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جفّنوا جفنوا They made bowls ( جِفَان [probably meaning they prepared bowls of food: accord. to Freytag's Lex., جفّن means “ apposuit scutellam; but he does not name his authority]). (TA.) -A2- جفّن and ↓ تجفّن It (a grape-vine) attained to the state of having an أَصْل [i. e., app., a stock]. (TA.)

تَجَفَّنَ see 2.

جَفْنٌ جفن The eyelid; both the upper and the lower: (S, Msb, K:) of the mase. gender: (Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَانٌ and أَجْفُنٌ and [of mult.] جُفُونٌ . (K.) ― -b2- The upper surface, and the lower, of a cake of bread: both together being called جَفْنَا الرَّغِيفِ . (Lh, TA.) ― -b3- The scabbard, or sheath, ( غِمْد , S, K, or غِلَاف , Msb,) of a sword: (S, Msb, K:) [or] the case, or receptacle, in which is [put] the sword together with its غمد and suspensory belt or cord: (S voce قِرَابٌ :) [but the former signification only is commonly known:] and [it is said that] ↓ جِفْنٌ signifies the same; (K;) but this is doubted by IDrd: (M, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَانٌ and [of mult.] جُفُونٌ . (Msb.) ― -b4- The أَصْل [app. here meaning stock] of a grape-vine: (K:) or a grape-vine itself, in the dial. of El-Yemen; (T, TA;) so called as being imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or a species of grape: (ISd, K:) or the skin of the grape, in which is the juice: (IAar, TA:) or a climbing shoot of a grape-vine: (AHn, TA:) or the shoots of the grape-vine: (T, S, M, K:) n. un. with ة : (T S, M:) or, accord. to IAar, جَفْنَةٌ is syn. with كرعة [app. a mistranscription for كَرْمَةٌ a single grape-vine]: or, accord. to some, as ISd says, the leaves of the grape-vine. (TA.) [Hence,] مَا=ءُ الجَفْنِ The juice of the vine; (A, TA;) wine: (TA:) [or it may originally mean tears; then, rain; and then, wine: for] wine is also called مَا=ءُ السَّحَابِ : and جَفْنُ المَا=ءِ means the clouds. (TA.) ― -b5- A kind of tree, of sweet odour. (AHn, K.) ― -b6- A certain plant, of the kind called أَحْرَار , that grows in a spreading manner, and, when it dries up, contracts; having grains like the حُلْبَة [or fenugreek]. (AHn, TA.)

جِفْنٌ جفن : see جَفْنٌ .

جَفْنَةٌ جفن جفنه جفنة A [bowl of the kind called] قَصْعَة : (K:) or like a قصعة : (S:) the largest kind of قصعة ; (Ks, S in art. صحف , M;) next to which is the قصعة [properly so called], which satisfies the hunger of ten [men]; then, the صَحْفَة , which satisfies five; then, the مِيءْكَلَة , which satisfies two men, and three; then, the صُحَيْفَة , which satisfies one man: (Ks, S in art. صحف :) it is peculiarly applied to a receptacle for kinds of food: (Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. [of mult.] جَفَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and جِفَنٌ (Sb, TA) and (of pauc., TA) جَفَنَاتٌ (S, Msb, K.) [Hence,] كُفِيءَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ [His bowl was turned upside-down; meaning] (tropical:) he was slain; a phrase similar to هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ . (A in art. رفد .) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A small well; (K;) as being likened to the جفنة for food. (Er- Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A generous man: (K:) جَفْنَةٌ غَرَّا=ءُ is an appellation applied to a generous man who entertains many guests and feeds many: (IAar, TA:) he is called جفنة because people are fed in the جفنة , and the epithet غرّا=ء is added because of the whiteness of the camel's hump in the جفنة . (TA.) ― -b4- Also i. q. خَمْرَةٌ [meaning Some wine, or a kind of wine: see also مَا=ءُ الجَفْنِ , voce جَفْنٌ ]. (IAar, TA.)