Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

ثْعَالَةُ ثعال ثعاله ثعالة : see ثَعْلَبٌ, and see art. ثعل.

أَرْضٌ مُثَعْلِبَةٌ ذ A land having ثَعَالِب [or foxes ]: (S:) or, having many thereof; as also أَرضٌ مَثْعَلَةٌ; (K;) which is from ثُعَالَةٌ; or it may be from ثَعْلَبٌ, like مَعْقَرَةٌ applied to “ a land having many عَقَارِب [or scorpions]. ” (S, L.)

1 ثَغَرَهُ ثغر ثغره ثغرة , (T, A, K,) aor. ثَغَرَ , (K,) inf. n. ثَغْرٌ, (T,) He broke it; (T, A;) namely, a part of a wall; (A;) he demolished it: this is [said to be] the primary signification: he demolished it, or pulled it down; namely, a wall: (T:) and he broke it (namely, anything, [as a wall and a vessel, &c.,] A) so as to make a gap in it, or a hollow in its edge. (A, K.) ― -b2- Also, (IAar, S, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (Msb, K,) He broke his ثَغْر [or front teeth ], (S, Msb, K,) or his teeth. (IAar, and TA as from the K.) And ثُغِرَ, in the pass. form, inf. n. ثُغُورٌ, He (a boy) had his ثَغْر [or front teeth] broken. (Msb.) ― -b3- ثَغَرْتُ سِنَّهُ I pulled out his tooth. (El-Hujeymee, TA.) And ثُغِرَ He (a man) had a tooth, or teeth, pulled out. (As, TA.) ― -b4- Also ثُغِرَ, (AZ, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. ثَغْرٌ, (AZ, Msb,) He (a boy) shed his central milk-teeth, (AZ, S, Mgh, K,) or his ثَغْر [or front teeth ]: (AZ, Msb:) or ↓ أَثْغَرَ has this latter meaning, (A, K,) or ↓ اِتَّغَرَ; (As, TA;) and ثَغِرَ, (K,) or ↓ اِتَّغَرَ, (Sh, TA,) or ↓ اِتَّغَرَ, (Msb,) signifies he shed his teeth: (Sh, Msb, K:) ثُغِرَ is said to have this last signification in the Kifáyet el-Mutahaffidh; and ↓ اثّغر and ↓ اتّغر are there said to have the contr. signification, explained below [see 8]. (Msb.) ― -b5- ثُغِرَ also signifies He had his mouth bruised; and so ↓ أُثْغِرَ. (K.) -A2- ثَغَرَ الثُّلْمَةَ, aor. ثَغَرَ , He stopped up, or obstructed, the gap, or breach: thus the verb bears two contr. significations. (K.) And ثَغَرْنَاهُمْ We stopped up, or obstructed, against them the gaps, or passes of the mountain; (S, TA;) we stopped up, or obstructed, against them the place of exit, so that they knew not what way to take. (A.)

4 أَثْغَرَ see 1, in two places: ― -b2- and 8 also, in two places.

8 اِتَّغَرَ اتغر (AZ, Sh, S, Mgh, Msb, K) and اِثَّغَرَ (AZ, Mgh, Msb) and اِدَّغَرَ, (K,) originally اِثْتَغَرَ, (AZ, S, K,) He (a boy) bred his central milkteeth, (S,) or his ثَغْر [or front teeth ]; (Sh, * Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَثْغَرَ: (K:) or he bred his teeth after the former ones had fallen out: (AZ, Mgh:) and ↓ أَثْغَرَ, inf. n. اـِثْغَارٌ, of the measure of أَكْرَمَ, inf. n. اـِكْرَامٌ, he grew his ثَغْر [or front teeth] after the former ones had fallen out: by some, اثّغر and اتّغر are used specially in relation to a beast: the Benoo-Kiláb thus used the former; not in relation to a boy. (Msb.) ― -b2- See also 1, in five places.

