Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

دَفْعَةٌ دفع دفعه دفعة A single impulsion; a push, a thrust, or single act of driving; and particularly, so as to remove a thing from its place; a single propulsion; a single repulsion: (S, * Msb, K, * TA:) [it is an inf. n. of un. of 1 in all its senses; and thus,] it signifies also a single act of pouring: [&c.:] pl. دَفَعَاتٌ. (Msb.) You say, دَفَعَهُ دَفْعَةً, i. e. [ He impelled, &c., him, or it, ] once [or with a single impulsion, &c.]. (TK.) And دَفَعْتُ مِنَ الاـِنَاآءِ دَفْعَةً, i. e. [ I poured forth from the vessel ] a single pouring. (Msb.) ― -b2- [As an inf. n. of un. of 1,] it also signifies (assumed tropical:) A coming of the collective body of a people, or party of men, to a place at once. (TA.) ― -b3- [Also (assumed tropical:) A heat, a single course, or one unintermitted act, of running, or the like.]

دُفْعَةٌ دفع دفعه دفعة A quantity that pours forth, or out, at once, from a skin, or vessel: (Lth, K:) a quantity poured forth, or out, at once, (Msb,) [or with vehemence, being] syn. with دُفْقَةٌ. (IF, S, Msb, K, [in the CK with ع in the place of the ق,]) of rain, [i. e. a shower, fall, or storm, as meaning the quantity that falls without intermission, ] (IF, S, Msb, K,) and [ a gush ] of blood, (IF, Msb,) &c.: (IF, S, Msb:) it is also [used as signifying the tide ] of a valley, (K in art. طحم,) and [the tide, or rush, ] of a torrent, (S and K in that art.,) and [the rush, or irruption, ] of a troop of horses or horsemen, (S and K in art. دلق, &c.,) and [the irruption, or invasion, ] of night: (S and K in art. طحم:) pl. دُفَعٌ (Msb, K) and دُفَعَاتٌ and دُفُعَاتٌ and دُفْعَاتٌ. (Msb.) You say, بَقِىَفِى الاـِنَاآءِ دُفْعَةٌ There remained in the vessel as much as one pours out at once. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also A part, or portion, that is given, of property. (S in art. زعب.)

دِفَاعُ دفاع , determinate, as a proper name, The ewe: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) so called because she pushes her thigh this way and that by reason of bulkiness. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)

دَفُوعٌ دفوع and ↓ مِدْفَعٌ [ That impels, pushes, thrusts, drives, propels, or repels, much, or vehemently: ] both signify the same. (S, K.) Hence the saying of a woman, (S,) an immodest woman, (O,) namely, Sejáhi [the false prophetess, to her husband the false prophet Museylimeh, describing the kind of ذَكَر which she most approved], (L,) ↓ لَا بَلْ قَصِيرٌ مِدْفَعٌ. (S, O, L.) You say also, ↓ رَجُلٌ دَفَّاعٌ A man who impels, propels, repels, or defends, vehemently. (TA.) And نَاقَةٌ دَفُوعٌ A she-camel that hicks (تَدْفَعُ) with her hind leg on being milked. (TA.)

دَفَّاعٌ دفاع : see دَفُوعٌ. ― -b2- Also One who, when a bone happens to be in the part that is next to him, of a bowl, puts it away, or aside, in order that a piece of flesh-meat may become in its place. (El-Jáhidh, K.)

دُفَّاعٌ دفاع The main portion, that pours down at once, or vehemently, of waves, and of a torrent, (K, TA,) and of a sea: (TA:) or a great torrent: (S:) or abundance and vehemence of water: (L:) or a great quantity of water of a torrent: and a great number of people. (AA.) You say, جَاآءَ دُفَّاعٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاآءِ There came a great number of men and women crowding one upon another. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A great thing by which a similar great thing is impelled, propelled, or repelled. (K, * TA.)

