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عَفَّرَ see 1, in four places. ― -b2- عفّر قِرْنَهُ , and فَأَلْزَقَهُ بِالعَفَرِ ↓ عافرهُ , He wrestled with his adversary, and made him cleave to the dust. (A.) -A2- عفّر , inf. n. تَعْفِيرٌ , He mixed his black sheep or goats with others of the colour termed عُفْرَةٌ : (O, K, TA:) or he took white sheep or goats in exchange for black; because the former have more increase. (S, O, TA.) ― -b2- And He made, or rendered, white. (S, O.)

عَاْفَرَ see the next preceding paragraph.

تَعَفَّرَ see 7, in three places. ― -b2- تعفّر الوَحْشُ (tropical:) The wild animals became fat. (O, K, TA.)

تعافر said of [food of the kind called] ثَرِيد , It was made white. (K. [See أَعْفَرُ , latter half.])

انعفر and ↓ اعتفر It (a vessel) became rubbed with dust: and ↓ تعفّر it became much rubbed with dust: (Msb:) or the first and ↓ second, (S, O,) and ↓ the last also, (O,) it (a thing) became defiled with dust: (S, O:) or the first and ↓ last, he or it, became rolled, or turned over, فِى التُّرَابِ in the dust: or became hidden therein. (K.) ― -b2- And one says, دَخَلْتُ المَا=ءَ فَمَا ا@نْعَفَرَتْ قَدَمَاىَ I entered the water, and my feet did not reach the ground. (A, TA.)

اـِعْتَفَرَ see 1, in four places. -A2- See also 7, in two places.

تَعَفْرَتَ He became, or acted like, an عِفْرِيت ; (K, TA;) from which latter word this verb is derived, the [final] augmentative letter being preserved in it, with the radical letters, to convey the full meaning, and to indicate the original. (TA.)

عَفْرٌ : see عَفَرٌ , in four places.

عُفْرٌ : see عِفْرٌ . -A2- Also pl. of أَعْفَرُ [q. v.]. (S, &c.)

