٌ, q. v.:) [for the swords of the Arabs, in the older times, were generally straight, twoedged, and tapering to a point:] or, accord. to Aboo-Riyásh, the ظُبَة of the sword is the part that is four digits' measure below, or within, (دُونَ,) the ذُبَاب thereof; and is the strikingplace thereof: and it is also its حَدّ; and the ظُبَة of the spear-head is likewise its حَدّ: (Ham p. 48:) the ة in ظُبَةٌ is a substitute for و, which is the final radical, (S, M, Msb, K,) the word being originally ظُبَوٌ: (S, TA:) the pl. is أَظْبٍ, (S, K,) a pl. of pauc., (S,) and ظُبَاتٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and ظُبَاةٌ [which is originally ظُبَوَةٌ] (S, * TA) and ظُبُونَ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and ظِبُونَ and ظُبًا or ظُبًى. (M, K.) In the saying of EsSemow-al Ibn-'Ádiyà, تَسِيلُ عَلَى حَدِّ الظُّبَاتِ نُفُوسُنَا وَلَيْسَتْ عَلَى غَيْرِ الظُّبَاتِ تَسِيلُ [ Our bloods flow upon the edge of the ظبات, and upon other than the edge of the ظبات they flow not ], by the ظبات may be meant the swords, altogether, or the striking-places of the swords. (Ham p. 52. [See also a similar ex. in p. 48 of the same.]) -A2- Also A kind of مَزَاد [or leathern water-bag ]. (M.) -A3- And A place of bending, or turning, of a valley; like ظَبْيَةٌ [which belongs to art. ظبى]: pl. of the former ظُبَاآءٌ, a pl. of a rare form. (M in art. ظبى.)

5 تظبّى ذ , if used, means He acted like the ظَبْى, or gazelle; being similar to تَذَأَّبَ and تَنَمَّرَ &c.: its part. n. is mentioned in the first paragraph of art. ربض.]

ظَبْىٌ ذ A certain animal, (TA,) well known; (S, Msb, K, TA;) the غَزَال [or gazelle; to which the former word is applied when used unrestrictedly, and which is app. here meant by the latter word, though this seems properly to signify “ a young gazelle ”]; (M;) [it is the gazella dorcas, also called antilope dorcas, of which the ariel, or antilope Arabica, is said to be a variety; or, accord. to some, each is a distinct species of gazelle: the name seems to be properly, but not always (as is shown by an explanation of رِئْمٌ), applied only to the true antelope of Arabia and adjacent countries, as distinguished from the cervine and bovine antelopes: ] it is a name for the male; which is also called تَيْسٌ, when he has become what is termed a ثَنِىّ [q. v.], which he continues to be termed until he dies: (AHát, Msb, TA:) the female is called ظَبْيَةٌ, (AHát, T, M, Msb, K, TA,) and عَنْزٌ and مَاعِزَةٌ: (AHát, Msb, TA:) the dual is ظَبْيَانِ: (Msb, TA:) and the pl. is أَظْبٍ, (S, M, Msb, K,) originally أَظْبُىٌ, (S, Msb,) a pl. of pauc., (S,) and ظُبِىٌّ and ظِبَاآءُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) which last is of the masc. and fem., (M, Msb,) and ظَبَيَاتٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) which is of the fem. (M, Msb.) One says, بِهِ دَاآءُ ظَبْىٍ [lit. In him is the disease of a gazelle ]; meaning in him is no disease; as there is [said to be] no disease in the ظبى. (AA, T.) And لَكَ عِنْدِى مِائَةٌ سِنَّ الظَّبْىِ [ To thee I owe a hundred camels of the age of the gazelle ], i. e., all of them ثُنْيَان [pl. of ثَنِىٌّ, q. v.], because the ظبى does not exceed what is termed اـِثْنَاآءٌ. (M.) [See also a verse cited voce سِنٌّ; in which the phrase فَجَاآءَتْ كَسِنِّ الظَّبْىِ means And they came; like the age of the gazelle was the age of every one of them.] It is said in a prov., ↓ لَأَتْرُكَنَّهُ تَرْكَ ظُبَىٍّ ظِلَّهُ [ I will assuredly forsake him as a little gazelle forsakes the place of its shade ]; because the ظبى, when it leaves its covert, does not return to it: it is said in confirming the relinquishing of anything. (T. [See ظِلٌّ, where other relations of this prov. are mentioned.]) And in another prov., الظِّبَاآءَ عَلَى البَقَرِ, said when the tie of relationship and friendship between two men is severed, and it was used in the Time of Ignorance as a form of divorce: الظباء is in the accus. case by reason of اِخْتَرْتُ, or اِخْتَارَ, understood, [so that the meaning is I have preferred, or he has preferred, the gazelles to the wild cows, ] by the بقر being meant the women: whence the saying, جَاآءَ يَجُرُّ بَقَرَهُ [expl. in art. بقر]. (Meyd. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 61.]) And one says, أَتَيْتُهُ حِينَ شَدَّ الظَّبْىَ ظِلُّهُ i. e. [ I came to him when its shade ] confined the ظبى [or gazelle ] by reason of the vehemence of the heat: or, as some relate it, حِينْ نَشَدَ الظَّبْىُ ظِلَّهُ, meaning طَلَبَهُ [i. e., when the gazelle sought its shade ]. (TA.) And it is said in a trad., اـِذَا أَتَيْتَهُمْ فَا@رْبِضْ فِى دَارِهِمْ ظَبْيًا [expl. voce رَبَضَ]. (T, TA.) بِهِ لَا بِظَبْىٍ, (S, TA,) or بِهِ لَا بِظَبْىٍ أَعْفَرَ, a prov., meaning May this accident befall him, (لِيَنْزِلْ بِهِ هٰذِهِ الحَادِثَةُ,) not a white antelope, (Meyd,) is said on an occasion of rejoicing at another's affliction, (S, Meyd, TA,) by way of imprecation, i. e. may God make that which has befallen him to cleave to him. (S, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 148.]) ― -b2- [الظِّبَاآءُ and أَوْلَادُ الظِّبَاآءِ are mentioned by Freytag as names of Certain stars: in relation to the former of which he refers to Ideler's “ Unters. ” pp. 20-21; and in relation to the latter, to the same work p. 21.] ― -b3- And الظَّبْىُ is the name of A brand, or mark made with a hot iron, peculiar to some of the Arabs. (T, K.)

