ذِفْرَى
Root: ذفر
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ذِفْرَى
, without tenween, because the alif [written ى] is the characteristic of the fem. gender, and sometimes, more rarely, ذِفْرًى, with tenween, when indeterminate, the alif in this case being considered as making the word quasi-coordinate to دِرْهَمٌ The place that sweats, in the back of a camel's neck, behind the ear: or, in a man, and in any animal, the part extending from the
مَقَدّ [or part between the two ears, erroneously written in the CK مُقَدَّم,] to the half of the
قَذَال [or entire back of the head]: or the prominent bone behind the ear: or a bone in the upper part of a man's neck, on the right and left of the small hollow which is in the middle: or the ذِفْرَيَانِ [which is the dual] are the two protuberances on the right and left of the small hollow in the middle of the back of the neck: it is from ذَفَرُ العَرَقِ [“ the pungency of the odour of sweat ”], because it is the first part that sweats in a camel: pl. ذِفْرَيَاتٌ and ذَفَارَى, and some say ذَفَارٍ.
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