عِفْرٌ A boar; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ عُفْرٌ : or a swine, as a common term: or the young one of a sow. (K.) -A2- عِفْرٌ (S, A, O, K) and ↓ عَفِرٌ (Sgh in TA in art. نفر ) and ↓ عِفْرِيَةٌ , (A, O, K,) in which the ى is to render the word quasi-coordinate to شِرْذِمَةٌ , [I substitute this word for شِرْذِوَةٌ , in the L, and شِرْذِذَةٌ in the TA,] and the ة to give intensiveness, (L, TA,) and ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ , (A, O, K,) in which the ت is to render the word quasicoordinate to قِنْدِيلٌ , (TA,) [or to render it a contraction of عِفْرِيَةٌ ,] and ↓ عَفْرِيتٌ , which occurs in one reading of the Kur, [xxvii. 39, and is agreeable with modern vulgar pronunciation,] (O, CK,) and ↓ عِفْرَاتٌ , (CK,) and ↓ عُفَارِيَةٌ , (A, O, L, K,) in which the ى is to render the word quasi-coordinate to عُذَافِرَةٌ , and the ة is to give intensiveness, (TA,) and ↓ عِفِرٌّ , (O, K,) and ↓ عِفْرِىٌّ , (Sgh, K,) and ↓ عُفَرْنِيَةٌ , (Sgh, K,) and ↓ عِفْرِينٌ , and ↓ عِفِرِّينٌ , (Lh, TA,) and ↓ عَفَرْنًى , (Lth, TA,) [respecting which last, see the latter portion of this paragraph,] applied to a man, (S, O, K,) and to a jinnee, or genie, (Kur, ubi suprá,) Wicked, or malignant; (S, O, K;) crafty, or cunning; (S, O;) abominable, foul, or evil; (K;) abounding in evil; (TA;) strong, or powerful; (A;) insolent and audacious in pride and in acts of rebellion or disobedience; (A, TA;) who roils his adversary in the dust: (A:) and the epithet applied to a woman is عِفْرَةٌ , (S, O,) and ↓ عِفْرِيتَةٌ , (Lh, K,) and ↓ عِفِرَّةٌ : (Sh, O:) or ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ signifies anything that exceeds the ordinary bounds; and ↓ عُفَارِيَةٌ is syn. with it: (AO, S, O:) and ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ and ↓ عِفْرِينٌ and ↓ عِفِرِّينٌ (Zj, K) applied to a man, and as applied in the Kur, ubi suprá, [to a jinnee,] (Zj,) sharp, vigorous, and effective, in an affair, exceeding the ordinary bounds therein, with craftiness, or cunning, (Zj, O, K,) and wickedness, or malignity: (Zj:) or ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ is properly applied to a jinnee, and signifies evil in disposition, and wicked or malignant; and is metaphorically applied to a man, like as is شَيْطَانٌ : (B:) it is applied to an evil jinnee that is powerful, but inferior to such as is termed مَارِدٌ : (Mir-át ez-Zemán:) ↓ عِفْرِيَةٌ also signifies i. q. دَاهِيَةٌ [app. meaning very crafty or cunning, rather than a calamity]: (S, O:) ↓ عِفْرِيَةٌ and ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ are also applied as epithets to a شَيْطَان [or devil]: (Kh, S:) the pl. of the former of these two epithets is عَفَارِيَةٌ , (Kh, S, O,) or عَفَارِىُّ ; (Fr;) and that of ↓ عفريت is عَفَارِيتُ ; (Kh, Fr, S, O;) and that of ↓ عِفِرٌّ is عِفِرُّونَ ; (Sh;) and that of عِفْرٌ is أَعْفَارٌ . (TA in art. جشم .) You say, فُلَانٌ نِفْرِيتٌ ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ , and نِفْرِيَةٌ ↓ عِفْرِيَةٌ ; [Such a one is wicked, or malignant; &c.;] the latter of these two words being an imitative sequent. (AO, S, O.) And in a trad. it is said, اـِنَّ ا@للّٰهَ يَبْغُضُ النِّفْرِيَةَ ا@لَّذِى لَا يُرْزَأُ فِى أَهْلٍ وَلَامَالٍ ↓ العِفْرِيَةَ (AO, S) [Verily God hates] the crafty or cunning, the wicked or malignant, the abounding in evil; or him who collects much and refuses to give; or him who acts very wrongfully or unjustly or tyrannically; [who will not suffer loss in his family nor in his property.] (TA.) ― -b2- أَسَدٌ عِفْرٌ , and ↓ عِفْرِيَةٌ , and ↓ عِفْرِيتٌ , and ↓ عُفَارِيَةٌ , (K,) and ↓ عِفِرٌّ , (TA,) and ↓ عَفَرْنًى , (K, [respecting which see what follows: in the CK عَفَرْتٰى , which is wrong in two respects:]) A strong, (K,) powerful, great, (TA,) lion: (K, TA:) or العَفَرْنَى the lion; so called because of his strength: (S, O:) and لَبُوءَةٌ عَفَرْنًى , (S, O, TA,) like the masc., (TA. [or it may be in this case with the fem. ى , i. e. without tenween,]) or ↓ عَفَرْنَاةٌ , (K, TA,) a strong lioness: (S, O, K:) or the epithet, of either gender, signifies bold: from عَفَرٌ signifying “ dust, ” or from عَفْرٌ in the sense of اِعْتِفَارٌ , or from the strength and hardiness of the animal: (TA:) and نَاقَةٌ عَفَرْنَاةٌ a strong she-camel; pl. عَفَرْنَيَاتٌ : (S, O:) but you do not say جَمَلٌ عَفَرْنًى ; (Az:) the alif [which is in this case written ى ] and ن in عَفَرْنًى are to render it quasi-coordinate to سَفَرْجَلٌ [which shows that it is with tenween]. (S.)

