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دفي

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of fatness, abundance, and flourishing, particularly in relation to flesh or foliage. It also extends to meanings of killing and having long wings, with a secondary sense of being shaded or having many branches.

Derived headwords

دَفِيَverb
  1. 1.
    to be fatclassical

    To become fat and have abundant flesh.

دَفَاverb
  1. 1.
    to killclassical

    To kill someone, used in the language of the Banu Kinana tribe.

أَدْفَىadjective
  1. 1.
    long-wingedmodern

    Describing a bird that has long wings.

  2. 2.
    long-winged with even flight feathersclassical

    Describing a bird with long wings, where the flight feathers and tail feathers are of equal length.

دَفْوَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    shadymodern

    Describing a tree that is shady, with many branches and foliage.

  2. 2.
    leaningclassical

    Describing a tree that is leaning or inclined.

Parallel reading

إذا سمن وكثر لحمه
if he became fat and his flesh abundant
ودفا معتلا وقد يهمز بمعنى قتل في لغة كنانة
And 'dafa' with a weak letter, and sometimes hamzated, means to kill in the language of Banu Kinana.
وطائر أدفى: طويل الجناح
And a bird 'adfa': long-winged.
مع استواء أطراف قوادمه وطرف ذنبه
with the tips of its flight feathers and the tip of its tail being even.
وشجرة دفواء: ظليلة كثيرة الفروع والأغصان
And a tree 'dafwaa': shady, with many branches and boughs.
وقيل: هي المائلة
And it was said: it is the leaning one.