Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

احتفّوا

Root: حف

Form: 8

Full Definition

احتفّواVIII : see 1, first sentence.
2 احتفّ بِهِ He, or it, became encompassed, or surrounded, by it: and hence, became in the midst of it.

def.2 اِحْتَفَّتْ, said of a woman: see 1, in two places.
2 احتفّ النَّبْتَ He cut the herbage; syn. جَزَّهُ: or حَزَرَهُ [he computed by conjecture its quantity]: mentioned by Sgh: in some copies of the K, حزّزه [he jagged it]: in one, جزره, which is a mistake.
3 اِحْتَفَّتِ الإِبِلُ الكَلَأَ The camels ate the herbage: or obtained some of it.
4 And احتفّ He ate up entirely what was in the cooking pot: like as اشتفّ signifies “ he drank up entirely ” what was in the vessel.


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