تِجْفَافٌ
Root: جف
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تِجْفَافٌ
A thing, i. e. a kind of armour, [a cataphract,] with which a horse is clad, in war, in the manner of a coat of mail, to defend him from being wounded; and sometimes worn by a man, to defend him in war: of the measure تِفْعَالٌ, the ت being augmentative, to render the word quasi-coordinate to the class of قِرْطَاسٌ; from جَفَّ, because of its hardness and toughness: pl. تَجَافِيفُ It is said in a trad., أَعِدَّ لِلْفَقْرِ
تِجْفَافًا; and one says, اِلْبَسْ لِلْفَقْرِ تِجْفَافًا; [both] meaning, Make thou preparation for poverty.
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