زفر

زَفَرَ

To carry or bear a thing, load, or burden; also to draw and carry water.

Used of carrying such things as a filled water-skin.

• Lane · entry 31307

زَفَرَ

To roar or make a loud sound, of a tumultuous sea.

A figurative extension of forceful sound, distinct here from the Quranic use for the roar of fire.

• Lane · entry 31307

زَفَرَ

Of the earth, to put forth plants or herbage.

A figurative usage.

• Lane · entry 31307

زِفْرٌ

A heavy load or burden borne on the back or head.

The word can also refer to the burden that makes its bearer breathe heavily or groan.

• Lane · entry 31311

زِفْرٌ

A water-skin used for carrying water.

Especially the skin carried by a herdsman or pastor; plural أَزْفَارٌ.

• Lane · entry 31311

زِفْرٌ

A traveller's equipment or baggage, including the water-skin.

A collective designation for the apparatus carried on a journey.

• Lane · entry 31311

زِفْرٌ

A lamb.

A separately attested lexical meaning, synonymous with حَمَلٌ.

• Lane · entry 31311

زَفَرٌ

A prop or supporting branch of a tree.

A concrete supporting object.

• Lane · entry 31312

تَزَفَّرَ

To move about in a confused or disorderly manner.

Reported for the Form V verb in a hadith context, with the lexical attribution disputed in the cited discussion.

• Lane · entry 31309

تَزَفَّرَ

To eat fatty food when breaking a fast.

A reported post-classical explanation of the Form V verb.

• Lane · entry 31309

زَفَرٌ

Grease, greasy food, or flesh-meat.

Identified as a modern Arabic usage, with related colloquial senses of greasy, foul, or obscene.

• Lane · entry 31312

زُفَرٌ

A sea, or a large river resembling a sea, especially one characterized by roaring or abundant water.

The water-body sense is figurative in its association with tumultuous sound or great carrying capacity.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A large gift, likened to a sea in abundance.

A figurative extension of the abundant-water sense.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A liberal or exceptionally generous man.

A figurative description based on the abundance associated with a sea.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A person who carries loads or has the strength to bear responsibilities.

The meaning extends physical load-bearing to the bearing of responsibilities.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A lord, master, chief, or other person of authority.

A figurative development from the one who bears or undertakes burdens.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A courageous man.

An attributed figurative usage.

• Lane · entry 31313

زُفَرٌ

A lion.

A figurative designation associated with strength and courage.

• Lane · entry 31313

زَفْرَةٌ

A forceful drawing in or prolonged emission of breath: a sigh, vehement sigh, or groan.

The feminine noun can describe breath drawn in distress or emitted after the chest has been filled.

• Lane · entry 31314

زَفْرَةٌ

A person breathing in the manner described by زَفْرَةٌ.

The passage reports this interpretation but notes that the wording may be a mistranscription and could instead concern a place of breathing.

• Lane · entry 31314

زَفْرَةٌ

The middle of a thing or horse; the chest or belly.

Used of bodily breadth or the central part of an object.

• Lane · entry 31314

زَفْرَةٌ

The strongly knit structure of an animal's joints.

Used of a camel or other beast whose joints are notably firm and compact.

• Lane · entry 31314

زَفِيرٌ

A calamity or misfortune.

A Classical Arabic meaning of the noun distinct from its Quranic breath and roaring senses.

• Lane · entry 31316

زَافِرٌ

One who carries or helps to carry loads or burdens.

The plural زَوَافِرُ is also used for female slaves who carry water-skins or other loads.

• Lane · entry 31317

زَافِرَةٌ

A bulky camel.

The description is connected with the animal's capacity to carry loads.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

The withers or upper back next to the neck.

The part upon which loads are borne.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

The supporting side or angle of a building; a structural prop.

Also used figuratively for a prop that strengthens something, such as glory.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

A person's supporters, assistants, kinsfolk, or tribe; those who undertake his affairs or bear his burdens.

In political or official contexts, it can denote the representative or chief who conducts a group's business with a ruler.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

A company or assembled body of men, including an army or troop.

The same collective sense may denote a collected military unit.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

A rib.

Usually encountered in the plural زَوَافِرُ, especially in descriptions of a horse's strong ribs.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

A bow.

A figurative or sound-associated designation; plural زَوَافِرُ.

• Lane · entry 31318

زَافِرَةٌ

The portion of an arrow exclusive of its feathers, especially the section near the head.

The exact extent varies among the cited descriptions; the term is also applied to a corresponding part of a spear.

• Lane · entry 31318

أُمُّ زَافِرَةٍ

The female of the tiger.

A fixed lexical expression.

• Lane · entry 31318

أَزْفَرُ

A horse large in the sides, ribs, chest, belly, or middle.

An adjective describing a broad-bodied horse.

• Lane · entry 31319

الزَّفْرَاءُ

The pudendum or genital opening.

A substantivized anatomical term.

• Lane · entry 31319

مَزْفُورٌ

A beast or camel whose joints are strongly knit; compactly built.

Used of an animal's firmly compacted physical constitution.

• Lane · entry 31321

مُزْدَفَرٌ

The breast or forepart of a horse from which the breathing called زَفِيرٌ proceeds.

A specifically anatomical term associated with forceful breathing.

• Lane · entry 31322