دَافِعٌ دافع [act. part. n. of 1]. It is said in the Kur [lii. 8], مَا لَهُ مِنْ دَافِعٍ There shall not be any repeller thereof. (Bd.) And in the same [lxx. 2], لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ There shall not be for it any repeller: (Bd:) or any defender. (B.) ― -b2- Applied to a ewe or she-goat, (S,) or to a she-camel, (S, K,) as also دَافِعَةٌ and ↓ مِدْفَاعٌ, (K,) (tropical:) That infuses (تَدْفَعُ) the first milk into her udder [i. e. secretes it therein ] a little before bringing forth; (S, K;) that infuses the milk into her udder when about to produce her young, by reason of its abundance: AO says that some make مُفْكِهٌ and دَافِعٌ to signify the same, [i. e., to signify as explained above, or nearly so,] saying, هِىَ دَافِعٌ بِوَلَدٍ; and if you will, you say, هِىَ دَافِعٌ, alone. (TA.)

دَافِعَةٌ دافع دافعه دافعة [fem. of دَافِعٌ, q. v.: and, used as a subst.,] The lower, or lowest, part of any [ water-course such as is called ] مَيْثَاآء: pl. دَوَافِعُ: this latter signifying the lower, or lowest, parts of the مِيث, [pl. of ميثاء,] (ISh, K,) where they pour into the valleys, (ISh,) or where the valleys pour thereinto: (K:) or the pl. signifies the parts in which the water pours to the ميث; while the ميث pour into the main valley: (As:) or the دافعة is a [ water-course such as is called ] تَلْعَة which pours into another تلعة, when it runs down a descending ground, or declivity, from elevated, or rugged and elevated, ground, and you see it going to and fro in places, having spread somewhat, and become round; then it pours into another, lower than it: every one such is thus called; and the pl. is as above. (Lth.)

مَدْفَعٌ مدفع [ A channel of water; ] one of the مَدَافِع of waters, in which the waters run: (S, K:) [مَدَافِعُ being its pl.:] the lower, or lowest, part of a valley, where the torrent pours forth, and its water disperses: (ISh:) and the [ water-course, or channel, such as is called ] مِذْنَب of a دَافِعَة [q. v.]; because this latter pours forth therein to another دافعة; (K, TA;) the مذنب being the channel between the دَافِعَتَانِ. (TA.)

مِدْفَعٌ مدفع : see دَفُوعٌ, in two places. ― -b2- [Its primary signification is An instrument for impelling, propelling, or repelling: and hence it is applied in modern Arabic to a cannon: and to an instrument used by midwives for protruding the fœtus. ― -b3- Hence, also, it is used as an intensive epithet: and hence,] رُكْنٌ مِدْفَعٌ A strong corner. (TA.)

مُدَفَّعٌ مدفع , applied to a camel, (tropical:) Held in high estimation by his owner; (A, K, * TA;) so that when he comes near to the load, he is sent back: (A, TA:) one that is reserved for covering, and not ridden nor laden; of which, when he is brought to be laden, one says, اِدْفَعْ هٰذَا, i. e. Leave thou this, sparing him. (As.) ― -b2- Also, (applied to a camel, TA,) (assumed tropical:) Held in mean estimation by his owner; (K, * TA;) so that when he comes near to the load, he is sent back as despised. (TA.) Thus it bears two contr. meanings. (K.) ― -b3- Applied to a man, (A, TA,) (tropical:) Poor, (S, A, TA,) and abject, (S,) whom every one repels from himself, (A, TA,) or because every one repels him from himself; (S;) used conjointly with مُدَقَّعٌ; i. e., you say, فُلَانٌ مُدَفَّعٌ مُدَقَّعٌ: (A, TA:) a man (assumed tropical:) despised, or held in contempt, (Lth, K,) as also ↓ مُتَدَافَعٌ; (Lth;) who does not show hospitality if he make one his guest, nor give if he be asked to give: (Lth:) and one (assumed tropical:) who is repelled, or repulsed, from his relations (الَّذِى دُفِعَ عَنْ نَسَبِهِ: [نَسَبِهِ being used for ذَوِى نَسَبِهِ, like as نَسَبًا is used in the Kur xxv. 56, for ذَوِى نَسَبٍ, as explained by Bd:]) (IDrd, K:) and a guest (assumed tropical:) whom the tribe repel, or repulse, every one of them from himself, every one turning him away to another. (IDrd, K.) ― -b4- أَنَا مُدَفَّعٌ اـِلَى أَمْرِ كَذَا (tropical:) I am driven, compelled, or necessitated, to do, or to have recourse to, such a thing. (TA.)