ثَغْرٌ ثغر ثغرة The front teeth; (S, A, K;) syn. مَبْسِمٌ; (Msb;) described by a poet as eight in number, four upper and four lower: (TA:) afterwards applied to the central incisors: (Msb:) or all the teeth (TA) while they remain in their places of growth, (K, TA,) before they fall out: (TA:) or the teeth, (K, TA,) all of them, whether in their places of growth or not: (TA:) or the mouth: (K:) pl. ثُغُورٌ. (TA.) [Hence, ضَحِكَ ثَغْرُهُ He laughed so as to show his front teeth, or his teeth. ] ― -b2- Any gap, opening, interstice, or open intervening space, (M, K,) in a mountain, or in the bottom of a valley, or in a road along which people pass; (TA;) as also ↓ ثُغْرَةٌ: (A, * TA:) or the latter signifies a gap, or breach, in a wall &c.; the hollow of the broken edge of a vessel &c.; and its pl. is ثُغَرٌ. (S.) You say, هٰذِهِ مَدِينَةٌ ↓ فِيهِا ثُغَرٌ This is a city in which are gaps, or breaches. (S.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A frontier-way of access to a country, [in the CK, قُرُوح is erroneously put for فُرُوج, the word occurring in its place in MSS. of the K and in the S,] such as is a place of fear; (S, K;) as also ↓ ثُغْرُورٌ: (K:) the part of a country from which the invasion of the enemy is feared; so that it is like a gap in a wall, from which one fears the invasion of the robber: (Msb:) a place from, or through, which one fears the enemy's coming, in a mountain or fortress: (T, TA:) the frontier of a hostile country: (K:) a place that is a boundary between the countries of the Muslims and the unbelievers: (IAth, TA:) pl. ثُغُورٌ. (Msb.) You say, فُلَانٌ يَسُدُّ الثَّغْرَ (tropical:) [ Such a one stops up, or obstructs, the frontieraccess of the country by his bravery]. (A.) ― -b4- See also ثُغْرَةٌ, in two places. ― -b5- أَمْسُوا ثُغُورًا (tropical:) They became dispersed, or scattered, (JK, A, K,) and lost, or in a state of perdition: (A, K:) sing. ثَغْرٌ. (JK, K.)

ثُغْرَةٌ ثغر ثغره ثغرة ; pl. ثُغَرٌ: see ثَغْرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also The pit of the uppermost part of the breast, or chest, between the two collar-bones; (S, M, K;) the pit in the middle of the نَحْر: pl. as above: (Msb:) in a camel, the pit which is the stabbingplace: and in a horse, [the part] above the جُؤْجُؤ, (K,) which is the prominent portion of the نَحْر, between the upper parts of the فَهْدَتَان [or two portions of flesh on the right and left of the breast ]. (TA.) ― -b3- A tract, or quarter, of the earth, or of land; (JK, K;) as also ↓ ثَغْرٌ. (TA.) You say, مَا بِتِلْكَ الثُّغْرَةِ مِثْلُهُ There is not, in that tract, or quarter, of the earth, his, or its, like. (TA.) ― -b4- A plain, level, or even, road; (K;) as also ↓ ثَغْرٌ: (TA:) or any road that people tread, or pass along, with ease; because they furrow its surface: (T, TA:) pl. as above. (A.) [Hence,] ثُغَرُ المَسْجِدِ The ways leading to the mosque: or ثُغْرَةُ المَسْجِدِ means the upper part of the mosque [app. next to the kibleh ]. (TA.) And هُوَيَخْتَرِقُ ثُغَرَ المَجْدِ (tropical:) [ He travels] the ways of glory. (A.)

ثُغْرُورٌ ثغرور : see ثَغْرٌ.

ثَاغِرَةٌ ثاغره ثاغرة The root, or lower part, of a tooth: pl. ثَوَاغِرُ. (JK.)

مَثْغَرٌ مثغر The place through which a tooth passes, in the head [or gum]. (TA.)

مُثْغَرٌ مثغر : see what follows.

مَثْغُورٌ مثغور Having his ثَغْر [or front teeth ], (A,) or his teeth, (IAar, TA,) broken. (IAar, A, TA.) ― -b2- Having his mouth bruised; as also ↓ مُثْغَرٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- A boy (AZ, S) shedding his central milk-teeth, (AZ, S, K,) or his ثَغْر [or front teeth ]. (AZ, A, Msb.)