ظَبْيَةٌ ذ fem. of ظَبْىٌ [q. v.]. (AHát, T, &c.) ― -b2- Also a name for (assumed tropical:) A woman; [or, app. a young woman; ] and so أُمُّ ظَبْيَةٍ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A man who is stupid, dull, wanting in intel-ligence, inert, or wanting in vigour. (K, TA: but not in the CK.) ― -b4- And accord. to the K, i. q. شَاةٌ: and بَقَرَةٌ: but this is a great mistake, caused by a misunderstanding of what is cited in the passage here next following from the M. (TA.) ― -b5- Also The vulva of a woman: (Lth, T, S, M, K:) and, (M,) accord. to As, (T, S,) of any solid-hoofed beast: (T, S, M:) accord. to some, (M,) or accord. to Fr, (T, S,) of the bitch: (T, S, M:) and accord. to Lth, of the she-camel: (T:) IAar makes it to be peculiarly of the she-ass, and of the ewe or she-goat, and of the cow; (M;) meaning that it signifies the vulva of these: (TA:) and it signifies also the vagina of the mare. (M.) ― -b6- Also 1 [ bag for travellingprovisions &c., such as is called ] جِرَاب: (M, K:) or peculiarly a small جِرَاب: (M, K: *) or one made of the skin of the ظَبْى [or gazelle ]: (M:) or a thing [i. e. a pouch ] like the خَرِيطَة and the كِيس: dim. ↓ ظُبَيَّةٌ: and pl. ظِبَاآءٌ. (T.) ― -b7- And A [ tent such as is called ] خِبَاآء. (TA.) ― -b8- And A place of bending, or turning, of a valley; (M, K;) as also ظُبَةٌ [mentioned in art. ظبو]: pl. of the former ظِبَاآءٌ. (M.) -A2- ظَبْيَةُ is one of the names of The well Zemzem. (TA.)

ظُبَىٌّ ذ : see ظَبْىٌ [of which it is the dim.].

ظُبَيَّةٌ ذ dim. of ظَبْيَةٌ, q. v.

أَرْضٌ مَظْبَاةٌ ذ A land abounding with ظِبَاآء [or gazelles ]. (M.)