عَفَرٌ (IDrd, S, A, O, Msb, K) and ↓ عَفْرٌ (IDrd, A, O, K) Dust: (IDrd, S, O, Msb:) [like عَفَارٌ the dust of the earth: (Freytag, from Meyd:)] or the exterior of the dust or earth: (A, K:) and the surface of the earth; (Msb;) as also الأَرْضِ ↓ عَفْرُ : (TA:) pl. أَعْفَارٌ . (K.) You say الأَرْضِ مِثْلُهُ ↓ مَا عَلَى عَفْرِ There is not upon the face of the earth the like of him, or it. (O, TA.) And كَلَامٌ لَا عَفَرَ فِيهِ , (K,) or لَهُ ↓ لَا عَفْرَ , (TS, TA,) [lit., Language in which is no dust; or which has no dust; like the saying كَلَامٌ لَا غُبَارَ عَلَيْهِ “ language on which is no dust; ” meaning] (assumed tropical:) language in which is nothing difficult to be understood. (K.) And IAar mentions, but without explaining it, the saying, وَالدَّبَارْ وَسُوْءُ ↓ عَلَيْهِ العَفَارْ الدَّارْ [app. meaning, May the dust, and perdition, and evil of the dwelling, be his lot. See دَبَرَ ]. (O, TA.)

عَفِرٌ [part. n. of عَفِرَ ]. أَرْضٌ عَفِرَةٌ Land of the colour termed عُفْرَةٌ [q. v.]. (O and TA in art. عثر .) -A2- See also عِفْرٌ .

عِفِرٌّ , and the fem., with ة : see عِفْرٌ , in four places.

عُفْرَةٌ A dust-colour inclining to whiteness; a whitish dust-colour: (TA:) or whiteness that is not clear: (Mgh, Msb:) or whiteness that is not very clear, (AZ, As,) like the colour of the surface of the earth: (AZ, As, Mgh:) or whiteness with a tinge of redness over it: (A:) the colour of an antelope such as is termed أَعْفَرُ . (K.) ― -b2- See also عِفْرِيَةٌ , in three places.

عَفْرَى , or عَفْرًى : see عِفْرِيَةٌ .

عِفْرِىٌّ : see عِفْرٌ , first quarter.

عِفْرَاةٌ : see عِفْرِيَةٌ .

عِفْرَاتٌ : see عِفْرٌ , first quarter: -A2- and see the next paragraph, in three places.

عِفْرِيَةٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in six places. -A2- The hair, and the feathers, of the back of the neck, of the lion, and of the cock, &c., which it turns back towards the top of its head when exasperated; as also ↓ عُفْرَةٌ (S, O) and ↓ عِفْرَاتٌ , (S,) or ↓ عِفْرَاةٌ : (O, TA:) and ↓ عُفْرَةٌ , the feathers around the neck of a cock and of a bustard ( حُبَارَى ) &c.: (S in art. برل :) or عِفْرِيَةٌ and ↓ عَفْرَى , or عَفْرًى , [whether without or with tenween is not shown, but I think it is more probably without,] of a cock, the feathers of the neck; (K;) as also ↓ عُفْرَةٌ : (TA:) and of man, the hair of the back of the neck: (K:) or the hair of the part over the forehead: (TA:) and of a beast, the hair of the fore-lock: (K:) or the hair of the back of the neck: (TA:) and [of a man,] the hairs that grow in the middle of the head, (K,) that stand up on an occasion of fright; (TA;) as also ↓ عِفْرَاتٌ and ↓ عُفَرْنِيَةٌ . (K.) You say جَا=ءَ فُلَانٌ نَافِشًا عِفْرِيَتَهُ , meaning Such a one came in a state of anger. (S, O.) And جَا=ءنَاشِرًا عِفْرِيَتَهُ , and ↓ عِفْرَاتَهُ , He came spreading his hair, by reason of covetousness, and inordinate desire. (ISd, TA.)