مِدْفَاعٌ مدفاع : see دَافِعٌ.

هُوَ سَيِّدُ قَوْمِهِ غَيْرُ مُدَافَعٍ هو سيد قومه غير مدافع (assumed tropical:) He is the lord, or chief, of his people, or party, not straitened in his authority, nor thrust from it; (TA;) i. q. غَيْرُ مُزَاحَمٍ. (K.)

المُدَافِعُ المدافع مدافع مدفع (assumed tropical:) The lion. (Sgh.)

مُتَدافِعُ متدافع : see مُدَفَّعٌ.

قَوْلٌ مُتَدَافِعٌ قول متدافع (tropical:) [ A saying of which one part opposes, or contradicts, another; a self-contradictory saying ]. (TA.)

1 دَفَقَهُ دفق دفقه دفقة , aor. دَفُقَ (S, Msb, K, &c.) and دَفِقَ , (Jm, K,) inf. n. دَفْقٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) and by poetic license دَفَقٌ, (TA,) He poured it forth, or out: (S, K:) or he poured it forth, or out, with vehemence: (Mgh, Msb:) namely, water [&c.]. (S, Mgh, Msb.) And دُفِقَ المَاآءُ The water poured out, or forth: one should not say دَفَقَ المَاآءُ: (S:) or this last, aor. دَفُقَ , inf. n. دَفْقٌ, signifies the water poured forth, or out, with vehemence: but As disallowed its being used in an intrans. sense: (Msb:) [the forms of the verb commonly used intransitively are 7 and 5:] accord. to Lth, alone, (K,) i. e. in the 'Eyn, (TA,) دَفَقَ الماآءُ, (K, TA,) and الدَّمْعُ, aor. دَفُقَ , (TA,) inf. n. دَفْقٌ and دُفُوقٌ, signify the water, (K, TA,) and the tears, (TA,) poured forth, or out, at once: (K. TA:) but Az disallows this. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] دَفَقَ ا@للّٰهُ رُوحَهُ (assumed tropical:) [ God poured forth his spirit; i. e.] God caused him to die: (K:) or it means may he die. (S.) As says, I alighted at the abode of an Arab woman of the desert, and she said to a daughter of hers, Bring to him the drinking-bowl (العُسّ): and she brought me a drinking-bowl in which was milk, and spilled it; whereupon she said to her دَفَقَتْ مُهْجَتُكِ [ May thy blood, or heart's blood, be poured forth: or, as appears from a statement above, the right reading is probably دُفِقَتْ]. (TA. [See also مُهْجَةٌ.]) ― -b3- One says also, of a river, or rivulet, and of a valley, دَفَقَ, [app. for دَفَقَ المَاآءَ,] meaning, It became full so that the water poured forth, or overflowed, or so that it poured forth the water, from its sides. (TA.) ― -b4- And دَفَقَ الكُوزَ He poured forth, (JK,) or scattered, (K,) the contents of the mug at once; (JK, K;) as also ↓ ادفقهُ. (K.) ― -b5- The verb is also used transitively and intransitively in relation to a beast: you say, دَفَقْتُ الدَّابَّةَ (assumed tropical:) I made the beast to hasten, or go quickly: ― -b6- and دَفَقَتِ الدَّابَّةُ (assumed tropical:) The beast hastened, or went quickly: (Msb:) and [in like manner] one says of a quick camel, فِى مِشْيِهِ ↓ يَتَدَفَّقُ (assumed tropical:) [ He hastens, speeds, or presses forward, in his pace, or going ]: and الأُتُنُ ↓ تَدَفَّقَتِ The wild she-asses hastened, or went quickly. (TA.) -A2- دَفِقَ, [aor. دَفَقَ ,] (TA,) inf. n. دَفَقٌ, (JK, S, TA,) He (a camel) had his teeth standing outwards: (S, TA:) or had his elbows far apart from his sides. (JK. [See also رَفِقَ.])

