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حافر حافر , (A,) inf. n. مُحَافَرَةٌ , (TA,) He (a jerboa) went deep into his hole; (A;) so deep that he could not be dug out. (TA.)

احفر فُلَانًا بِيءْرًا He assisted such a one to dig a well. (K.) -A2- احفر الصَّبِىُّ , (K,) inf. n. اـِحْفَارٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) The child shed his two upper and lower central incisors: ( سَقَطَتْ لَهُ الثَّنِيَّتَانِ العُلْيَيَانِ وَالسُّفْلَيَانِ :) so in the K: and to these words we find added, in some copies of the K, لِلْاـِثْنَا=ءَ وَالاـِرْبَاعِ ; and then, وَالمُهْرُسَقَطَتْ ثَنَايَاهُ وَرَبَاعِيَاتُهُ : but in some good and corrected copies, we read, after السفليان , thus, والمهر للاثناء والا رباع سقطت ثناياه ورباعياته : to which, in some lexicons, [as in the S, though the explanation which follows is there different,] after والارباع , is added وَالقُرُوحِ . (TA. [This is evidently the right reading; and therefore I follow it in an explanation in what is here immediately subjoined.]) ― -b2- احفر المُهْرُ لِلْاـِثْنَا=ءِ وَا@لْاـِرْبَاعِ (tropical:) The colt shed his central incisors, or nippers, and each of the teeth immediately next to these: (K: see what next precedes:) or احفر المُهْرُ لِلْاـِثْنَا=ءَ وَا@لْاـِرْبَاعِ وَا@لْقُرُوحِ the colt shed his milk teeth ( رَوَاضِع ), [the central pair, the second pair, and the third pair, in each jaw,] and grew others: (S:) or احفر المهر , [inf. n. اـِحْفَارٌ ,] signifies, the colt had his milk-teeth in a wabbling, or loose, state, previously to their falling out; because, when they have fallen out, their sockets become hollow: (A:) or the colt had his lower and upper central pairs of nippers, of his milk-teeth, in a wabbling, or loose, state: this is during a period extending from thirty months, at the earliest, to three years: then the teeth fall out: then a lower and an upper central pair of nippers grow in the place of the milk-nippers which have fallen out, after three years; and the epithet مُبْدِيءٌ is applied to the colt; and the epithet ثَنِىٌّ is [also] then applied to him, and continues to be until [again it is said of him] يُحْفِرُ , meaning, he has his lower and upper pairs of nippers, of his milkteeth, in a wabbling, or loose, state: then these fall out, when he has completed four years: then the term اـِبْدَا=ءٌ is [again] applied to him; [i. c., he is again termed مُبْدِيءٌ ;] and he is, and ceases not to be, termed رَبَاعٍ , until [it is said of him] يُحْفِرُ لِلْقٌرُوحِ [in the TA, تُحْفِر القُرُوح , which is an evident mistake,] meaning, he has his two corner nippers [in each jaw] in a wabbling, or loose, state: this is when he has completed five years: then the term اـِبْدَا=ءٌ is applied to him as before described: then he is [also said to be] قَارِحٌ . (TA from the “Kitáb el-Kheyl” of AO.) [See also 1.]

تحفّر حفر تحفر (tropical:) It (a torrent) made hollows in the ground. (A.) [See also 1.]

اـِحْتَفَرَ see 1, first and second sentences.

اسحفر اسحفر He asked, or desired, [another] to dig a well, or pit, and a rivulet, or canal. (KL.) ― -b2- استحفر النَّهْرُ It was time for the river, or rivulet, or canal, to be dug [or cleared out]. (S.)

حَفْرٌ حفر حفرة : see حَفَرٌ , in two places; and حَفِيرٌ . -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) Emaciation, or leanness. (Kr.) [See 1.] ― -b2- Also, and ↓ حَفَرٌ , (Az, S, Msb, K,) the latter of the dial. of the Benoo-Asad, and the worse of the two forms, (S,) said by IKt to be a bad form, (TA,) and by ISk to be a vulgar mispronunciation, which is attributed to his not having heard the dial. of the Benoo-Asad, (Msb,) (tropical:) A scaling ( سُلَاق ) in the roots of the teeth: (Yaakoob, S, K:) or a rottenness, or an unsound state, of the roots of the teeth, (S, Msb,) by reason of a scaling of those parts: (Msb:) or what adheres to the teeth, externally and internally: (Az:) or an erosion of the roots of the teeth by a yellow incrustation between those parts and the gum, externally and internally, pressing upon the bone so that the latter scales away if it be not quickly removed: (Sh:) or a cankering of the teeth: (A:) or a yellowness upon the teeth: (IDrd, IKh, K:) or حَفْرٌ signifies a pimple, or small pustule, in the gum of a child. (El-Wá'ee.) [See 1: and see also حِبْرٌ .]