عِفْرِيتٌ ; and عَفْرِيتٌ : and the fem., عِفْرِيتَةٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in ten places.

عِفْرِينٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in two places.

عِفِرِّينٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in two places. -A2- لَيْثُ عِفِرِّينَ The lion. (AA, K.) So in the prov., اـِنَّهُ لَأَشْجَعُ مِنْ لَيْثِ عِفِرِّينَ [Verily he is more courageous than the lion]. (AA, TA.) عِفِرِّينُ is the name of a certain place in which are lions, or abounding with lions: (S, O, K:) or the name of a certain country or town. (As, AA, S, M.) -A3- A certain insert, whose retreat is the soft dust at the bases of walls; (O, K:) that rolls a ball, and then hides itself within it; and when it is roused, throws up dust: (O, TA:) the word [ عفرّين ] is of one of those forms not found by Sb: (TA:) or a certain creeping animal ( دَابَّة ), like the chameleon, that opposes itself to the rider [upon a camel or horse], and that strikes with its tail. (O, K.) [See also طُحَنٌ : and see Ham p. 131.] ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A complete man; [i. e., complete with respect to bodily vigour, having attained the usual term thereof;] (O, K, TA;) fifty years old. (O, TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) Resolute, or firm-minded; strong, or powerful. (S, O, K, TA.)

عَفَرْنًى and عَفَرْنَاةٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in three places. ― -b2- The latter also signifies The [kind of goblin, or demon, called] غُولٌ . (O, K.)

عُفَرْنِيَةٌ : see عِفْرٌ ; first quarter. -A2- and see عِفْرِيَةٌ .

عَفَارٌ : see عَفَرٌ . -A2- Also A certain kind of tree, (S, O, K,) by means of which fire is produced; (S, O;) زِنَاد [or pieces of wood, or stick, used for that purpose,] being made of its branches: (K, * TA:) accord. to information given to AHn by certain of the desert-Arabs of the Saráh ( السَّرَاة ), it resembles the kind of tree called the غُبَيْرَا=ء , by reason of its smallness, so that when one sees it from afar he doubts not its being the latter kind of tree; its blossom, also, is like that of the latter tree; and it is a kind of tree that emits much fire, so that the زناد made of it are excellent: (TA:) pl. of عَفَارَةٌ ; (K;) or, more properly, [a coll. gen. n., and] its n. un. is with ة : (O, TA:) it and the مَرْخ contain fire that is not in any other kind of tree: Az says, I have seen them both in the desert, and the Arabs make them the subject of a prov., relating to high nobility: (TA:) they say فِى كُلِّ شَجَرٍ نَارْ وَا@سْتَمْجَدَ المَرْخُ وَالعَفَارْ (S, O, TA) In all trees is fire; but the markh and 'afár yield much fire, more than all other trees. (O, * TA.) [See also مَرْخٌ , and استمجد .] It is also said, in another prov., اِقْدَحْ بِعَفَارٍ أَوْ مَرْخِ ثُمَّ ا@شْدُدْ اـِنْ شِيءْتَ أَوْ أَرْخِ [Produce thou fire with markh or with 'afár: then tighten, if thou please, or loosen]. (TA.) -A3- See also عَافُور .

عَفَارَةٌ The quality, or disposition, of him who is termed عِفْرٌ and عِفْرِيَةٌ and عِفْرِيتٌ &c.; i. e., wickedness, or malignity, &c. (K, * TA.)

عُفَارِيَةٌ : see عِفْرٌ , in three places.

