حَفَرَ

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حَفَرَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَفْرٌ, He dug, excavated, or hollowed out, the ground, or earth; he cleared out a thing, as one does the ground; and a well; and a river; with a مِحْفَار; or with an iron implement; and signifies the same. And حَفَرَ عَلَيْهِ, and حَفَرَهُ, and , He dug for him, (namely, a lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, or a jerboa,) to fetch him forth.
2 [He burrowed.]
3 It furrowed a valley. [See also 5.]
4 Inivit feminam: the action being likened to that of a man digging a river.
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6 هٰذَا غَيْثٌ لَا يَحْفِرُهُ أَحَدٌ This is a rain of which no one knows the utmost extent.
7 حَفَرَ ثَرَي زَيْدٍ He searched into the affair, or case, of Zeyd, and became acquainted with it.
8 And حَفَرَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He, or it, emaciated, or rendered lean: it emaciated a she-goat: he rendered his mother flabby in flesh by much sucking. There is no pregnant animal that pregnancy does not emaciate, except the camel: she fattens in pregnancy.

def.2 حَفَرَ He shed his رَوَاضِع [or milk-teeth]. [See also 4.]
2 حَفَرَتْ رَوَاضِعُ المُهْرِ, or حُفِرَتْ, The milk-teeth of the colt became in a wabbling, or loose, state, previously to their falling out; because, when they have fallen out, their sockets become hollow. [See 4.]
3 حَفَرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَفْرٌ; and حَفِرَت, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun حَفَرٌ, in the dial. of BenooAsad, and this is the worse of these two forms, and حَفْرٌ; and حُفِرَت; The teeth became affected with what is termed حَفْرٌ [q. v. infrà] or حَفَرٌ: or became unsound: and حَفَرَ فُوهُ and حَفِرَ his teeth cankered. IDrst says, in the Expos. of the Fs, that حَفَرَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَفْرَ فُوهُ, is trans.; and that the cause of حَفْر of the teeth, [or the agent of the verb حَفَرَ,] is old age, or the continuance of a yellow incrustation, [or tartar,] or some kind of canker that effects them: but that the verb in the phrase حَفِرَتْ سِنُّهُ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun حَفَرٌ, is intrans. [The truth probably is, that the former verb is both trans. and intrans., and hence حُفِرَتِ الأَسْنَانُ; and that the latter is intrans. only.]
4 And حَفِرَ, Present.T ـَ It was, or became, in a bad, corrupt, or unsound, state.

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