4 اثغم اثغم It (a valley) produced the kind of plant called ثَغَام: (K:) or abounded therewith. (A, TA.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) It (the head) became like the ثَغَامَة in whiteness. (K, TA.)

ثَغَامٌ ثغام A kind of plant, (S, Msb, K, TA,) generally (Msb) found in the mountains, (S, Msb,) having a green stem, (TA,) which becomes white when it dries, (S, Msb, TA,) and to which hoariness is likened; (S, Msb; [Golius, app. misled by a false reading in a copy of the S, says “ simile anetho; ”]) it has a thick [head, or blossom, such as is called ] سَنَمَة, and [it is said that [it does not grow save upon a black mountain-top, and is found in Nejd and Tihámeh: (TA:) A 'Obeyd says that it is a kind of plant, (TA,) IF, that it is a tree, (Msb,) with a white blossom and fruit, (Msb, TA,) to which hoariness is likened: (TA:) it is called in Persian درمنه; (K; [written in different copies of that work دِرَمْنَه and دَرَّمْنَه and دَرَمْنَه; the last of which is said in the TA to be the right reading; a word said to mean wormwood, and hyssop; or, accord. to Meninski, as mentioned by Freytag, zedoary; but this last is called in Persian زُرُنْبَا, with which word درمنه may have been confounded;]) or درمنه اسبيد, (S,) or دَرْمَنَه اـِسْPِيد, in which [SM thinks] the former word is a contraction of دَرْمِيَانَه; the two together meaning “ in the middle white: ” (TA:) the n. un. is with ة: (S, K:) and ↓ أَثْغَمَاآءُ is a quasi-pl. n.; (K;) as though the اء were a substitute for the ة of أَثْغِمَةٌ. (TA.)

ثَاغِمٌ ثاغم A colour white like the ثَغَام: (K:) in the L, a head wholly white. (TA.)

أَثْغِمَاآءُ ذ : see ثَغَامٌ.

1 ثَغَتْ ثغا ثغت , aor. ثَغُوَ , (S, Mgh, K,) inf. n. ثُغَاآءٌ, (S, [in a copy of the Mgh, ثِغَاآء,]) She, or it, bleated, or cried, (S, Mgh, K,) [ on the occasion of bringing forth, and on other occasions; ] said of a sheep or goat [&c.]. (S, Mgh, K, TA.)

4 اثغى اثغى اثغي He made a sheep or goat [&c.] to utter the cry termed ثُغَاآء. (K.) -A2- أَتَيْتُهُ فَمَا أَثْغَى I came to him and he gave not anything: (K:) or فَمَا أَثْغَى وَمَا أَرْغَى and he gave not a sheep or goat, &c., that uttered the cry termed ثُغَاآء, nor a camel that uttered the cry termed رُغَاآء. (TA.)

ثَغْوَةٌ ثغا ثغوه ثغوة A single cry of the kind termed ثُغَاآء. (TA.)

ثُغَاآءٌ ثغاآء The bleating, or crying, or cry, (S, K,) of the sheep and goat and the like, (S,) or of the sheep or goat, and gazelle, &c., on the occasion of bringing forth, (M, K,) and on other occasions; (M;) as also ↓ ثَاغِيَةٌ, like رَاغِيَةٌ in relation to camels, and صَاهِلَةٌ in relation to horses. (TA.) -A2- Also, (K,) thus we find in the copies of the K, but correctly ↓ ثِغَايَةٌ, as in the Tekmileh [and in the JK], (TA,) The fissure in the lip of the sheep or goat. (K.)

ثِغَايَةٌ ثغايه ثغاية : see what next precedes.

