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احفرIV
He assisted such a one to dig a well.
def.2 احفر الصَّبِىُّ, Verbal.Noun إِحْفَارٌ, 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, لِلْإِثْنَآءَ وَالإِرْبَاعِ; 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.
2 احفر المُهْرُ لِلْإِثْنَآءِ وَٱلْإِرْبَاعِ The colt shed his central incisors, or nippers, and each of the teeth immediately next to these: or احفر المُهْرُ لِلْإِثْنَآءَ
وَٱلْإِرْبَاعِ وَٱلْقُرُوحِ
the colt shed his milk teeth (رَوَاضِع), [the central pair, the second pair, and the third pair, in each jaw,] and grew others: or احفر المهر, [Verbal.Noun إِحْفَارٌ,] 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: 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 إِبْدَآءٌ 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 إِبْدَآءٌ is applied to him as before described: then he is [also said to be] قَارِحٌ. [See also 1.]
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