1 ظَرَّ ذ He cut [or split off ] a مِظَرَّة [i. e. a fragment of hard stone, with a sharp edge, to be used as a knife]. (Lth, T, M, K. [In some copies of the K, مَظرّة; and in one place, in a copy of the M, مَظِرّة: but correctly مِظَرَّة, as is said in the TA.]) This the pastor does for the purpose of cutting off therewith a thing resembling a wart within the belly of a she-camel, (Lth, T, M,) at the orifice of the womb, when she is affected by a disease occasioned by lusting for the male. (Lth, TA.) ― -b2- And He slaughtered a she-camel, (K, TA,) or, as in the “ Tekmileh, ” an animal, with the [ stone called ] ظُرَر. (TA.)

4 أَظِرِّى فَاـِنَّكِ نَاعِلَةُ ذ (M, K) is a prov., meaning Tread thou upon the ظُرَر [ for thou art furnished with leathern shoes or sandals ]: (M:) but the phrase commonly known is with the unpointed ط [i. e. أَطِرِّى: see 4 in art. طر]. (M, K.)

ظِرٌّ ذ : see the next paragraph.

ظُرَرٌ ذ A sharp-edged hard stone: (As, T, Mgh, TA:) a stone having an edge like that of the knife: (S:) or a [ kind of ] smooth and broad stone which a man breaks and with which he slaughters a camel; (ISh, T, Mgh, * TA;) and it is of any colour; and is also thus called before it is broken: (ISh, T, TA:) and the n. un. is ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ: (T:) or, as also ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ and ↓ ظِرٌّ, a stone, (M, K,) in a general sense: (M:) or a round stone: (TA:) or a round sharp-edged stone: (M, K:) or a piece of stone having a sharp edge: (M:) the pl. is ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّانٌ; (As, T, S, Mgh;) or the pl. is ظِرَّانٌ and ظُرَّانٌ; (Th, M, and so in the K accord. to the TA; [in the CK ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّارٌ;]) and Th says that the former of these is pl. of ظُرَرٌ, or both may be pls. of ظِرٌّ; (M;) and another pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ, (T, TA,) [a pl. of pauc.,] occurring in a trad.; (TA;) or, accord. to ISh, ↓ ظِرَارٌ [mentioned above as a pl.] is a sing., and أَظِرَّةٌ is its pl.: (Mgh:) and ↓ أُظْرُورٌ and ↓ ظُرْظُورٌ and ↓ مُظْرُورٌ, of which last the pl. is مَظَارِيرُ, (Sgh, K, TA,) and all of which are with damm, thus in the handwriting of Sgh, (TA,) signify the same [as ظُرَرٌ &c.]. (Sgh, K, TA.)

ظُرَرَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

ظِرَارٌ ذ : see ظُرَرٌ: and see also مِظَرَّةٌ.

ظَرِيرٌ ذ : see مَظَرَّةٌ. ― -b2- Also A sign set up whereby one is guided to the right way: pl. أَظِرَّةٌ (M, K) and ظُرَّانٌ: (TA, and so in the CK: [in some copies of the K ظِرَارٌ, which is said in the TA to be wrong:]) أَظِرَّةٌ signifies signs set up whereby one is guided to the right way, like the امرّة [thus in a copy of the T, a mistranscription for أَمَرَة]; some of which are extended and hard, and millstones are made from them. (T.)

ظِرَارَةٌ ذ : see مِظَرَّةٌ.

ظُرْظُورٌ ذ : see ظُرَرٌ.

أُظْرُورٌ ذ : see ظُرَرٌ.

أَرْضٌ مَظَرَّةٌ ذ , (S, M, K,) thought to be thus by AAF; (M;) or مَظِرَّةٌ, (T, M,) with kesr to the ظ, accord. to Th; (M;) Land containing, (T, S,) or abounding with, (K,) stones of the kind called ظُرَر: (T, S, K:) or stony land: (Th, M:) and ↓ ظَرِيرٌ also has the former meaning: (K:) or this latter is an epithet applied to a place as meaning rugged, or rugged and hard: (S:) or meaning a place abounding with stones: (M:) and its pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ and ظُرَّانٌ. (S.) ― -b2- See also the next paragraph.

مِظَرَّةٌ ذ A stone with which one strikes fire. (TS, K.) ― -b2- And also, (TS, TA,) or, accord. to the K, with fet-h, [i. e. ↓ مَظَرَّةٌ,] but this requires consideration, (TA,) Fragments [or a fragment, agreeably with an explanation in the Mgh, in my copy of which مَظِرَّةٌ is erroneously put for مِظَرَّةٌ,] of sharp-edged stone: (TS, K, TA:) pl. مَظَارٌّ: (TS, TA:) or مِظَرَّةٌ signifies a piece split off from ظِرَّان [pl. of ظُرَرٌ or ظِرٌّ], (Sh, TA,) or [simply] a stone, (M, TA,) with which one cuts: (Sh, M, TA:) as also ↓ ظِرَارٌ, (M,) or ↓ ظِرَارَةٌ. (TA.)