ثَاغٍ ثاغ ثاغي [part. n. of ثَغَى: and hence, ― -b2- ] A sheep or goat [&c.]; (TA;) as also [its fem.] ثَاغِيَةٌ. (S, K, TA.) You say, مَالَهُ ثَاغٍ وَلَا رَاغٍ (TA) and مَا لَهُ ثَاغِيَةٌ وَلَا رَاغِيةٌ (S, TA) He has not a sheep or goat, nor a camel: (S, TA:) or مَا لَهُ رَاغِيَةٌ وَلَا ثَاغِيَةٌ he has not a she-camel nor a sheep or goat. (Har p. 333.) And مَا بِالدَّارِ ثَاغٍ وَلَا رَاغٍ (assumed tropical:) There is not in the house any one. (S, TA.)

ثَاغِيَةٌ ثاغي ثاغيه ثاغية fem. of ثَاغٍ [q. v.]. ― -b2- See also ثُغَاآءٌ.

ثُفَّاآءٌ ثفاآء , (T, Jm, S, M, K,) of the measure فُعَّالٌ, (S,) or ثُفَاآءٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) of the measure of غُرَابٌ, (Msb,) [a coll. gen. n.,] i q. خَرْدَلٌ [i. e. Mustard ]; (S, M, K;) in the dial. of the people of El-Ghowr: (M:) or خَرْدَل worked together, or mixed up, or compounded, (مُعَالَجٌ), with صِبَاغ [i. e. sauce, or fluid seasoning ]: (M, Mgh:) or what is called حُرْفٌ (S, M, K, TA) in the dial. of the people of El-Ghowr, (TA,) or, (M,) which is the same thing, (TA,) what is called حَبُّ الرَّشَادِ (M, Mgh, Msb, TA) in the dial of the people of El-'Irák, (TA,) which is eaten in case of necessity: (Msb: [see art. رشد:]) n. un. with ة: (S, M, K:) the ء may be original, or it may be substituted for ى or و: (M:) Sgh says, in the O, that he thinks the latter to be the case. (TA.) It is said in a trad., مَا ذَا فِى الأَمَرَّيْنِ مِنَ الشِّفَاآءِ الصَّبِرِ وَالثُّفَّاآءَ [ What remedy is there in the two most bitter things, aloes and the ثفّاآء?]. (T, Mgh: but in the latter, the last word is without teshdeed to the ف.)

1 ثَفVرَ and 2: see 4.

4 اثفرهُ اثفره اثفرة He bound, tied, or fastened, upon him a ثَفَر [or crupper ]; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) namely, a beast, a horse, an ass, or a camel: (S, * M, * TA, &c.:) or he made for him (namely, a camel or an ass &c., TA) a ثَفَر [or crupper ]. (M, K.) [Hence,] أَثْفَرْتُهُ بَيْعَةَ سُوْءٍ (tropical:) [app. I imposed upon him a bad sale so that he could not rid himself of it; lit.] I stuck a bad sale to his backside. (A, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He drove him, or urged him on, from behind; (A, K;) as also ↓ ثفّرهُ, inf. n. تَثْفِيرٌ; (K;) in some copies of the K, ↓ ثَفَرَهُ, aor. ثَفُرَ . (TA.) ― -b3- اثفرت She (a goat) showed, or gave evidence of, pregnancy, or bringing forth. (K: in the CK, بَيَّنَتِ الوِلادَ: in MS. copies of the K, and in the TA, الوِلَادَة.)

10 استثفر استثفر (tropical:) He (a man, M) put (a part of] his اـِزَار [or waist-wrapper] between his thighs, twisted together; (M, K;) he (a wrestler) turned back the extremity of his garment [between his thighs] and stuck it in the part where it was bound round his waist: (A:) or استثفر بِثَوْبِهِ, (S, Msb,) or بِاـِزَارِهِ, (T, Mgh,) or استثفر اـِزَارَهُ, (Mgh,) he (a man) turned back the extremity of his garment between his legs to the part where it was bound round his waist; (S;) or he (a wrestler, T, Mgh) bound his garment, (IF, Msb,) or his ازار, (T, Mgh,) round the lower part of his body, (IF, Mgh, Msb,) or round his thighs, (T,) and then turned back its extremity between his legs, and stuck it in the part where it was bound round his waist, behind. (T, IF, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- استثفرت, said of a menstruous woman, signifies the like; (Msb;) (tropical:) i. q. تَلَجَّمَتْ; (A, Msb;) She closed her vulva with a broad piece of rag, or stuffed it with some cotton, and fastened the [or each] extremity of the bandage to a thing tied round her waist. (T, L.) ― -b3- And استثفر, (M,) or استثفر بِذَنَبِهِ, (S, A, Msb, K,) said of a dog, (tropical:) He put his tail between his thighs, (S, M, A, * Msb, K,) making it to cleave to his belly. (M, K.)

