حفف

حَفَّ

To attend to, support, provide for, or treat someone with benevolent solicitude; in a proverbial expression, also to praise someone.

Used in expressions such as حَفَّنَا وَرَفَّنَا, where the surrounding image is extended to tending, supplying, guarding, or caring for people; praising is reported as a further proverbial use.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

To beset or encompass someone with want.

Figurative intransitive usage, as in saying that want has surrounded people.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

To cut or clip the moustache, head hair, or beard closely or extensively.

The object is hair or facial hair; the degree may be much, short, or to the utmost extent.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

To remove facial hair by plucking, scraping, or similar grooming.

A conventional facial-grooming use, including removing hair with threads or a razor.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

To become dry, parched, rough, or matted from lack of moisture or grease; of land or plants, to dry up.

Said of hair, beards, food, bellies, land, or vegetation according to context.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

For hearing to cease entirely.

A figurative use reported for the loss of hearing.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّ

To make a rustling, pattering, or resonant sound.

Said of a horse in vigorous running, heavy rain, a serpent, tree branches, a bird’s wings, and similar sources; of the beetle جُعَل, the sound is associated with flying.

• Lane · entry 14955

حَفَّفَ

To become straitened or distressed in one’s means, with property becoming scant.

A figurative Form II development associated with the drying up of land or resources.

• Lane · entry 14956

أَحْفَفَ

To leave or cause the head to remain long without ointment, so that its hair becomes shaggy or matted.

Causative Form IV usage applied to the condition of the hair.

• Lane · entry 14957

أَحْفَفَ

To speak evil of someone.

A figurative Form IV use.

• Lane · entry 14957

أَحْفَفَ

To urge a horse to run vehemently, causing it to make a resonant sound.

The action is directed toward the horse’s vigorous running.

• Lane · entry 14957

أَحْفَفَ

To weave cloth using the loom apparatus or beam called الحَفّ.

A technical weaving use of Form IV.

• Lane · entry 14957

اِحْتَفَّ

To become encompassed or surrounded by something, and thus to be in its midst.

An intransitive or reciprocal Form VIII construction.

• Lane · entry 14958

اِحْتَفَّ

To cut or mow herbage.

A Form VIII use applied to vegetation; a variant lexicographical transmission gives “to estimate its quantity.”

• Lane · entry 14958

اِحْتَفَّ

For camels to eat or obtain herbage.

The subject is camels and the object is pasture or herbage.

• Lane · entry 14958

اِحْتَفَّ

To consume entirely what is in a cooking pot or vessel.

A Form VIII use denoting complete consumption.

• Lane · entry 14958

اِسْتَحَفَّ

To take all of someone’s possessions in a raid.

A Form X military or raiding construction.

• Lane · entry 14959

حَفْحَفَ

To become straitened in one’s means of subsistence.

A reduplicated form with a livelihood-related figurative meaning.

• Lane · entry 14960

حَفّ

Possibly a saddlebow or similar part of a saddle.

A tentative, possibly post-classical technical attribution.

• Lane · entry 14961

حَفّ

The time or season of an event.

Used in the expression عَلَى حَفِّ ذَلِكَ, “in the time or season of that.”

• Lane · entry 14961

حَفّ

The track or immediate aftermath of something.

An alternative interpretation of expressions with عَلَى حَفِّ ذَلِكَ, understood as “after” or “near after” it.

• Lane · entry 14961

حَفّ

Preoccupied with or anxious about oneself.

Used in the expression فُلَانٌ حَفٌّ بِنَفْسِهِ.

• Lane · entry 14961

حَفَّةٌ

A loom beam or wooden implement used in weaving, including the piece that arranges or beats the woof.

A technical weaving noun with several reported applications to parts of the loom.

• Lane · entry 14962

حَفَّةٌ

The herbage eaten or obtained by camels.

A noun derived from the Form VIII expression for camels consuming herbage.

• Lane · entry 14962

حَفَفٌ

The verge or edge of an event or affair.

Used in عَلَى حَفَفِ أَمْرٍ, “on the verge of an affair.”

• Lane · entry 14964

حَفَفٌ

Straitened or scant circumstances, especially limited means of subsistence.

May indicate want, paucity of property, or a livelihood barely sufficient for the household.

• Lane · entry 14964

حِفَافٌ

A side, border, or edge of a thing; including the rim of hair left around a bald head and the place where sand ends.

The dual حِفَافَا شَيْءٍ denotes the two sides of a thing.

• Lane · entry 14965

حِفَافٌ

A quantity of food proportionate to what is eaten.

Used of provisions that correspond to the number or needs of those eating.

• Lane · entry 14965

حَفِيفٌ

A rustling, pattering, murmuring, rushing, whizzing, or buzzing sound.

Applied to sounds of running animals, rain, serpents, wings, trees, wind, fire, stones, arrows, and bees.

• Lane · entry 14967

حَفِيفٌ

Dry herbage.

A nominal use distinct from the sound noun.

• Lane · entry 14967

حُفَافَةٌ

Hair that has been plucked, or what has fallen from plucked hair.

A noun denoting the removed material or its remains.

• Lane · entry 14968

حُفَافَةٌ

Remains of straw or dry trefoil.

A residue noun applied to leftover dry plant material.

• Lane · entry 14968

حَفَّانٌ

A full vessel, filled nearly to the top or to the level of its sides.

The noun can describe contents reaching the vessel’s upper edges.

• Lane · entry 14970

حَفَّانٌ

The young of an ostrich.

Reported of males and females together, with variation as to whether it can specifically denote females.

• Lane · entry 14970

حَفَّانٌ

The feathers or plumage of an ostrich.

A related zoological use.

• Lane · entry 14970

حَفَّانٌ

Young camels.

A usage sometimes applied to camels below the age-class called حِقَاق.

• Lane · entry 14970

حَفَّانٌ

Servants.

A figurative use explained as likening servants to young ostriches.

• Lane · entry 14970

حَفّ

Dry, unmoistened food; by extension, a person whose food is dry.

Said of parched barley meal, bread, or other food lacking water, clarified butter, or a savory accompaniment.

• Lane · entry 14971

مَحْفُوفٌ

Encompassed or surrounded.

A passive participle, as in someone surrounded by servants.

• Lane · entry 14972

مِحَفَّةٌ

A woman’s covered vehicle or camel saddle surrounded by a wooden frame and cloth.

Distinguished from a هَوْدَج by lacking its dome-like top.

• Lane · entry 14973

مُحَفَّفٌ

Hung or trimmed around with ornamental material, especially silk brocade.

Used of an object decorated around its exterior, such as a hoodaj.

• Lane · entry 14974