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دَفَّعَ see 1; fourth sentence. ― -b2- دفّعهُ اـِلَى كَذَا (tropical:) He drove him, compelled him, or necessitated him, to do, or to have recourse to, such a thing. (TA.) ― -b3- دفّعهُ also signifies He rendered him abject and contemptible, or poor; as though deserving to be repelled. (Ibn-Maaroof, as cited by Golius.) [See the pass. part. n., below.] ― -b4- دفّع قَوْسَهُ (assumed tropical:) He made his bow even. (AHn, TA.)

مُدَافَعَةٌ مدافع مدافعه مدافعة مدفع [in its primary acceptation] signifies The contending, or striving, with another, to push him, or repel him; or the pushing, or repelling, another, being pushed, or repelled, by him; or the pushing against another; syn. مُزَاحَمَةٌ . (TA.) [Hence, يُدَافِعُ الأَخْبَثَيْنِ He is striving to suppress the urine and ordure: see أَخْبَثُ . And مُدَافَعَةُ العَيْشِ The striving to retain life: see 2 in art. زلج . ― -b2- But it is often used in the same sense as دَفْعٌ :] see the verb and its two inf. ns. in seven places in the former half of the first paragraph of this article. ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) i. q. مُمَاطَلَةٌ : (S, K, TA:) in some of the copies of the S, مُطَاوَلَةٌ . (TA.) You say, دَافَعْتُهُ بِحَقِّهِ , (Jm, TA,) or عَنْ حَقِّهِ , (Msb,) (assumed tropical:) I deferred with him, delayed with him, or put him off, in the matter of his right, or due, by promising time after time to render it to him; [and so repelled him, or strove to repel him, from it;] syn. مَاطَلْتُهُ . (Jm, Msb, TA.) And دافع بِحَاجَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) He deferred, delayed, postponed, or put off, his (another's) needful affair. (L in art. رثد .) ― -b4- دافع الرَّجُلُ أَمْرَ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) The man attached, or devoted, himself to such an affair, and exerted himself, and persisted, or persevered, in it. (TA.)

تَدَفَّعَ see 6, and 7.

تدافعوا دافع تدافع تدافعوا [They contended, or strove, together, to push, or repel, one another; or] they pushed, or repelled, one another; or pushed against one another. (Msb.) You say, تدافعوا فِى الحَرْبِ They pushed, thrust, or repelled, one another in war, or battle. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تدافع الكَلَامَانِ (assumed tropical:) The two sayings, or sentences, opposed, or contradicted, each other; conflicted; were mutually repugnant. (Msb in art. نقض .) ― -b3- تدافع السَّيْلُ (tropical:) The torrent was impelled, driven, or propelled, in its several parts, or portions, by the impetus of one part, or portion, acting upon another; and in like manner, [or as signifying it became impelled, driven, or propelled,] ↓ اندفع , and [in an intensive sense] ↓ تدفّع . (TA.) [See also دَفَعَ . السَّيْلُ .] ― -b4- تدافع جَرْىُ الفَرَسِ [in like manner signifies (assumed tropical:) The running of the horse continued by successive impulses, his force of motion in each part of his course impelling him through the next]. (TA.) ― -b5- See also 7. -A2- [It is also trans.] You say, تدافعوا الشَّىْءَ They repelled the thing, every one of them from himself. (TA.) And ضَيْفٌ يَتَدافَعُهُ الحَىُّ [A guest whom the tribe repel, or repulse, every one of them from himself]. (IDrd, K.)

اندفع أندفع اندفع ٱندفع is quasi-pass. of دَفَعَهُ ; (S, K, TA;) and ↓ تدفّع is quasi-pass. of دفّعهُ ; and ↓ تدافع is quasi-pass. of دافعهُ : but all three are used in the same sense: see 6: (TA:) [the first, however, primarily signifies He, or it, became impelled, pushed, thrust, or driven; and particularly, so as to be removed from his, or its, place; became propelled; became repelled; became impelled, pushed, thrust, or driven, away, or back, or onwards; became put away, or removed from its place; as is implied in the S and K and TA: whereas the second, properly, has an intensive signification: and the third properly denotes the acting of two or more persons or things, or of several parts or portions of a thing, against, or upon, one another; as is shown by exs. and explanations above: though the second and third are often used in the primary sense of the first.] ― -b2- [Hence,] اندفع also signifies (assumed tropical:) He went away into the country, or land, in any manner: (Lth:) or, said of a horse [&c.], (tropical:) he [or it] went quickly or swiftly (S, K, TA) [as though impelled or propelled; pressed, or pushed, on, or forward; rushed; launched, or broke, forth; it poured forth with vehemence, as though impelled: see 1, which has a similar meaning, particularly in the phrases دَفَعَ المَا=ءُ , and السَّيْلُ , and دَفَعَ فِى عَدْوِهِ , &c.]. ― -b3- اندفع فِى , الحَدِيثِ , (S, K, TA,) and فِى الاـِنْشَادِ , (TA,) (tropical:) He pushed on, or pressed on, in discourse, and in reciting poetry; or entered thereinto; or launched forth, or out, thereinto; or was large, or copious, or profuse, therein; or dilated therein; or began it, commenced it, or entered upon it; syn. أَفَاضَ فِيهِ . (K, TA.) And اندفع فِى الضَّحِكِ [He broke forth into laughing]. (JK in art. بوق .) ― -b4- [ اندفع فِى الطَّعَامِ (assumed tropical:) He fell to eating of the food; or applied himself eagerly to it.] ― -b5- اندفع فِىالأَمْرِ (tropical:) He acted with penetrating energy, or sharpness, vigorousness, and effectiveness, in the affair; syn. مَضَى فِيهِ . (A, TA.)