ثَفْرٌ ثفر (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ ثُفْرٌ (M, K) The vulva of an animal of prey, (As, T, S, M, Msb, K,) and of any creature that has claws, or talons: (S, Msb, K:) or the vagina thereof: (M, K:) and metaphorically used in relation to other animals: (Msb:) thus applied to that of a cow, (S, M, TA,) and of a mare, and of a ewe, and of a woman: or applied to that of a cow it is proper, not tropical. (M, TA.) ― -b2- Also, accord. to AA and others, The anus. (Mz 44th نوع.) -A2- See also ثَفَرٌ.

ثُفْرٌ ثفر : see ثَفْرٌ.

ثَفَرٌ ثفر , (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and sometimes ↓ ثَفْرٌ, (K,) The [ crupper, or] strap, or thong, at the hinder part of the saddle; (M, K;) the appendage of the saddle that is put beneath the tail (Mgh) of a beast, (S, A, Mgh, Msb,) of a horse, an ass, or a camel: (T, TA:) its two ends are bound to the دَفَّتَانِ: (IDrd in his book on the Saddle and Bridle, p. 4:) pl. أَثْفَارٌ. (Msb.)

مِثْفَرٌ مثفر : see what follows.

مِثْفَارٌ مثفار A beast that throws its saddle backwards. (S, M, A, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A catamite; syn. مَأْبُونٌ; (K;) الَّذِي يُؤْتَى; (M;) as also ↓ مِثْفرٌ. (M, K.)

ثُفْرُوقٌ ثفروق The قِمَع [or base ] of a date: (S, K:) or the قِمَع of a full-grown unripe date; i. e., the round portion of its covering, surrounding the stalk, and adhering to the upper part of the date: (Mgh:) or the part (El-'Adebbes, A-'Obeyd, S, K) of the date (El-'Adebbes, A'Obeyd, S) to which the قمع adheres: (El-'Adebbes, A'Obeyd, S, K:) or, accord. to Lth, the connecting medium (علاقة) between the stone of the date and the قمع; and AZ says the like: (TA: [see فَرضٌ as signifying a sort of dates of 'Omán:]) or a raceme of which the dates have been eaten, or of which all the dates have been stripped off except one or two or three: (ISh, TA:) pl. ثَفَارِيقُ; (S, K;) explained by Ks as meaning the أَقْمَاع of fullgrown unripe dates. (S.) تُفْرُوقٌ is a dial. var. thereof. (TA in art. تفرق.) The pl. also signifies The bases (أَقْمَاع) of grapes: (JK:) or the ثُفْرُوق of a grape is what adheres to the raceme; and a closed perforation therein. (Mgh.) ― -b2- [Hence,] مَا لَهُ ثُفْرُوقٌ (assumed tropical:) He possesses not anything. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

1 ثَفVلَ [ثَفَلَ, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of J, quasi سَفْلَ, i. q. رَسَبَ, i. e. It subsided; said of any sediment: but I do not find this in the S, nor in any other lexicon.] -A2- ثَفَلَ الرَّحَى, (K,) aor. ثَفُلَ , inf. n. ثَفْلٌ; (TA;) or ↓ ثَفَّلَهَا; (so in a copy of the M;) He placed a ثِفَال [q. v.] beneath the hand-mill. (M, K.) -A3- ثَفَلَهُ, (Lth, T, K,) aor. ثَفُلَ , (TA,) inf. n. ثَفْلٌ, (T, M,) He left it, or cast it away as a thing of no account, or neglected it, (تَرَكَهُ, Lth, T, M,) or he scattered it, strewed it, or dispersed it, (نَثَرَهُ, K,) all of it, (Lth, T, TA,) at once. (Lth, T, M, K.)