2 دَفَّقَ [دفّقهُ He poured it forth, or out, copiously, or abundantly; namely, water &c. See an ex. of the inf. n. used as a pass. part. n. voce دَحِيقٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence,] دَفَّقَتْ كَفَّاهُ النَّدَى, (S, K,) inf. n. تَدْفِيقٌ, (K,) His two hands poured forth largess (S, K) [ copiously, or abundantly, for] it is with teshdeed to denote muchness. (S.)

4 أَدْفَقَ see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.

5 تدفّق دفق تدفق i. q. تَصَبَّبَ (S, K) [meaning (as the former is explained in the KL) It poured forth or out, or became poured forth or out, copiously, or abundantly; for it is quasi-pass. of دَفَّقَهُ; though تَصَبَّبَ is said to be quasi-pass. of صَبَّهُ like اِنْصَبَّ, and though it is said in the TA that تدفّق is quasi-pass. of دَفَقَهُ like اندفق]. ― -b2- See also 1, latter part, in two places. ― -b3- [Hence,] هُوَ يَتَدَفَّقُ فِى البَاطِلِ (tropical:) He hastens to do that which is false, vain, or unprofitable. (TA.) ― -b4- And تدفّق حِلْمُهُ (tropical:) His forbearance, or clemency, departed. (TA.)

7 اندفق أندفق اندفق ٱندفق i. q. انصبّ [ It poured forth or out, or became poured forth or out: see also دَفَقَ, which, if allowable, is less usual]. (S, K.)

10 استدفق الكُوزُ استدفق الكوز The mug had its contents poured forth or out (اِنْصَبَّ) at once. (TA.)

دَفْقَةٌ دفق دفقه دفقة A single act of pouring forth or out [ in any manner, or at once, (see 1,) or] with vehemence: pl. دَفَقَاتٌ. (Msb.)

دُفْقَةٌ دفق دفقه دفقة A quantity poured forth or out (Msb) at once, like دُفْعَةٌ, (S and K in art. دفع, q. v.,) [or] with vehemence; (Msb;) of rain, [i. e. a shower, fall, or storm, as meaning the quantity that falls without intermission, ] (S and Msb and K in art. دفع,) and [ a gush ] of blood, (Msb in that art.,) &c.: (S and Msb in that art.:) pl. دُفَقٌ and دُفَقَاتٌ and دُفُقَاتٌ and دُفْقَاتٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] جَاآءَ القَوْمُ دُفْقَةً وَاحِدَةً (tropical:) The party came at once, (S, K, * TA, *) or together. (Msb.)

دِفَقٌّ دفق (assumed tropical:) Quick, swift, or fleet; applied to a hecamel; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ أَدْفَقُ: (JK:) and so, applied to a she-camel, دِفَقَّةٌ (JK) and ↓ دِفَاقٌ, (JK, S, K,) which is likewise applied to a hecamel, (JK, TA,) and ↓ دُفَاقٌ (K) and ↓ دَفُوقٌ and ↓ دَفْقَاآءُ (JK, TA) and ↓ دَيْفَقٌ (JK, K) and ↓ دِفِقَّى. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) A camel going in the manner termed دِفِقَّى; as also ↓ دِفَاقٌ. (K.) (assumed tropical:) And, applied to a horse, Fleet, or swift; as also ↓ دِفقٌّ: and so, applied to a mare, دِفَقَّةٌ and ↓ دَفوُقٌ and ↓ دِفَاقٌ and ↓ دِفَقَّى and ↓ دِفِقَّى. (K.)