مُظْرُورٌ ذ : see ظُرَرٌ.

1 ظَرِبَ بِهِ ذ , aor. ظَرَبَ , He, or it, stuck, adhered, or clave, to him, or it. (K.)

2 ظُرِّبَتِ الحَوَافِرُ ذ , inf. n. تَظْرِيبٌ, The solid hoofs became hard and strong. (T, K.)

ظَرِبٌ ذ A stone projecting (Lth, T, M, Msb, K) from a mountain or from rugged ground (Lth, T) and having a sharp point: (Lth, T, M, K:) or an expanded mountain, (M, K, TA,) accord. to some, that is not high: (TA:) or a small mountain: (M, K:) or a small hill: (T, S, Msb:) pl. ظِرَابٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and أَظْرُبٌ, (Nh, TA,) [the latter a pl. of pauc.,] the former pl. of a rare kind, for by rule it should be أَظْرَابٌ, and it seems as though they had imagined the sing. to be ظَرْبٌ, and so made the pl. like سِهَامٌ, pl. of سَهْمٌ: (Msb, TA:) or, accord. to En-Nadr, ظَرِبٌ signifies the smallest of [ hills such as are termed ] اآكَام, and the sharpest in stones, all its stones being sharp like knives, the white thereof and the black and of every colour: and the pl. is أَظْرَابٌ. (T.) [See also this pl. below.]

ظُرُبٌّ ذ Short, and thick, (M, K, TA,) and fleshy: (Lh, TA:) or a short and fleshy man. (S.)

ظَرْبَى ذ and ظِرْبَى: see ظَرِبَانٌ, in three places.

ظِرْبَاآء ذ and ظَِرِبَاآء: see the next paragraph, in four places.

ظَرِبَانٌ ذ (S, M, Msb, K, &c.) and ظِرْبَانٌ (AA, AZ, Msb, TA) and ظَرْبَانٌ (IJ, TA) and ↓ ظِرَبَاآءُ (M, CK, TA, or ↓ ظِرْبَاآء or ↓ ظِرِبَاآء accord. to two different copies of the K) A small, stinking beast, (AZ, S, M, Msb, K,) resembling a cat, (AZ, S, M, K,) or resembling a short Chinese dog, (Msb,) or resembling an ape or a monkey, (AA, T, M, TA,) or above the whelp of a dog, (El-Mustaksee, TA,) that often emits a noiseless wind from the anus; (M, Msb, * TA;) said by Az, on the authority of the handwriting of AHeyth, to be a beast that has small legs, their length being that of half a finger, but which is broad, its breadth being equal to the space measured by the extension of the thumb and the little finger, or of the thumb and the fore finger, and its length being a cubit, having a compact head, and its ears [for ادناه, in my original, I read أُذُنَاهُ] being like the cat's; (TA;) it is small and short in the ears, (أَصْلَمُ الأُذُنَيْنِ, M, Msb,) or having a stoppage of the ears, (أَصَمُّ الاذنين, TA,) its earholes [ only ] hearing a confused, or humming, or ringing, sound; (M, TA;) long in the snout, [but El-Farezdak speaks of it as having a short nose, as is shown in the S,] black in the back, white in the belly; (M, Msb, TA;) it is said that its back is [ or rather contains ] one single bone, without any قَفَص [or cage-formed structure of ribs, &c. ], and that the sword has no effect upon it by reason of the hardness of its skin, unless striking its nose: (TA:) the pl. is ظَرَابِينُ, (M, K,) or ظَرَابِىُّ, (AZ, T, S, Msb,) sometimes, (S,) or this latter also, (M, K,) as though it were pl. of ظِرْبَاآء, (S,) or the first ى is a substitute for the ا [of the sing. ظَرِبَانٌ] and the second for the ن, (M,) and (quasi-pl. ns., M, K) ↓ ظِرْبَى (AZ, T, M, Msb, K) and ↓ ظِرْبَاآءُ, (M, K,) or ↓ ظِرْبَى, is a pl. like حِجْلَى pl. of حَجَلٌ, (S, TA,) and these two are [said to be] the only pls. of this measure, (AHei, TA,) and Lth and AHeyth say that ظِرْبَاآءُ is incorrect, and is rightly ↓ ظِرْبَى. (T, TA.) A poet says, (namely, 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Hajjáj Ez-Zebeedee, M, TA,) أَلَا أَبْلِغَا قَيْسًا وَخِنْدِفَ أَنَّنِى ضَرَبْتُ كَثِيرًا مَضْرِبَ الظَّرِبَانِ [ Now tell ye Keys and Khindif that I have struck Ketheer in the place of striking of the ظربان], meaning that he had struck Ketheer Ibn-Shiháb (S, M, TA) El-Medh-hijee upon his face; for the ظربان has a line, or long mark, upon his face; and he likens the blow that he inflicted upon his face to that mark: [see مَضْرِبٌ:] and the same words of the latter hemistich, except that عُبَيْدًا is substituted in them for كَثِيرًا, occur in a verse of Asad Ibn-Nághisah, who slew 'Obeyd by order of En-Noamán. (TA.) One says, فَسَا بَيْنَنَا الظَّرِبَانُ, (S,) or بَيْنَهُم, (Msb, K,) [lit. The ظربان emitted a noiseless wind from its anus among us, or among them, ] a prov., (S,) meaning that we, or they, became disunited, and alienated, one from another: [for] when this animal emits a noiseless wind from its anus in the garment of a man, the stink does not go away until the garment wears out: (S, Msb, K:) the Arabs of the desert assert that it does so in the garment of him who hunts it: (S:) and it is said to do so in the hole of the [lizard called] ضَبّ, which, being stupified by the foulness of the stink, is taken and eaten by it. (M, K, TA.) One says also, تَشَاتَمَا فَكَأَنَّمَا جَزَرَا بَيْنَهُمَا ظَرِبَانًا [ They reviled each other, and it was as though they slaughtered between them a ظربان]: the foulness of their reviling being likened to the stink of that animal. (M, TA.) And يَتَنَازَعَانِ جِلْدَ الظَّرِبَانِ They two contend in pulling at the skin of the ظربان, meaning (assumed tropical:) they revile each other: (M, TA:) and يَتَمَاشَنَانِ جِلْدَ الظَّرِبَانِ They wipe their hands together upon the skin of the ظربان, [likewise] meaning (assumed tropical:) they revile each other. (IAar, T, TA.)