عَافِرٌ and ↓ مُنْعَفِرٌ and ↓ مَعْفُورٌ and ↓ مُعَفَّرٌ Defiled with dust: hence, العَافِرُ الوَجْهِ He whose face is defiled with dust: and الوَجْهِ فِى التُّرَابِ ↓ هُوَ مُنْعَفِرُ , and ↓ مُعَفَّرُهُ , He has the face defiled in the dust. (TA.)

وَقَعُوا فِى عَافُورِ شَرٍّ , (S, K,) and شَرٍّ ↓ فِى عَفَارِ , (TA,) i. q. فِى عَاثُورِ شَرٍّ , (Fr, S, K,) i. e., They fell into difficulty, or distress. (S.) Some say that the ف is substituted for ث . (TA.) [But see عاثور .]

أَعْفَرُ Dust-coloured inclining to white; of a whitish dust-colour: (TA:) or white, but not of a clear hue: (Msb:) or, applied to a buckantelope, white, but not of a very clear white, (AZ, As, S, O, K,) being like the colour of the surface of the earth: (AZ, As, Mgh:) or a buck-antelope having a tinge of red over his whiteness, (AA, S, A, K,) with a short neck; and such is the weakest of antelopes in running: (AA, S, O:) or having a redness in his back, with white flanks: (K:) [in the CK, after the words thus rendered, is an omission, of the words أَوِ الأَبْيَضُ وَ :] or such as inhabits elevated, rugged, stony tracts, and hard grounds; and such is red: (AZ:) or having white horns: (A:) fem. عَفْرَا=ءُ : (S, K, &c.:) also applied to a she-goat, meaning of a clear white colour: (TA:) pl. عُفْرٌ . (S, A, O.) ― -b2- El-Kumeyt says, وَكُنَّا اـِذَا جَبَّارُ قَوْمٍ أَرَادَنَا بِكَيْدٍ حَمَلْنَاهُ عَلَى قَرْنِ أَعْفَرَا [And we used, when an insolent tyrant of a people desired to execute against us a plot, to carry him upon the horn of an antelope of a whitish dustcolour, or white but not of a clear hue, &c.]; meaning, we used to slay him, and to carry his head upon the spear-head; for the spear-heads, in time past, were of horns. (S, O.) ― -b3- Hence the saying رَمَانِى عَنْ قَرْنِ أَعْفَرَ i. q. رمانى بِدَاهِيَةٍ (tropical:) [He sent upon me a calamity; or he made a very crafty man to be my assailant]: for the same reason, also, قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ is proverbially used to signify (tropical:) A difficulty, or distress, that befalls one: and one says to a man who has passed the night in disquieting distress, كُنْتَ عَلَى قَرْنِ أَعْفَرَ (tropical:) [Thou wast pierced by grief]. (TA.) One says also, of him who is frightened and disquieted, كَأَنَّهُ عَلَى قَرْنِ أَعْفَرَ [He is as though he were upon the horn of an antelope of a whitish dustcolour, &c.: meaning, upon the head of a spear]: the like of this phrase is used by Imra-el-Keys. (A.) ― -b4- Also عَفْرَا=ءُ , A ewe of a colour inclining to whiteness. (O.) ― -b5- And أَعْفَرُ , Red sand. (S, O.) ― -b6- [Food of the kind called] ثَرِيد made white: (K, TA:) from عُفْرَةٌ signifying the “ colour of the earth. ” (TA.) ― -b7- عَفْرَا=ءُ White. (K.) ― -b8- أَرْضٌ عَفْرَا=ءُ Untrodden land. (K, TA.) ― -b9- العَفْرَا=ءُ The thirteenth night [of the lunar month]: (S, O:) or the night of blackness: (A:) but accord. to IAar, اللَّيَالِى العُفْرُ signifies the white nights; (A;) and so says Th, without particularizing: (TA:) or the nights thus called are the seventh and eighth and ninth nights of the lunar month; (K;) because of the whiteness of the moon [therein]. (TA.) It is said in a trad. لَيْسَ عُفْرُ اللَّيَالِى كَا@لدَّا=دِيءِ The moon-lit nights are not like the black nights: some say that this is a proverb. (TA.)

