جَحْفَلَةٌ
Root: جحفل
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جَحْفَلَةٌ
The lip of a solid-hoofed animal, [i. e.,] of a horse, a mule, and an ass: and metaphorically applied to that of a man, which is properly termed شَفَةٌ: not, as some assert, peculiarly the upper lip: pl. جَحَافِلُ.
2 Also, جَحْفَلَتَانِ, Two callosities (رَقْمَتَانِ) in the two arms of the horse, resembling two marks made with a hot iron, facing each other, in the inner side of each arm.
2 Also, جَحْفَلَتَانِ, Two callosities (رَقْمَتَانِ) in the two arms of the horse, resembling two marks made with a hot iron, facing each other, in the inner side of each arm.
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