الأَظْرَابُ ذ [accord. to some] signifies Four teeth behind the نَوَاجِذ [or other grinders; app. meaning, of a horse ]: (K:) or the sockets (أَسْنَاخ) of the teeth: (S, K:) [and it is said that] أَظْرَابُ اللِّجَامِ signifies the knots that are at the extremities of the bit. (M, TA.) J cites the following verse, ascribing it to 'Ámir Ibn-Et-Tufeyl, وَمُقَطِّعٍ حَلَقَ الرِّحَالَةِ سَابِحٍ بَادٍ نَوَاجِذُهُ عَنِ الأَظْرَابِ [thus in the S, (but in the M and TA عَلَى الأَظْرَابِ,) as though meaning And breaking in pieces the rings of the girth of the saddle, running with the fore legs well stretched forth, his grinders appearing from the sockets ]: but IB says, [following the reading in the M and TA,] the verse is by Lebeed; and the poet is describing a horse that breaks in pieces the rings of the saddle by his springing forward, and whose grinders (نَوَاجِذُهُ) appear when he treads upon the [stones, or hills, called] ظِرَاب: [see ظَرِبٌ, of which both ظِرَابٌ and أَظْرَابٌ are said to be pls.:] also that the right reading is وَمُقَطِّعٌ [and سَابِحٌ]: and by the نواجذ are meant the ضَوَاحِك [or teeth next behind the canine teeth], accord. to Hr. (TA.)

حَوَافِرُ مُظَرَّبَةٌ ذ [accord. to the TA مُظَرِّبَةٌ, but this is evidently a mistake (see 2),] means [ Solid hoofs ] that have become hard and strong: (K, TA:) [but] accord. to El-Mufaddal, المُظَرَّبُ, like مُعَظَّم [in measure], signifies ا@لَّذِى قَدْ لَوَّحَتْهُ الظِّرَابُ [app. meaning that which the stones, or hills, called ظِرَاب have altered, or, perhaps, heated, in its treading upon them]. (TA.)

