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عَجَّفَ see 1. ― -b2- التَّعْجِيفُ also signifies The eating less than what would satisfy the stomach. (S, O, K.) ― -b3- And One's transferring his food to another before satisfying his stomach, by reason of drought, or dearth. (IAar, TA.) ― -b4- And The feeding on bad food, and being lean, meagre, or emaciated. (TA.)

اعجفهُ , (S, O, Msb,) or اعجف الدَّابَّةَ ; (O, K;) and ↓ عَجَفَهُ , (O, Msb,) or عَجَفَ الدَّابَّةَ , (O, K,) aor. عَجُفَ (O, Msb, K) and عَجِفَ , (O, K,) inf. n. عَجْفٌ ; (O, Msb;) He rendered him, (S, O, Msb,) i. e. a horse, (Msb,) or he rendered the beast, (O, K,) lean, meagre, or emaciated, (S, O, K,) or weak. (Msb.) ― -b2- اعجفوا They became in the state, or condition, of having their cattle lean, meagre, or emaciated. (O, K.) And They confined their cattle, by reason of hardness and straitness [of circumstances]. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 1, last sentence but one.

تَعَجُّفٌ The being in a difficult and hard state or condition. (TA.)

عَجَفٌ Leanness, meagreness, or emaciation; (S;) loss of fatness or plumpness: (O, K:) and thickness, or roughness, and leanness ( عَرَا=ء ), of the bones. (TA.) [See 1, first sentence.]

عَجِفٌ : see أَعْجَفُ , in three places.

عُجَافٌ , like غُرَابٌ , A sort of dates: (L, K:) or so ↓ عِجَافٌ , accord. to Lth. (O.)

عِجَافٌ pl. of أَعْجَفُ [q. v.], (S, O, Msb, K,) and of its syn. عَجِفٌ . (TA.) -A2- Also The colocynth: (K:) or the grains of the colocynth. (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, TA.) ― -b2- And حَبٌّ عِجَافٌ Grain, or grains, not increasing. (A, TA.) ― -b3- See also عُجَافٌ . -A3- And العِجَافُ is one of the names of Time, or fortune. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K. *)

عَجِيفٌ : see أَعْجَفُ , in two places.

عَنْجَفٌ , like جَنْدَلٌ , (K in the present art.,) or عُنْجُفٌ , (AA, O and K in art. عنجف ,) like قُنْفُذٌ , (K in the latter art.,) and ↓ عُنْجُوفٌ , Dry, or tough, by reason of leanness, meagreness, or emaciation, (AA, K in this art., and O and K in art. عنجف ,) or of disease: thus expl. by AA, and mentioned by IDrd and Az among quadriliteral-radical words. (TA.) And Short, and compact, or contracted [in make or body]: and sometimes applied as an epithet to an old woman: (K:) thus the latter word is expl. by IDrd. (TA.)

عُنْجُوفٌ : see the next preceding paragraph.

أَعْجَفُ Lean, meagre, or emaciated; (S;) having lost his fatness or plumpness: (O, K:) or weak: (Msb:) and ↓ عَجِفٌ signifies the same, applied to a man and to a woman: and ↓ عَجِيفٌ also signifies lean, meagre, or emaciated: (TA:) and ↓ مَعْجُوفٌ [likewise] is syn. with أَعْجَفُ , applied to a camel; (O, K;) as also ↓ مُنْعَجِفٌ , (K, TA,) in some copies of the K erroneously written مُتَعَجِّفٌ : (TA:) the fem. of أَعْجَفُ is عَجْفَا=ءُ : and the pl. is عِجَافٌ , which is irreg., having this form to assimilate it to سِمَانٌ , (S, O, Msb, K,) or to its like ضِعَافٌ , (Msb,) and which is applied to males and to females: (O, TA:) the pl. of ↓ عَجِفٌ , also, is عِجَافٌ : (TA:) and the pl. of ↓ عَجِيفٌ , if this be of established authority, may be عَجْفَى , agreeably with analogy. (MF, TA.) [Hence,] وَجْهٌ أَعْجَفُ and ↓ عَجِفٌ A face having little flesh. (TA.) And لِثَةٌ عَجْفَا=ءُ A gum having little flesh. (TA.) And شَفَتَانِ عَجْفَاوَانِ Two thin lips. (Ks, O, K.) ― -b2- And نَصْلٌ أَعْجَفُ A thin, or slender, arrow-head: (S, O, K:) pl. نِصَالٌ عِجَافٌ . (O, K.) ― -b3- And أَرْضٌ عَجْفَا=ءُ Land in which is no good. (O, K.) And أَرَضُونَ عِجَاف Lands not rained upon. (O.) And عِجَافٌ is sometimes used [alone] as signifying Lands affected by drought: a poet says, describing clouds ( سَحَاب ), لَقِحَ العِجَافُ لَهُ لِسَابِعِ سَبْعَةٍ meaning The lands affected by drought produced herbage by reason thereof at a period of seven days after the rain. (L, TA.)

مَعْجُوفٌ : see أَعْجَفُ . ― -b2- Also A rusty, unpolished, sword; or one sullied by remaining long unpolished. (O, K.)

مُنْعَجِفٌ : see أَعْجَفُ .