حَوْفٌ
Root: حوف
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حَوْفٌ
: see حَافَةٌ, first and last significations.
def.2 Also A skin that is slit [in several places, into a number of thongs or strips,] of a form like that of the إِزَار [or waist-wrapper], worn [round the hips] by one who is in menstruis, and by boys; i. e. a رَهْط: pl. أَحْوَافٌ: accord. to IAar, a skin that is slit into thongs or strips: or, as he says on one occasion, a وَثْر, i. e., a نُقْبَة of skin or leather, slit into strips of the width of four fingers each, or a span, worn by a young girl before she has attained to puberty, and worn by her in menstruis; of the dial. of El-Hijáz; in the dial. of Nejd called رَهْط: or red skin or leather, cut in the form of thongs or strips, upon which are put [ornaments of the kind termed] شَذْر; worn by a girl over her garments: [see also خَوْفٌ:] accord. to IAth, i. q. بَقِيرَةٌ; i. e. a garment without sleeves.
def.3 A thing, i. e. a kind of vehicle in which a woman rides upon a camel, resembling, but not the same as, the هَوْدَج: of the dial. of the people of El-Howf [in 'Omán], and of the people of Esh-Shihr.
def.2 Also A skin that is slit [in several places, into a number of thongs or strips,] of a form like that of the إِزَار [or waist-wrapper], worn [round the hips] by one who is in menstruis, and by boys; i. e. a رَهْط: pl. أَحْوَافٌ: accord. to IAar, a skin that is slit into thongs or strips: or, as he says on one occasion, a وَثْر, i. e., a نُقْبَة of skin or leather, slit into strips of the width of four fingers each, or a span, worn by a young girl before she has attained to puberty, and worn by her in menstruis; of the dial. of El-Hijáz; in the dial. of Nejd called رَهْط: or red skin or leather, cut in the form of thongs or strips, upon which are put [ornaments of the kind termed] شَذْر; worn by a girl over her garments: [see also خَوْفٌ:] accord. to IAth, i. q. بَقِيرَةٌ; i. e. a garment without sleeves.
def.3 A thing, i. e. a kind of vehicle in which a woman rides upon a camel, resembling, but not the same as, the هَوْدَج: of the dial. of the people of El-Howf [in 'Omán], and of the people of Esh-Shihr.
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