1 ظَرُفَ ذ , (T, S, M, &c.,) inf. n. ظَرَافَةٌ, (S, Msb,) or ظَرْفٌ and ظَرَافَةٌ, (T, M, Mgh, * O, K,) but the latter is rare, (K,) allowable in poetry, (T, M,) or, as some say, is of frequent occurrence, and confirmed by analogy, (MF, TA,) said of a man, (S, O,) [or only of a young man, and ظَرُفَت of a young woman,] He possessed the quality, or qualities, termed ظَرْف meaning as expl. below [i. e. excellence, or elegance, in mind, manners, and address or speech; and in person, countenance, or garb, guise, or external appearance; or all of these qualities combined: he was, or became, clever, ingenious, intelligent, or acute in intellect; well-mannered, well-bred, accomplished, or polite; beautiful in person or countenance; elegant, or graceful; or elegant in garb, guise, or external appearance ]. (T, S, O, Msb, K.) -A2- See also what here follows.

3 ظَاْرَفَ ↓ ظَارَفَنِى فَظَرَفْتُهُ [ He vied, or contended, with me in ظَرْف] and I was more ظَرِيف (كُنْتُ ↓ أَظْرَفَ) than he. (IKtt, TA.)

4 اظرف ذ He (a man) had many [ظُرُوف, or] receptacles [ of any kind ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And He begat, (S, Mgh, O, K,) or had born to him, (M,) children that were ظُرَفَاآء (S, M, O, K) or ظِرَاف [pls. of ظَرِيف, q. v.]. Mgh.) ― -b3- اظرف بِالرَّجُلِ He mentioned the man as possessing ظَرْف. (M, TA.) ― -b4- And اظرف فِى العِبَارَةِ is explainable [as meaning He was elegant, or eloquent, in the expression, or phrase, or speech ], if the saying be received from those who are trustworthy: if not, it is correctly أَطْرَفَ, with the unpointed ط; meaning “ he said what was novel and pleasing. ” (Mgh.) -A2- اظرف المَتَاعَ, (O,) in the K, erroneously, فُلَانًا, (TA,) He put, or assigned, or made, a ظَرْف [or receptacle ] for the goods. (O, TA.)

5 تظرّف ذ He affected ظَرْف; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ تظارف. (TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ يَتَظَرَّفُ وَلَيْسَ بِظَرِيفٍ [ Such a one affects ظَرْف and he is not ظَرِيف]. (TA.)

6 تَظَاْرَفَ see the next preceding paragraph.

10 استظرفهُ ذ He found him [or held him ] to be ظَرِيف. (O, * TA.)

