دَفِينٌ

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دَفِينٌ i. q. مَدْفُونٌ , Buried, or interred; i. e. hidden, concealed, or covered, in the earth, or dust, or beneath layers, or strata, of earth, or dust; as also دِفْنٌ and دَفْنٌ : pl. [of the first] دُفَنَآءُ and of the same also دُفُنٌ; and [of the second] أَدْفَانٌ, which is also pl. of the third: دَفِينٌ is also applied to a woman, and so is دَفِينَةٌ; and the pl. is دَفْنَى, or دُفَنَآءُ, and دَفَائِنُ: and the pl. دُفُنٌ is also used as a sing., applied to land (أَرْضٌ). (TA. [But in the M it is said that دَفْنٌ is thus applied as an epithet to land (ارض), and that its pl. is دُفُنٌ.])
2 See also دَفِينَةٌ.
3 Also, applied to a well (رَكِيَّةٌ), Partly filled up with earth or dust (اِنْدَفَنَ بَعْضُهَا); as also دِفَانٌ ; pl. دُفُنٌ: or i. q. مُنْدَفِنَةٌ , i. e. [filled up with earth or dust; or] having the dust swept into it by the wind [so that it is filled up, stopped up, or choked up]; as also مِدْفَانٌ and دِفَانٌ : and so دَفْنٌ , or دِفْنٌ , thus applied, and applied likewise to a watering-place, or spring to which camels have come to water, and to a watering-trough or tank; as also دَفِينٌ.
4 Also Flesh-meat buried in rice: but this is a vulgar application.
5 دَآءٌ دَفِينٌ and دَفِنٌ , which is anomalous, app. a possessive epithet, like نَهْرٌ as applied to a man, in the K, erroneously, دِفْنٌ , A latent disease, which the constitution has overpowered [so as to prevent its becoming apparent]; it is said in a trad. that the sun causes it to appear: or a disease that is unknown until evil and mischief appear from it: or a disease that appears after being latent, and from which evil and mischief (شَرٌّ وَ عَرَّ [in the CK, erroneously, وَعُرٌّ]) then appear and spread: [it is said that] it is seldom, or never, cured.
6 رَجُلٌ دَفِينُ المُرُوَّةِ, and دِفْنٌ المروّة, or المروّة and المروّة, A man without manliness, or manly virtue: so says As.

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