ظفر

ظُفْرٌ

A weapon, metaphorically likened to a bird’s claw as its means of attack.

A figurative use based on the resemblance between a weapon and a claw.

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ظَفِرَ

To attain, obtain, acquire, or gain possession of what one seeks; to succeed, win, or overcome.

Used with بِـ, عَلَى, or a direct object; the same verb may denote finding a lost animal or gaining mastery over an enemy.

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ظَفِرَتْ عَيْنُهُ

For the eye to develop a pterygium or nail-like growth over its surface.

A conventional medical or descriptive construction concerning the eye.

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ظَفِرَتِ النَّاقَةُ لَقَحًا

For a she-camel to receive impregnation.

A figurative Form I usage.

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مَا ظَفَرَتْكَ عَيْنِي

My eye has not seen you; I have not seen or encountered you for some time.

An idiomatic expression about not seeing someone recently.

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ظَفَرَ

To sit.

A dialectal Himyerite meaning reported in Classical lexicographical material.

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ظَفَّرَ

To insert or fix one’s nail or claw into something; to scratch, wound, mark, or break it; by extension, to cling to or take firm hold of something, or to seize it with talons.

Used of a person’s nail, an animal’s claw, or a bird of prey’s talons; the related Form VIII expression is given with the same sense.

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ظَفَّرَ

For a plant or the land to put forth nail-like shoots or herbage.

A figurative plant-growth usage, emphasizing emergence in a form resembling nails or talons.

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ظَفَّرَ ثَوْبَهُ

To perfume a garment with the substance called ظُفْر or أَظْفَار.

A specialized transitive construction concerning perfuming cloth.

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ظَفَّرَ الجِلْدَ

To rub skin so that its creased parts become smooth.

A specialized use of the Form II verb.

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ظَفَّرَ

To cause someone to attain or obtain what was sought, to make someone successful, or to cause someone to overcome an opponent.

A causative victory or success construction, commonly used with بِـ or عَلَى; it may also be used in declaring someone the victor.

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ظَفَّرَ

To pray or wish that someone attain the desired result, succeed, or be victorious.

A devotional or optative use of the Form II verb.

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تَظَافَرَ

To league together and aid one another against someone.

Used with عَلَى or an equivalent construction meaning “against”; related forms with تَضَافَرَ and تَظَاهَرَ are reported as synonyms.

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الأَظْفَارُ

A group of small stars in or near Lyra, named for resemblance to talons.

A figurative astronomical name.

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كَلِيلُ الظُّفْرِ

Weak, abject, despicable, or ineffective; in one use, sick or diseased.

An idiomatic characterization, especially of one unable to harm or overcome others.

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مِنْ ظُفْرِهِ إِلَى شُفْرِهِ

Through the whole body, from extremity to extremity; used in the expression “to wound him from nail to eyelid.”

A figurative idiom for wounding someone extensively.

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مَا بِالدَّارِ ظُفْرٌ

No one or nothing is present; in related usage, a year of drought left nothing.

An idiomatic use of ظُفْرٌ and related expressions for complete absence or depletion.

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رَأَيْتُهُ بِظُفْرِهِ

I saw him himself, or him in person.

An idiomatic emphatic expression.

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ظُفْرُ النَّسْرِ، ظُفْرُ القِطِّ

Names of plants resembling a vulture’s or cat’s claw.

Fixed botanical names derived from the nail-or-claw sense.

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الظُّفْرُ، الأَظْفَارُ

An odoriferous substance resembling a human nail, used in incense or perfumery.

A specialized materia-medica term, sometimes treated as plural-only or without an ordinary singular.

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أَظْفَارٌ

Large ticks.

A specialized nominal use.

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أَظْفَارٌ

The creased or folded parts of a skin.

A figurative plural use based on the appearance of nail-like creases.

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ظُفْرُ القَوْسِ

The part at either curved end of a bow beyond the place where the string is tied.

The term may denote one end or both ends of the bow.

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ظَفَرٌ

The quality of having long nails.

A nominal description of a person’s nails.

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ظَفَرٌ

Low or depressed ground that produces plants or herbage.

A specialized landscape term.

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ظَفِرٌ

Having sharp nails or claws.

An adjectival description of the nails or claws.

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ظَفِرٌ

Successful, victorious, or habitually attaining whatever one pursues.

An adjective applied to a person.

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ظَفِرٌ

Having a pterygium or nail-like growth over the eye.

An adjectival medical description.

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ظُفْرَةٌ

A burning or biting plant resembling a nail in its emergence and used beneficially for foul ulcers and warts.

A specialized botanical and medicinal term.

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ظُفْرَةُ العَجُوزِ

The rounded head of the prickles of the thistle called حَسَك.

A fixed botanical expression.

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ظَفَرَةٌ

A pterygium: a fleshy or membranous growth from the inner side of the eye that can extend over the white toward the pupil and obscure sight.

A medical noun with several recorded variant names.

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ظَفَارِ

A place-name for one or more cities or fortresses in Yemen.

A proposed additional interpretation connects the name with land possessing means of resisting invaders, but that reading is textually uncertain.

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ظَفُورٌ

An appellation of the Prophet, associated with the success-and-victory adjective family.

The lexical entry records it chiefly as an honorific appellation and relates it to ظَفِرٌ and ظَفِيرٌ.

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ظَفَارِيٌّ

Of or from Dhafar in Yemen; applied to objects such as onyx, aloe wood, or related imported aromatics.

A nisbah adjective referring to the Yemeni place-name ظَفَارِ.

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أَظْفَرُ

Having long or broad nails; also applied to a camel’s nail-like foot extremity.

An adjectival form describing a person or a camel’s manسم.

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أُظْفُورٌ

The slender tendril that twines around a grapevine branch.

A figurative botanical use based on a nail-like or claw-like form.

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مُظَفَّرَةٌ

A bow whose two ends have been somewhat cut away beyond the points where the string is tied.

A descriptive adjective applied to a bow.

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مِظْفَارٌ

An instrument for grasping or extracting, specifically the tool called مِنْقَاش, tweezers or forceps.

A technical instrument name derived from the gripping function of a claw.

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مَظْفُورٌ بِهِ

Overcome or conquered.

A passive participial expression applied to one defeated by another.

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