اِسْتَدْفَعْتُ ا@للّٰهَ الأَسْوَا=ءَ (tropical:) I asked, or begged, God to repel from me evils. (S, K.)

دَفْعٌ دفع [see 1. Used as a simple subst., it signifies Impulsion; or the act of pushing, thrusting, or driving; and particularly, so as to remove a thing from its place; propulsion; repulsion; &c.].

دَفْعَةٌ دفع دفعه دفعة A single impulsion; a push, a thrust, or single act of driving; and particularly, so as to remove a thing from its place; a single propulsion; a single repulsion: (S, * Msb, K, * TA:) [it is an inf. n. of un. of 1 in all its senses; and thus,] it signifies also a single act of pouring: [&c.:] pl. دَفَعَاتٌ . (Msb.) You say, دَفَعَهُ دَفْعَةً , i. e. [He impelled, &c., him, or it,] once [or with a single impulsion, &c.]. (TK.) And دَفَعْتُ مِنَ الاـِنَا=ءِ دَفْعَةً , i. e. [I poured forth from the vessel] a single pouring. (Msb.) ― -b2- [As an inf. n. of un. of 1,] it also signifies (assumed tropical:) A coming of the collective body of a people, or party of men, to a place at once. (TA.) ― -b3- [Also (assumed tropical:) A heat, a single course, or one unintermitted act, of running, or the like.]

دُفْعَةٌ دفع دفعه دفعة A quantity that pours forth, or out, at once, from a skin, or vessel: (Lth, K:) a quantity poured forth, or out, at once, (Msb,) [or with vehemence, being] syn. with دُفْقَةٌ . (IF, S, Msb, K, [in the CK with ع in the place of the ق ,]) of rain, [i. e. a shower, fall, or storm, as meaning the quantity that falls without intermission,] (IF, S, Msb, K,) and [a gush] of blood, (IF, Msb,) &c.: (IF, S, Msb:) it is also [used as signifying the tide] of a valley, (K in art. طحم ,) and [the tide, or rush,] of a torrent, (S and K in that art.,) and [the rush, or irruption,] of a troop of horses or horsemen, (S and K in art. دلق , &c.,) and [the irruption, or invasion,] of night: (S and K in art. طحم :) pl. دُفَعٌ (Msb, K) and دُفَعَاتٌ and دُفُعَاتٌ and دُفْعَاتٌ . (Msb.) You say, بَقِىَفِى الاـِنَا=ءِ دُفْعَةٌ There remained in the vessel as much as one pours out at once. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also A part, or portion, that is given, of property. (S in art. زعب .)

دِفَاعُ دفاع , determinate, as a proper name, The ewe: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) so called because she pushes her thigh this way and that by reason of bulkiness. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)

دَفُوعٌ دفوع and ↓ مِدْفَعٌ [That impels, pushes, thrusts, drives, propels, or repels, much, or vehemently:] both signify the same. (S, K.) Hence the saying of a woman, (S,) an immodest woman, (O,) namely, Sejáhi [the false prophetess, to her husband the false prophet Museylimeh, describing the kind of ذَكَر which she most approved], (L,) ↓ لَا بَلْ قَصِيرٌ مِدْفَعٌ . (S, O, L.) You say also, ↓ رَجُلٌ دَفَّاعٌ A man who impels, propels, repels, or defends, vehemently. (TA.) And نَاقَةٌ دَفُوعٌ A she-camel that hicks ( تَدْفَعُ ) with her hind leg on being milked. (TA.)

دَفَّاعٌ دفاع : see دَفُوعٌ . ― -b2- Also One who, when a bone happens to be in the part that is next to him, of a bowl, puts it away, or aside, in order that a piece of flesh-meat may become in its place. (El-Jáhidh, K.)

دُفَّاعٌ دفاع The main portion, that pours down at once, or vehemently, of waves, and of a torrent, (K, TA,) and of a sea: (TA:) or a great torrent: (S:) or abundance and vehemence of water: (L:) or a great quantity of water of a torrent: and a great number of people. (AA.) You say, جَا=ءَ دُفَّاعٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَا=ءِ There came a great number of men and women crowding one upon another. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A great thing by which a similar great thing is impelled, propelled, or repelled. (K, * TA.)

