عَفَارٌ
Root: عفر
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def.2 Also A certain kind of tree, by means of which fire is produced; زِنَاد [or pieces of wood, or stick, used for that purpose,] being made of its branches: accord. to information given to AHn by certain of the desert-Arabs of the Saráh (السَّرَاة), it resembles the kind of tree called the غُبَيْرَآء, by reason of its smallness, so that when one sees it from afar he doubts not its being the latter kind of tree; its blossom, also, is like that of the latter tree; and it is a kind of tree that emits much fire, so that the زناد made of it are excellent: pl. of عَفَارَةٌ; or, more properly, [a coll. gen. n., and] its n. un. is with ة: it and the مَرْخ contain fire that is not in any other kind of tree: Az says, I have seen them both in the desert, and the Arabs make them the subject of a prov., relating to high nobility: they say فِى كُلِّ شَجَرٍ نَارْ وَٱسْتَمْجَدَ المَرْخُ وَالعَفَارْ In all trees is fire; but the markh and 'afár yield much fire, more than all other trees. [See also مَرْخٌ, and استمجد.] It is also said, in another prov., اِقْدَحْ بِعَفَارٍ أَوْ مَرْخِ ثُمَّ ٱشْدُدْ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَوْ أَرْخِ [Produce thou fire with markh or with 'afár: then tighten, if thou please, or loosen].
def.3 See also عَافُور.
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