ظَرْفٌ ذ A receptacle (Lth, T, S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K) of anything; (Lth, T, M;) [ a vessel, or vase; ] an اـِبْرِيق is thus termed as being a ظرف for what is in it: (Lth, T, TA:) and AHn applies it to a seed-vessel, or pericarp, or a cell of a pericarp: (M, TA:) [and it is also applied to a case, or cover, for a book or the like:] the pl. is ظُرُوفٌ: (T, S, * M, Mgh, O, Msb, K:) أَظْرَافٌ is a mistake. (Mgh.) [Applying it to a vessel of silver,] Har uses it as meaning “ silver. ” (P. 614 [referring to a phrase in p. 213].) One says, أَخَذْتُ المَتَاعَ بِظَرْفِهِ [ I took the goods with the receptacle thereof ]. (A, TA.) And hence, (A, TA,) رَأَيْتُهُ بِظَرْفِهِ (tropical:) I saw him himself. (A, O, K, TA.) And هُوَ نَقِىُّ الظَّرْفِ (tropical:) He is faithful, (O, K, TA,) not treacherous. (M, O, K, TA.) ― -b2- And hence (assumed tropical:) [ An adverbial noun of place or of time, implying the meaning of the preposition فى; and also by some applied to a noun of place or of time together with that preposition; i. e.] what are termed ظَرْفُ المَكَانِ and الزَّمَانِ, (O,) pl. ظُرُوفُ الزَّمَانِ and المَكَانِ: (S, M: *) the descriptive terms that denote the places [or times] of things are called ظُرُوفٌ: (Lth, T:) they are thus termed by Kh; and by Ks, مَحَالُّ; and by Fr, صِفَاتٌ. (T.) ― -b3- Also [ Excellence, or elegance, in mind, manners, and address or speech; and in person, countenance, or garb, guise, or external appearance; or all of these qualities combined: ] a term denoting a condition that combines the generality of mental and bodily and extrinsic excellences; likened [by reason of its comprehensiveness] to the receptacle thus called: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or cleverness, ingeniousness, intelligence, or acuteness in intellect; syn. كِيَاسَةٌ, (S, O, K,) or كَيْسٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) and ذَكَاآءٌ: (Mgh:) or i. q. بَرَاعَةٌ, and ذَكَاآءُ قَلْبٍ; [the former meaning excellence in knowledge, or other qualities; or accomplishment, or perfection, in every excellence, and in goodliness; ] ('Eyn, M, O, Msb, K; *) thus accord. to most of the copies of the K [as well as the 'Eyn and M and O and Msb], but correctly بَزَاعَة, with the letter زاى: (TA:) [if so, these two explanations (بَزَاعَةٌ and ذَكَاآءُ قَلْبٍ) add nothing to others here given:] or skilfulness (M, K, TA) in a thing (M, TA) is thus termed by the people of El-Yemen: (TA:) or it is in the tongue, (IAar, T, K,) only; (K;) meaning beauty of expression, (M, L, TA,) and eloquence; (L, TA;) and حَلَاوَةٌ is in the eyes, and مَلَاحَةٌ is in the mouth, and جَمَالٌ is in the nose: (IAar, T:) or beauty of garb, guise, or external appearance: (M:) or beauty of face, and of garb, guise, or external appearance: (O, K:) or it is in the face and in the tongue: (Ks, O, K:) or goodliness, or beauty; and أَدَب [as having the meaning first assigned to ظَرْفٌ in this sentence, i. e. excellence, or elegance, in mind, manners, or address or speech; or as meaning good breeding, good manners, politeness, or polite accomplishments ]: (Msb:) or, as an inf. n., the being elegant, graceful, or beautiful: and the being intelligent, sagacious, or acute in intellect: (KL:) accord. to the author of the 'Eyn, (O,) it is only an attribute of young men and young women (M, O, Msb, * K) that are acute in intellect, clever, or skilful; (M, O, K;) not of elders, nor of lords, or chiefs: (M, K:) but as meaning كِيْسٌ, it is common to young persons and elders: (Msb:) some of those who affect distinctness of speech by twisting the sides of the mouth say that the word is ↓ ظُرْفٌ, with damm, to distinguish it from ظَرْفٌ meaning “ a receptacle; ” but this is a sheer mistake. (MF, TA.)

ظُرْفٌ ذ : see what immediately precedes.

[ ظَرْفِيَّةٌ ذ , a term of grammar, The quality of denoting place, or time, adverbially, by a noun implying the meaning of the preposition فِى; and also, accord. to some, by a noun together with that preposition. One says مَنْصُوبٌ عَلَى الظَّرْفِيَّةِ, meaning Put in the accusative case as denoting place, or time, adverbially. ]

ظُرَافٌ ذ : see ظَرِيفٌ, near the beginning and near the end.

[ ظَرُوفٌ ذ perhaps signifies Possessing the quality, or qualities, termed ظَرْف, in a great, or an extraordinary degree: used alike as masc. and fem.: for I find it stated that] one says قَيْنَةٌ ظَرُوفٌ [ A female slave, or slave-songstress, that is very intelligent or skilful or elegant &c.]. (TA. [But I think it most probable that this is a mistranscripfor قِتْيَةٌ ظُرُوفٌ, a phrase which I find in the T, and there expl. as meaning ظُرَفَاآءُ.])