دِفِقٌّ دفق : see what next precedes.

دِفَقَّى دفق دفقى دفقي : see دِفَقٌّ: and see also what next follows, in two places.

دِفِقَّى دفق دفقى دفقي and ↓ دِفَقَّى (tropical:) A she-camel quick, swift, or fleet, and of generous race: or that has never brought forth. (K, TA.) See also, for the former, دِفَقٌّ, in two places. ― -b2- مَشَى الدِّفِقَّى, (K,) and ↓ الدِّفَقَّى, (TA, and so in copies of the S,) the latter on the authority of IAmb, (TA,) said of a man, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He walked, or went quickly, or swiftly: (S, K:) or he went with slow steps (تَمَشَّى), inclining at one time to one side and at another time to another side: or he went with wide steps, (K, TA,) and quickly. (TA.) And يَعْدُو الدِّفِقَّى (assumed tropical:) [ He runs quickly: &c.]. (TA.)

دُفَاقٌ دفاق , applied to a torrent, (S, O, L, K,) That fills the valley: (S, O:) or that fills the two sides of the valley: (L:) or swift. (K.) ― -b2- See also دِفَقٌّ.

دِفَاقٌ دفاق : see دِفَقٌّ, in three places.

دَفُوقٌ دفوق : see دِفَقٌّ, in two places.

دَفَّاقٌ دفاق [ Pouring forth, or out, copiously, or abundantly: or] extensive, and copious, or abundant, rain: applied also [in the former sense] to the mouth of a leathern water-bag: and to a river, or rivulet; and so ↓ مُدْفِقٌ. (TA.)

دَافِقٌ دافق [act. part. n. of دَفَقَهُ; Pouring forth or out, &c.]. دَافِقُ خَيْرٍ [May it be pouring forth good ] is said in prognostication on the occasion of the pouring forth of the contents of such a thing as a mug. (Lth, TA.) ― -b2- مَاآءٌ دَافِقٌ means مَدْفُوقٌ [i. e. Water poured forth or out, &c.]; (IKoot, S, Msb, K;) because دَفَقَ is trans. [only] accord. to the generality (K, TA) of the leading lexicologists; (TA;) like سِرٌّ كَاتِمْ meaning مَكْتُومٌ, (IKoot, S, Msb,) and عَارِفٌ meaning مَعْرُوفٌ, and عَاصِمٌ meaning مَعْصُومٌ, (IKoot, Msb,) after a manner obtaining among the people of El-Hijáz, who change the مَفْعُولٌ into فَاعِل when it is used as an epithet: (Fr, Msb, TA:) or it means ذُو دَفْقٍ [ having a pouring forth or out, &c.]; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) accord. to Kh and Sb (TA) and Zj; (Msb, TA;) and in like manner they say that سِرٌّ كَاتِمٌ means ذُو كِتْمَانٍ: or, accord. to Lth, [i. e.] in the 'Eyn, it means water pouring forth, or out, at once: (TA:) it occurs in the Kur lxxxvi. 6; where دَافِق is said by Kh and Sb to signify مُنْدَفِق [i. e. pouring forth or out ]: (Az, TA:) and it [there] means the sperma genitale. (JK.)

دَيْفَقٌ ديفق : see دِفَقٌّ.

