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حَفَّ3َ see 1, in two places: ― -b2- see also 4. -A2- Also حفّف , inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ , (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was in a state of embarrassment, or distress, and his property became little: (K, TA:) from حَفَّتِ الأَرْضُ “ the earth, or land, dried up. ” (TA.) حفّف وَجْهُهُ occurs in a trad. [app. in the same sense]. (TA.)

أَحَفَّتْ , said of a woman: see 1. -A2- أَحْفَفْتُ رَأْسِى I made my head to remain long without ointment [so that the hair became shaggy, matted, frouzy, or dusty]. (As, S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] أَحْفَفْتُهُ (tropical:) I spoke evil of him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) -A3- أَحْفَفْتُ الفَرَسَ I urged the horse (S, O, L, K) to run vehemently (O, K) so as to cause him to make a sound such as is termed دَوِيّ [i. e. a confused and continued sound] (S, O, L, K) in his running, [with his feel, (see حَفَّ ,)] (S, L,) or in his belly: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning. (TA.) -A4- أَحْفَفْتُ الثَّوْبَ I wove the piece of cloth with the حَفّ , i. e. the مِنْسَج ; as also ↓ حَفَّفْتُهُ , (K, TA, [in the CK حَفَفْتُهُ ,]) inf. n. تَحْفِيفٌ . (TA.)

احتفّوا احتفوا ٱحتف ٱحتفى ٱحتفوا : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- احتفّ بِهِ He, or it, became encompassed, or surrounded, by it: and hence, became in the midst of it. (Har p. 445.) -A2- اِحْتَفَّتْ , said of a woman: see 1, in two places. ― -b2- احتفّ النَّبْتَ He cut the herbage; syn. جَزَّهُ : (so in some copies of the K, and in the TK:) or حَزَرَهُ [he computed by conjecture its quantity]: (so in other copies of the K, and in the TA:) mentioned by Sgh: in some copies of the K, حزّزه [he jagged it]: in one, جزره , which is a mistake. (TA.) ― -b3- اِحْتَفَّتِ الاـِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels ate the herbage: or obtained some of it. (TA.) ― -b4- And احتفّ He ate up entirely what was in the cooking pot: like as اشتفّ signifies “ he drank up entirely ” what was in the vessel. (S.)

استحفّ أَمْوَالَهُمْ He took the whole of their possessions (K, TA) in an incursion into the territory of an enemy. (TA.)

حَفْحَفَ حفحف : see 1, last sentence but one. -A2- Also (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was, or became, straitened in his means of subsistence. (IAar, K, TA.)

حَفٌّ حف : see حَفَّةٌ , in three places. ― -b2- [It is said, accord. to the KL, to signify also What is called in Persian زين كوهه , app. meaning a saddlebow: but this signification, if correct, is probably post-classical.] -A2- Also, and ↓ حَفَفٌ and ↓ حِفَافٌ , A time, or season: (L:) or i. q. أَثَرٌ [a track, &c.]. (K.) You say, جَا=ءَ عَلَى حَفِّ ذٰلِكَ , and ↓ حَفَفِهِ , and ↓ حِفَافِهِ , (L, K,) He, or it, came in the time, or season, of that: (L:) or the meaning is عَلَى أَثَرِهِ [lit. in the track thereof; and hence, after, or near after, that]. (K.) -A3- فُلَانٌ حَفٌّ بِنَفْسِهِ Such a one is busied with, or anxious about, himself. (TA.)

حَفَّةٌ حف حفه حفة i. q. مِنْوَالٌ ; i. e. The web-beam of a loom; the wooden thing [or roller] upon which the weaver winds the web, or piece of cloth [as it is woven]: ↓ حَفٌّ signifying the مِنْسَج [which generally means the weaver's loom; but explained in the TK as meaning here the stay of a weaver's loom; in the KL, said to be what is called in Persian كار Jوب , but this is the حَفَّة , to which the same explanation is assigned in the KL]: (S, K: *) so accord. to As: [for] Aboo-Sa'eed [i. e. As] says, the حَفَّة is the مِنْوَال ; and it should not be called the ↓ حَفّ ; for the حَفّ is the مِنْسَج : (S, O:) [the former is also applied to the yarnbeam, upon which the yarn is rolled: see نِيرٌ :] in the L, it is said that the حَفَّة of the weaver is the wide piece of wood with which he arranges the woof between [the threads of] the warp: or, as some say, the three canes: and some say that it is ↓ حِفَّةٌ , with kesr: and it is said to be the thing with which the weaver strikes, like a sword: and the ↓ حَفّ is the cane that comes and goes [or goes to and fro; app. meaning the shuttle]: Az says, thus it is with the Arabs: and its pl. [the pl. of حَفٌّ ] is حُفُوفٌ . (TA.) One says, مَا أَنْتَ بِحَفَّةٍ وَلَا نِيرَةٍ [Thou art neither a حفَة nor a نيرَة ]; the نيرة being the transverse piece of wood: alluding to him who neither profits nor harms; meaning that he is good for nothing. (TA.) [See also a similar saying voce نِيرٌ .] -A2- Also What camels have eaten, or obtained, ( اِحْتَفَّتْ ,) of herbage. (TA.) ― -b2- See also حَفَفٌ .

