جَفْنَةٌ

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جَفْنَةٌ A [bowl of the kind called] قَصْعَة: or like a قصعة: the largest kind of قصعة; (Ks, S in art. صحف, M;) next to which is the قصعة [properly so called], which satisfies the hunger of ten [men]; then, the صَحْفَة, which satisfies five; then, the مِئْكَلَة, which satisfies two men, and three; then, the صُحَيْفَة, which satisfies one man: (Ks, S in art. صحف:) it is peculiarly applied to a receptacle for kinds of food: pl. [of mult.] جَفَانٌ and جِفَنٌ and جَفَنَاتٌ [Hence,] كُفِئَتْ جَفْنَتُهُ [His bowl was turned upside-down; meaning] he was slain; a phrase similar to هُرِيقَ رِفْدُهُ. (A in art. رفد.)
2 A small well; as being likened to the جفنة for food.
3 A generous man: جَفْنَةٌ غَرَّآءُ is an appellation applied to a generous man who entertains many guests and feeds many: he is called جفنة because people are fed in the جفنة, and the epithet غرّآء is added because of the whiteness of the camel's hump in the جفنة.
4 Also i. q. خَمْرَةٌ [meaning Some wine, or a kind of wine: see also مَآءُ الجَفْنِ, voce جَفْنٌ].

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