أَدْفَقُ ذ , and its fem. دَفْقَاآءُ: see دِفَقٌّ. ― -b2- The former is also applied to a pace, or rate of going, as meaning Quick, or swift: (S, K:) or, accord. to AO, it means أَقْصَى العَنَقِ [the utmost of the pace called العَنَق]. (S, TA. [In my copies of the S, erroneously, العُنُقِ: in the TA without any vowel signs, app. because needless to any but the tyro in Arabic.]) -A2- Also, i. e. the former, A man bowed, or bent, (IAar, K,) in his back, (IAar,) by age or grief. (IAar, K.) ― -b2- And i. q. أَعْوَجُ [here meaning Oblique ]: (Aboo-Málik, K:) applied to a هِلَال [or new moon]: (Aboo-Málik:) Aboo-Málik says that the هلال thus termed is better, or more auspicious, than that termed حَاقِنٌ, which means “ having its two extremities elevated, and its back decumbent: ” and AZ says the like: (TA:) [or] ادفق applied to a هلال signifies erect (مُسْتَوٍ [which must here mean nearly, not exactly, erect, ] and white, not turning sideways upon one of its two extremities: (K:) [and this also is esteemed more auspicious than that termed حاقن, q. v.:] so in the “ Nawádir. ” (TA.) ― -b3- Also, applied to a camel, (S, K,) and to a mouth, (JK, TA,) Having the teeth standing out, or forwards: (JK, S, K:) or, applied to a camel, having the elbows far apart from the sides. (K. [See also أَرْفَقُ.])

مُدْفِقٌ مدفق : see دَفَّاقٌ.

دِفْلٌ دفل : see the following paragraph. -A2- Also i. q. قَطِرَانٌ and زِفْتٌ [both app. here meaning Tar, or liquid pitch ]: (K:) or such as is thick: mentioned in this art. by IF, and also as written with ذ. (TA.)

دِفْلَى دفلى دفلي , (T, S, M, K, &c.,) accord. to those who make the alif to be a sign of the fem. gender; and دِفْلًى, accord. to those who make that letter to be one of quasi-coordination; used alike as a sing. and a pl.; (S;) and ↓ دِفْلٌ; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) [the first of these appellations applied in the present day to The rose-bay, or laurel-bay; oleander, nerium oleander, rhododendron, or rhododaphne: and also to the common laurel: ] a certain tree, (T, M,) or plant, (S, K,) bitter, (T, S, M, K,) very bitter, (TA,) and poisonous, (T,) green, and beautiful in appearance, the blossom of which is beautifully tinged, (M,) called in Persian خَرْزَهْرَهْ: (K:) there is a river-kind, and a land-kind: the leaves are like those of the حَمْقَاآء [or gardenpurslane ], but more slender; and the branches, or twigs, are long, spreading over the ground; at the leaves are thorns; and it grows in waste places: the river-kind grows upon the banks of rivers; its thorns are unconspicuous, or unapparent; its leaves are like those of the خِلَاف [or salix Aegyptia ] and of the almond, broad; and the upper part of its stem is thicker than the lower part thereof: (TA:) it is very deadly: its blossom is like the red rose, (K,) very rough (خشن جدّا [but this I think is a mistranscription for حَسَنٌ جِدًّا very beautiful ], and upon it is a kind of tuft like hair: (TA:) its fruit is like the خُرْنُوب [q. v.]; (K;) having an aperient, or a deobstruent, property; and stuffed with a substance like wool: (TA:) it is good for the mange, or scab, and the itch (حِكَّة), used in the manner of a liniment, (K,) and especially the expressed juice of its leaves; (TA;) and for pain of the knee and the back, (K,) of long duration, (TA,) applied in the manner of a poultice, or plaster; and for expelling fleas and the [ insect called ] أَرَض, by the sprinkling of a decoction thereof; and the rubbing over with the heart thereof twelve times, after cleansing, is good for removing the [ malignant leprosy termed ] بَرَص; (K;) and its leaves put upon hard tumours are very beneficial: but it is a poison: [ yet ] sometimes it is mixed with wine and rue, and given to be drunk, and saves from the poisons of venomous reptiles: the Ra-ees [Ibn-Seenà, or Avicenna,] says that it is perilous by itself, and its blossom, to men, and to horses and the like, and to dogs, but is beneficial when made into a decoction with rue, and drunk: (TA:) IAar says that the [ trees termed ] اآء and أَلَاآء and حبر [app. a mistranscription for خَبْر, a species of lote-tree, ] are all called دِفْلَى. (T.) AHn says that the زَنْد made from the دِفْلَى is excellent for producing fire: and hence the prov., اِقْدَحْ بِدِفْلَى فِى مَرْخِ ثُمَّ شُدَّ بَعْدُ أَوْ أَرْخِ [ Endeavour thou to produce fire with wood of the دفلى upon wood of the مرخ: then tighten afterwards or loosen ]: (M:) said when one incites a bad man against another bad man: (M, Meyd:) or, accord. to IAar, said in relation to a man whom one needs not to press, or importune. (Meyd.)

