عِطْفٌ

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عِطْفٌ The side of a human being, from the head to the hip, or to the foot: and the side of a thing: or the dual signifies the two sides of a man, from the part next the head to the hips: and the two sides of the neck of a man: and the two sides of anything: as relating to a man, or a thing. the pl. is أَعْطَافٌ, [properly a pl. of pane.,] and, as relating to a man, عِطَافٌ also, and عُطُوفٌ. Hence the phrase, هُمْ أَلْيَنُ عِطْفًا [They are more pliant, or pliable; properly as meaning flexible, supple, lithe, or limber; but app. here used tropically, as meaning compliant: compare لَيِّنُ الجَانِبِ]. And لَيِّنُ الأَعْطَافِ [Pliant, or pliable, &c.], applied to a horse: (En-Nadr, TA voce غُوْجٌ: [see also عَاجٌ, in art. عوج:]) and سَهْلُ [and and الأَعْطَافِ, which signify the same,] so applied. (S and O and TA voce غَوْجٌ.) And [hence, also,] one says, ثَنَى عَنِّى عِطْفَهُ [lit. He bent from me his side], meaning he turned away from me. And جَآءَ ثَانِىَ عِطْفِهِ He came in an unstraitened, or an easy, or a pleasant and plentiful, state, or condition: or ثَانِىَ عِطْفِهِ in the Kur [xxii. 9] means twisting, or bending, his neck: or magnifying himself, or behaving proudly, and turning away from El-Islám. And فُلَانٌ يَنْظُرُ فِى عِطْفَيْهِ [lit. Such a one looks at his sides], meaning, is self-conceited.
2 Also The armpit of a man: and his shoulder: pl. عُطُوفٌ.
3 And The curved part of each of the two extremities of the bow; the two being called its عِطْفَانِ. One says, تَعَوَّجَ القَوْسُ فِى عِطْفَيْهِ, in the copies of the K, تَعَرَّجَ الفَرَسُ فِى عِطْفَيْهِ, but the former is the right, meaning [The bow] bent to the right and left [in the two curved parts of its extremities].
4 One says also, تَنَحَّ عَنْ عِطْفِ الطَّرِيقِ [i. e. Go thou aside from] the beaten track of the road; as also : or عَطْفٌ signifies a bending in a street or road, being an Verbal.Noun used as a simple subst.; but the عِطْف in a street [or road] is [a bent part, being] of the measure فِعْلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ. (Mgh. [See similar instances voce ذِبْحٌ.])

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