رَفْرَفٌ
Root: رف
Full Definition
2 Also A window; or an aperture for the admission of light; syn. رَوْشَنٌ; and so رَفِيفٌ .
def.2 Also Coverlets (حَابِس, Katádeh, T) for beds: or beds [themselves]: or carpets: or green pieces of cloth, or pieces of cloth of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (ثِيَابٌ خُضْرٌ, [which may have either of these two meanings,] S, M, O, K,) that are spread, or of which مَحَابِس [see above] are made, and which are spread; n. un. with ة; but some make the former a sing.: pl. رَفَارِفُ: or it signifies, or signifies also, the redundant parts of مَحَابِس, and of beds; and anything that is redundant and that is folded: or pieces of thin دِيبَاج [or silk brocade]: it occurs in the Kur lv. 76: and some say that it there means the meadows, or gardens, (رِيَاض,) of Paradise: or, as some say, pillows: or it signifies also a pillow: and meadows, or gardens; syn. رِيَاضٌ: also a carpet: and sometimes it is applied to any wide garment or piece of cloth.
2 Also The كِسْر [app. as meaning the lowest piece of cloth, or the part of that piece that is folded upon the ground,] of a [tent of the kind called] خِبَآء: and a piece of cloth (خِرْقَةٌ) that is sewed upon the lower part of a [tent of the kind called] فُسْطَاط, and of a سُرَادِق, and the like; as also رَفٌّ , of which the pl. is رُفُوفٌ: (M: [in the CK, الفُسْطاطُ is erroneously put for الفُسْطَاطِ:]) or the skirt of a tent: and, accord. to IAar, the extremity, edge, or border, of a فُسْطَاط.
3 Also The redundant portion of the skirt of a coat of mail: or the sides of a coat of mail, and the pendent portions thereof: n. un. with ة. And the رَفْرَف of a coat of mail is [The تَسْبِغَة, q. v. : or] a piece of mail (زَرَدٌ) which is fastened to the helmet, and which the man makes to fall down upon his back.
4 The pendent branches of the [tree called] أَيْكَة.
5 Soft, or tender, and drooping trees. And Certain trees, certain drooping trees, growing in El-Yemen.
6 Also, [because pendent,] The [caruncle, in the vulva of a girl or woman, called] بَظْر [q. v.].
def.3 And A species of fish of the sea.
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