1 دَفَنَهُ داف دفن دفنه دفننه دفنة , (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. دَفِنَ , (M, Msb, K,) inf. n. دَفْنٌ, (M, Msb, TA,) He buried it; interred it; i. e. hid it, concealed it, or covered it, (M, Msb, K, TA,) in the earth, or dust, (TA,) or beneath layers, or strata, of earth, or dust; (Msb;) namely, a thing; (S, Msb;) primarily having for its object a dead body: (M:) and ↓ دفّنهُ signifies the same; [but app. in an intensive sense or applying to a number of objects;] (M, TT;) or ↓ اِدَّفَنَهُ, of the measure اِفْتَعَلَهُ. (K. [So too, accord. to the TA, in the M; but in the text of the M as given in the TT, دفّنهُ.]) One says to a man who is obscure, unnoted, or of no reputation, دَفَنْتَ نَفْسَكَ فِىحَيَاتِكَ (tropical:) [ Thou hast buried thyself in thy lifetime ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (M,) دَفَنَ سِرَّهُ (tropical:) He hid, or concealed, his secret. (M, TA.) And دَفَنْتُ الحَدِيثَ (assumed tropical:) I hid or concealed, the information, or news, &c. (Msb.) ― -b3- [Hence also, دَفَنَ الرَّكِيَّةَ He filled up, stopped up, or choked up, with earth or dust, the well. ] And دَفَنْتُ عُيُونَ المِيَاهِ I stopped up the sources of the waters; syn. عَوَّرْتُهَا, and سَدَدْتُهَا. (Sh, TA in in art. عور.) -A2- دَفَنَتْ, aor. دَفِنَ , inf. n. دَفْنٌ, said of a she-camel, She went her own way, or at random, or heedlessly, (M, K,) without need: (M:) or it signifies, (M,) or signifies also, (K,) she was, or became, (M, K,) usually, (K,) in the midst of the other camels when they came to water: (M, K:) and ↓ اِدَّفَنَتْ, (En-Nadr, T, TA,) of the measure اِفْتَعَلَتْ, (TA,) said of a she-camel, she was, or became, such as is termed ↓ دَفُونٌ; (En-Nadr, T, TA;) i. e. she absented, or hid, herself from the other camels: or went her own way, at random, or heedlessly, alone. (En-Nadr, T.)

2 دَفَّنَ see 1, first sentence.

3 مُدَافَنَةُ المَوْتَى مدافنة الموتى مدافنة الموتي : see 6.

5 تَدَفَّنَ see 7.