ظَرِيفٌ ذ Possessing the quality, or qualities, termed ظَرْف; (T, S, M, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ ظُرَافٌ, (Lh, M, O, K,) the two being like طَوِيلٌ and طُوَالٌ, (O,) [or the latter has an intensive signification, (see طُوَالٌ, and see also the “ Durrat el-Ghowwás, ” in De Sacy's Anthol. Gramm. Arabe, p. 48 of the Ar. text,)] and ↓ ظُرَّافٌ, (M, K,) or this last, which is like طُوَّالٌ, denotes more than ظُرَافٌ without teshdeed: (O:) accord. to Mbr, it is derived from ظَرْف signifying “ a receptacle, ” as though meaning a receptacle for excellence, or elegance, in mind, manners, or address or speech: (TA:) [it may be rendered, agreeably with explanations of ظَرْفٌ, excellent, or elegant, in mind, manners, and address or speech; and in person, countenance or garb, guise, or external appearance: or clever, ingenious, intelligent, or acute in intellect; well-mannered, well-bred, accomplished, or polite; beautiful in person or countenance; elegant, or graceful; &c.:] and is expl. as meaning eloquent; thus by As and IAar: and possessing knowledge and courage: and goodly, or beautiful, in clothing, and in outer apparel: (TA:) and is used by the people of El-Yemen as meaning skilful: (O:) and, as Ks says, it is applied as an epithet to a tongue, and to a face: (TA:) the pl. of ظَرِيفٌ is ظِرَافٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and ظُرَفَاآءُ (T, S, O, Msb, K) and ظَرِيفُونَ (O, K) and ظُرُفٌ, (S, M, IB, K,) a form sometimes used, (IB, TA,) and ظُرُوفٌ, (T, S, M, O, K,) also a form sometimes used, (S, O,) approvable in poetry, (T,) as though formed from ظَرْفٌ, or [anomalous] like مَذَاكِيرُ (S, O, K) accord. to Kh (S, O) and Sb: (TA:) the pl. of ↓ ظُرَافٌ is ظُرَفَاآءُ: (Lh, M, K:) and the pl. of ↓ ظُرَّافٌ is ظُرَّافُونَ: (M, K:) the fem. of ظَرِيفٌ is ظَرِيفَةٌ; and the pl. of this is ظِرَافٌ, (Sb, T, M, Msb, TA,) like a pl. of the masc., (Sb, M, TA,) and ظَرَائِفُ. (T, M, TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Omar, mentioned by IAar, (Mgh, O, TA,) and by As, (TA,) اـِذَا كَانَ اللِّصُّ ظَرِيفًا لَا يُقْطَعُ, (Mgh,) or لَمْ يُقْطَعْ, (O, TA,) meaning When the thief is eloquent (Mgh, O, TA) and intelligent, (Mgh,) he averts from himself the prescribed punishment by his pleading [so that he will not be, or is not, mutilated by amputation of the hand]. (Mgh, O, TA.)

[ ظَرِيفَةٌ ذ , as a subst., A thing, and a saying, that is ظَرِيف, meaning elegant, &c.: pl. ظَرَائِفُ.]

ظُرَّافٌ ذ : see ظَرِيفٌ, near the beginning and near the end.

ظَارِفٌ ذ [is distinguished from ظَرِيفٌ like as شَارِفٌ is from شَرِيفٌ, q. v.]. Lh mentions the saying اُظْرُفْ اـِنْ كُنْتَ ظَارِفًا [ Possess thou ظَرْف if thou be one who will possess it ]: in meaning the actual state, they said اـِنَّهُ لَظَرِيفٌ [ Verily he is one who possesses ظَرْف]. (M.)

أَظْرَفُ ذ : see 3. Ks allows the saying, interrogatively, مَا أَظْرَفُ زَيْدٍ أَلِسَانُهُ أَظْرَفُ أَمٌ وَجْهُهُ [ What is the part that is the more excellent in ظَرْف (or elegance, &c.), of Zeyd? is his tongue the more so, or his face? ]. (TA.)

يَا مَظْرَفَانُ ذ is an expression similar to يَا مَلْكَعَانُ [and مَكْذَبَانُ &c.; meaning O thou who possessest the quality, or qualities, of ظَرْف in a great, or an extraordinary degree ]. (A, TA.)

1 ظَعَنَ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. ظَعَنَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. ظَعْنٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ ظَعَنٌ, (S, K,) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb,) and ظُعُونٌ (TA) [and مَظْعَنٌ, occurring in a verse of Zuheyr cited in art. بلو, conj. 3], He journeyed, went away, departed, (S, * Msb, K, * TA,) or removed; (Msb;) he journeyed to seek after herbage, or to water; or he removed from water to water, or from one country, or tract of land, to another. (TA. [See also the part. n., ظَاعِنٌ.]) ― -b2- ظَعَنَ بِهِ: see what next follows.

4 اظعنهُ ذ He made him to journey, go away, depart, (S, Msb, K,) or remove; and بِهِ ↓ ظَعَنَ signifies the same [or he journeyed, &c., with him ]. (Msb.)

8 اِظَّعَنَتْهُ ذ She rode him, (S, K, TA,) namely, a camel: you say, هٰذَا بَعِيرٌ تَظَّعِنُهُ المَرْأَةُ This is a camel that the woman rides (S, TA) in her journeying, and in the day of her departure. (TA.)

ظَعَنٌ ذ : see 1: -A2- and see also ظَاعِنٌ.