2 ثفّل عَنِ اللَّبَنِ بِالطَّعَامِ ثفل عن اللبن بالطعام , inf. n. تَثْفِيلٌ, He ate wheat, or other food, with the milk. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.) -A2- See also 1.

3 ثَاْفَلَ [ثافل probably signifies (assumed tropical:) He ate ثُفْل, i. e. grain, &c.; as Golius has assumed from the explanation, in the S and K, of the act. part. n., which see below: or ثافلهُ he ate ثُفْل with him. ] ― -b2- Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, (TA,) ثافلهُ is syn. with ثَافَنَهُ, q. v. (K, TA.)

4 اثفل أثفل اثفل It (wine, or beverage,) had in it ثُفْل [meaning a sediment, or dregs ]. (Zj, K.)

5 تثفَلهُ أثفل تثفله تثفلة (tropical:) It (a radical, or hereditary, evil quality) withheld him from generous actions. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) -A2- (tropical:) He overcame him, or subdued him, [as though] putting him beneath him like the ثِفَال. (TA.)

ثُفْلٌ ثفل The sediment, or settlings, of anything; (S;) the dregs; lees; or thick, or turbid, portion that sinks to the bottom of a thing, (T, M, Msb, K,) beneath the clear portion; (T, Msb;) as, for instance, of water, and of broth, (TA,) and of medicine, (T, TA,) and the like, and of a cookingpot, [i. e. of its contents,] (T,) &c.; (TA;) as also ↓ ثَافِلٌ. (IDrd, M, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Grain, (T, S, M, K, TA,) and whatever is eaten of flesh-meat or bread or dates; and particularly when people are in want of milk: (T:) or flour; and what is not drunk, as bread, and the like: (TA:) or the refuse, or worse sort, of طَعَام [i. e. wheat, or other food ]. (Ham p. 768.) You say, شَرِبَ المَاآءَ عَلَى غَيْرِ ثُفْلٍ (tropical:) [ He drank water, or the water, not upon, i. e. not having eaten, grain, or flesh-meat, &c.]. (A in art. بحت.) ― -b3- See also ثِفَالٌ.

ثَفَلٌ ثفل : see ثَفَالٌ.

ثَفِلٌ ثفل (tropical:) One who eats ثُفْل. (K. [It seems to be there indicated that the latter word is to be understood in this case in the former of the senses assigned to it above; but it is not so.]) One says, لَيْسَ الثَّفِلُ كَا@لْمَحِضِ, i. e. (tropical:) He who eats ثُفْل [or grain, &c.,] is not like him who drinks pure milk. (TA.) And ↓ هُمْ مُثَافِلُونَ (tropical:) They are eating ثُفْل, i. e. grain, (T, S, M, K, TA,) or flesh-meat, or bread, or dates, (T,) [&c.,] being in want of milk; (T, S;) the hardest of the means of subsistence (T, S, M) to the Bedawee. (T, S.)

ثُفْلَةٌ ثفل ثفله ثفلة , (T,) or ثَفَلَةٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) Somewhat remaining (T) of dates, in a sack: on the authority of a person of the tribe of Suleym. (T, TA.)

ثَفَالٌ ثفال Slow; (S, M, Mgh, K;) applied to a camel (T, S, M, Mgh, K) &c.; as also ↓ ثَفَلٌ; (K;) and ثَقَالٌ: (K in art. ثقل:) one that will not rise and go save with reluctance: (T:) the first thus written with fet-h [to the ث] in the generality of books; but in the Tekmileh [of the 'Eyn] ↓ ثِفَالٌ, and there said to be applied to a beast and to a man. (Mgh.)

ثُفَالٌ ثفال : see the paragraph next following.

