ضَفَفٌ
The pushing, pressing, crowding, or thronging, together, of people, at, or upon, water [to drink thereof or to water their beasts]. And Numerousness of the persons composing a family, or household. or, accord. to Lh, visitors and friends that come time after time; and one's household, or family: or, as some say, i. q.حَشَمٌ [i. e. one's dependents, &c.]. And The taking of food with other people: thus in a trad. in which it is said of the Prophet, مَا شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَلَحْمٍ إِلَّا عَلَى ضَفَفٍ [He did not satiate himself with the eating of bread and flesh-meat except in a case of taking thereof with others], as expl. by a man of the desert in answer to a question put to him by Málik Ibn-Deenár: (S, O: but in the latter, لَمْ يَشْبَعْ:) or the case of the eaters' being too many for the food: [or,] accord. to Kh, numerousness of the hands upon the food: [or,] accord. to As, the case of the property's being little, and the devourers thereof many. [See also حَفَفٌ.] Accord. to AZ, Straitness, and hardness, or hardship: accord. to Fr, want. [See two exs. voce حَفَفٌ.] Also Weakness. And Haste in an affair: so in the saying, لَقِيتُهُ عَلَى ضَفَفٍ [I met him, or found him, in a state of haste]. And A quantity less than will fill the measure, and less than anything that is filled. And Food, or the eating, less than satiates.
def.2 See also ضَفٌّ.
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