أَدْفَقُ
Root: دفق
Full Definition
أَدْفَقُ
, and its fem. دَفْقَآءُ: see دِفَقٌّ.
2 The former is also applied to a pace, or rate of going, as meaning Quick, or swift: or, accord. to AO, it means أَقْصَى العَنَقِ [the utmost of the pace called العَنَق]. (S, TA. [In my copies of the S, erroneously, العُنُقِ: in the TA without any vowel signs, app. because needless to any but the tyro in Arabic.])
def.2 Also, i. e. the former, A man bowed, or bent, in his back, by age or grief.
2 And i. q. أَعْوَجُ [here meaning Oblique]: applied to a هِلَال [or new moon]: Aboo-Málik says that the هلال thus termed is better, or more auspicious, than that termed حَاقِنٌ, which means “ having its two extremities elevated, and its back decumbent: ” and AZ says the like: [or] ادفق applied to a هلال signifies erect (مُسْتَوٍ [which must here mean nearly, not exactly, erect,] and white, not turning sideways upon one of its two extremities: [and this also is esteemed more auspicious than that termed حاقن, q. v.:] so in the “ Nawádir. ”
3 Also, applied to a camel, and to a mouth, Having the teeth standing out, or forwards: or, applied to a camel, having the elbows far apart from the sides. (K. [See also أَرْفَقُ.])
2 The former is also applied to a pace, or rate of going, as meaning Quick, or swift: or, accord. to AO, it means أَقْصَى العَنَقِ [the utmost of the pace called العَنَق]. (S, TA. [In my copies of the S, erroneously, العُنُقِ: in the TA without any vowel signs, app. because needless to any but the tyro in Arabic.])
def.2 Also, i. e. the former, A man bowed, or bent, in his back, by age or grief.
2 And i. q. أَعْوَجُ [here meaning Oblique]: applied to a هِلَال [or new moon]: Aboo-Málik says that the هلال thus termed is better, or more auspicious, than that termed حَاقِنٌ, which means “ having its two extremities elevated, and its back decumbent: ” and AZ says the like: [or] ادفق applied to a هلال signifies erect (مُسْتَوٍ [which must here mean nearly, not exactly, erect,] and white, not turning sideways upon one of its two extremities: [and this also is esteemed more auspicious than that termed حاقن, q. v.:] so in the “ Nawádir. ”
3 Also, applied to a camel, and to a mouth, Having the teeth standing out, or forwards: or, applied to a camel, having the elbows far apart from the sides. (K. [See also أَرْفَقُ.])
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