حِفَّةٌ حف حفه حفة : see حَفَّةٌ .

حَفَفٌ حفف The verge of an event, or affair. (K, * TA.) You say, هُوَ عَلَى حَفَفِ أَمْرٍ He is on the verge of an event, or affair. (TA.) ― -b2- See also حَفٌّ , in two places. ― -b3- Also, (As, S, K,) and ↓ حُفُوفٌ , (K,) (tropical:) An evil state, or condition, of life; and paucity of property; (As, S, K, TA;) as though one were placed aloof ( فى حَفَفٍ , i. e. جَانِبٍ ,) from the means of subsistence: (Er-Rá- ghib, TA:) or the former signifies straitness of the means of subsistence; (IDrd, TA;) and so ↓ latter: (TA:) or the former, a [bare] sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (Lh, TA:) or a state in which the family, or household, is proportionate to the provisions: (Th, TA:) it is coupled with ضَعَفٌ : and is said to signify straitness; the latter signifying “ paucity of food with numerousness of the eaters thereof; ” or, as some say, “ food proportionate to the household: ” (TA:) or the former signifies a state in which the eaters are proportionate to the property; and the latter, “ a state in which the eaters are more than proportionate to the property: ” (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) or the former, want; and the latter, “ paucity [of property]: ” (IAar, TA:) or both signify the same. (TA.) One says, مَا رُيءِىَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفَفٌ وَلَا ضَفَفٌ There was not seen upon them a trace of want. (S.) And أَصَابَهُمْ مِنَ العَيْشِ حَفَفٌ and ضَفَفٌ and قَشَفٌ , Straitness of the means of subsistence befell them. (As, TA.) And مَا عِنْدَ فُلَانِ اـِلَّا حَفَفٌ مِنَ المَتَاعِ There is not with such a one aught save a scanty supply of the necessaries of life. (TA.) And مِنْ مَالٍ ↓ هٰذِهِ حَفَّةٌ or مَتَاعٍ , This is a scanty supply of the necessaries of life, not exceeding the wants of its people, or owners. (TA.)

حِفَافٌ حفاف A side (S, K) of a thing; حِفَافَا شَىْءٍ signifying the two sides of a thing: (S:) pl. أَحفَّةٌ . (K.) ― -b2- A border of hair remaining around the head of one who has become bald: (S, K: *) pl. as above. (S, K.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (S, TA,) describing bowls [of food], (TA,) لَهُنَّ أِذَا أَصْبَحْنَ مِنْهُمْ أَحِفَّةٌ وَحِينَ يَرَوْنَ اللَّيْلَ أَقْبَلَ جَايءِيَا meaning They, i. e. the bowls, have a party of them surrounding them [when they are set in the beginning of the day, and when they see the night, that it has advanced, coming on]. (S, TA.) And you say, قَوْمُهُ أَحِفَّةٌ بِهِ His people are surrounding him. (TA.) ― -b3- حِفَافُ الرَّمْلِ The place where the sand ends: pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b4- كَانَ الطَّعَامُ حِفَافَ مَا أَكَلُوا The food was proportionate to what they ate. (TA.) ― -b5- See also حَفٌّ , in two places.

حُفُوفٌ حفوف an inf. n. [See حَفَّ رَأْسُهُ , &c.]. ― -b2- See also حَفَفٌ , in two places.