ثفَالٌ ثفال The thing by which the mill is preserved from the ground; as also ↓ ثُفْلٌ: (M, K:) it is a skin that is spread beneath the hand-mill to preserve the flour from the dust; (T;) a skin, (S, Msb,) or the like, that is put beneath the mill, (Msb,) [i. e.,] which is spread, and whereon is placed the mill, which is turned with the hand, (S,) in order that the flour may fall upon it. (S, Msb.) When the ثفال has another thing to preserve it from the ground, this latter is called the وِفَاض. (M.) Zuheyr says, (T, S, K,) describing war, (T,) فَتَعْرُكُكُمْ عَرْكَ الرَّحَىبِثِفَالِهَا (T, S, K, *) meaning [ And it frets you as frets the mill] when it is with its ثفال: for they do not place a ثفال beneath the mill except when grinding. (K.) ― -b2- Also, (sometimes, S,) The nether, or lower, mill-stone; (S, K;) and so ↓ ثُفَالٌ. (K.) ― -b3- And A ewer; syn. اـِبْرِيقٌ: (IAar, T, M, K:) occurring in a trad. in which mention is made of washing the hand therewith. (T, M.) -A2- See also ثَفَالٌ.

ثَافِلٌ ثافل : see ثُفْلٌ. ― -b2- Hence, as some say, metonymically, (M,) Dung; ordure; syn. رَجِيعٌ. (M, K.)

مُثَافِلٌ مثافل : see ثَفِلُ.

1 ثَفِنَتْ يَدُهُ ثفنت يده ثفنت يدة , (S, M, A, K,) aor. ثَفَنَ , (S, K,) inf. n. ثَفُنٌ, (S, M,) (tropical:) His hand was, or became, rough, or callous, [as though resembling a ثَفنَة of a camel,] (S, M, A, K,) and blistered, (A,) from work. (M.) -A2- ثَفَنَتْهُ, (S, K, *) aor. ثَفِنَ , inf. n. ثَفْنٌ, (S,) She (a camel) struck him with her ثَفِنَات [pl. of ثَفَنَةُ, q. v.]. (S, K. *) ― -b2- And ثَفَنَهُ, (T, M, K,) aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (T, M,) He impelled, pushed, thrust, or drove, him; or pushed, thrust, or drove, him away, or back: (T, M, K:) and struck, or beat, him. (M.) ― -b3- Also, (T, M, K,) aor. ثَفِنَ (M, K) and ثَفُنَ , (M,) inf. n. ثَفْنٌ, (T, M,) He followed him: (M, K:) or he came to him from behind him: (T, K:) or you say, جَاآءَ يَثْفِنُ as meaning he came closely pursuing a thing, having almost overtaken, or reached, it: and مَرَّ يَثْفِنُهُمٌ, and يَثْفُنُهُمْ, he went along, or away, following them. (M.) ― -b4- And ثَفَنَ الشَّىْءَ, aor. ثَفِنَ , inf. n. ثَفْنٌ, He kept, clave, clung, or held fast, to the thing. (M.) ― -b5- And ثَفَنَ الرَّجُلَ He associated with the man in such a manner that nothing of his case was hidden from him. (T.) [See also 3.]

3 ثافنهُ ثافن ثافنه ثافننه ثافنة , (T, S, K,) inf. n. مُثَافَنَةٌ, (T,) He sat with him: (S, K:) said to be derived from:ثَفِنَةٌ as though meaning he made the ثَفِنَة [or lower portion of the fore part ] of his knee to cleave to the ثَفِنَة of the knee of the other: (S:) or he sat with him, knee to knee, or each sitting upon his knees, fighting with him. (T.) ― -b2- He kept, clave, or clung, to him, (T, K,) speaking to him. (T.) [See also 1.] ― -b3- He consulted with him in order to know what was in his mind; and kept, clave, or clung, to him, that he might know his inward state or case, or his opinion, or his mind. (M.) [See 1, last signification.] ― -b4- ثافنهُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ He aided, or assisted, him to do the thing. (S, M.)

4 اثفن يَدَهُ اثفن يده اثفن يدة It (work) rendered his hand rough, or callous. (S, K.) [See 1, first signification.]