مُعَفَّرٌ : see عَافِرٌ , in two places.

مُعَفِّرٌ One whose sheep or goats are of the colour termed عُفْرَةٌ : there is no tribe among the Arabs to whom this appellation applies, except Hudheyl. (A, TA.) [Accord. to analogy, this should rather be written مُعْفِرٌ ; and perhaps it is thus in correct copies of the A.]

مَعْفُورٌ : see عَافِرٌ . ― -b2- أَرْضٌ مَعْفُورَةٌ Land of which the herbage has been eaten. (S, O.)

مَعَافِرُ : see مَعَافِرِىٌّ , in three places.

مُعَافِرٌ (tropical:) One who walks with companies of travellers, (S, O, K, TA,) and so, accord. to the L, ↓ مُعَافِرِىٌّ , (TA,) and obtains of their superabundance [of provisions]. (S, O, TA.)

ثَوْبٌ مَعَافِرِىٌّ , (S, Mgh, O, Msb,) pl. ثِيَابٌ مَعَافِرِيَّةٌ , (S, O, K,) and بُرْدٌ مَعَافِرِىٌّ , (Az,) and hence, simply, ↓ مَعَافِرُ , (Az, Mgh,) as a subst., (Az,) without the relative ى , (Az, Mgh,) accord. to As, (Mgh,) A kind of garment, or piece of cloth, (S, Mgh, O, Msb,) and a garment of the kind called بُرْد , (Az,) so called in relation to ↓ مَعَافِرُ , (S, O, K, &c.,) a word imperf. decl., (S, O, K,) because of its being of the form of an imperf. decl. pl., (S, O,) as the name of a tribe of Hemdán; (S, O;) or as being the name of a son of Murr, (Sb, Mgh, Msb,) brother of Temeem the son of Murr, (Sb, Mgh,) and father of the tribe above mentioned, (Msb, K,) which was a tribe of El-Yemen; (Msb;) or as being the name of a place, (IDrd, O,) or a town, or district, (K, TA,) of El-Yemen, (IDrd, O, TA,) in which Ma'áfir Ibn-Udd took up his abode, accord. to Z: (TA;) معافرىّ is perfectly decl. because the relative ى is added to it: (S:) and it is thus formed because مَعَافِرُ is sing. in its application; whereas, in a rel. n. from a pl. used as a pl., the formation is from the sing., as in the instance of مَسْجِدِىٌّ as a rel. n. from مَسَاجِدُ : (TA:) ↓ معافر should not be pronounced with damm to the م : (Msb, K:) and it is wrong to call the kind of garment above mentioned مُعَافِرِىٌّ , with damm, and مَعَافِرِىُّ , without tenween, and مَعَافِيرُ . (Mgh.)

مُعَافِرِىٌّ : see مُعَافِرٌ .

مُنْعَفِرٌ : see عَافِرٌ , in two places.

يَعْفُورٌ The dust-coloured gazelle: (K:) or the gazelle, as a general term: (K, * TA:) as also يُعْفُورٌ : (K:) and the [young gazelle such as is called] خِشْف : (S, O, K:) or the buck-gazelle: (S, Mgh, O:) and (S, IAth, O, in the Mgh “ or ”) the young one of the wild cow: (S, IAth, Mgh, O:) n. un. with ة : (TA:) pl. يَعَافِيرُ . (S, O.) ― -b2- Also A light, or an active, ass. (IAar.) ― -b3- And it is said to mean (assumed tropical:) The form of a man, seen from a distance, resembling a يَعْفُور [in one of the senses expl. above]. (L, TA.) -A2- And One of the divisions of the night, (K, TA,) which are five, called سُدْفَةٌ and سُتْفَةٌ and هَجْمَةٌ and يَعْفُورٌ and خُدْرَةٌ . (TA.)