دَافِعٌ دافع [act. part. n. of 1]. It is said in the Kur [lii. 8], مَا لَهُ مِنْ دَافِعٍ There shall not be any repeller thereof. (Bd.) And in the same [lxx. 2], لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ There shall not be for it any repeller: (Bd:) or any defender. (B.) ― -b2- Applied to a ewe or she-goat, (S,) or to a she-camel, (S, K,) as also دَافِعَةٌ and ↓ مِدْفَاعٌ , (K,) (tropical:) That infuses ( تَدْفَعُ ) the first milk into her udder [i. e. secretes it therein] a little before bringing forth; (S, K;) that infuses the milk into her udder when about to produce her young, by reason of its abundance: AO says that some make مُفْكِهٌ and دَافِعٌ to signify the same, [i. e., to signify as explained above, or nearly so,] saying, هِىَ دَافِعٌ بِوَلَدٍ ; and if you will, you say, هِىَ دَافِعٌ , alone. (TA.)

دَافِعَةٌ دافع دافعه دافعة [fem. of دَافِعٌ , q. v.: and, used as a subst.,] The lower, or lowest, part of any [water-course such as is called] مَيْثَا=ء : pl. دَوَافِعُ : this latter signifying the lower, or lowest, parts of the مِيث , [pl. of ميثاء ,] (ISh, K,) where they pour into the valleys, (ISh,) or where the valleys pour thereinto: (K:) or the pl. signifies the parts in which the water pours to the ميث ; while the ميث pour into the main valley: (As:) or the دافعة is a [water-course such as is called] تَلْعَة which pours into another تلعة , when it runs down a descending ground, or declivity, from elevated, or rugged and elevated, ground, and you see it going to and fro in places, having spread somewhat, and become round; then it pours into another, lower than it: every one such is thus called; and the pl. is as above. (Lth.)

مَدْفَعٌ مدفع [A channel of water;] one of the مَدَافِع of waters, in which the waters run: (S, K:) [ مَدَافِعُ being its pl.:] the lower, or lowest, part of a valley, where the torrent pours forth, and its water disperses: (ISh:) and the [water-course, or channel, such as is called] مِذْنَب of a دَافِعَة [q. v.]; because this latter pours forth therein to another دافعة ; (K, TA;) the مذنب being the channel between the دَافِعَتَانِ . (TA.)

مِدْفَعٌ مدفع : see دَفُوعٌ , in two places. ― -b2- [Its primary signification is An instrument for impelling, propelling, or repelling: and hence it is applied in modern Arabic to a cannon: and to an instrument used by midwives for protruding the fœtus. ― -b3- Hence, also, it is used as an intensive epithet: and hence,] رُكْنٌ مِدْفَعٌ A strong corner. (TA.)

مُدَفَّعٌ مدفع , applied to a camel, (tropical:) Held in high estimation by his owner; (A, K, * TA;) so that when he comes near to the load, he is sent back: (A, TA:) one that is reserved for covering, and not ridden nor laden; of which, when he is brought to be laden, one says, اِدْفَعْ هٰذَا , i. e. Leave thou this, sparing him. (As.) ― -b2- Also, (applied to a camel, TA,) (assumed tropical:) Held in mean estimation by his owner; (K, * TA;) so that when he comes near to the load, he is sent back as despised. (TA.) Thus it bears two contr. meanings. (K.) ― -b3- Applied to a man, (A, TA,) (tropical:) Poor, (S, A, TA,) and abject, (S,) whom every one repels from himself, (A, TA,) or because every one repels him from himself; (S;) used conjointly with مُدَقَّعٌ ; i. e., you say, فُلَانٌ مُدَفَّعٌ مُدَقَّعٌ : (A, TA:) a man (assumed tropical:) despised, or held in contempt, (Lth, K,) as also ↓ مُتَدَافَعٌ ; (Lth;) who does not show hospitality if he make one his guest, nor give if he be asked to give: (Lth:) and one (assumed tropical:) who is repelled, or repulsed, from his relations ( الَّذِى دُفِعَ عَنْ نَسَبِهِ : [ نَسَبِهِ being used for ذَوِى نَسَبِهِ , like as نَسَبًا is used in the Kur xxv. 56, for ذَوِى نَسَبٍ , as explained by Bd:]) (IDrd, K:) and a guest (assumed tropical:) whom the tribe repel, or repulse, every one of them from himself, every one turning him away to another. (IDrd, K.) ― -b4- أَنَا مُدَفَّعٌ اـِلَى أَمْرِ كَذَا (tropical:) I am driven, compelled, or necessitated, to do, or to have recourse to, such a thing. (TA.)

مِدْفَاعٌ مدفاع : see دَافِعٌ .

هُوَ سَيِّدُ قَوْمِهِ غَيْرُ مُدَافَعٍ هو سيد قومه غير مدافع (assumed tropical:) He is the lord, or chief, of his people, or party, not straitened in his authority, nor thrust from it; (TA;) i. q. غَيْرُ مُزَاحَمٍ . (K.)

المُدَافِعُ المدافع مدافع مدفع (assumed tropical:) The lion. (Sgh.)

مُتَدافِعُ متدافع : see مُدَفَّعٌ .

قَوْلٌ مُتَدَافِعٌ قول متدافع (tropical:) [A saying of which one part opposes, or contradicts, another; a self-contradictory saying]. (TA.)