حَفِثٌ
Root: حفث
Full Definition
حَفِثٌ
and حِفْثٌ and
حَفِثَةٌ [A certain portion or appertenance] of the stomach of a ruminant animal, that which has
طَرَائِق [meaning either furrows or streaks, but more probably the former], as though it, or they, (كَأَنَّهَا,) were the coverings (أَطْبَاق) of the feces in the stomach: or that [part] which has coverings (أَطْبَاق [or probably this signifies here folds, one above another,]) at the lower part of the stomach of a ruminant, towards the side of the latter, from which the feces of the stomach never pass forth: [app. meaning the third stomach, or omasum; commonly called the manyplies, because of its many plies, or folds, and strata super strata; and by some, the millet; from which the food, being already ruminated, does not pass out again to the mouth, as it does from the first and second stomachs:] it pertains to the camel, and to the sheep and goat, and oxen; or, accord. to IAar, [only] to the sheep and goat: the حَفث
of the stomach of a ruminant; i. q.
قِبَةٌ, or قِبَةٌ: or that which is with the stomach of a ruminant, and which resembles it: or that which has
طَرَائِق, by the side of which is the
قبة, another thing, which has not طرائق: it is called حَفِثٌ and حَثِفٌ and حِفْثٌ and حِثْفٌ and فَحِثٌ and, as some say, فِثْحٌ and ثِحْفٌ: pl. أَحْفَاثٌ.
2 Also the first, A certain great kind of serpent, resembling a جِرَاب [or traveller's provision-bag].
2 Also the first, A certain great kind of serpent, resembling a جِرَاب [or traveller's provision-bag].
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