حَفِيفٌ حفيف The دَوِيّ [or confused and continued sound] (S, O, K) [of the feet] of a horse in running, (S,) or of the belly of a horse in running vehemently: (O, K:) the former is probably the right meaning: (TA: [see 1 and 4:]) the sound of the feet of camels when going a vehement pace: (TA:) the [pattering] sound of violent rain: (As, TA:) the [rustling] sound of the skin of a serpent, (L, K,) caused by rubbing one part thereof with another: (L:) the [rustling] sound of the wing [or wings] of a bird: (S, TA:) the [rustling] sound of a tree agitated by the wind: the [rustling, or murmuring,] sound of the wind, in, or upon, anything by [or through] which it passes: a plaintive sound, or moaning: the [murmuring, or quivering,] sound of the flaming, or blazing, of fire; and the like: (TA:) the [rushing] sound of a stone thrown by a مَنْجَنِيق : the [whizzing] sound of a penetrating or transpiercing arrow [app. in its passage through the air: see a verse cited voce ذِلَّةٌ ]: (TA:) the humming, or buzzing, ( دَوِيّ ,) of bees. (S and K, in art. دوي .) The saying, cited by IAar, أَبْلِغْ أَبَا قَيْسٍ حَفِيفَ الأَثْأَبَهْ is explained by him as meaning [Tell thou Aboo- Keys] that he is weak in intellect; as though he were the حفيف of the tree called أَثْأَبَة when it is agitated by the wind: some say that it means [tell thou Aboo-Keys that] I will threaten him and agitate him like as the wind agitates this tree; but ISd says that this is nought. (TA.) -A2- Dry herbage; as also جَفِيفٌ . (TA.)

حُفَافَةٌ حفاف حفافه حفافة Hair plucked out: or what has fallen of hair plucked out. (TA.) ― -b2- Remains of straw, and of [the trefoil, or dry trefoil, called] قَتّ . (Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

حَفْحَفَةٌ حفحفه حفحفة [inf. n. of حَفْحَفَ ]. ― -b2- See فَهَرَ .

حَفَّانٌ حفان A full vessel: (K:) or a vessel nearly filled to [the top of] each side: (TA:) or a vessel of which the contents, measured therein, reach to [the top of] each side. (S, K.) -A2- The young ones of an ostrich; male and female: (S, K:) or, accord. to ISd, females only: (MF, TA:) n. un. with ة . (S, K.) ― -b2- The feathers, or plumage, of the ostrich. (TA.) ― -b3- The young ones of camels: (TA:) sometimes these are thus termed: (S in art. حفن :) [app. as being likened to those of the ostrich:] or such camels as are under [i. e. younger than] those termed حِقَاق : (TA:) n. un., applied to a male and a female, as above. (S in art. حفن .) ― -b4- Servants: (S, K:) as though likened to the young ones of the ostrich. (TA.)

حَفٌّ حف Going round about, circuiting, compassing, or surrounding. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Kur [xxxix. last verse], وَتَرَي المَلَايءِكَةَ حَافِّينَ مِنْ حَوْلِ العَرْشِ (Zj, S, K *) And thou shalt see the angels surrounding the عرش : (Zj, TA:) or surrounding the sides thereof: (Sgh, K:) or going round about on either side thereof. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b2- مَا لَهُ حَافٌّ وَلَا رَافٌّ : see 1. -A2- سَوِيقٌ حَافٌّ [Meal of parched barley] not moistened with water or with clarified butter or the like. (Lth, K.) [ خُبْزٌ حَافٌّ , in the present day, means Dry bread; i. e. bread without anything savoury.] And هُوَحَافُّ المَطْعَم He is one whose food is dry. (TA.) -A3- See also حَافٌ , in art. حوف .

مَحْفُوفٌ محفوف [Encompassed, or surrounded]. You say, هُوَ مَحْفُوفٌ بِخَدَمِهِ [He is encompassed, or surrounded, by his servants]. (TA.) ― -b2- هُمْ قَوْمٌ مَحْفُوفُونَ : see 1.

مِحَفَّةٌ محفه محفة , with kesr; (S, Sgh, Msb, K;) in the “ Meshárik ” of 'Iyád said to be [ مَحَفَّةٌ ,] with fet-h, (MF,) A vehicle of the kind used for women, like the هَوْدَج , (S, Msb, K,) except that it has no قُبَّة [or dome-like, or tent-like, top], (S, K,) which the هودج has: (S:) or a camel's saddle ( رَحْل ) surrounded ( يُحَفُّ [with pieces of cloth (see 1) upon a wooden frame]), upon which a woman rides: accord. to IDrd, so called because the [frame of] wood [with the pieces of cloth attached thereto] surrounds on all sides the sitter upon it. (TA.)

هَوْدَجٌ مُحَفَّفٌ بِدِيبَاجٍ هودج محفف بديباج [A هودج hung round with silk brocade]. (TA.)