حَفَرٌ حفر حفرة A well that is widened (K, TA) beyond. measure; (TA;) as also ↓ حَفْرٌ (K) and ↓ حَفِيرٌ and ↓ حَفيرَةٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- See also حَفيرٌ . ― -b3- The earth that is taken forth from a hollow, cavity, pit, or the like, that is dug in the ground; (S, K;) like هَدَمٌ : (S:) [see also حَفِيرَةٌ :] or what is dug, or excavated; like عَدَدٌ and خَبَطٌ and نَفَضٌ in the senses of مَعْدُودٌ and مَخْبُوطٌ and مَنْفُوضٌ : (Msb:) or a place that is dug, (Az, S, Msb,) like a moat or well; (Az, Msb;) as also ↓ حَفْرٌ : (TA:) pl. أَحْفَارٌ , (Msb, K,) and pl. pl. أَحَافِيرُ . (K.) ― -b4- See, again, حَفِيرٌ . ― -b5- And see حَفْرٌ .

حُفْرَةٌ حفر حفره حفرة What is dug, excavated, hollowed out, or cleared out, (Msb, K,) in the ground; (Msb;) [i. e. a hollow, cavity, pit, hole, trench, ditch, or furrow, dug, or excavated, in the ground: and any hollow, or cavity, in the ground, whether made by digging or (assumed tropical:) natural: a burrow:] as also ↓ حَفِيرَةٌ , (Mgh, Msb, K,) which is of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولَةٌ : (Msb:) pl. of the former حُفَرٌ ; (S, Msb;) and of the latter حَفَايءِرُ . (Msb.) ― -b2- See also حَفِيرٌ .

حَفِيرٌ حفير is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [meaning Dug, excavated, hollowed out, or cleared out, in the ground]. (TA.) [Hence,] رَكِيَّةٌ حَفِيرَةٌ A newly-dug well; as also ↓ حَفَرٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- See also this last word. ― -b3- Also, (IAar, S, A, K,) and ↓ حَفِيرَةٌ and ↓ حَفْرٌ , (A,) [or ↓ حَفَرٌ , q. v., and ↓ حُفْرَةٌ , as is shown by an explanation of its pl. ( حُفَرٌ ) in the Ham p. 562,] A grave. (IAar, S, A, K.)

حَفِيرَةٌ حفير حفيره حفيرة : see حَفَرٌ : ― -b2- and حُفْرَةٌ : ― -b3- and حَفِيرٌ . ― -b4- Also What is dug out of a mine. (Mgh.)

حَفَّارٌ حفار A grave-digger. (K.)

