عَفَرَهُ
Root: عفر
Form: 1
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عَفَرَهُI
, Present.T
ـِ Verbal.Noun عَفْرٌ, He rubbed it with dust: and
عفّرهُ
he rubbed it much with dust: or the latter, he defiled, or soiled, it with dust: and the former, and ↓ latter, of which the Verbal.Noun is تَعْفِيرٌ, he rolled, or turned over, him, or it,
فِى التُّرَابِ
in the dust: or he hid (دَسَّ) him, or it, therein. It is is said in a trad. of Aboo-Jahl, هَلْ مُحَمَّدٌ وَجْهَهُ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ [Doth, or shall, Mohammad defile his face with dust, or rub his face in the dust, in the midst of you?], meaning his prostrating himself in the dust: and at the end he says, لَأَطَأَنَّ عَلَى رَقَبَتِهِ أَوْ وَجْهَهُ فِى التُّرَابِ [I will assuredly trample upon his neck, or I will defile, or roll, his face in the dust]; meaning that he would abase him, or render him abject.
2 He dragged him, being about to roll him in the dust: and you say ثَوْبَهُ فِى االتُّرَابِ [He dragged his garment in the dust].
3 And عَفَرَهُ, Verbal.Noun عَفْرٌ, He cast him upon the ground; as also . You say, الأَسَدُ The lion cast him upon the ground: or the lion seized him, and broke his neck, and cast him upon the ground, and shook him about. And He leaped, or sprang, upon him, or at him, (سَاوَرَهُ, O, K, for which شَاوره is erroneously put in some copies of the K, TA,) and dragged him, and cast him upon the ground. [See also 2.]
def.2 عَفِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun عَفَرٌ, He, or it, was of the colour termed عُفْرَة: or of a colour resembling that.
2 He dragged him, being about to roll him in the dust: and you say ثَوْبَهُ فِى االتُّرَابِ [He dragged his garment in the dust].
3 And عَفَرَهُ, Verbal.Noun عَفْرٌ, He cast him upon the ground; as also . You say, الأَسَدُ The lion cast him upon the ground: or the lion seized him, and broke his neck, and cast him upon the ground, and shook him about. And He leaped, or sprang, upon him, or at him, (سَاوَرَهُ, O, K, for which شَاوره is erroneously put in some copies of the K, TA,) and dragged him, and cast him upon the ground. [See also 2.]
def.2 عَفِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun عَفَرٌ, He, or it, was of the colour termed عُفْرَة: or of a colour resembling that.
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