دَفِئٌ
Root: دفأ
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دَفِئٌ
Warmly clad; applied to a man; fem. with ة: and so
دَفْآنُ ; fem. دَفْأَى; and pl., of the masc. and fem., دِفَآءٌ: and so
دَفِىْءٌ , accord. to IAar, who cites, as an ex., the following verse:
[Aboo-Leylà passes the night warmly clad, while his guest, by reason of the cold, becomes deserving of his properties]: though it has been asserted that دَفْآنُ and its fem. are applied peculiarly to human beings; and دَفِىْءٌ , peculiarly to time and place; and دَفِئْءٌ, to a human being and to time and place: [for] this last signifies [also] warm, or hot: [and so does each of the two other epithets:] you say بَيْتٌ دَفِئٌ or دَفِىْءٌ , of the measure فَعِيلٌ, [a warm, or hot, tent or house or chamber,] and in like manner ثَوْبٌ دَفِىْءٌ [a warm garment], and يَوْمٌ دَفِىْءٌ and [a warm, or hot, day], and لَيْلَةٌ and [a warm, or hot, night], and أَرْضٌ دَفِئَةٌ and and مَدْفَأَةٌ a warm, or hot, land; pl. of the last مَدَافِئُ.يَبِيتُ أَبُو لَيْلَى دَفِيْئًا وَضَيْفُهُ مِنَ القُرِّ يُضْحِى مُسْتَحِقًّا خَصَائِلَهْ
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