حَجَفَةٌ
Root: حجف
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حَجَفَةٌ
A shield made of skins, or, as some say, of the skins of camels, cut out in a round form, without wood and without sinews; as also دَرَقَةٌ: or of skins sewed one over another; as also دَرَقَةٌ: or a small shield made of two [pieces of] skins sewed together, one over the other: pl.
حَجَفٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. is] حَجَفَاتٌ. The saying of the rájiz, namely, Su-r-edhDhi-b,
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means رُبَّ جَوْزِ تَيْهَآءَ [i. e. Many a middle of a desert in which one loses his way, like the back of a shield such as is called حجفة]: and [by احجفت is meant الحجفه; for] some of the Arabs, in pausing upon a ة, make it ت: thus they say, هٰذَا طَلْحَتْ, and خُبْزُ الذٌّرَتْ: these are Teiyi.بَلْ جَوْزِتَيْهَآءَ كَظَهْرِ الحَجَفَتْ
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