حَافرٌ حافر , [Digging: a digger. ― -b2- And hence,] The حافر of a beast, ( دَابَّة , S, K,) i. e., of a horse, or mule, or ass; (TA;) [namely, the hoof; a solid hoof;] as though it dug the ground by reason of the vehemence of its tread upon it; (Msb;) a subst., like كَاهِلٌ and غَارِبٌ : (TA:) pl. حَوَافِرُ . (S, A, K.) ― -b3- [Hence, by a synecdoche,] خُفٌّ وَحَافِرٌ (tropical:) Camels and horses. (Mgh in art. خف .) ― -b4- حَافِرٌ is also applied to (tropical:) The foot of a man, (S, TA,) when it is meant to be characterized as ugly. (TA.) ― -b5- ↓ النَّقْدُ عِنْدَ الحَافِرَةِ , (S, A, K,) and الحَافِرِ , (A, K,) is a prov., (S,) meaning, (tropical:) The payment in ready money is on the occasion of the first sentence spoken (Yaakoob, T, * S, K) by the seller, when he says “ I have sold to thee ” [such a thing]. (T.) The origin of the saying was this: horses were the most excellent (K) and precious (TA) of the things that they possessed; and they used not to sell them on credit: a man used to say the words above to another; meaning that its hoof should not remove until he received its price: (K:) and he who says عند الحافرة (since he makes الحافر to mean the beast, الدَّابَّة , itself, and since its use in this sense is frequent without the mention of ذَات [prefixed to it],) subjoins to it the sign [ ة ] of the fem. gender to show that ذَاتِ الحَافِرِ is meant by this name. (TA.) Or they used to say this on the occasion of racing and betting: and the meaning is, when the horse's hoof first falls upon the dug ground [at the goal]: (Abu-l-'Abbás, Az, K:) ↓ حَافِرَةٌ , (Abu-l-'Abbás,) or حَافِرٌ , (K,) signifying dug ground; (Abu-l- 'Abbás, K; *) ground that is dug by a horse's feet; (Har p. 653;) like as one says مَا=ءٌ دَافِقٌ , meaning مَدْفُوقٌ . (TA.) Lth says that the saying means, when thou buyest it, thou dost not quit thy place until thou payest ready money. (TA.) This was its origin: then it came to be so often said as to be used with reference to any priority. (K.) ― -b6- [Thus,] ↓ حَافِرَةٌ signifies (tropical:) The original state or constitution of a thing; that wherein it was created: and the returning in a thing, so that the end thereof is brought back to its beginning. (K.) It is said in the Kur [lxxix. 10], أَيءِنَّا ↓ لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى الحَافِرَةِ , i. e., (tropical:) Shall we indeed be restored to our first state? (S:) i. e., to life? (Fr:) or to the present world, as we were: (IAar:) or to our first creation, after our death. (TA.) IAar cites the following verse: عَلَى صَلَعٍ وَشَيْبٍ أَحَافِرَةً مَعَاذَ ا@للّٰهِ مِنْ سَفِهٍ وَعَارِ meaning (tropical:) Shall I return to my first state, wherein I was in my youth, when I indulged in amatory conversation, and silly and youthful conduct, after hoariness, and baldness of the fore part of my head? [I beg God to preserve me from lightwittedness and shameful conduct.] (S.) One says also, ↓ رَجَعَ اـِلَى حَافِرَتِهِ , (A,) and حَافِرِهِ , (TA,) (tropical:) He became old and decrepit: (A, TA:) [as though he returned to his first state; or became in a state of second childishness.] And اِلْتَقَوْا فَا@قْتَتَلُوا عِنْدَ ↓ الحَافِرَةِ (S, A, K) and الحَافِرِ (A) (tropical:) They met, and fought one another at the first of their meeting. (S, K.) And ↓ فَعَلَ كَذَا عِنْدَ الحَافِرَةِ and الحَافِرِ (tropical:) He did so at the first, without delay. (TA.) And ↓ رَجَعَ عَلَى حَافِرَتِهِ (tropical:) He returned by the way by which he had come: (T, S:) or by which he had come forth. (K.)

حَافِرَةٌ حافر حافره حافرة : see حَافِرٌ , in nine places.

مِحْفَرٌ محفر (K) and ↓ مِحْفَارٌ (A, K) and ↓ مِحْفَرَةٌ (K) A spade; syn. مِسْحَاةٌ : (K:) an implement for digging (A, K, TA) of the same kind as a مسحاة : (TA:) pl. of the first [and last] مَحَافِرُ . (Ham p. 665.)

مِحْفَرَةٌ محفر محفره محفرة : see what next precedes.

طُرُقٌ مُحَفَّرَةٌ طرق محفره طرق محفرة [app. Roads much furrowed by the feet of beasts or men: see حَجِيجٌ ]. (L and K in art. حج .)

مِحْفَارٌ محفار : see مِحْفَرٌ .

مَحْفُورٌ محفور [i. q. حَفِيرٌ as meaning Dug: see the latter.] ― -b2- فَمُ فُلَانٍ مَحْفُورٌ [and أَسْنَانُهُ مَحْفُورَةٌ ] (tropical:) The teeth of such a one are affected with what is termed حَفْرٌ or حَفَرٌ . (S, TA.) And صَبِىٌّ مَحْفُورٌ (assumed tropical:) A child having a pimple, or small pustule, in the gum. (El-Wá'ee.)

فُلَانٌ أَرْوَغُ مِنْ يَرْبُوعٍ مُحَافِرٍ Such a one is more elusive than a jerboa that goes so deep into his hole that he cannot be dug out. (A, TA.)