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ض ف س

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to be a variant of another root, 'ض ف ز', and relates to a specific action of a camel. It describes the camel gathering and consuming a bundle of something, possibly fodder or leaves.

Derived headwords

ضَفَسَverb
  1. 1.
    to gather and eat fodderclassical

    The camel gathers a bundle of fodder or leaves and eats it.

يَضْفِسُهُverb
  1. 1.
    to gather and eat fodder (present tense)classical

    The camel gathers a bundle of fodder or leaves and eats it (present tense).

ضَفْسًاnoun
  1. 1.
    gathering and eating fodderclassical

    The act of the camel gathering a bundle of fodder or leaves and eating it.

ضَفْزverb
  1. 1.
    to gather and eat fodder (variant)classical

    This is presented as a variant of the root 'ض ف س', meaning the camel gathers a bundle of fodder or leaves and eats it.

Parallel reading

وقال ابن دريد: هو لغة في ضفز، بالزاي
And Ibn Duraid said: It is a dialectal variant of 'ḍafza', with a zay.
وكأن السين أبدلت من الزاي
And it is as if the sin was substituted for the zay.
يقال: ضفس البعير، يضفسه، بالكسر، ضفسا
It is said: The camel gathered and ate, it gathers and eats it, with a kasra, a gathering and eating.
إذا جمع ضغثا من حلي، فألقمه إياه
If it gathers a bundle of fodder, and he makes it eat it.
وفي المحكم: من خلي، فألقمه إياه
And in Al-Muhkam: from leaves, and he makes it eat it.
كضفزه
Like 'ḍafzahu'.