6 التَّدَافُنُ التدافن signifies المَوْتَى ↓ مُدَافَنَةُ [i. e. The cooperating in the burying of the dead ]. (TA.) لَا يَكَادُ النَّاسُ يَتَدَافَنُونَ [ The people can hardly, or cannot nearly, bury one another ] is said in the case of a quick and spreading death. (TA voce ذَرِيغٌ.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تَدَافَنُوا (tropical:) They practised concealment, one with another; syn. تَكَاتَمُوا. (S, K, TA.) It is said in a trad., لَوْ تَكَاشَفْتُمْ لَمَا تَدَافَنْتُمْ (tropical:) [ If ye revealed, one to another his faults, or his secrets, ye would not practise concealment, one with another, in any case]; meaning, if the fault, (عَيْب, as in my copies of the S and in the TA in the present art.,) or secret or secrets, (غَيْب, as in one of my copies of the S in art. كشف,) of each one of you were open, or revealed, to each other of you: (S, TA:) or, accord. to IAth, [ if ye revealed, one to another his secrets, ye would not bury one another; for he says that] the meaning is, if each one of you knew what is concealed in the mind of each other of you, the conducting of his funeral, and his burial, would be deemed onerous. (TA in art. كشف.)

7 اندفن أندفن اندفن ٱندفن ٱندفنن It was, or became, buried, or interred; i. e., hidden, concealed, or covered, (S, * M, Msb, K, TA,) in the earth, or dust, (TA,) or beneath layers, or strata of earth, or dust: (Msb:) and ↓ اِدَّفَنَ, of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ, signifies the same; (S;) or ↓ تدفّن. (M, K.) ― -b2- Also, said of a portion of a well, (S,) or of a well [absolutely], and of a watering-trough or tank, and of a water-ing-place, or spring to which camels came to water, (M, K, TA,) [and] so ↓ ادّفن, (T,) [ It was, or became, filled up, stopped up, or choked up, with earth or dust; (see 1, of which each of these verbs is a quasi-pass.;) or] it had the dust swept into it by the wind [ so that it became filled up, stopped up, or choked up ]. (T, TA.)

8 اِدَّفَنَ أدفن ادفن دفن , of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ: see 7, in two places. ― -b2- Also, said of a slave, He ran away [given without any addition as one of the explanations in the S] before arriving at the city [or place ] in which he was to be sold: (T, M, K:) this is not a running away (اـِبَاق) for which he is to be returned [to the seller]: so says Yezeed Ibn-Hároon: but he adds that if he arrive there and run away, he is to be returned for it, though he do not absent himself from that city [or place]: (T:) or he absented himself, (T,) or stole away, (S, M, Mgh,) from his owners [or owner ] for a day or two days, (T, S, M, Mgh,) as AZ says, (T, S,) or, (T, M,) as AO says, (T, S,) without absenting himself from the city [or place in which he was sold ]; (T, S, M, Mgh;) as though he buried himself in the houses of that city [or place] in fear of punishment for an offence that he had committed: (Mgh:) thus, agreeably with the explanations of AZ and AO, the verb is used by the Arabs: (A'Obeyd, T:) and the epithet ↓ دَفُونٌ, applied to a slave, means one who does as is described above; (K;) or who is wont to do so: (T, S, M, Mgh:) or the verb signifies he fled from his owner, or from hard, or severe, work, but did not go forth from the town, or the like; and the doing so is not a fault [for which he may be returned to the seller], for it is not termed اـِبَاق. (Msb.) ― -b3- See also 1, last sentence. -A2- اِدَّفَنَهُ: see 1, first sentence.

دَفْنٌ داف دفن دفنن [originally an inf. n.]: see دَفِينٌ, in four places. ― -b2- Also, applied to a man, (tropical:) Obscure, unnoted, or of no reputation; (K, TA;) [and] so ↓ دَفُونٌ. (AZ, T.)

دِفْنٌ داف دفن دفنن : see دَفِينٌ, in four places.

دَفِنٌ داف دفن دفنن : see دَفِينٌ, in two places.

دَفَنِىٌّ دف دفن دفنى دفني A kind of striped cloths or garments. (S, K.)

دِفَانٌ دف دفان : see دَفِينٌ, in two places.