عِفِرِّينٌ
Root: عفر
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عِفِرِّينٌ
: see عِفْرٌ, in two places.
def.2 لَيْثُ عِفِرِّينَ The lion. So in the prov., إِنَّهُ لَأَشْجَعُ مِنْ لَيْثِ عِفِرِّينَ [Verily he is more courageous than the lion]. عِفِرِّينُ is the name of a certain place in which are lions, or abounding with lions: or the name of a certain country or town.
def.3 A certain insert, whose retreat is the soft dust at the bases of walls; that rolls a ball, and then hides itself within it; and when it is roused, throws up dust: the word [عفرّين] is of one of those forms not found by Sb: or a certain creeping animal (دَابَّة), like the chameleon, that opposes itself to the rider [upon a camel or horse], and that strikes with its tail. [See also طُحَنٌ: and see Ham p. 131.]
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def.2 لَيْثُ عِفِرِّينَ The lion. So in the prov., إِنَّهُ لَأَشْجَعُ مِنْ لَيْثِ عِفِرِّينَ [Verily he is more courageous than the lion]. عِفِرِّينُ is the name of a certain place in which are lions, or abounding with lions: or the name of a certain country or town.
def.3 A certain insert, whose retreat is the soft dust at the bases of walls; that rolls a ball, and then hides itself within it; and when it is roused, throws up dust: the word [عفرّين] is of one of those forms not found by Sb: or a certain creeping animal (دَابَّة), like the chameleon, that opposes itself to the rider [upon a camel or horse], and that strikes with its tail. [See also طُحَنٌ: and see Ham p. 131.]
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