جَفْنٌ
Root: جفن
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جَفْنٌ
The eyelid; both the upper and the lower: of the mase. gender: pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَانٌ and أَجْفُنٌ and [of mult.] جُفُونٌ.
2 The upper surface, and the lower, of a cake of bread: both together being called جَفْنَا الرَّغِيفِ.
3 The scabbard, or sheath, (غِمْد, S, K, or غِلَاف, Msb,) of a sword: [or] the case, or receptacle, in which is [put] the sword together with its غمد and suspensory belt or cord: (S voce قِرَابٌ:) [but the former signification only is commonly known:] and [it is said that] جِفْنٌ signifies the same; but this is doubted by IDrd: pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَانٌ and [of mult.] جُفُونٌ.
4 The أَصْل [app. here meaning stock] of a grape-vine: or a grape-vine itself, in the dial. of El-Yemen; so called as being imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes: or a species of grape: or the skin of the grape, in which is the juice: or a climbing shoot of a grape-vine: or the shoots of the grape-vine: n. un. with ة: or, accord. to IAar, جَفْنَةٌ is syn. with كرعة [app. a mistranscription for كَرْمَةٌ a single grape-vine]: or, accord. to some, as ISd says, the leaves of the grape-vine. [Hence,] مَآءُ الجَفْنِ The juice of the vine; wine: [or it may originally mean tears; then, rain; and then, wine: for] wine is also called مَآءُ السَّحَابِ: and جَفْنُ المَآءِ means the clouds.
5 A kind of tree, of sweet odour.
6 A certain plant, of the kind called أَحْرَار, that grows in a spreading manner, and, when it dries up, contracts; having grains like the حُلْبَة [or fenugreek].
2 The upper surface, and the lower, of a cake of bread: both together being called جَفْنَا الرَّغِيفِ.
3 The scabbard, or sheath, (غِمْد, S, K, or غِلَاف, Msb,) of a sword: [or] the case, or receptacle, in which is [put] the sword together with its غمد and suspensory belt or cord: (S voce قِرَابٌ:) [but the former signification only is commonly known:] and [it is said that] جِفْنٌ signifies the same; but this is doubted by IDrd: pl. [of pauc.] أَجْفَانٌ and [of mult.] جُفُونٌ.
4 The أَصْل [app. here meaning stock] of a grape-vine: or a grape-vine itself, in the dial. of El-Yemen; so called as being imagined to be the receptacle of the grapes: or a species of grape: or the skin of the grape, in which is the juice: or a climbing shoot of a grape-vine: or the shoots of the grape-vine: n. un. with ة: or, accord. to IAar, جَفْنَةٌ is syn. with كرعة [app. a mistranscription for كَرْمَةٌ a single grape-vine]: or, accord. to some, as ISd says, the leaves of the grape-vine. [Hence,] مَآءُ الجَفْنِ The juice of the vine; wine: [or it may originally mean tears; then, rain; and then, wine: for] wine is also called مَآءُ السَّحَابِ: and جَفْنُ المَآءِ means the clouds.
5 A kind of tree, of sweet odour.
6 A certain plant, of the kind called أَحْرَار, that grows in a spreading manner, and, when it dries up, contracts; having grains like the حُلْبَة [or fenugreek].
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